If this doesn't make your mouth water...

...then I don't know what will! Okay, CONFESSION time. This is my Number 1 Guilty Pleasure:

That's right baby. Lemons & Salt. I grew up in Arizona---we had lemon trees galore. I know it's horrible for my teeth & all that, but I just can't help myself. Sadly, I have turned many a friend, sister-in-law, & child (minus the salt) over to this guilty pleasure. Just looking at this makes my mouth water.





But that's not what I'm gonna talk about today. We've been very busy doing this today:
Queezing lemons for summer lemonaid. Doesn't that just sound divine? HY decided that he had to taste the results.... (If you are asking yourself why HY has a piggy tail in his hair, it's because he wants to be like Mini-E)





But even before we took on the task of queezing our home grown Arizona Lemons (thank you so much Grandpa S), we did a little rearranging of HY's bedroom. I don't have a surpluss of cash to decorate his room the way I want to, so I just move the furniture around that that holds me off for a few more months.





So now, HY is taking a nap & Mini-E is doing this so that I can get a bit of blog time. What more could I ask for? Thank goodness for toys that after having been put away for a month or two feel like new again on the re-entry.

Of course, some of you may be thinking, "well, that's just what she's done today---what's she been doing since Monday?"...and if you ARE thinking that...then you check the blog way too much & you need to get out more (no...just kidding--but that is a bit weird). I have been working on a few of these bows/flowers for Mini-E. What do you think?

And this tutorial helped me show them off.

Just waiting for CrazyMama to do a bow tutorial...hint hint.

Pay it Forward is still going on--visit Bethie's blog

Bling & more Bling!

This little miss loves jewlry! She loves to suck on watches, braclets, rings....& when she nurses, she pushes my head so that she can see my diamond earrings. I must say, she's got serious taste. And I know that Farmboy is secretly worried about how much this baby girl is going to cost him. Can we say "high maintanence"?

So, I decided to make her a little BLING! And here's what I came up with:

I made a few (okay, I obviously got carried away) of these bows again. I saw one with a button in the middle & so I was anxious to try. If only I'd had Grandma L's button can. These buttons came from...where else? Hobby Lobby! Here's my favorite:

And my favorite little girl wearing it!

And as if that were enough BLING for one day....here's a bit more...on our "other" little girl.

Yes, this is the HY man wearing high heeled-gold-sparkled shoes. ( I love that he's still carrying his truck & trailer). When Aunt Little S was here on Sunday, he found her shoes & just had to try them on. He loved the clicking noise they made on the tile floor. Mamma was just impressed that he could walk in them. I don't think that Daddy was impressed AT ALL!

Not to worry, HY, I'll always love you! Now click those gold heels together & let's go shopping!

Time Flies

Since last night was a bit rough (HY didn't want to sleep in his bed for the 2nd night in a row) & this morning wasn't much better (HY puked up his breakfast)...I thought I'd take a bit of mommy time.

It's not terribly fansy, but I like it.

{Credits: Miss Kim template & Paper: Little Dreamer Shabby Blues. Accessories: ikscrap Timeflies, dbk eyelet}

As a side note: thanks so much for all your nice comments about the creative bows (except you Aidsy...Horray,I'm glad you are reading) I'm trying to make a few more thanks to all of your confidence boosters. My head is almost as big as some of those bows. Oh, and to answer your questions: I bought the flowers at the Dollar store. So there you have it, you know all my creative secrets.

Bows, baby...Bows!

Alright, I was trying to be creative(you might understand why I don't do this often). I figured, that if Tina could do this on a whim, then I should be able to produce something! Here are a few of my creations. (Aunt CC thinks that they are all WAY too big--I tried to explain that this is "in"---she didn't believe me).

And the most beautiful, outrageous, & extravagant creation goes to: I call this "A day at the races" (it has a sort of Audrey Hepburn feel)

(okay, so it's a bit large---maybe we'll give this one to Little L--she could totally sport this)