Candy

Love it !

No matter what form!

I got these for Christmas.

If you haven't visited Everyday is a Holiday you really should.

Jenny and Aaron are amazing!

I am addicted to these

As I do love Hello Kitty we go back to the '70's, yea I know but we are old friends ;)

BUT the flavors in this pink and red collection are all just wonderful! TJ Maxx has them at a great price!

Stationary!

I  L O V E paper!

These were in the clearance at TJ Maxx. 

We got a new one close to my house, I am in trouble ;)

Ok these are a different fix, but still candy to me!!

Hope you are having a great week!

Hugs, Lisa

How do you edit?

This little cutie I made today on befunky!

I never used picnik but there is a sadness in blogland and beyond that it will be gone as of April.

I have used photoscape for years. A blog friend recommended it to me a few years ago and I really like it. I actually don't use half of what it does and was excited this week to lighten up a dark picture and it was just great. 

I am not a techie, but I do learn with easy instructions and things I feel are pretty logical. I like photoscape and will still use it. 

I do like befunky it was fun to use all the effects and there is an app for my iPhone so posting on blogger there will be better. 

These are two FREE photo editing that are easy. Above is my first attempt with befunky and it was less than 5 minutes. And I tried lots of effects I didn't like. I found croping easier on the phone app than the computer one but it was fine.

Photoscape is the one I use to add words to a photo. Good fonts and easy to do. Look for photoscape on cnet.com. This a a great tech site. I go there for reviews of any electronic and for free software downloads. The downloads are virus and ad free. Very safe. They are a great resource!

So goodbye picnik and I hope you all find something that works for you!

Hugs, Lisa

I am a bag lady

This is my latest group.

I have a true weakness for bags.

ALWAYS have.

As a child I get anything, even a brown grocery bag, pack all my "stuff" and go!

My mom hated lugging my stuff around so like a good mom made me carry it if I had to take it.

My aunts, non of which were moms yet, thought it was awful and bailed me out when they could ;)

No wonder I learned to be such a good aunt!

I got this lot at TJ Maxx last Saturday.

I went to see if they had a purse. I love Lily Bloom, a line of bags made from recycled soda bottles, and TJ Maxx usually has them and cheap!!!

I found the one on the right, and then the one on the left and thought the style was so great I had to have both!

Just so cute! And happy! They really hold up and I love them!

The pockets aren't really as great as I thought but it is still a great bag!

They always have the best shopping bags!

They are huge and so useful and $.99!!! This one is so cool!

CUTE!! Reminds me of Vera Bradley! I usually cannot get out of the store with out one of these!!

I did say I have a problem ;)

This one was in the home section

 YAY!! Pink cupcakes!! It is a really nice oil cloth and a great size with a zipper top!

It was pricey $1.99, but CUTE! I had it before I got the other two.

Really I have a problem. 

We will not go into the ones in my closet and the huge holder in storage that was in my car.

I am a fashionable bag lady and very happy about it.

Hope you enjoyed my silly bags.

I am still sick :(  I hope to get my Valentine up on Saturday and post it on Sunday!

Have a great Friday!!

Hugs, Lisa

ps pupylov was recovered and works just fine now. I will be posting here from now on though, I just needed the change!

Book or Nook?

I started with the Nook Color and passed it to my sister when I decided I HAD to have the Nook Tablet.

I like reading from the eReader, and I like the extra little things it does. A few games and such. I have an iPhone and a laptop so this was a better choice than me trying to afford an iPad.

BUT

I have books

Loads of books

WAY too may books

I have a bag full I need to take to the resale shop and after reading I decide if I want to keep them or not.

I will add here I really don't reread books.

I just cannot stay with it when I know what will happen.

But I have to keep some of them. Just have to.

I know at some point our society will give up paper books. I'm sure it will be for a good reason, to save the few trees left.

But I think I will just have both. It is nice to have this to carry around for when I have to wait, To drag back and forth to work.

I can leave the books at home and they will be happy here!

Now if I HAVE to carry this thing around it needs a good cover, right?

I found this one on Etsy right before Christmas.

The Thimbleberry Patch is a very cute little shop with loads of fun handmade things.

She makes them when you order and they can fit any size eReader you have.

Look at the detail

All the pockets! It is very well padded also. She is super quick too! I had mine to me in a week!

I really love the fabric. Also they are $20. If you have a reader and have priced these, you cannot get one this great for anywhere near this price!

She has these two I am really interested in 

They are just fun! I think I need some fun and new in my life so I keep visiting Etsy!

Hope you all have a great day. I am going back to sleep as I stayed home from work to hopefully get this head cold under control before the busy end of the week!

Hugs, Lisa

Beauty and the Beast

Hi I had a busy weekend and then a really bad sinus headache yesterday. So I did not do the blogging I wanted to. :(
I took my 3 yr old niece Serenity to see Beauty and the Beast 3D.
It was her first movie in the theater and she has seen it and loves the music so I thought we were safe.
The glasses were not a big hit and she was fine to watch without them. She is flexible. That was nice. Only one visit to the bathroom. And the popcorn, I went all out it was her first movie, was a big hit! I did buy candy at Target shhh... Don't tell on me ;)
We had tons of fun and all in all it was great.
The 3D was ok. The people moved a little blurry but one part in the woods the trees really looked like they were over you. If you HATE 3D don't go. If you like it or don't mind go.
It is Beauty and the Beast and best enjoyed at the theater. Finding Nemo is the next to be 3D!
Hope you had a great weekend and I will see you more later in the week!
Hugs, Lisa

Did you Smile today?

I did :)

I was on my way home from Barnes & Noble (just had to throw that in) and when I got on the bus I greeted the bus driver with a Hi.

I stand in the isle and hear a huge HI! with a really big smile!!!

This boy, well he seemed a young teen, but he has Downs Syndrome and they look so young to me. My first thought is how happy they always are. How great is that. My mother always said she wanted a Downs baby and I can see it. 

My next thought was how would you feel being told that news. Shocked, sure. Sad, some. But how HAPPY they are! How can you say they have it hard? Was it socially unacceptable for him to yell Hi. 

No not really. 

I am not saying this would be a life of fun and games. But if you have children that have gone through teen and young adulthood, well was that EASY? I know my mom's kids were not EASY.

I can still get that super immediate smile on my face when I think of that HI! and well it is just great.

If we all smiled and said a BIG HI! more often what a great place the world would be.

I love riding the bus :)

Hugs, Lisa

  

Welcome 2012 and the Changes you Bring!

I am starting a new blog in hopes this will help all my friends comment and read without being asked for a password!!

pupylov was STOLEN from me :(

sigh….

I am excited to roll out

pupylov memories

I am excited for a new year and excited to make

CHANGES!!

I hope you can all look at and see my images without logging into some crazy crap.

Thank you for sticking with me!

Hugs, Lisa

Sophie will go to sleep now ;)

Goodies

 

I have been craving shopping.

Pinterest has got me planning a home I don’t have, lol, but I am itching to go see what is out there. I like to plan ahead!

I was inspired by blog hopping to run over to Michael’s and see the goodies in the $1 bin.

I actually put back a lot of what I gathered! I got my Country Living in the mail yesterday, I had to make my weekly stop at Barnes & Noble so I got coffee and Romantic Homes, and Elyse is in Artful Blogger(Nov/Dec/Jan) which I looked for in three places and Michael’s only had this one copy left!! I just made it!! Also grabbed a cute pad of paper at JoAnn Fabrics.

The Jelly Bellies were a necessity and were SOOOOO worth it!!

My collection of cupcake holders is now organized into two jars and look great!

You can never have too many cupcake holders!

Also found these  at Michael’s.

I have been looking for pink knobs and honestly haven’t even found them at a price I wouldn’t pay. I was thrilled to get them for $2 each in the dollar days bins.

They match my Lamp

And I think they look cute.

Here is the before

Boring but keeps with the style. Now I need 10 pulls for the two matching dressers. I think it will not be as easy to get. I will keep looking.

I found this

Cute pink and brown dot bed for Sophie. Marshall’s had them for $19.99. More than I wanted to pay but after looking for this size for two months it was the cheapest one I found and it is CUTE! Sophie is still out on if she likes it. Silly girl.

I also got two plastic totes from Wal Mart and have organized under my bed and the Christmas I took down.

I feel better. I even cleaned out the hall closet just for fun ;)

Funny how January does that to you.

Now I am off to add to my Pinterest boards for my dream house.

Must be prepared.

Hugs, Lisa

Time

How do you keep up with time?

A wall calendar?

 

I like my Lang wall holder, I have gotten the coffee one the past two years. I really like them and they were different! Nice to have to jot down birthdays and count how long until…

This cutie was in the latest Mollie Makes. I know the picture is light but honestly it is that way hanging too. I hope the other months are darker ;)

Than I have these

I have one for my work, birthdays, any fun I may have ;)

and one for logging books!

It started last year because I found one on sale and, well it was ON SALE, so I started keeping up with what I was reading and bought and it has been helpful to keep track of which month of a magazine I have already. I just bought a Romantic Homes last week and went yesterday and got another, I knew they weren’t the same but worried I had repeated the one from last week. Thankfully not BUT it has happened ;)

This year I would not have bought two but I went to get the owl one and there weren’t any :(

I picked the flower one and a few weeks later a HUGE stack of the owls appeared, I am weak people, weak!

So again I will have two!!

I am ready to plan my year, be on time and my only resolution is to NOT forget a birthday! I think I can do it.

Really wish everyone was on Facebook, sooooo easy to remember there! lol

Hugs, Lisa