Forever Beloved

Faith, Love & Truth

hella good day…TGIF

so wednesday i received some truly happy mail…the first technicolor postcards kit!!!! and oh my gosh, i was blown away. i could not wait to dig in and start playing. the paper (all designed by cynthia…yeow) is too delish for words. look at that red paper with the circles on it, oh yes, bestill my heart. the kit is now up on etsy…so go get yours now before they are sold out. i will have some pages and even one little altered project to upload soon, possibly tonight, all made with this kit.


and today dare 110 went up at the effers. i could not believe a few weeks back that my name was drawn to participate in the swap-thats-not-a-swap. i got a fab envie of vintage paper items from nisa. and here is the loveliness (is that even a word?) i made with it.

it’s friday…and i’m stoked. i know all week you’ve heard me saying how excited i am to have a weekend at home. seriously, you have no idea.
some random things making me happy at the moment~
* fall is here and i can feel the crispness in the air
* potato chowder on the menu for the weekend
* halloween costumes being made (by my mom, lol)
* the weekend = no homework 🙂
* fall photo shoots
* pumpkins, hay bales and indian corn
* decorating my porch for fall
out for now
~kisses

~randomness~

happy almost end of the week my lovelies…i am so excited for this weekend. i might even make some potato chowder and homemade bread bowls. yum!

i found this on my friend jens blog…we had a “girls day out” last may. jen, jade and i went to altoona to an arts festival and then out to dinner and did some shopping. on our way to altoona we stopped at a place from our childhood, forrest zoo. i can remember going there when i was very little and just loving it. i remember one time i was afraid to feed the elephants because they just looked sooooooo BIG to me. so my dad lifted me up on his shoulder and fed them for me. i can remember going there with all our family and my cousins and i playing. and what i remember most of all was the little place across the road. i believe it was called storybook forrest. it had these little mini houses from fairy tales (7 dwarfs, snow white, old lady that lived in a shoe). and i always wanted to go in those houses soooooo badly, but i dont ever remember us being allowed to go in. it closed about 15 years ago, they weren’t feeding their animals i believe or some charge like that. and they have just let the place get run down.
anyways, jen and i stopped to take pics of it. and because joe would never stop long enough for me to go in. he was all scared of me going past the “no trespassing” sign and hopping over the fence. such a wuss huh?

so jen, jade and i nosed around a little bit. and as luck would have it miss jen had her camera with her!!!
this is the building on the zoo side. we snuck in the door and nosed around a little bit. hey, there weren’t any no trespassing signs that we could see.

and this is the other side of the road where the little houses were. as you can see it has grown up quite a bit. this is the house of the old lady who lived in a shoe. i was so excited, while jen was taking the picture i ran ahead and around the back. oh.my.gosh…there was a door that i could go in…i have waited my whole entire life to go in one of these houses!!!!!

i walk in the shoe and…what the heck…this is the first thing i see. someone was smokin’ it up inside the old ladys shoe. is there just something not right with that? i’m sure THEY thought it was totally funny. i, on the other hand, was totally let down. i guess in my mind when i walked in it there would be something magical, like the old lady in a rocking chair with kids all around. hey give me a break guys, i’ve been waiting since i was like 5 to go in one of these houses…lol. nope, nothing magical, just this……

out for now ya’all~kisses

happy hump day…

so the week is half over…woo hoo…i can’t wait for the weekend. this weekend i actually dont have much going on, imagine that. friday night joey has a birthday party from 5 – 10 and jade has a dr appt at 4. saturday jade has a birthday party from 1 – 3 and that’s all for saturday. so super excited about “almost” a full day at home!!! and sunday we have the usually football game, it starts around 5:30. this will be the closest i’ve had to a free weekend in what feels like forever.

i have a new feature on my blog…over there ———————->
you can “follow me”…all you have to do is add yourself to my group of “followers”. right now i have no followers ::sniff::

and for those of you that check out joes blog…he is planning on having another challenge on his blog soon. this time it will be a music challenge, which is a lot easier for some of us. the football challenge was soooo out of my league. so keep watching his blog for that soon.

out for now
~kisses