Some fun gifts!

Chris from Candid Canine recently sent me a package......and I'd thought I'd share everything with you......

First is a puppy for Cora's House

Then there's these awesome green high heels.....They are so cute!!

Next we have some prints....a bunny....and a little basket with some little books in it.

Then there was Christmas stuff! A cake, and cookies...a wreath, a puppy with a Santa hat on...and one of Santa's boots.

She also included some more plants for my little haunted dinner, Frankie's Place, which has totally outgrown it's own room box! Although I think the one with the little pink flower may go into Katie's Corner. It's one of my favorites!!

And then there was a terrarium! How neat is that!!! Thanks again Chris for all these fun gifts!!!

I also wanted to include some pictures of these kitties that my Dad recently brought back from Belgium. :)

They each have stickers on the bottom that say 'Hand-painted'......

And last but not least...we have another pic of Fred in one of her comfy spots......

Look at what I won:)

I don't think I told you, but I recently won a giveaway from Kim at http://flowerkim.blogspot.com/ !! Please take the time to go check out her pics! Here's a link to the original giveaway:
http://flowerkim.blogspot.com/2009/06/give-away.html

I won this Beautiful Book!! Completely handmade! There's a fairy on the front that Kim painted, and all I can say is my picture does not do it justice!! She's so cute!! And look, she even has a pink dress on! Her crown and her wand are also 3-D!

The inside is lined with flowered paper and bordered with a purple ribbon. I love my new book! So much I'm afraid to even write in it!! I don't want to mess it up, lol! It's beautiful!!


Also included in the giveaway was this set! Two hand painted pictures and a mirror to match.....When I took the picture, I did laugh at myself thinking this picture should be included in the what not to do when taking a picture...but It was the only way I could take a picture of it without blinding you with the flash!


As an added bonus, she sent me the most adorable pair of mini Moccasins!! I just love the bead work in them! Aren't they cute!!


She was even kind enough to send me some acorns and a gourd from her garden! Thank-you Kim for all the great gifts you sent me:) I can't wait to put them all into place!!


Oh.....and a gift Kim sent, that she didn't realize was a gift...........The box!!! LOL......Otis sat on the table for a long time figuring out how he was going to get in there......I was able to grab the camera cause I knew what was coming.......

If you have cats, You know what I mean...You can see the excitement in their eyes right before they get ready to pounce on something! And in this case, I knew he was getting ready to dive into the box.....

Like This!! LOL.....This is about as far as he got before he realized he just wasn't going to fit, LOL!!!

I tell ya! He's always good for a laugh!! Thanks for the box, too Kim:) hehehe

Picture Time!!

Recently I did a trade with Kat from http://katthehatlady.blogspot.com/. She had posted these glass jars online, and offered to trade them with someone. I was so excited when she picked me! I sent her a mini shadow box in return.....but you'll have to wait till she gets it to see.....Here's my jars and a hat!! I put some Cotton Candy candy sticks in one.....it's going into Katie's Corner!! The other 3 will go into each of the kids houses.....just have to make some candy sticks to match......lol, I need and idea as to what kind of candy stick would go with A Star Wars Toystore and A skate shop......and well, Cora's getting pineapple flavored ones to go in her kitchen:)

Next we have a kit that Ana from http://miniaturesforever.blogspot.com/ sent me:) Last night I curled up in bed and watched back to back episodes of Bones and put this little shelf together. It's suppose to have a mirror in the middle and I was thinking I might put cork in there instead?! Still haven't figured out where it's going~ Maybe in the big brother's room in Cora's House?? LOL, Yeah! I know I still need to finish her house!! One day!!

Next we have a few Hello Kitty keychains that I found at the mall yesterday! I thought the one on the left would be cute in Cora' sitting room. The Pink Tiger one is going to Katie's Corner.....and the little 'goth' one on the right will be going to Cora for the daughter's room.

And now for some Otis pics.......I swear this cat's been sitting on my printer for 2 weeks now?? Do your cats do that...Pick a favorite spot, and sleep there for days??? Then they get bored? and find a new place??? He's funny, when I watch videos and stuff online, I'd swear he watches them too!!

And when he gets tired...he's just makes himself at home and takes a nap. Poor baby~ Mommy really needs to get all her junk off your cat tree so you can get your whole body in there and not just your head!

Yes! The opossum is still here.......and I don't get it! My cats are hunters, nothing makes it past them!....I can't tell you how many dead critters I have found on the porch over the years......Even woke up Christmas morning to a rat on the welcome mat! So Why are they letting that opossum eat ALL their food?? Don't get me wrong, I don't want them to hurt him/her; or get hurt themselves.....I just don't understand why they sit and watch it eat?? Do they think it's a kitten or something?? You see Pocus in the picture, Just watching the baby opossum eat??? Crazy!!

...and speaking of Opossums....Anyone ever watch the Bones episode where Bones is trying to chase away a really slow opossum??? Too funny!!

And one last picture! This doesn't happen often, so I'd thought I'd share it with you!! All 3 cats are sitting together!! OK, maybe they're not together, but all 3 are sitting on the same table, lol!

OK...I'm off to finish up a few things for Cora's birthday.....I can't show you pictures yet, But I will this weekend! All I'll say, is even I'm impressed!!! :)

Look at what We got.....

Saturday....while I was cooking dinner.....a package arrived from Mercedes!! I knew it was coming, but I am always so surprised at how freakin fast it gets here!! I was able to open it, so we could take a peek, but told the kids we had to wait till after dinner to open all her little packages!! Cora made me promise I wouldn't snoop, seeing as I was keeping the box in the kitchen with me, lol!

LOL.....we ALL opened our stuff so quick after dinner, I forgot to take pictures! The kids each got a writing tablet and the cutest magnets....And Cora got a pink bracelet from Liberty! Now....you know how kids are~all their treasures have now been scattered about.....But not mine:)

I kept everything in the box so I could share them with you! First we have a mini scrapbook!! She used my tutorial to do these, And I must say they're Awesome!!!

I really got choked up when I saw the picture of me and my Mom in it.....

And got even more teary eyed when I saw the picture of her and Liberty in it!!! How special is that!!! ;)

She also sent lots of other little gifts!! There's a table with pink flowers painted on it....ribbon....basket making stuff, a little pineapple, coconuts, dragonfly charms!

There were stickers..... LOL, Lots of Dragonfly stickers:)!!!

Here's a picture of the canisters up close. My favorite is the pink one with the dragonfly!!!

Next we have a pink basket that will go in Katie's Corner, and some crates that are absolutely perfect! We both love Moulin Rouge!! ;)

And look at this birdhouse! And that tiny nest! Awesome!!! There's also another canister with a carnival tent on it....

In this next picture if you look at the middle, you will see 2 house pillows!! I'm thinking they 'll go to live in Cora's living room!! All the other stuff in the box is what she used to wrap everything. She's made some really cute bags with a tutorial I posted awhile back. I'm So proud, LOL!!! And I saved the wrapping paper and that weird white (packing)stuff in the bottom right corner....Don't know what it is, but I have fallen in love with it's texture!!!

And last but not least...I have 2 cards! The little girl is a print of a painting her sister painted, I asked Mercedes if I could shrink it down and copy her idea of making a mini card out of it??! ...And the pineapple card was to Cora. I have a bunch of paper things now with pineapples on it.....I'm going to have to figure out a way to shrink them and make something for the kitchen with them....maybe a collage??

Thanks again Mercedes! As Always, it has been so much fun trading with you!!!!! :)

Busy Work....

I just can't tell you how much I appreciate these printies! Yesterday I received an envelope in the mail all the way from Hawaii! Tara at http://dollhouseatpoohcorner.blogspot.com/ sent me a handful of printies!!! LOL...Betcha can guess what I did last night! Yup! Sat on the couch and cut almost all of them out. Still have to find my 'little' scissors~Cause these Big ones are killing my hands! I'll have to interrogate the kids later as to where they could be, lol!

Thanks again Tara for keeping me busy:)


Let's see, I did manage to get the 'wood' part of the windows painted their base color. I started with Espresso brown, and will work into the lighter shades, lol...when I get up the confidence to do so. Does this happen to you, You'll put off doing something, because you're afraid of messing it up, ....Only to finish it at a later date, to only wonder why you made such a big deal about it in the first place, Haha??? Sometimes you just gotta do it!!!


And last but not least, We have the fat cat, Um, I mean Otis, napping in the crack between the cushions on the couch.....Doesn't he look cozy!!!

Ok...That's about it for now......Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!! I'll be back......lol (did you hear my 'Terminator' voice come out there, Hahaha!!)

Until Next Time...

Come see what Ana sent me!!

Look at what I received over the weekend!!! Ana from http://miniaturesforever.blogspot.com/ sent me a package all the way for Portugal!! First we have a beautiful book about Curtains. I can't tell you how many times I've looked through this book since I got it! And she even wrote a special message to me inside the cover:)

She also sent several different kinds of paper.....a decal sheet, a sheet of shrink it paper, miniature paper dolls.....a shiny silver paper....


And....There's a kit in the upper left corner to make a shelf with hooks and a mirror! She made a small carpet that I plan on putting under the chess table that will one day be going the bf's 'Man Room'. There's 3 beautiful flower prints.......and A post Card with a rooster explaining the meaning behind "The Cock of Barcelos"......

...and she sent me a tiny Rooster! Look at those colors~ It matches the post card perfectly!!! It's going to live in Cora's Kitchen!! The two bears will go in her nursery!!

Thank-you again, Ana!! I still can't get over how fantastic that book is......It has me totally sidetracked from everything else:) !!!

You asked For Pictures...

You Got it!! LOL!! When I was at the thrift store yesterday, I bought a bag of 'Potpourri' for 75 cents! I'm going to work backwards here...hope I don't confuse anyone!!

I made my very first fairy chair last night. I found this 'seed pod' thing that curled around, and as soon as I saw it, I saw a chair. I stuffed the pod with Styrofoam, then covered that with moss......Even added a 'pillow'. The table base is another seed thing. Looks like a dried up avocado seed or something?? I made the table top from a dried orange slice. I still think the chair needs a little more character, but I don't want to over do it!


Next is a side view, I stuffed a little moss into a hole that was there. Here you can see where those seeds used to live. And this thing is hard, like tree trunk hard, wish I knew what in the world it was....it's neat!


And a back view.....I took the moss all the way around.

And a size reference picture........

Next is a picture of all kinds of weird things that were in the bag...This has to be the strangest bag of potpourri I've ever bought. I would like to say the most of them seem to be some kind of casing for seeds, if you shake them, they make noise!!


Here's a peek into the bag! There's cinnamon sticks, mini corn cobs,............and well, other than the orange peels, I really have No clue what the rest of it is, Hahaha!!

I also bought of bag of coasters for 99 cents. I wanted to pry of the wood pieces and use them around Marshmallow Manor. However, there not really coming off that easy....I'll have to try throwing them in the microwave for a minute and see what happens.

And as promised, here is a picture of the Lego's that Sans sent. Drew and Cameron had a lot of fun building and then rebuilding these little kits, Thanks again Sans!!!

And for all you Otis fans out there....This is another reason this cat is still here, He keeps me laughing!!! He's such a dork!!! We were sitting on the couch and happened to look down and see that Otis had curled up in a shopping bag, and was using it like a sleeping bag. He has his head through on of the handles!! ***Attention, I don't suggest leaving your cat in a bag, but under close supervision, it's OK, to laugh your head off!!!