Little Pink Houses for you and me....

Saturday I worked on a new idea for a bag and I love the way it turned out! It's a funky little pink house with an apple tree. The house has a little window box with flowers and the apple tree has a little birdie sitting in it. 

We also went to Hank and Diana's for dinner on Saturday along with the Bowlings. It was such a nice day and probably the first day in quite some time that it didn't actually rain!  We all sat out on their deck enjoying the evening...until Brian informed me that he erased the Greys Anatomy finale I DVR'ed on Thursday and had not watched yet!  Lucky for him I was able to watch it online and didn't have to divorce him.

Sunday I fell on my BIG BUTT after getting out of the shower!  I can't believe the size of the bruise on my bottom.  I told Brian that is was one "BIG A$$" bruise...literally!  Thankfully I didn't hit my tail bone.  But boy oh boy does it hurt to sit on it. I won't post a photo of it....that would just be wrong.

Here are my words of wisdom for this week:
 "Life is too short to dance with ugly boys"

Blooms

Tonight I thought I would take a few photos of some flowers in my garden. I love flowers...I wish they would bloom all year round. The peonies are so big and heavy (just the way all beautiful things should be!!). I have no idea what the other flowers are, I just know they are beautiful. If only I could get Waffle to stop walking all over them!

The count down has begun...

SANIBEL ISLAND....HERE WE COME

3 more weeks until VACATION! I have to say that we are all looking forward to hitting the beach. We didn't get a vacation last year with everything else going on....so this week is loooonnnngggg over due.

This is the view from the condo we are renting.

So to get ready, I've been collecting books to read while sitting on my lounge chair, on the beach, with my baseball cap and sunglasses on. I have a mix of books depending on my mood that day.

And you can't hit the beach without a good beach bag, so I made a new beach bag to take along. I LOVE the fabric. I think it looks so summery and beachy. It's large enough for all my beach gear and I can't wait to use it.

It's a tough life.........

I love my girls, this is what they do when I'm in my "crafty crap" room. It's a tough life.

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers out there!

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day in Columbus. The weather was just perfect for some gardening. Yesterday I finished up my flower gardens by mulching and I think it looks great. I like the black mulch, I really think it makes the flowers stand out so much more.

Today my BFF and I went to the garden center and purchased our "salsa garden" plants. I wish I had a larger yard to have a full fledged garden, but I'm stuck with a little strip of flower garden on the one side of the house that gets great sun. I've got 6 different types of tomato's and 4 types of peppers. I DID NOT buy the habenero peppers this year! What was I thinking last year. However, they did give us a good laugh when Hank ate one and told Diana they were not hot and she put them in her bean dip....oops!

And no respectable garden is complete without gaudy yard art!! I purchased these cute little up cycled birds at the craft fair Cait and I went to during Mom's weekend. I love them. :)

Banquet & Mom's weekend

Last weekend was Cait's end of season banquet and also "mom's weekend" on campus. The banquet was on Friday night. Caitlin looked just BEAUTIFUL in her new dress. All the girls looked so pretty.....but Cait was the prettiest. ;)

Saturday morning we all went to breakfast together and then Brian and Conner headed home. Caitlin and I enjoyed a very, very nice weekend together. Saturday we went to the huge craft show they have at the Union. Then she had to get another study hour in so I took her laundry and washed it for her. (which she was happy). When I was done I picker her up and we headed to the mall. We did a little girl shopping and headed back to her apartment. The sophomore girls and their moms (and a few dads that were there) had dinner plans for "cook on the table" Japanese food at 8:30. We headed over there for a great dinner with great folks. It was a fun night. I got the pleasure of spending the night in Caitlin's apartment with her. There was music, banging, yelling, laughing and just a party going on alllllll night outside. I made it out alive. We enjoyed a nice breakfast together Sunday morning....and then off I went back home. It was a VERY enjoyable time and I had a TON of fun with her.

Hi there fellow mom bloggers! My name is Denise and I live in Indiana with my wonderful family. My husband and I have been married for (OMG) 22 years! We have a beautiful 19 year old daughter that is a sophomore in college and a funny, funny 15 year old son that is a sophomore in high school. They are both competitive swimmers and keep us running between swim meets. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! We also have a chocolate lab named Barcleigh and a black lab named Waffle. Waffle was supposed to be a yellow lab, however,we ended up rescuing her.... but we liked the name, she's in therapy 3 days a week.
I work full time at a credit union in commercial lending....but in my spare time I love to craft. My passions are sewing, knitting, scrapbooking, painting things.....I have a little shop on Etsy called SandBoxStudio. I spend as much time as I can creating things....it's my therapy.
My best friend Diana is the ying to my yang. She is my sister from another mother. And my mother is the most perfect thing that God ever created. :) That's about it....that is my life. I love every single thing about it! (Welllllll...almost)