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

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

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~~

Handmade cards

I had some free scrappin time this early am and made up a few get well cards.  Love the colors together too!!  So I used some patterened papers, some chipboard cutouts that I bought from Hobby Lobby, a great little verse stamp from STAMPING UP collection, and also a couple of flowers oh and of cource my newest favo thing Bakers Twine!!  The swirls and bracket were cut from green cardstock and the chipboard pieces were painted sanded just a bit and misted with Cherry Blossom spray by TATTERED ANGELS, great glimmer mist. 

A litte sheer pink ribbon and light green bakers twine add just the right touch to the flowers.  I did a bit of zig zag stitches with my sewing machine and also distressed the edge of papers. 

Well it is really REALLY snowing here now!!! we did get quite a few inches already and more coming tonight.   I did just get home from the kitchen had to make more of my peanut peanut butter whoppie pies, cranberry pecan lemon sandwich cookies and also made up some more of my espresso sandwich cookies for orders and also for at the shop this week.  And more sugar cookie pops to decorate to add to arrangements or they are cute just as a cookie arrangement.   Lots of stuff to do yet to get ready for valentines.  Hubby loves those peanut butter pies so  I made extra to wrap some up and put in his truck as a nice little suprise.  Now just have to make a cute card and have all the boys sign it with their little piggy prints!! just for daddy!! LOL 

Have a great tues yall!!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

PS I will be drawing and posting the names of the giveaways soon too!!

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Bronson Market Kalamazoo MI

A buttermilk bundt cake filled with red raspberries and blueberries we froze from 09 season. And no bundt would be complete without my "farmgirl bling" LOL

Red Raspberry or Blueberries fill these lemon buttermilk cakes (the berries were from our farm last season)

I had alot of batter so made these lemon buttermilk muffins filled with berries. Notice the "farmgirl Bling" LOL

More of my peanut peanut butter cream filled whoopie pies!! I made 5 batches of these yesterday one just for my hubby! he loves these without the cream filling too.

I had a busy day at the kitchen yesterday also made up a few kinds of cookie dough to bake off today. today on the schedule I must get done my glazed pistachio bread, cheddar pepper bread loaves, and Fresh Spinach Pasta!! Pasta has been a big hit at the last markets so am going to keep making that regularly!! I am thinkin though of investing in a maker that will go on my kitchen aide mixer then I could do asst shapes not just the spaghetti or fettucini even though those are great!!

Have you ever had fresh pasta?? Gosh it is delic!!! I cant believe the difference now to get hubby to try it. We would probably eat alot more but we are just not big fans of dried tasteless noodles!! BUTTTTTTTT now we have flavor and a wonderful texture in fresh. And we both love spinach so I will be putting more of in this year just for our pasta!!

Friday is Market at BRONSON HOSPITAL in KALAMAZOO MI! 10.30-2.00 stop on by for some great foodies and winter produce and more!!

I will be in Allegan at the market parking lot tomorrow with some new goodies for yall!

Have a joyous day and will chat more later!! Dont forget OWOH will be starting soon!! be on the lookout for my great giveaways!!

~~HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Happy sunday!

Here is a pin that I had made using JUST RITE words stamps, some vintage sheet music, a great little fairy girl with some added butterfly wings and it is all on a piece of foam core board.

MEET PRECIOUS!! this is Brys grandparents little girl. She is such a doll!!

What a face!! Love ya baby!!

A layout I made using some great pics I took when I worked as this ranch. they were all so much fun and fun to be around!!

A new altered coffee filter book I made. The front is left pretty much blank so you could have me personalyze it or add some other title to it.

Back cover of book

Lots of fun girlie papers inside.

More insede pages

Inside pages

Front cover. I tied on lots of ribbons and fun fibers to the metal book ring that holds this together. I am listing it on my etsy site but you could always just order one from here too!! my etsy: http://chickenscratchprims.etsy.com

Not too much goin on today but it is my HUBBY's BIRTHDAY! Happy B'd day my love!!

he hasnt been feeling too good the last couple of days so not sure if we are gonna do anything special or just stay home and goof off all day with the boys. (which of cource is fine by me to do)

Hope yall have a great day!
~~HUGS~~

Darlene

P.S. I am finished and will post both items to be sent out for the OWOH giveaway coming soon !!!

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

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".

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

OWOH WINNERS!!

OK EVERYONE! Here are the randomly chosen winners for OWOH giveaway!

MARY ISABELLAAND KILEY TOO!
Mary Isabella and Kiley too! said...
OOOOOH I do love surprises!!! Please enter me...m.
January 22, 2009 7:17 PM

The second is
JENDY

I would love to be entered into your drawing! And if you haven't done so yet, stop by my blog and sign up for mine. Thanks for the inspiration!Jendy
February 8, 2009 7:48 PM

AND THE WINNER OF 3 Of MY HANDMADE CARDS IS:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;
Amy Wilges said...
wowza, very cute and creative cards you've done! love them! :)
January 26, 2009 8:51 AM


CONGRATS EVERYONE!! ANd thanks for entering it was fun to read all the comments and also play along too!!
I am off to the shop Valentines Day is tomorrow!! Will post some pics of the shop when i get back home tonight!!
Have a happy friday Yall!!!
~~HUGS~~
Darlene

OWOH GIVEAWAY!!

I am proud to be a participant on the ONE WORLD ONE HEART blog giveaway
!!It's a world-wide event, that's so much fun and has been such a great way to meet and connect with other bloggers, you will be very busy blog-hopping for this fun event, but I do hope you'll stop back and visit me often. I will be posting a pic of my 2 yes 2 giveaways tomorrow!! please know that this is not for the previous challenge giveaway that is seperate and you can be in both drawings!!
THANKS!!
http://www.primsistershoppe.com/Vendors/sites/ChickenScratchPrimitives