"Pink" Christmas Saturday

I have joined Beverly at "How Sweet the Sound" in remembering our Christmas'. I don't have any pictures of me or my kids when they were little scanned for posting. So, you will have to read one of my stories. (author's note: I am not a writer!)

This is about my dog. She is just about as bad as my kids when they were little and wanting to open presents. After she goes to sleep at night, she is very out of it. That is when Santa makes his appearance and leaves gifts for the boys and our kitty and puppy. When the boys finally get out of bed and are ready to open presents we are always greeted with the "girls" (our kitty and puppy). They are ready for gift exchanging as well. We have noticed that Boomer, our puppy, will sit looking at the tree and when we tell her it is time to get presents, she dives under the tree and will bring out her Peanut Butter Filled Rawhide Candy Cane. Then she prances off into our bedroom, hitting the doors and walls with the large Candy Cane. We all laugh.

With kitty, she quitely waits until we hand her the gifts Santa leaves.

Another give away notice

A fellow twitter is offering free handmade soap once a month for a year. To enter go to DeShawn's blog.

Is it fellow twitter or fellow twitterer?

Another Give Away

This is for one of Megity's Handmade Tassels. I have been following her blog on my Google reader for some time and love her work.

To enter go to Blue Cricket Design for your chance at a wonderful tassel.

Give Away - Go Check It Out!

A $25 gift card from "Get Your Martha On" from Pottery Barn! Wheeeee

World Card Making Day!

I have joined in with a virtual swap for World Card Making Day. The blog that is having the party is Little Birdy Secrets.

This card was made for my cousin's new grandson.

Pink Saturday - September 12, 2009

I have been working and thinking real hard on something I could include with Pink Saturday. Having a house full of boys makes it difficult to find pink. (By full, I mean 1 husband and 2 basically grown boys – ok, grown college age boys) There are only 3 girls around this house which includes our 2 furry babies and me. One of the furry babies is a black Border Collie and most people mistake her for a boy. It may have something to do with her name – Boomer. At the time we adopted Boomer, her youngest brother that asked for her was 12 years old. He didn’t care if this dog was a Chihuahua or a Mastiff, boy or girl, the name was going to be BOOMER. So, this black with white tipped paws, white chin and a little bit of white on her chest Border Collie was named Boomer. Boomer does not like to be thought of as a male. She is always saying she is a girl!

While we were on vacation this summer and looking for the girls’ souvenir gifts to bring back home to them, we found a pink collar with white dots – perfect! Looking through pictures, I found this not so exciting picture of Boomer sporting her pink collar. See if you can spot the collar through all that fur…..

Don't look at the poor tomato plant! We actually got a few tomatos off of it, but they were not very flavorful.


Now to stretch the pink color, here is one of my flowers in a pot on the back porch. It might qualify for hot pink. Still, it is pretty.

And not to make my baby kitty jealous, here is a recent picture of her sunning in one of her favorite windows, which is next to my desk in my "studio". Studio – sounds so professional, doesn’t it….

If you would like to join Pink Saturday in the future, please visit Beverly at "How Sweet the Sound" .

Happy Pink Saturday!

Blog Giveaway

This blogger is offering some beautiful banners to one lucky blogger. Please go to Cherry's Jubilee to a chance to win.

Etsy Shop Hop

Check out these cute cards on etsy

Lisa's shop

Amy's card

I have an Etsy shop

I have finally opened an etsy shop. Now I have to learn how to put the icon on my blog. Until then, I will just post when I have updated my shop.

This is an item I listed today and the link

Chicken Strips

I have been telling my friends and coworkers about this recipe. Mr. B, the boys and I love these chicken strips. After the 3rd time of making them and not getting grease on my shirt, Mr. B said - I finally learned how to fry something. Truly, I don't fry - anything! Too many stories about my Aunt that fried and burnt her kitchen 3 times!

My change on the chicken strips - I didn't add buttermilk to the flour mixture. I put the flour/dry ingredients (which I also added garlic powder) into a ziplock bag and added the buttermilk soak chicken strips into the bag and then shook them real good, then fry those babies.

I am planning on making them again next week - they are great with Ranch dressing or Honey Mustard to dip them into.

Here is the recipe at "Pioneer Woman"

Give them a try and hope you and your family enjoy them as much as we do.