Fell upon greatness

I purchased these historical stencils a year ago. I finally put them to use. A while back I grab this roll of tape without really paying any attention and was mad that is was double sided. Somehow this roll of "useless" tape was sitting on the top pf junk in my junk drawer and turns out this roll of tape was priceless! It's perfect for placing stencils on the wall and it sticks over and over. I didn't have to replace it when I moved to another area! Awesome! I'm sure people already know about this but it's new to me, and just incase theres someone out there that had not thought of this, I wanted to share! Best part, I got the tape from a dollar store! :)

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Jimmy bought Celine Dion tickets for my birthday last August and we had to wait till April to go, but it was worth the wait. Amazing show!!! I love Celine Dion!

We went to the "Pawn Star Palace" to get photo's, My youngest daughter begged us too! We got hera T-shirt that says:" I love Chumlee" and this photo. :) She's soooo silly!

Jimmy had seen this black car pull out and said " I think thats the old man, sure enough he was right....If you have seen the show you know who I mean....

MGM lion, ok thats good enough for now. Have a great night.
Blessings Connie

I sure have enjoyed my down time for the past two weeks :) My department shut down for two weeks so I got to enjoy waking my kids up, making breakfast,and doing some needlework. Of course we had baby Melina (niece) for the first week and now I'm trying to get excited about going back to work and failing miserably!!! I did get some primitive decor lots on e-bay BUT one person could not pay yet and another never even attempted to pay! That is the first time I have ever had any real problems as a seller. :( anyhow I wanted to share the pillow cases, towels and tiny pillow I stitched up this week. Starting tonight Or in the morning I'm starting a Hexagon Star quilt with my old left over fabrics from the dolls. Wish me luck for it's going to take FOREVER and I have A.d.d. and will probley get bored with it fast.

I did this so Jimmy would not get my favorite pillow mixed up with his.... J/k He rolled his eyes when I said that to him.

I forgot to mention, Cassidy (mdd) and I found these on the back corner of our property, I never knew we had these sweet little things growing. YUM!

An example of my towels,I think there so simple and cute.

and a new flower,Cassidy was playing with the camera.

 I hope everyone is have a great July and had a wonderful 4rth.

Blessings, Connie

Summer fresh Salsa

I want to share with you my mom's and my refreshing salsa recipe. It's a great recipe because you can change it up however you'd like. :)

Originally we doubled this, but it was just WAY to much, It would work for a family reunion or graduation, AND of course if you have any of these things growing in garden USE them instead of the canned veggies.

In a large bowl mix your diced stewed Italian tomatoes, white corn, black beans, pinto or any kind of bean.

wash and dice up 4 peppers, its nice to use as many colors as available for the effect.  I add one hot pepper (your choice) because I do not want it to hot.

I add lots of cilantro because its my favorite. (optional also)

and as much "fresh" lemon juice as you'd like.

wallah.... use your fave chip and enjoy.

kitchen makeover

My super sweet fiance Jimmy helped me dig in the heels and get the kitchen made over. I'm about to share the old and new pictures....PLEASE don't judge to harshly, at the time the mustard yellow was kinda cool, not really but I thought it was then. :( My house is very small, more cottage sized I guess but it was in the budget at the time and in one of the best school districts for my three kiddos. Needless to say, the word "outdated" best explains it. It has been fun fixing up and changing slowly. It feels good to look back and see the differences. OK.....are you brave enough to look?
here goes...

old sink and counter...

new sink and tiled counter...

old ...

new...

new...

We used Martha Stewart "light Strokes"in  Twig for the rest of the walls. love it!

and I'll leave with a photo of Melina, Jimmy's baby niece that we LOVE so MUCH! We took his dad out today for Fathers Day to "Cracker Barre"l and got to see the baby too! We get her for a week soon, I can't wait. :)

new samplers finnished!

Hello everyone... just wanted to share photo's of the two samplers I finnished. I purchased the sampler patterns from "Pineberrylane" I LOVE her work, Check it out if you dont already know it.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

~Blessings Connie

New Prim Dollies

Happy Tuesday night everyone is "Blog Land"

I was itching to make something sweet, simple and primitive tonight. I made up these little girl with one of my own patterns from "thee good olde days"

Hope everyone is having a nice night. I will be searching mags and blogs in the next 2-weeks to find inspiration for my kitchen makeover. It's time!!! Plus I REALLY need to re-paint my bedroom, I took over my sons room and its light blue (UGHHH) you can see in the background of the picture below. :( I'm not sure which color would look best with my antique bedroom set and the new hard wood flooring, if anyone out there has ideas let me know, PLEASE! direct me to a blog or web-site :)
That's all for now....I'm off to bed!