Wordless Wednesday: Christmas Day

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Family Rules Sign Giveaway

I am really super excited!!  The wonderful and amazing Amanda over at Sas Bowtique has offered to sponsor a SECOND giveaway for all Story of a Girl fans!!  This time she is going to send ONE of my lucky fans/readers one of her AMAZING signs!  I have been eyeing this sign for a while and will be ordering one myself (as soon as I decide on a color).

If you weren't around for the last giveaway she sponsored on my page, you can read all about Amanda and her story by clicking here.  It's a good one too!

Ready to see the sign and a few other things she has made? Here it is!  Beautiful, Huh?

All you have to do to win is to follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter below.  Then cross your fingers and/or your toes, say "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can".  After that click your heels together three times and POOF you might win...or you just might look silly.  hehe  

If you JUST.CANNOT.WAIT for the contest to end to see if you win this adorable, beautiful picture, then you could always just head on over to her ETSY SHOP and place an order there OR you can head over to her FACEBOOK PAGE, browse her photos and then message her with the order number under the photo of the item you want.  Okay, enough chatter.  Check out her stuff!! 

We can start with some of her hair bows.  These are modeled by none other than my FABULOUS and ADORABLE Princess A.  

 She also makes GORGEOUS wreaths

Let's not forget to mention that she makes things to hold the most important part of your morning and...

the most important end to your evening...

Okay, I could brag on her all day but I should probably let you all get to work entering this contest!!!  

GOOD LUCK!!

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Here's the problem, Y'all....

 I love projects!  I see things at the store or online that inspire all the time!  I impulse buy the items I need, I get home, my house is a mess and I put the bag of newly purchased goodies on the floor in my bedroom and start cleaning.  We all need a clean work space to start off with right???  BUT then the baby cries and I have to change her diaper and feed her and show her some love, then Shane comes home from school and we have homework to do, and math facts and spelling words to study, and then Hunter comes running in yelling he is hungry.  SO, I start cooking and then I have dishes to do.  Then the baby needs a diaper change AGAIN and to be fed AGAIN.  Then the kids need showers and the baby needs a bath.  Then it's bed time.  After that, there is always a pile of laundry that needs to be folded and put away.  By the time all is said and done, my house is a mess again, I'm tired and the project is forgotten.

My name it Tia, and I am an impulsive and perpetual project STARTER.  Hell, I've been trying to write this blog for 2 days now...  I have more blogs on draft than a bar has beers!!  I can rarely finish anything. I have managed to forced my way through a few projects this week and it was an absolute miracle!!

Here are 2 things I have completed this week.  Yep, TWO WHOLE THINGS!!!!!

This is a Santa hat with matching booties that I crocheted.

Here is a bow holder I made her. 

 I will be doing my Semi-Homemade Saturday post on how to make these.

Ready for this??  These are pictures of all of my failures since October.  

I started a Blanket.  It has been sitting in a bad with a bunch of yarn unfinished for a few months...

Then I bought stuff to make SUPER FUN Halloween cupcakes.

They are still sitting in the pantry.

I got the box open though...

Then there were these cute little Thanksgiving sun catchers.

The only things that made it out of the box were the paint and directions...

Then there were some booties.  This is the first one I made.  Never did make a matching one.  I got bored...

Here is another booty I made.  There is no match to it either...

I did attempt a match at one point but i screwed it up and quit.

So, there you have it folks.  My name is Tia, and I am a perpetual project STARTER.  I have crafting stuff spewed across this house with very little to show for it.  The first step is admitting the problem though.  I feel like I'm on the road to recovery.  Wish me luck!  

Before I head off to hang my head in shame, here is something to satisfy my Grumpy Cat addiction.

A Nation Offended. Christmas Edition.

That is offensive!  A phrase our society has become accustomed to using.  It has become a pathetic attempt at attention, in my opinion.  CRAP!  I just stated my opinion.  Surely, I have already offended someone! 

I just need to put this out there.  You need to be YOU!  Stop pouting and accept that others who don't agree with you are not out to get you.  They just have a different outlook on what they want for their lives.  This is one of the great things about living in a free country.  

If you don't like an opinion that others have then you can turn away.  You aren't required to appreciate anything just because others do.  

I am angry that a bunch of people who run around crying at the drop of a hat over a Christmas Tree being put up at the local town hall can moan, groan, and cry "I'M OFFENDED!!!  GIVE ME MY WAY OR I WILL HOLD MY BREATH UNTIL I PASS OUT, (((Stomp, stomp, kick, kick, wah, wah))), I'M SUING!!"  Deal with it!  Put on your Big Girl and Boy Panties (God knows, we don't want to offend the "men" out there.  Wait did I say God?  Crap. Here I go offending... again) and deal with it!  

You don't get to ruin the world for the rest of us because you got your feelings hurt.  If you don't believe in Christmas, it is very simple, don't celebrate it.  Don't put up a tree, or lights, or put gifts under the tree. Don't torture yourselves with the Elf on a Shelf.   Don't partake in those amazing super cheap holiday sales on flat screens and blue rays. Don't go to church, or sing Christmas songs.  Don't put up stockings over your chimney.  Don't make a turkey, or ham, and don't smoke a brisket or make homemade tamales.  Forget the Christmas eve lasagna, don't drink the wine or buy the party dresses or ugly Christmas sweaters for that office party.  For pity sake, do us all a favor and  DON'T GO TO THE OFFICE PARTY.  If someone looks at you and says Merry Christmas and you don't believe, reply with "happy holidays"...reply with bah humbug for all I care.  Don't impart on one's freedom of speech by yelling, and crying to a judge that someone wished you a Merry Christmas and hurt your poor, wittle, feewings.  

IT MAKES YOU DOUCHE!!  A HUGE, GIGANTIC,ECONOMY, PORN STAR SIZED DOUCHE.  NOT EVEN A SUMMER'S EVE DOUCHE.  JUST ONE OF THOSE PLAIN, CHEAP, VINEGAR, SMELLY DOUCHES!  

Why is it that when voting on something "the majority rules" EXCEPT if someone throws a big giant temper tantrum?  Honestly, if more people hate the Christmas tree in town square that the city put up then instead of WASTING tax money on temper tantrums in court that cost tax payer a lot of money, why not just put it on the ballot at the next election and let THE PEOPLE vote.  Not a judge and a crybaby!  

I just can't comprehend the mental issues one must have to make such a spectacle over something like a Nativity Scene or A Christmas tree...or the word Christmas.  I respect others traditions.  I don't agree with them always, but I respect their choice of celebration or lack there of.  What if I went to a judge and court and was angered and offended that they don't celebrate Christmas like me and if they don't get into the holiday spirit, I will sue them for promoting Atheism by lacking a lighted tree?  Do I care that people are Atheists?  Nope.  Do I care that you are Jewish?  Nope.  Catholic?  Nope.  Agnostic?  Nope.

It doesn't hurt my feelings one way or another.  You be what you want to be.  FYI:  Not everyone who celebrates Christmas is a Christian either.  Some are just traditionalists who enjoy the holiday. 

Why does it have to be ruined for everyone else?  Especially, children who enjoy it?  Please get a grip, get over whatever issues you have and let people enjoy their lives, and freedoms and you enjoy yours.  Coexist folks!  

Ready for the best part of my blog?  I made my very first Grumpy Cat Meme!!  I'm "Squeeeeeeee-ing" with excitement!  Have a blessed day and a Merry Christmas Y'all!!  

   

The Proper Way...

Hello and Welcome to this edition of  "Why Pay for Birth Control, When You Can Read My Blog for Free?"

This is a day in the life of my 3 year old.  Okay, well, maybe not a day.  Okay, well, the first and second collage were in a day.  The other 2 were within a month.  These are just SOME of the pics I have snapped over the last month.  If I posted all of the pictures since the very second he turned 3, well, you would probably run screaming!  I hope you enjoy a little glimpse into our days.  This is my second time going through, what I like to call, "Terrifying Three's".  I only have one more kid to get through this stage and then it's smooth sailing until their teens hit.