Me on a DESIGN TEAM!!

I have been chosen and am so excited about starting something new!! I have been accepted to be on Jeans Art Dolls mixed media/scrappin design team!! YEE HAW!! this will be good for me to be more creative this year and give and take inspiration!! I love paper and paper creating so with all the supplies I have I can use them up now!! There is a button on the sidebar here for it.

I am not doing anything today so am planning on spending the rest of the day in my studio. My boys are all crashed out on the couches Barney is sitting in a chair next to me and will be in my craft room with me. I have a chair in there with a pillow on it just for him!! The other boys like to stay in the living room where the fireplace is goin and warm.
So I hope yall have a great day and will post pics of my first project as designer. It is a layout challenge with a theme!! Since Valentines day is approaching I am thinking of a vintagey lo with the "love me" theme?? I did have a friend suggest "born to love" as a title so maybe will be using that. Off to create!!

!~~HUGS~~~!
Darlene
~~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~~

NO more!!

SNOW!! Actually there not calling for any snow for us for a few days!! YEAH!! kind of happy can u tell?? LOL

Well Kalamazoo market was awesome yesterday!! It took me a bit longer to get there but it was really a gread market day for me!! I love being involved in a winter market, usually I do get a bit down when the outdoor markets end but this is great!! Now gotta find another one maybe? LOL well maybe not!!

This weekend is all bout being home and frankly doing anything? no plans!! YEE HAW!! the boys are happy about that in fact Buster and Barney are laying next to me on the couch and Mr Bubba is in the recliner on the heating pad. (on low for him) so they are content and chilling. I am hoping to get alot of my food labels put on puter and yepper saved on a cd this time!! Hubby got everything back installed on here so I am good to go!! YEAH!!

Off to try to surf around a bit, Blake Shelton on right now "hillbilly bone" love that song, my boys by me, a good cup of espresso and on the puter!! LIFE IS GOOD!!

Have a wonderful weekend yall!! will see u on monday!!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Kalamazoo MI Indoor Market

My boys playing with some of the toys they still had left from xmas. As u can see they can be kind of naughty with toys!! LOL well I dont ever think my boys can be naughty!!

My newest creation!! Peanut peanut butter cream filled whoopie pies!! I came up with a thick soft cookie
filled with homemade peanut butter cream filling and rolled in crushed honey roasted peanuts!! They are listed on my esty site for sale but you could always order directly from me here!!

Here is a pic of a round birthday cake I made last week. I did light pink sweet peas on a vine. and just some scalloped edges.

frosting sweet peas, i had to practice havent made them since last year or so.

Tomorrow is market day!! Kalamazoo Market at Bronson Hospital in the cafe!! So today I am goin to be making my rustic cinnamon raisin loaves, apple something? not sure yet what, cookies, and SOMETHING new for market tomorrow!! Spinach flavored fresh pasta!! Yepper first time for me making pasta and I cant wait to try it out!

OK also I want to post here about a fundrasiser this weekend!! Sat from 11am to 4 pm WISHBONE pet rescue is hosting a carnival pet adoption event sat in SAUGATUCK at the masonic lodge. Bake sale and some other goodies available for purchase including some great coffee from UNCOMMON GROUNDS in SAUGATUCK MI, and I am gonna try to whip up some goodies tomorrow after market. This is a great organization and they really love and care about the pets that they have so stop on by!!

It has been sleeting and snowing and there is a sheet of ice on everything!! 5-7 inches of fresh snow coming today so hopefully not too bad for market in allegan today.

I am so happy to have my camera back to post pics!! well the program back anyway!! Thank You to my loving, smart, handy, creative, handsome, silly hubby!! LOVE YA Babe!!

Have a great day yall!!

~HUGS~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

**STILL SNOWING**

Hey yall!!
Well it is still snowing!! sure is pretty out there but the roads are nasty and slushy, we did have some freezin rain yesterday and then back to snow. I am waiting for my wonderful hubby to have some time to install our camera program so cant post any pics yet but hopefully soon. He had to fix brakes on our plow truck then an axel busted so he has had to work on that every night after work. Cant be in this beautiful state without a plow!
Well tomorrow I will be in Allegan with some homemade goodies then in BRONSON HOSPITALS WINTER MARKET on FRIDAY from 10.30-2. KALAMAZOO MI. Stop on by if yall are in the area.
Everyone here is doing well the chickens are ANGRY!! they have had to be in the coop for several days now due to the cold and all the snow and they are all mad!! There is alot of commotion when I do morning chores I just bet they are clucking a plan with each other to get me one of these days!! Last winter we did have a hen that froze her poor little feet by standing out in the snow all day and I am not about to let that happen to another one!!
The "boys" are in winter hybernation mode and pretty much are layin around being lazy each day, one of these days I want to join them and even maybe take a nap in the afternoon! Oh that would be something great!! and they would love it too!! They all get crazy when mommy and daddy go to bed at the same time they love that. LOL it's the simple things that make us all happy isnt it.

Hope yall have a great day and stay warm***and be safe on the roads**
HUGS
Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

I'm Back~~

WHEW!! first of all I would like to say HAPPY 2010 to all my friends on here!! I have missed posting1! After Christmas our computer went nutso! We lost everything, what a sickening feeling I tell ya!! I have to redo all my saved ingredient labels, my newsletter address book, we lost all files!~ What a mess! my poor hubby has dilegently been working since to try to fix things and re download everything. I am thankful he did back up alot of our "boys' pics but we havent done it since this early fall so all the newest ones are gone, lost in cyperdom somewhere. PLEASE take the time to save things on disk!! I am now gonna make time to do this every week!! I hope yall had a great start into our new year, cant believe it is 2010 at all~~ time sure flies dont it!

This friday is also the KALAMAZOO FARMERS MARKET at BRONSON HOSPITAL from 10-2~~ stop on by for some yummy treats.

I havent been workin on too much the last week, as we have been havin lots of snow and more coming!! and u know we havent had time to even take the snowmobiles out yet! I know it is perfect snow for it maybe tonight. I did work on a couple of new cookie recipes and also had a few cake orders last week, will post those pics when the camera program is back on puter. So I am off today to make a few orders and some blueberry jalapeno jelly and maybe try a new cookie recipe. ***Have *a *wonderful *snowy* day**~~

~SNOWY HUGS~~
LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~