It's a CSN Stores Giveaway!

**Giveaway Is Now Closed**

CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find just about anything you need. Whether it be swingsets for the kids, fitness equipment for the family or even some cute cookware for yourself.  I have been browsing around over at CSN Stores and have found several things that I would love to purchase.

The generous folks at CSN Stores are going to bless one of my readers with a $25 gift certificate that can be used at any of their online stores.

How to enter: Take a look around CSN Stores and let me know what you would like to purchase with the $25 gift certificate. Then come back here and leave a comment.

You can also get an extra entry if you blog about this giveaway leaving a link back to this page. Then come back here and leave a another comment letting me know you did this.

This giveaway will end on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. EST. I will then randomly pick a winner and will send them an email. The winner has 48 hours to respond. Giveaway is open to US & Canadian residents only. Good luck and thank you all again for checking out my blog...Enjoy!

Disclosure: I received no compensation for this post or giveaway.

Little Bit of Sweetness

Over the past several months I have noticed that there are some crafty people out there in the blog world.  After reading about and looking at some of the crafts/home projects that a lot of you all are involved in, I decided that I needed a project too. Mind you that mine is not in any way as elaborate as some of the others, but I am happy with it just the same.

Yesterday morning I got busy at the computer making my design, then I headed to Michael’s to get the supplies that I would need to complete the project. This is what I started out with:

A plain brown wooden picture frame.

I then used this white spray paint to paint the frame. Waiting for the paint to dry.

Here it is all finished.

I know that Valentine’s Day is still a month away, but I wanted to go ahead and make something to put up now so that we would have more than one day to enjoy it. I’m already thinking about what my next project is going to be.

A Year in Pictures

For the last year I have been wanting to do a "year in pictures" blog. So I have finally got one up and going. My plan is to take a picture a day and post it on my other blog site.  If you have time, come on over and take a look around.

Our new home....

We are finally moved into our "new to us" house. This last week has definitely been a rough one for me. While I am happy about our move, I am also a tad bit sad. As I stated in my previous post, the house we left was the one where we brought Tyler home from the hospital and where both of our children have spent the majority of their lives. I knew it was going to be hard, but goodness I didn't realize how hard it was going to be. So on my last morning of waking up at the "old house" (as my nephews call it) I was very teary and admit I cried more that day than I have cried in a long while. My husband was very supportive and understanding of all this crying that I was doing, (by the way have I ever told you all how much I love that man of mine?). Well I made it through that day and each day since then. 

Once we got moved in, our living room looked like this for several days.

We had to wait for several days for our furniture to be delivered (we opted for getting new living room furniture as our other set we had for almost 15 years and needless to say, after two kids and that many years it had seen better days).  So this is what our living room looks like now with our furniture.