50 odd things

I received this email from both Dawn and Lindsey.
I have nothing etsy to blog about today. My kids have been not feeling well, so I really have nothing tinteresting to write about. This seems a perfect opportunity to bring in the wuss out post:

50 ODD Things about you! Learn 50things about your friend, and let them learn 50 things about you!

1. Do you like blue cheese? Not especially. Even after living in France I STILL couldnt stomach it.

2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Do you think I am a complete idiot? NO!

3. Do you own a gun? Does a super soaker count?

4. What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? I dont eat at Sonic. If I do, I get a milkshake. Usually one involving chocolate of some sort.

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? A little. Usually because I know they are going to weigh me and the doctor is going to jump on my back about complications from being overweight, especially with my family history blah blah blah. Dont really look forward to that.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? Chiciago style, fully loaded. But they have to be REAL Chicago Dogs, not some cheap Mall imitation.

7. Favorite Christmas movie? The Bishops Wife with Cary Grant and Loretta Young. Although I do LOVE the kids Rankin/Bass movies like Rudolph, frosty, santa claus is comig to town etc. Oh and the Charlie Brown Christmas is a tradition. This is a hard question.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Juice of some srt. Usually I juice oranges, grapefruit and strawberries. YUM.

9. Can you do push ups? I used to. I have poor upper body strength. I always have. I have never been very good at push ups to be quite honest.

10. Age? 31. Although I usually tell people I am 29. Not to hide how old I am, usually I just forget my real age.

11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My 3 stone past present and future ring. White gold with 3 round cut diamonds on a filigree band. It is gorgeous. I love it. Even more than my wedding ring.

12. Favorite hobby? Crafting of some sort. Scrapbooking, soaping, making body products, crochet, beading. Anything involving trips to hobby lobby or Michaels.

13. Favorite Actor? Christian Bale...established in 1992.

14. Do you have A D D? Nope.

15. What's one trait you hate about yourself? Hot tempered with a very short fuse. Guess it is the redhead in me.

16. Middle name? Lynn

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment

• I cant wait for spring break to be over. My kids are driving me nuts
• I need to work out in the garden while the weather is nice today
• what am I going to make for dinner tonight?

18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday/today.

• Tomato Plants
• Jalapeno Plants
• Zucchini Plants

19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink?

• Water
• Orange Tang
• Hot Chocolate

20. Current worry? Paying the bills, having enough money...you know, usual things.

21. Current hate right now? The construction workers redoing the roads in our subdivision. All day every day. I feel like they arent making any progress and our roads are going to be all broken up and rocky for the rest of forever.

22. Favorite place to be? Nags Head or Disney World.

23. How did you bring in the New Year? Well my husband and I have this tradition, and it is none of your business 'cause a lady never tells...

24. Where would you like to go? I have always wanted to go to Madame Tussauds House of Wax. Ever since I was a little girl. We finally went to London when I was 14 and my dad said we could go. We saved it for the last day. When we got there the line was wrapped around the building twice. So we weren't able to do it. So that is still #1 on my list.

25. Name three people who will complete this? Probably none. I am doing this on my blog instead of sending it out as an email anyways.

26. Do you own slippers? Nope.

27. What shirt are you wearing? A Sage Green V-neck cotton Tee shirt.

28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? No, they conduct static electricity like you would not believe.

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29. Can you whistle? Well I can, but I used to be able to whistle a lot better when I was a kid and had bad teeth. Lindsey, yes there are people who cant whistle. Like my mom.

30. Favorite color? Pink

31. Would you be a pirate? YES! Although I am not sure it would be as cool and sexy as Johnny Depp makes Piracy look.BUT, All that booty and jewels and Gold. I would be right at home.

32. What songs do you sing in the shower? I usually dont sing in the shower. If I do, it is usually some stupid song that I heard that I cant get out of my head.

33. Favorite girl's name? Jillian Sarah.

34. Favorite boy's name? Peter Wallace or Charles Finn.

35.What's in your pocket right now? Don't have pockets

36. Last thing that made you laugh? Adam Corolla on Dancing with the Stars.

37. Best bed sheets as a child? Holly Hobby

38. Worst injury you've ever had? Broke my toe on a side table when it jumped out and bit me.

39. Do you love where you live? LOVE IT! I love the mild winters, the early springs, the hot summers and the beautiful fall. I love being halfway between the mountains and the beach. I love being southern. I love Charlotte.

40. How many TV's do you have in your home? 2

41. Who is your loudest friend? hmmm, I have so many loud friends. It is a toss up between lindsey, Kelly and Dawn.

42. How many dogs do you have? 1. A pit bull boxer mix named Jake. he's so sweet.

43. Does someone have a crush on you? Yep. My hubby. We have been together for 11 years and we are still in love.

44. What is your favorite book(s)? Morning Glory(LaVyrle Spencer), Harry Potter Series, Anne of Green Gables Series, Autobiography of King Henry VIII(Margaret George), Work and the Glory Series(Gerald Lund), Little House on the Prairie series, anything by laurie Notaro, anything by Barbara Kingsolver, Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, Wayfarer redemption series(Sara Douglass). I read a lot. I Love to read and have many favorites.

45. Where were you born? Cleveland, Ohio

46. What is your favorite candy? Skittles

47. Favorite Sports Team? Carolina Panthers

48. What song would you want played at your funeral?Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead. Just kidding. Probably Beethoven.

49. What were you doing 12 AM last night? sleeping

50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Darn kids, why are they so freaking loud in the morning??

BERRY SWEET TREASURY

I actually got a treasury this morning. Dont ask me how, I dont have a magic formula. Right place, right time. This is the first treasury I have been able to curate in almost a year!
I, of course, went with my etsy finds for the week theme of berries.
Please check it out if you have a chance and make a comment!!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=32525

thanks!!

Chocolate= happiness

Maybe it is just my hormones, but I have TOTALLY been consuming WAY too much chocolate the past 2 weeks. White, dark, milk, with peanuts and nougat, it doesnt matter. I have really been craving it.

Scientists have shown that Dark Chocolate is wonderful for your bodies. Natural anti oxidants and Manganese. You cant go wrong with a little dark chocolate in your lives (70% unprocessed cacao). What is it about chocolate that I find so completely irresistable?? As Hersheys says "chocolate is Happiness". It really is. Chocolate makes me feel happy. I eat chocolate and I get a warm rush. My skin flushes, my pupils dilate, I even start to sweat. I get the "afterglow" when I eat it.

With Valentines day coming up my DH asked me "What would you like for valentines day?" (a choco fountain so I can dip everything I eat. Like a chocolate fondue...mmm, chocolate fondue.) I wont lie, I am looking forward to ripping the top off the Whitmans Sampler and devouring every piece of candy in that box(except the chocolate covered Cherries. blech)

So as a tribute to my favorite food group, here are some etsy finds to put a little chocolate back into your lives.

www.auntiedis.etsy.com/

A hot chocolate soy wax poured candle.

can you imagine burning this on a cold winters day??

It makes me happy just thinking about it!

www.spoonfudge.etsy.com/
this is chili chocolate spoon fudge.
slow burn, yet chilis and chocolate
are a natural combination.

www.lilybaysoap.etsy.com/

milk chocolate soap with real chocolate.

I would LOVE to walk around smelling like chocolate all day.

this soap looks good enough to eat!

www.nuts4candy.etsy.com

Chocolate Covered Pretzels are one of my favorite snacks

in the world. Add an M&M to it and even more so. YUM!!!

http://www.thebalmshoppe.com/

this is a foaming bath meringue from my shop.

It is Chocolate obsession.

Moisturizing foaming bath wash leaves you

smelling of chocolate and your friends and

coworkers following you around.

Thank you chocolate for making this world a happier place!

Taking a Page...I'm a copycat

etsyhighdesertdiva has a great idea on her blog. In the corner she has her etsy favorite find for the day, along with an inspiring quote.
I have decided to be a copycat and take a page from her book.
Instead of having a complete post about my favorite finds for the week, I will just have it sitting under my profile.
every week I will update it, no muss, no fuss and no taking up lots of space on my pages.

I told my husband I was going to tear down this House, buy a trailer and have DesertDiva come and Diva-fy it for me. Check out her blog, her renovations and style and flair are truly inspiring.
I am totally jealous of her capabilities, as I am a complete idjit when it comes to painting and redecorating. I get ideas in my head about what I would LIKE to do, and I think it will look OK, and then I try and do them and they look stupid. I just dont have "the gift" like some people do, (Desertdiva)
THANKS Diva. You inspire me daily!

Sarah

Etsy Favorite finds for the week Jan 26

As many of you know I LOVE the color pink. I do not tolerate pink, I do not like pink nor would I say that I love pink. I would say that I LOVE pink. I adore everything and anything that is made from this color. (heck I even accidentally dyed my hair pink once!)
I believe that all Little girls should be forced to wear pink. Any other color is not acceptable.
I will buy anything breast cancer related and promote breast cancer awareness, because they picked such an awesome color! (just kidding, my mother is a breast cancer survivor, I was just being flippant. No hate comments please)
So this week, in honor of my pink obsession, everything on this list is PINK.

how weekly etsy mini will work

Ok what I am going to have to do is take a picture of each list as the weeks progress, so they dont change on my blog. So the first few days the blog will be clickable. After that it will just be a picture of the etsy mini, and not the actual etsy mini itself. .. so they will not be clickable. Does that make sense?? HUH? (in my best Brittney Spears Chaotic voice)
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

Etsy Favorite Finds-Saturday, Jan 19th 2007

Every Saturday I am going to Post an etsy mini of my favorite items of the week.
This week I was kind of in a wierd frame of mind. With Winter suddenly decending down upon us folks here in the South, I was thinking "SPRING" and "PINK" and "FLORAL".
I was watching TBS and my favorite show "The Office" came on. So I threw in an added bonus of The Office "stuff".("which bear is best...False. Black bear. Bears...Beets...Battlestar Gallactica") Then of course this weekend is MLK Jr Holiday. So I put in a beautiful portrait of The famous Freedom fighter and Civil rights activist.

Like I said my mind is kind of wierd, I never know where it will lead. Kind of a stream of consciousness thing.
Please to enjoy

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