Happy Easter!

May your hearts be full

and

You baskets be fuller.

So I am alittle late for Thrifty Thursday.

But I forgot to take my camera to the shop and capture a picture of this little beauty.

I just got a picture before it sold.

So adding the pearls was just what it needed.

And how is you Wednesday?

Need a laugh?

Why is it so hard for me to get a good picture of the baby.

I can get pictures like these, and I do believe I have enough blackmail pics.

Any pointers?

Let's Bake some Cookies!

I have tried to find a recipe for Tea Cakes for many years.

My aunt Toots and grandmother Doty baked them.

They were YUM!

A good childhood memory.

Grandmother is gone, so the recipe went with her,

Aunt Toots has given me the recipe and it doesn't seem quite right.

She is getting on in years, as my grandmother would say.

So I searched, and tried many times to duplicate these wonderful tea cakes.

I think I have it.

The ultimate test is.....

Daddy.

He says they are darn close.

So here is the recipe.

Enjoy!

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 cup butter, room temperature

2 large eggs

2 2/3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons cream of tarter

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon nutmeg

Combine the sugar and butter in mixing bowl, beating until light and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time. Beating well after each addition. In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cream of tarter, salt, and nutmeg. Add to cream mixture and mix well.

Drop by spoonful onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

It's been a stressful week, to say the least.

Some good, some bad.

Grandson #2 made his first home run in T-ball

and got the game ball.

Bad guys broke into my house,

Mom turned 70,

found some items in the woods where the bad guys fell or culled,

Bad guy came back and peeked in the window at us, oldest grandson saw him,

DD got her licences,

I smelled the wisteria,

we had an event with friend,

good company,

We attended a WONDERFUL EASTER DRAMA

on Sunday.

What a wonderful way to end the stressful week.

(The swag above is from a swap I mailed last week.)

Well, ladies! It is Thrifty Thursday!Today I would like to share a re-do.

I bought the metal fencing at the thrift store. Used it for a year as decoration at the shop.

And now i made a basket out of part.

As you can see below they cane be used in alot of ways.

I thought they were so cute, I made two.

To use of both sides of my back door.

Now all I have to do is come up with flowers and moss to fill them.

I believe the thrift store all well and many junk shops, give un- used items a new life. Maybe not as their intended, but think outside the box and give them a new lease.

WARNING

I am on my soap box!

Last night we were robbed!

This post is for the person that broke into my house when I was not at home.

Get a job!

A real one, one that requires you to get up every morning and leave your house.

One that you have to work at, so that you feel good about yourself when you get your paycheck. A feeling that you worked for your money and deserved every penny. Then take that money home and pay your bills. And buy nice things for you and your family. Get on your knees each day and thank God for what he has allowed you to have.

Pray for the person that will come into your home, and go through your things, tossing them here and there. Taking what he wants. Things that you and you husband has worked to have.

And then feel safe in your house again.

I can't pray for you, not now.

I am still to angry.

It will come,

I know it will but not today.

I have been working on this project for the last few weeks now.

The Nectar Bunco Babes

would like to invite you

to play BUNCO!

Today,

Sunday

March 29th

at the

Plantation Golf

on Hwy 160

from 2-5

Wear your prettiest hat to win a prize.

This benefit is for the Relay for Life!

Driving Instruction are:

Travel north on Hwy 79 to Locust Fork.

School is on the left, just past the school is County Road 13, turn left.

Travel to the end of this road ( about 5 mile). Turn right and we are on the right.

I would give you my phone # but this golf course is in a dead zone.

We will have play, win prizes, laugh and eat dessert.

Please join us!

Happy Birthday Dear Daughter

You was such a funny, cute and adorable little girly girl.
Then came school and I lost my girly girl.

Graduation

My girly girl has started to come back.

You have always been impatient.

If Daddy couldn't get to what you wanted done, when you wanted it done

you would at least try to do it yourself.

No girly girl here.

Today you are 30

and

You have 3 boys and don't have a lot of time to be a girl.

But you are

Beautiful and happy

that's all that matters.

I love you!

Mom

It's Thursday and you know what that means...... you got it.....Thrifty Thursday!

So go on over to this blog and check out every one's thrifty finds.

http://lbratina.blogspot.com/

As I remember my grandparents, I remember that they used everything to the last bit of potential.

My love for the beach and it's rewards is kinda like that.

I want to use my found treasures in a unique way, so I can enjoy them a little longer.

So I brought home this sea shell with a hole in it and glued my #1 grandson's pic in it.

I display this on my cake plate pedestal, when not in use.

Along with a bottle ( from the thrift store) containing a note.

Nice little display if I may say so my self.

I know you don't have a cake under that dome all the time, so create you a little hidden treasure.

Happy Thursday

Another Closing ?

( Google image)

I found out last week that a Church in our community would be no more.

The Tabernacle Church in Locust Fork would merge with The Turning Point church,

because of lack of members.

This church is over 100 years old.

It has always ( in my lifetime) been Tabernacle.

Because Tabernacle is the same denomination as my church,

As a young child we would be ask to join in on plays, and special events.

I remember this fondly.

In a time when people are losing jobs, families are losing homes, and money is as tight as bark on a tree,

I was naive in thinking the churches was safe.

As I googled Church Closing I was amazed that there was 9,450,000 hits.

Where do we go in a time of need

if our church's close?

My church, is my safe place.

I feel protected in Church.

What do you think?

Don't walk but run on over to Leigh's Blog for more Thrifty Thursday

http://lbratina.blogspot.com/

My entry today is a item I had been looking for.

I could find the bag but not the cart.

So when I found them both on Monday, I knew they were mine.

I have been wanting one to put my garden tool in.

We keep them in the basement and I make 50 trips back and forth

when I am working in the yard.

Spring is in the air Yall!

When I went to Google to get a good spring picture this one was just what I was looking for.

old bed springs,

who would have thought.

Guess I am going to have to check out the old mattress.

It has been a beautiful few days.

I have enjoyed so much.

I am again work on a new event, and it is taking up alot of time.

A Bunco Tournament to raise $ for Relay for Life.

If you are interest, let me know

Sunday, March 29th

$10.00

Just check back tomorrow for my new find.

I went junkin with a friend on Monday.

And I had been looking for one for awhile.

Got your curiosity up?

Check back tomorrow.

Thrifty Thursday

First off, I too had a hard time coming up with a subject this week.

So I took my camera and strolled around the house and outside as well. Then I saw this pitcher. I have several. They have so many purposes. This one is holding my gardening tools, I have one that I put flowers in, one that holds kitchen utensils and another that I water my plants with. They are less than a dollar at the thrift store and have multi uses. So next time you hit the thrift stores, think outside the box. Re -purpose and re- use is the name of the game. I am planning a junkin trip for Monday, can't wait to see what new treasures I can come up with.

I enjoy creating!

Don't you?

But I have question,

What do you do with them after you have enjoyed them for awhile?

I just hang them to the ceiling and admire them alittle longer.

I can't toss them out, I give some away, but not everyone has the same taste I do.

I have boxes full and this only one wall in my studio.

I am up for suggestions.

Have a happy day!

Phew

The Ironing Board Smorgasbord was a success.

The shop was full for the full 2 hours.

We ate, laughed and had fun.

Now on to the new event.

If you play Bunco

and live anywhere close.

Check back for details.

Yesterday was a good mail day.

I got this book, I had been waiting for, my new spring issue of Creating Keepsakes.

I tried to wait .......

and wait......

and wait......

not to look at it.

I have so much I need to be doing to prepare for the Ironing Board Smorgasbord.

But as I was trying to print a few items, I saw it, staring me down.

So I had to peek.

I shrieked with excitement

I drooled

I couldn't put it down.

I love it gals.

I do so enjoy the re-use of old junk.

And these girls have it going on.

Happy Thursday Everyone!

It is time for another Thrifty Thursday!

My name is Jerri and I am a Junker.

I have had this compulsion to collect junk for a lot of years.

I can't throw anything away.

So this is the results of my many boxes of small Junk.

I call them

Jerri's Junk Bracelet.

SIDE NOTE: My friend Barbara called yesterday and said, I think you need a few hours junking, so I will work the shop and you go junkin.

So I am out the door,

you don't have to tell me twice.

Go by and check out everyone junk, I mean treasures here:

http://lbratina.blogspot.com/

My partners in Fun!
Adults playing, kids in the house.
Moral of the day......
Act your age or
you will be in the bed with your back for a few days.
More later.....

ALABAMA SNOW 2009