THANK YOU!!!

Yes, Thank you all so very, very much!!! All of you who have checked out Fred Flare's "The Next Big Thing", and to all of you for returning to vote, AND even passing the word along you are so amazing!!! The community of women bloggers (oh is there not a more beautiful term for this), especially the women that I have been fortunate to have met are truly wonderful, inspiring, kind, thoughtful.... I could go on until the end of time! OH MERCI, MERCI!!!

I am excited for us to pass the info about the Fred Flare Contest on so that next year we will have some more of our loved ones in this challenge!

Here is the box I decorated for Lorraine's Necklace. The inside was actually my favorite part of the box...but alas, As if on cue, I forgot to take a picture of it. I get so excited to get to the post office and send the package
off! Thus resulting in incomplete photos.

And WHO IS THIS??? This is our lovable, sweet cat Hobbes! My son Douglas named him...much to Caitlin's Distress...He deserved a more unique name she thought. (Caitlin's boyfriends' cat has the name of Constable!) But as it has turned out the name is perfect. Hobbes came from the A.D.O.P.T.E. program in our area. They are wonderful and protective of the dogs and cats. Doug and I were the only ones who went to pick him out. We had already gotten our first cat about a year and a half earlier...another story for another day! No one thought we should get one more cat except Doug and I. We knew what our other cat needed. Hobbes was the best medicine for her!!! He was there waitng for us when we arrived. He had been dropped off earlier that day in the parking lot of Petsmart. Petsmart has a viewing room for A.D.O.P.T. to house some of there cats and kittens. We got there just in time, for while Doug was holding the kitten a women came in wanting an orange tabby kitten. Doug had originally wanted a black and white cat like one of his best friends cats (Button's). However he saw the little, frightened orange tabby and all love was for him! He mews like a puurfect kitten, STILL to this day even! He talks to us, and he plays like a dog! He is great fun and we are so Thankful that he is in our lives!

Here is my inspiration for some recent projects. I love how the jar holds the confections of ribbons. I think
we all love this idea! : )





I also love placing pretty things, in pretty bowls. They are even more assemble for inspiring ideas I think. Notice how even dinner can be inspired from them while working! Humm, how did that get there? More importantly...WILL I be making dinner??? Yes, I will make a home cooked dinner-ALL WEEK even! Yaya, I will believe it when I taste it!!!

No, I really do enjoy cooking, just not the "what is this?" Chicago has amazing restaurants..tough competition!!! hehehe
THANK YOU ALL WHO ARE STILL COMING BY AND READING MY POST AFTER SUCH A LOOONG BREAK! I had my sister and her husband from out of state visit : ) : ) and projects and I had to go 'CRAZY" about the voting! THANK YOU again for all of your support there!!! : )