Sandy Saturday

 Saturday was a glorious day! The temperature got up in the mid sixties and it was like a God Kiss. Last year around this time I think we were shoveling out of three feet of snow.

It was rejuvenating.

We took our Dog Max for a walk and then the kids and I decided to go to the beach....that's right I wrote beach.

We don't live far from it and we got there right before the sun started to set. 
                   


The kids collected some rocks and we all tried to soak the day in ....and it was magical. It was the kind of day with my kids that I wish could have lasted forever. Before we knew it we had to say good bye to our perfect day.

                    
   





Just in time too.

                 


Because before we knew it...




                         


                        The sun kissed us goodnight.
                    




Don't you just love days like this? 

 

            

 

Artsy Fartsy Friday~~~Alexa Meade Canvas is The Human Body

It seems that I am yet again late with Artsy Fartsy Friday ...ugh!
Please forgive me


Pretty please!




OK, no more begging. I did enough of that today when I saw how messy my son's bedroom was...

                 "Please God give me patience with this child!!"




I bring you today an artist who is quite creative. Her name is Alexa Meade and she paints People...um on people! She makes the subjects of her art appear to be painted on canvas. You have got to see to believe...






                       






                       


Could you believe she's only in her mid twenties? I think she is awesome.

Have a magical weekend!
                                                  Blessings, Joanne


P.S. I am still having tons of trouble with my computer. pages take forever to load and so I have to borrow my daughters I pad to comment on all my favorite blogs. I will try to visit as many as I can this weekend!
                         

Wednesday's Fashion~~~Earrings

 For Christmas two of my dearest friends gave me beautiful earrings. When I put them on I realized that I hadn't worn earrings in a very long time.  


                                   Earrings I received
                            


    One of my friends was wearing feathered earrings which are very much in style now and were also in style in the late 70's. There is just something about wearing earrings that makes me feel super girly. I stopped wearing them when the kids were babies and when I worked with small children...the fear that a tiny hand would reach and pull one of my earrings was enough to make me stop wearing them for a while. Now I think its time to "girl out" and wear them again everyday and not just on special occasions.


Art deco type earrings 1920's

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                            1940's silver and crystals
                                          
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      1960's Bakelite clunky earrings

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Big gold earrings 1980's style

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The current trend can be described in two words Long and Flirty

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Do You wear earrings?  Do you or would you wear the new style?

Looking Forward to...

     Its cold .
                                
                                               
           It's bleak.
                                      
                                                        
                The wind howls at night and my body begs to stay in bed under the covers 'til spring.

Winter has always made me feel this way. One of the ways I have tried to push away the winter blues is to have something to look forward to. When our Children were babies the one thing I would look forward to was long long showers. I'd count the minutes until Hubster would get home so that I could let the water wash away the day's stress. Whether it's designing in your mind's eye the way your spring garden may look or perhaps a day trip with with  someone special. It could be something as simple as looking forward to some alone time with a hot cup of cocoa and a book.

What am I looking forward to?

Tomorrow when the kids go back to school my Hubby and I are going to take a nice long walk and take our dog Max with us.
                                         
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        What are you looking forward to?

New Year's Day Joggers

         Well, it's finally here... 2012. It came in at our house like it always does...with the kids and Hubby and I watching Dick Clark starting around 11:45 and shouting the big countdown at midnight. In a flash it was over...poof. Hubby and I had some champagne and the kids had sprite in champagne flutes.


Today was the first day of the year and the first thing I noticed as we drove to church were all the people jogging. It didn't take long to figure out that these people ( mostly women) were starting bright and early their New Year's resolutions.


Right off the bat you could tell the difference between the people that jog regularly and those that were starting their quest to good health. The latter huffed and puffed and were wearing all the wrongs clothes for running. Those are the ones that made their resolutions at 11:59pm and had no time to get fancy shmancy running attire.
                                                   
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In the next few weeks there will be sales and specials on Weight Watchers frozen foods and member ship to Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem will be way up. And you may also see infomercials again for the cookie diet or some other "promise the world" plan.
 
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Now  if you have read this blog for a while you have also read that I have struggled with the fact that I am  "pleasantly plump" so why is it that I was not up bright and early with those women running my poor jiggly legs off?   My friends I was there just 12 months ago. I started running and I was the one with the brand new jogging suit that screamed "I can't run for beans but don't I look cute?"


I was the one that bought tons of frozen meals and then "doubled them" when I found that a hamster would not feel full with just one.


The call of chocolate was much too strong. I tried and tried and tried...and it was the worst two days of my life! OK, it was longer....maybe three!


Whatever the time frame I gave in to temptation and was lured back in by the evil evil sugar monster.

Oh yes, there was a bit of success later on in the year but that gave way to stress, Halloween treats, Thanksgiving pie and Christmas cookies... the odds were stacked against me people.


So those of you who have picked up my dropped batton...I salute you. Go on my friend and run. And as you pass me in your quest for a better thinner you do not let the marble chocolate cream donut I'm eating tempt you ...run for all us chubby gals. Run and keep on running....cause that just means there be more donuts for us!

Wait....I can't do this....I can't leave this post with a defeatist attitude...

  PLOP...( dropping donut in trash)

Wait for me! just let me squeeze into my jogging pants! I'm on my way to a thinner healthier me! huff huff puff puff. Don't leave without me! puff puff huff heave cough!
                             
                                      

                       OK these don't fit...Ill join you guys tomorrow OK?