A winner and OWOH starts

****Just happened upon your blog! By reading some of your posts, could your present be a Sizzix or CriCutter (I think that's the name??!!) Anyway, it was fun reading your post - I could feel your excitement. I'm a new follower - I also like raising chickens (although at the moment I am chickless!) Here is the winner of the guessing game today!!!***** 
Yepper I got me a cricut expression cutter!~  and have been playin all day with this cute bug!!

Please send me your addy and I will pop your prez in the mail asap!!
TY!!

Ok also almost forgot to post about ONE WORLD ONE HEART!!  This is the 5th and final year for this amazing and fun blog hop!!  I have been in it for 3 years and have met some wonderful bloggin friends on here!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOO now I have to figure out what I will make for this event!  Last year I sent out a pendant, some paper rosettes and also an altered framed captured fairy so with this being the last year I gotta come up with something extra special!! Will post asap!!

You can figure this out someone will definitely recieve a pkg of mixed things cut with my little bug too!! LOL   It is aquamarine my birthstone color~~ YEAH!! that is kind of cool!! 
Have a great night!!
HUGS
Darlene

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Chick this out!

Hop or should i say "SLED" your way over to Babycakes  merry whaterver"s blog to sign up for a great GREAT giveaway!!
This santa is just darling isnt he?  Have fun!!

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Super giveaway over at...........

Blog Candy and Design Team Intro Party!!

OMGOSH look at this sneak peak of the prize over at Really Reasonable Ribbons!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE these colors and it sure looks awesome!!


May 1st is National Scrapbook Day, and more importantly, it's the day we are going to announce our NEW DESIGN TEAM!!!! So............we're having a party! We will be giving away a surprise pack of ribbon and embellishments to celebrate. Hop on over to their blog to enter and check out all the great ribbons in the store!!

I am heading over to the kitchen have some cookies to make for monday orders.   Hope yall have a super duper weekend!! PS> I went up to the shop last night to show the gal that ordered the wedding cake her cake and flowers and she loved it all!!  I was so glad! U just never know someone else's taste and what they personally like but she said the colors were perfect!! YIPPEE!! my mom and I chatted with her for a bit and what a sweet lady!!! She is one of a kind and I feel honored to have put some of me into their special day by making the cake!! THANK YOU so very much for trusting me to make it for you!!!  I hope their day will be blessed and everything special for the couple!!!  CONGRATS PAULA AND TROY!!******* enjoy******


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OWOH WINNERS!!

OK the winner of the first owoh giveaway was BRENDALEA CONGRATS!! she is the winner of the handmade paper envelope filled with rosette paper flowers.

The second winner of the cards and my captured fairy shadowbox is BAGLADY CONGRATS!!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH TO ALL THAT ENTERED AND PLAYED AND LEFT THE NICEST COMMENTS HERE!!  I TRULY WISH I COULD SEND EVERYONE SOMETHING!! YALL ARE THE BESTEST EVER AND I AM THANKFUL SO MANY OF YOU ENJOY COMING AND READING ABOUT MY ALTERED CRAZY LIFE!!!

Have a blessed monday!! Will be back to posting things tomorrow!!

Most of yall know but my mom and I have a flower/bakery shoppe here in out little town and with Valentines day we had a super busy nutso week and weekend so we are taking today to do something fun for us with my brother!!  Closed the shop today and it will be all about us doing things together!!  YEAH!!! We all need a break and a little r and r!!  I will be back at the kitchen tomorrow baking up some new treats so will post all about it.   Allegan MI market is thurs and friday I will be in Kalamazoo at Bronson Winter Market.

***ENJOY YOUR DAY***

HUGS!!

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

GIVEAWAY TODAY!!

Here is the comment that hubby drew out for my suprise giveaway today!!
CONGRATS !!

jacque4u2c said...


No fair you took mine!!! Lol! No, please take my family - just kidding, the weather and being snowed in made me say that LOL!!!! My family and my fur babies are my biggest blessing - in fact I really am enjoying being in with them! Have a great weekend!!!




February 13, 2010 2:15 PM
I sent you an email letting you know and to work out the details of shipping!! THANKS to everyone that played along!
 


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Flower pics and a giveaway!!

HAPPY SNOWY SATURDAY YALL~
I thought I would post some pics of some of the flower arrangements we did up and sold yesterday.  I love the sunday glasses done up they are fun to make and we seem to sell a couple each year for valentines. 
CUTE CUTE CUTE!
FOR MY SPECIAL GIVEAWAY READ AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST!!

WE do alot of teddy bears with flowers from the sm ty bears to the big talking ones and they just are so adorable!! Who wouldnt want to recieve one? 

I hope yall have a great day, we are expecting snow but not too much accumulation this weekend. 

OK in the spirit of the OWOH I have decided to do a quickie giveaway that will ship out tues!!  Leave me a comment of what is your greatest LOVE here on this post and hubby will draw a name tomorrow!! IT IS A SURPRISE LITTE SOMETHING FROM ME FOR VALENTINES DAY!! 

BE sure though you leave a comment here before midnight tonight to get your name in!

NOW LETS see those comments!!

My answer would be my family!~! of cource I love all my extended family too but in this world nothing means more to me than my wonderful family!!

Have a great day!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

OWOH TODAY

Click on the magic carpet banner to read all about this event!!  NOW THRU FEB 15th~ This is my second year particpating!!  In honor of magic I added a captured fairy shadow box to my giveaways!!!  READ there are 2 seperate giveaways I am doing this year!!

Ok so here is one of the giveaways! A handmade paper envelope that holds some handmade paper rosettes and layered flowers I made for your cards or scrapbooking and 2 handmade greeting cards. One little mini birthday tag card and a thinking of you card. Both are blank on the inside for you to write your message on.

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For all of you that are new to my blog here is a quick rundown of my life:
My great hubby and I  have a small farm and grow chemical free produce and raise chickens for eggs.  I am fully licesensed to bake and sell at local farmers markets and opened a small town bakery in Fennville with my mom's flower shop.  I love to do altered art/scrapbooking and mixed media along with paint primitive treasures.  I believe in buying local and handmade to keep our creativity unique!!  You might see me in craft shows in and around MI thru the fall and winter.    AND I have 3 boys "dogs" that are the light of my life!!  Love you boys!! Buster, Bubba and Barney as you see on my side bar.  That is about it plain and simple and I LOVE MY LIFE!!
Thanks for stopping on by the farm.

Ok so here is the 2nd giveaway~~ A handmade card that has the word CHERISH stamped on it using JUST RITE stamps,  I made the little paper rose on the heart and loved it so much added some to the side of the altered little shadow box captured fairy I made.

You will get both the card and the shadow box!!

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All you have to do for these is to leave me a comment that you were here and want to be included in the drawing which will be FEB 15th when the giveaway ends.   And dont forget to hop on over to all the other great blogs and have fun!!!   Now I gotta get working so I can go blog hop later today too!

Have a great day yall!!
~~HUGS~~
Darlene

~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

OWOH tomorrow~~

I am gonna take pics today for the start of my giveaways on ONE WORLD ONE HEART!!  stop on by to see the goodies I have made for.  There will be 3 yepper 3 different things I am giving away to celebrate this year!

It is rainin and gloomy out right now but hopefully wont freeze.  It did get to (are ya ready for this one?) 39.7 yesterday!!  Holy Chicken! that is nuts!!

Speaking of chicken..........the girls are all doin quite well.  They are allowed out in the big pen we have for them but NOT loose yet!! too many hungry hawks loomin around and I am NOT providing them a smorgasboard any time soon!! LOL   The boys are all crashed out on the couches by me, we moved our puter out in the living room since crashing a few weeks ago and I gotta tell ya I LOVE it out here.  Now to find a desk and it will stay out here.  Hubby and I play games together on it we surf the web together and the best part is the boys are close by!! We used to have it in an extra bedroom and I always felt so far away from my family.  Not anymore!! 
Ok so I better git to it and "get er done" for tomorrow!!!

Talk to yall soon!!

have a blessed sunday!!
~~HUGS!~
Darlene
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Couch taters

Here is Mr. Boopie Woopie Boo snoozin on the couch.

bubba laying on a warm heating pad covered up

Buster with one of his blankies on the couch

Look at that little face!!! TOO CUTE!~~
Oh my boys were just chillin' yesterday on the couch so cute. I covered each one up and they laid like that for hours. One day I will have time to lay down and take a nap with my boys again!!

Well it did snow a bit today but not enough to have to plow again thank goodness. Tomorrow is baking day I have a couple of orders to get shipped out and wanna make more fresh pasta for supper tomorrow. We made the spinach and it was incredible! and oh so easy. I am thinkin maybe of tryin a few other ones too. I so wanna do a tomato basil flavored fettucini noodle. Making me hungry for pasta now!!LOL We are havin homemade cheddar broccoli soup with ham tonight and some homemade bread. Good ol comfort foods!

I did manage to get one of my giveaway OWOH prizes done so as soon as they are both ready I will start posting pics of them. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR IT TO START!!

Have a blessed night we are gonna eat supper and probably take the snowmobiles out after dinner.

~~HUGS~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

OWOH giveaway soon!!

WHAT IS ONE WORLD ONE HEART?

I created this event in 2007. The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way. 2007 had roughly 85-90 participants and many connections were made because of it......friendships that are still going strong.
We had a strong showing the first year for sure, and then in 2008 we had just about tripled that number. In 2009 there were 911 participants, to say I was amazed is an understatement. 28 countries were represented in the 2009 event as well.
This is more than wanting to win something.......that is only the means.......in the end it's about finding kindred spirits. Someone who may be fairly new to blogging, not sure how to navigate, find others and have others find them....Some are long time bloggers and in some cases well known in the blogging community. Whatever the case it brings all of them together. This is an INTERNATIONAL event that has and had participants from the US, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Malaysia, Brazil, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, England,Wales, Slovenia and more. It transcends geographical location, socio economics, political affiliation, religious beliefs......it's a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. We are not solving the worlds problems nor are we curing anything nor are we changing the world. We are merely generating a closer community between humans through blogging. What more could I ask for, my little idea has surpassed my wildest dreams of what it could become.
I don't like rules but sometimes there needs to be at least guidelines to keeping things cohesive and fair for everyone.
You don't need to be an artist to participate each year, this is open to everyone. What it's not meant for is self promotion. Meaning that the mission of this event is to meet new people and them meet you, rather than be a commercial for each persons specific endeavors. Many people have links to their websites, Etsy sites etc. already on their blog therefore the "visitor" can click on those to find out more about what a person does. The aim is for the event post itself to be about welcoming and showing what each visitor has a chance to win by stopping by.....AND giving the visitor a chance to read and learn more about each person along the way.
Think of this as taking a giant tour of homes; you get to stop in, look around, meet the people who live there, admire and be inspired and before you go on to the next one you leave your name in hopes to win a door prize at each "home".

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