TMI Tuesday

1. How many speeding tickets have you had? Accidents? I haven't got a speeding ticket yet and I couldn't possibly write the answer to the last part. Not because I have had many accidents but because I am superstitious.

2. Boxers, briefs or commando? It depends on the day, the tides and the sequence of the planets and such. To answer this question would mean one day, somehow I will have to show proof and you just never know which day it might be. *blush*

3. Have you ever had sex in your office or your place of employment? I have had something like sex but not actual sex if we are saying sex is penetration. Are we?

4. Do you or your so own a motorcycle? Do you ever ride one? Do you wear a helmet when you ride? No I do not own one but I have rode on the back of on. Not in a sexy, hog hugging kinda way but as a teenager taking an occasional ride around the back on her cousins fat boy Harley. He would never take me on his bike without a helmet. He's a cop and that would be a crime.

5. Ever been skinny dipping? Yes but it was in a pool and there was only one other person there. I am not sure if what I did was skinny dipping considering I wasn't actually skinny. I was actually quite curvy. So many I would call it curvy dipping.

Bonus: Ever been arrested? Turned someone in/had someone arrested? No, but I'm still young

Got Free Cards Coming At Ya With Loads Of ECards For the 4th of July & More

I know, I know I keep posting about Got Free Cards. There is a really good reason though! If you haven't checked them out yet, you really need too.

Yes, you in the back with your hand up? Oh yes, thanks for asking. Well, my dear ...the reason I keep bringing them up is because they totally rock!

They are the best resource of:

Free Ecards

Free Printable Cards
Free Birthday Ecards

Got Free Cards has tons of cards to choose from. My favorite is the printable cards where I can add my own picture. Add any picture of your own and text and you have yourself a lovely, personalize card.

The cards I usually send are the animation cards. I love sending my friends a card a day the week of their birthdays. It's free and the cards are fun.

Why spend over $3.95 for a card that will be thrown in a box and placed in the back of a closet or worse tossed (*gasp* I know, I know it's sad but true. I hate to tell you this but some people do sometimes toss. I've seen it however, I, am not one of those people) away with the trash after the monumental event.

Head over to Got Free Cards and send a card today. I actually just got one from my Accountant this morning for the upcoming 4th. Such a nice gesture and all it cost him was 3 seconds of his time.

Reason why he might send an Ecard:

• Good for business.
• Makes you seem very in touch with your client
• He cares
• Brings his name and business up, which reminds you to remember him.

All great reasons to use Got Free Cards.

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Ruby Tuesday - Gems And Jewels of the Garden

Last week I took the kids to a local farm and took a bunch of photos of the flowers there. I love taking pictures of flowers and wish I had a macro lens to really get the detail.



The Jewels this Ruby Tuesday are of a necklace I strung last week. I wanted to see if I could do it. I really love the way it came out and the colors of the red look amazing!

Precious Moments Girls Club Pup, Book, & Online Access Code Giveaway

Hey everyone!

Summer is here and the kids are getting out of school for a hopefully, fun, safe summer.
Thanks to Mom Select I was able to review the second book in the Precious Girls Club series called Operation Kindness and one of two stuffed animals, as well as enter the Virtual world of Precious Moments Precious Girls Club.

If you are not familiar with the Precious Girls Club let me tell you about them. The Precious Girls Club is a wonderful, safe, online environment for your little girls to create their own characters (or "avatars"), decorate their rooms, explore our town, socialize, play games and even shop "virtually" using the points they earn on the site. PGC games reinforce such virtues as helpfulness, kindness, responsibility, loving and caring. In addition to points, many activities award "virtual" virtue charms. And, it's all fun!

Here is the front page of the website.


Online "chat" in Precious Girls Club is safe! PGC members can only communicate with other members. And, girls "talk" using sentences and questions pre-written by Precious Girls Club - no surprises!

PGC makes it easy for mothers to participate in their daughters' online activities. From your own page on our website, you can email from the "real" world to your daughter's "virtual laptop" in her Precious Girls Club room. So, when your child demonstrates "caring" in the real world, you can send her a congratulatory message and points toward an online "caring" charm. The parent's section even suggests ideas for helping your daughter earn her virtue charms at home or in her community. Precious Girls who earn all five virtue charms are awarded a pair of angel wings and the ability to fly - good for a limited-time and only online, of course!

In A Nutshell: Precious Girls Club is something we parents can stand behind. A company that supports teaching values, morals and being a good person is something that the mass media has stopped concerning themselves with. Most companies are appealing to the hip, funky styles that is fine too but there should be choices and with Precious Girls Club we have a choice. There is no reason to rush our children into growing up and I love that Precious Girls Club is all about the virtues I want for my daughter such as kindness, caring, modesty, truthfulness and the rest you can find here.

The website is so much fun and your daughter will love creating her room and meeting the characters of Precious Girls Club especially Katy.

Head over to their website for more information and to read chapter 1 of the Operation Kindness book.

As for the Giveaway I have the Precious Girls Club Book 2 Operation Kindness and the brown dog. It was a tough pick when I asked my daughter which one she wanted to keep and which one would go to a new home she was heartbroken. "Mommy, I don't want one of them to go." I explained that one would be going to a loving home and that we couldn't keep both, she was ok with that. We filmed a beautiful video about the animals and book and she said, she was hoping the dog would go to a good home and that you would take care of it but for some reason the video wasn't on the camera when I tried to load it onto the computer. I was bummed because it was adorable. Oh well, I digress...

Enter to win the Brown Pup & Operation Kindness Book!
Precious Moments has generously provided me with a Brown Pup and the second book, Operation Kindness, for one of my readers!

To Enter The Giveaway: You must be a subscriber or follower! Head over to Precious Moments Girls Club and tell me something you learned about the Precious Girls Club. (If this rule is not followed you will be disqualified). (US Only! 18+ Years Only!)

Deadline: July 13, 2009 (midnight)

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I've Picked Some Winners

The Winner of the $30.00 Gift Certificate sponsored by Skin Free is.....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

11

Timestamp: 2009-06-29 21:51:55 UTC

Courtney is the winner - She wants Niaouli Butter Stick™ and After Shower Moisture Spritz



The winner of the Target.com Gift Card Sponsored by Got Free Cards is.....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

115

Timestamp: 2009-06-29 21:57:20 UTC

Elita- Check out her blog Blackstating, and congratulate her if you have a chance.

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And last but certainly not least is the winner of the Jake Bakes Giveaway, the winner is...

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

18

Timestamp: 2009-06-29 22:09:38 UTC

Maria W - Who obviously has a chocolate thing! Girl after my own heart. "I would definitely choose: chocolate chocolate chip cookie, farmer's market, double chocolate, chocolate chocolate, oatty chocolate, carmel corn"

Congratulations to all the winners.

Manic Monday Meme Madness

This week we headed to a farm and spent a couple of hours. The kids love it because beside the animals and a wood train for them to climb on, there is a sand box to sit in. We have a sand box but it the kind you stand at and play. Kids love getting dirty.Play along with Mellow Yellow Monday by clicking here.
Whenever I see a batch of daisy I think of The Magic Garden.

Damn I loved that show when I was little. We miss you Paula & Carole.

For Blue Monday I am submitting my first batch of hand made jewelry. Blue is my favorite color so I noticed most of the jewelry I am designing, centers around the color blue.

Monday Crazy question : Likes Or Dislikes

1. what would you say is your biggest blessing ? My two beautiful babies.

2. do you shop on line...Home goods or personal items? Can you tell us what personal items you look for?? I do shop online but mostly it is virtual window shopping and it is no one thing.

3. Name a song from your past that you have always loved. what year was it recorded? Rhiannon & Sara by Stevie Nicks. Anything Fleetwood Mac makes me long for my childhood.

4. If you found out there was a pedophile living in your neighborhood, would you take any action or ignore the fact?? I would watch very closely. I wouldn't like it. Obviously if I know they are a pedophile they must be registered so I would tell everyone I know to be very aware. I don't believe in witch hunts. What kind of action can you take? Bang on their door with shovels and pitchforks, shouting devil words and thrusting up fists? We can't force anyone out of town but we can pay attention and know what they are up to all the time.

5. If you could live in any city In the USA...what would it be. I would like to live somewhere where there is no humidity and the slew of bugs I contend with.

6. what is the one city you wouldn't live in even if you were paid to!? I don't know enough about every city to say that there is a city that doesn't have a good section.
7. If you were strapped for cash would you ask a parent or sibling for money? Nope. Never.

8. what is your most favorite thing to do to relax when you are not working? These days, make jewelry it changes all the time.

My Forbidden Desire Blog Tour Is Underway - *GIVEAWAY* 5 Winners

Woot, my new best friend over at Hachette (yo, Anna babe..I'm talking to you. Mwaahhh love ya. Thanks for all the great reads), has sent me so many great books and this one is one of them.

My Forbidden Desire was interesting in the sense that I couldn't quite get a visual on the characters. They changed in my mind all the time.

Alexandrine is a witch whose supposed dead brother pops in to rescue her. She didn't even know she was in danger. Now she is and her brother has left her in the care of a fiend named Xia.

Her bodyguard isn't only hot for her but man, is he hot and knows it. Full of passion, magic, henchmen and a dash of science fiction, this is a romance novel like no other.

Giveaway Instructions

To Enter The Giveaway: You must be a subscriber or a follower! Just leave me a comment. (If this rule is not followed you will be disqualified). (US Only! 18+ Years Only!)

Deadline: July 12, 2009 (midnight)

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Sunday Stealing - The ABC Meme

Sunday Stealing:-

A – An advantage you have – I can juggle a ton of things at one time.

B – Blue or brown eyes – Hazel

C – Chore you hate – Cleaning the bathroom

D – Dad’s name – Robert/Bobby

E – Essential start of your day – Coffee

F – Favorite color – Blue

G – Greatest thing you’ve ever done that made you feel really good – Nursing my babies until they were ready to be done.

H – Habit you have – Bitting my nails.

I – Issue you hate that the world tries to make you pursue – Too many to think about

J – Job title – Mom, wife, friend, accountant, chef, teacher, doctor, dentist, chauffeur, personal assistant, blogger, reviewer.

K – Kohls or Target – Target. You can get a lot more for your buck.

L – Living arrangements – With my husband and children

M – Music you like – All kinds

N - Nicknames – Ree, hun, mom, chick, ria, ree-ree, grandma, chickleta (sp?)

O – Overnight hospital stay – My appendix op and my cesareans

P – Pet Peeve – Being on time

Q – Quote that you like most – Collaboration not competition

R – Right or left handed – right

S – Siblings – two sisters

T – Time you wake up – when the kids wake (about 6:00 a.m.).

U – Underwear – sometimes

V – Vegetable you dislike – Lima beans

W – What makes you run late – my kids

X – X-rays you’ve had – appendix, neck, back, knee

Y – Yummy food you make – sausage and peppers, better than sex cake, oh everything I do ok in the kitchen.

Z – Zoo animal – monkeys

Self Portrait Sunday #6

Come on, admit it, you look through your photo albums or computer folders and see very few photos of yourself. Maybe it is because, like me, you are usually behind the camera. Or maybe, it's because you never feel you look good in photos so you tell everyone, "don't take any of me."

Join me, putting up your self portrait shots every Sunday. There is only one rule. Link back to me so I can come visit you. I would really love seeing some participants so come and play.
I tried to grab a quick picture today. This week went so fast I hardly had time to think about my SPS. In case anyone joins me, I wanted to make sure I got a post up. If you decide to join me thank you. I can't wait to see your lovely face.

Maria

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I Love Saturday

At the farm last week, I feel in love with this baby calf. She isn't that young anymore but look at those sweet eyes. She is kept in a very tiny pen so I doubt she has much of a future although I am trying not to think about that. Isn't she sweet?

Saturday 9: I Want You Back

1. Where were you when you heard that Michael Jackson died? I was in my bedroom looking for my land line because at the same moment my cell phone was going off. My girlfriend was calling with a text message that read OMG Michael Jackson died. When I answered my land line all I could think about is I need to find information and don't have time for this call. We had a brief conversation while I scanned the news channels. It wasn't until Fox News confirmed at 6:30 p.m. that I actually believed it.

2. How do you think that he will be remembered? As a sad, disturbed, misunderstood, interesting genius.

3. What was your favorite Jackson tune? Man in the Mirror


and Smooth Criminal

4. Did you watch the original Charlie’s Angels? Oh yes. If you grew up in the 70's you watched Charlies Angels, had the dolls, the posters, wanted to be an angel and had Farrah hair or wanted it.

5. Did someone you know have that poster of Farrah? Quite a few people. I don't think there was a single boy under the age of 25 that didn't have that poster back then.

6. Did you consider her battle with cancer heroic? I don't know that it was heroic but anyone battling cancer is a hero but I believe it is an individual journey and no one can understand what you are going through.

7. Were you a fan of The Tonight Show Starring Johnnie Carson? No, I knew of it but never watched. I was never a late night talk show fan. I got my news during the a.m. Howard Stern run.

8. Did you like Ed McMahon on the show? See answer #7. However I was sad that he passed away.

9. What else will you remember McMahon for? The Jerry Lewis Telethon (he was a cohost) and Star Search.

Want to join in? Go here to learn how and to view the weekly list Small Talk Six topics for 2009.

Today’s topic is “if you had magical sunglasses, name 6 things you would like to see with them.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

1. I would love to see my mother at various stages of her life. She passed away when I was 12 and seeing her going through her every day life would be a dream.

2. I would like to be on the set of New Moon or Eclipse to see what is really going on there. Being a fly on Rob Pattinson's wall would be a wonderful fantasy. Maybe seeing him in his every day life will allow me to move onto another obsession.

3. If my glasses were really magical and I could see anywhere, I would like to see what it is like in Heaven or even if there is a heaven.

4. Seeing the past play out as a movie before my eyes would answer some of my questions. Was there a God, Jesus, Ark, Garden of Eden?

5. It would be nice to see my sisters and I growing up. Playing together as children and all of our wonderful summers of riding our bikes, playing man hunt, swimming in creeks and just being together.

6. Seeing the birth of my children from a different prospective would be the icing on the cake. I would love to relive their first breaths in the world.