A LONG WEEKEND....

Which started Friday at 9am loaded up the kids & drove to the Florida State Fairgrounds to set up for CELEBRATE TAMPA.
until 2pm then drove electric cart until 3pm helping consultants in with their boxes & carts of supplies.
Left at 3:15 to pick up Gavin and babysat until 12:30 am got up at 6:30 and headed back to the fairgrounds for the event.

This is Saturday Morning at 9am 1100 women working on their albums



Here is my group of Ladies!


At 3pm they play YMCA and everyone gets up to sing & dance...except my rowdy group they get on their chairs to sing & dance...this started at Celebrate Orlando a few years ago... we were missing one of our regular gals Ann who had foot surgery, she is usually up here with the gals




At 8pm we hauled my inventory out front down the way to my car & then I came back in to work with my dh
helping drive the carts loading the consultants with their supplies up to head home.

The kids chipped in helping Melanie, Julie & Rene, anyway they could. See these ladies travel the country putting on these events for us and they haul all the pages, decorations, tools etc to each town. CRAZY but we love them for it!


NOW ONTO THE DRAWING.....
The winner was chosen this morning and it is Vicki of Hogscald Holler!!

CONGRATULATIONS VICKI! email me so I can get your address
Tresured at tampabay dot rr dot com

Thank you all for entering and if you send me your address' at the email above I will send you a
consolation prize!

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DRUM ROLL PLEASE.......The Giveaway!

Finally just as I was running out to get the mail the rain really starts coming down...
When I ran back in to check through it I found the camera battery was charged.

So without further adieu


This is a fairly large boxthe side has a magnetic enclosure with a lovely ribbon


Inside is a grapevine wreath bundle, an old bobbin/spindle, stack of cinnamon sticks tied with raffia, a couple of embroidery or punch needle hoops, a post it pack with angels, small lavender sachet from my own bush, tiny wooden rocking bunny, a toy sheep that I bought just for this box of goodies, a vintage Better Homes & Gardens Cross Stitch Magazine Christmas Edition, ,two Christmas Winter Vest Fabric Patterns and a lovely boxed bar of soap


I will gather names for the rest of this week and will have my youngest daughter, Sahara pick the name Sunday Afternoon.
Best Wishes to each entrant and if I find some more little goodies I will add them to the box too!


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PS Cyndi pointed out that I forgot to tell you how to enter DUH.....leave a comment to add your name to the Giveway.
Thank you Cyndi!


Updates I found a couple more little treasures & gifts to add to the box....:-)

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT.....good bye Fay

At least for today Fay is out of our area....no rain just clouds right now!

I found the battery charger for my new camera so it is charging and the GIVEAWAY box is waiting for it's debut.

Off to the tub & I will have pictures posted this afternoon...have to do it early our Community Group starts today and guess whose house we are meeting at????

That's right my messy house....lol
I am scrambling to get things back into the crop studio even though it isn't quite finished.

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DARN IT ALL....blame it on Fay

Well we have had just about enough of the media HYPE on Fay...
It wasn't until about 2pm that we started getting some rain here.
We did have some wind gusts earlier and so far we have had nothing major.
Even my friend in Naples said they have had minimal rain & wind...
Thank you GOD that the news media overdid the whole thing yet again.

The darn it part is I can't find my camera battery charger....Have been looking all day.

Then while looking again the kids came over with Gavin....sorry will have to wait until tomorrow.
Grandbabies won't wait but I know you dear friends will and I thank you!

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Recharged? Refreshed? Renewed? Rested? Revitalized? RE CALIBRATE!

Words escape me to describe Friday & Saturday.
Seeing 14,000 women of various denominations all in one location giving praise to GOD amazes me and brings joy to my heart.



If only he could move through the hearts of ALL women in that way!
What a wonderful world it would be!
I highly recommend you attend!
We saw & heard Anita Renfroe who is a RIOT, she is now GMA's special correspondent and was on Dr. Phil (re-run) on Friday.
Nicole C. Mullen,
Natalie Grant
Patsy Clairmont
Shelia Walsh
Jan Silvious
Louise DuArt
Allison Allen
Stephen Arterburn
Marilyn Meberg

Sandy Patti, Shelia Walsh, Natalie Grant & Nicole C. Mullen Singing Happy Birthday to little Soloman


Today we are just cleaning up & bringing in any loose items from the yard and cleaning house in preparation for gusty winds from Fay.

While I was gone my DH has almost gotten my mountain waterfall finished so the inside of the house is a little messy and our Community Group is meeting here Wednesday Night (that is the plan for today we will see what GOD brings with this storm).

I have started a box for the giveaway I might need to do two giveaways if it gets much larger. :-) What do you think?


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Giveaways.....

Well a few bloggers have started a blessing shower of giveaways...I hope to have a few gifts together to give away check back so you can enter the giveaway.

Unfortunately there were no GIVEAWAYS at the store today. Pastor Dave cancelled our work day (passing out invites to join us)
since it was raining. I instead ran to the store to get something presentable to wear to the Women Of Faith conference tomorrow and Saturday. Usually I live in my jeans & shorts but I thought I should get something not quite so 'threadbare' as Lynn puts it.

Of course Tyler had to buy some clothes with money he hasn't earned yet...
Sahara at least had her giftcard to use towards her clothes.

I really don't like shopping for clothes as much as I used to when I find something I like it doesn't fit right or there are none in my size...then of course you have to have shoes to match...which are NEVER as comfortable as my Betula's .

I spent way too much money on 1 pair of shoes, 2 Capris, 3 t-shirts, 4 blouses, 3 new bras, for me
Top, pants & shoes for Sahara and chewies for the dogs.

But I guess since we don't have to buy school clothes or supplies we got off cheaper than most families
and we don't shop for new clothes very often.

I better get things ready for tomorrow morning...come back to see what I am giving away

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Cleaning & Organizing

So what is it about a New Year that makes us want to clean house? Get rid of unwanted/unused items & organize the ones we still can not bring ourselves to get rid of right now?
Is it the "New Year, Fresh Start"? I have gotten almost all of Christmas put away, a few things I can't bring myself to put away just yet, the faux evergreen draping swag across my large display cabinet and the crystal swags on the mantle with the new aqua ornaments I purchased at The Barn after Thanksgiving, there is the Needlepunch item I bought from a fellow PRHG member with an American Santa inside an old mantle clock and my Folk Art Randolph & Stanley (click my Etsy link to see them). These few items make my heart glad & I don't want to put them away just yet.

I am trying to clean out & find some things a new home. I have been blessed with so many things that I feel the need to either sell them (the not so sentimental ones) or find them a new home with someone who will use or appreciate them. Heck I am willing to even barter here...we need a few things done around here that we can't seem to find enough time to do...New Pool Pump, House Painted (inside & out), Landscaping & irrigation work, Floors cleaned & refinished, Carpets removed & hardwood installed, that thin stone put on the lanai deck.

The older two kids really don't have the same taste in decorating or the desire to 'rescue' items that I think should be appreciated and not put in a Landfill, things that you just know have a wonderful history and if they could speak they would tell you stories of where they had been & the things they have seen.
The younger two already have way more than they need and I am trying to 'URGE' them to do the same in their rooms.

I don't know if it was the way my Grandmother made sure to hold onto things because she lived during The Depression, the fact that I had to support myself & the two older children completely on the money I earned for 8 yrs, or the fact that it makes my heart break that our society thinks everything is 'disposable', or I that I keep hoping that there is someone out there that needs & can truly use these items that I can't bring myself to just toss these things.


Okay enough of a break back to work....


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