Its a Saturday night special

Linking up again with Donna over at Funky Junk Interiors for her Saturday night special anything goes party... While visiting some blogs this week i saw this that Melissa made and went to the dollar tree and found the things to make my own,, I didnt find the white candles for the middle part but I found some plain glass holders and made two of them and they were so pretty for a cheap little quick project thrill.. and then I come home today and the evil little kitty had knocked them off the table and now there's only one.. I added some poinsettas I snipped from a flower bunch today and it looks complete now.




Be sure to go over to Donnas and join in the fun and share what you have or just be inspired by all the goodies others have made.

Blog Hop Party

If you're here from the DIY showoff blog hop,.. Welcome to Simply Southern,,,, please look around, leave comments,, and Have a great weekend!!

Its their birthday

Katelynn and Robert's birthday.. Went to their birthday party/dinner at their house. We ate outside and had a good time. Happy Birthday Katelynn , Happy Birthday Robert.. love ya'll

Robert wanted the bumblebee car from Transformers... this was close as i could get it.


Katelynn just wanted roses and butterflys. Done!

Tiered plate/cake stand

I've been eyeballing all the tiered plate stand things i've been seeing around blogland and wanted to try one out for myself,, I picked up the two glass candle sticks at a yard sale for 50c each and the other stuff I had already. The top and bottom tier are lids from some tins and the middle one is the top of a sturdy gift box. The very bottom base is part of a candle holder. I just used my glue gun to put them together, cause i'm impatient like that, but really should've used gorilla glue or E6000.. for now its holding its own and will stay the way it is,, later i plan to prime and paint it. I added a simple burlap table runner underneath. I made a runner with drop cloth and some christmas fabric and within an hour had spilled melted candle wax on it,,, thats so not right,, maybe i'll share that one later.


I'm linking up to the Saturday nite special over at Donna's place - Funky Junk Interiors - If you've never nosied around her site,, you are missing out,, she is really creative and loves to make unique and unusual home decor and other things. And the best part is she shares all that info with her readers.. Thanks Donna . So go now to the Saturday Nite Special. and see what everybody else is sharing tonight.

These are a few of my Favorite Things...

I'm joining Melissa and some other really great bloggers for a "Favorite Things" party today,, go on over and check out her blog if you haven't already and join in the fun.


My favorite things . . . and all this is besides my family of course who are my absolutely, hands down, no doubt about it favorites of ALL!!!

*FAVORITE singer of ALL time ~ Loretta Lynn. Ever since i was really young,, i've loved Loretta. She has such a distinctive voice and most if not all her songs have a story behind them. I love that.


*Favorite hymn - "It is Well" ...I love the song and the story behind how/why it was written. I love to hear it sung in church. I only recently learned of the story behind the hymn, I had never heard it before. Its so sad but we gained a beautiful song from it.

This hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford’s life. The first was the death of his only son in 1871, shortly followed by the great Chicago Fire which ruined him financially (he had been a successful lawyer). Then in 1873, he had planned to travel to Europe with his family on the S.S. Ville du Havre, but sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business concerning zoning problems following the Great Chicago Fire. While crossing the Atlantic, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with a sailing ship, the Loch Earn, and all four of Spafford's daughters died. His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, "Saved alone." Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.
(taken from Wikipedia.com)



*favorite washing powder - I love that it makes your whole house smell good when your doing the laundry and well since I (or somebody in the house) does laundry every day that's a good thing.



*most favori-t-e- food is shrimp,,, fried, boiled, sauteed, shrimp sandwich, shrimp ka-bob, etc,, you get the picture.. I like em any which way they are served.

*favorite drink.. COKE,, and preferrably from Sonic.. mmm mmmmm

*some favorite movies ... Little Women, Coal Miners Daughter, Under the Tuscan Sun, Grease, Dances with Wolves, While you were sleeping

*Flea Markets ~ We have one near my house and I love to go on a cool day,, you have to dress warm and there are space heaters going through out the building,, its peaceful to just walk around and look. Magazines are one of the things i look for when i go, you can find some good ones and most are 50 cents are cheaper.



*Favorite books - Years ago I worked with one of the sweetest ladies i've ever met, Jo, and to this day beleive that God set her straight in my path (another story for another day), but she loved to read. Since it was just she and I in the office and we had lots of down time we read alot during the day. I've always loved to read but had never read any of Janet Dailey's books.. She brought them to work one day for me to borrow and I was hooked after the first one and couldn't wait to read the others. I found them at a yard sale awhile back and even now when I'm just wanting something to read they are still my favorite. If you've never read any of her books,, you really should and these are the perfect ones to start with.



Well these are just a FEW of my favorite things,, I could go on forever but that would be a really long post. So be sure to stop by 320 Sycamore and read about others favorite things.

Crafting crafting crafting

EDITING:: Joining the party over at Donna's ~ FunkyJunkInteriors .. not only does she do some of the most amazing makeovers and projects there's a linky party for window treatments tonight,, so go,, take a look at what everybody has done!!



Been finding all kinds of things i want to do this week.. Lindsay from LivingwithLindsay featured this bookpage wreath,, and I thought that is too cute and I can do that, so I did it that very night.. this was a really simple project and it didnt take too long, although i think mine might need a few more pages added here and there. If you want to see the original inspiration click here.



I've had the letters cut out to make this sign for weeks now, I was gonna do it my usual way but decided to paint them on this board that was originally a "BOO" sign from the dollar tree..


I also made a simple little valance for the kitchen window,, which looks much better than the ugly lacy one that was there.. (dont look at the dirty blinds)


A few weeks ago i finally got around to making some drapes for the living room, out of drop cloth, what else? I love them and this material. Got lots of ideas for the rest of it.



Thanks for stoppy by and looking around. I'm off to find more stuff that I won't have time to do.. happy crafting!

Mama birthday

Celebrating with mama for her 66th birthday,, WE love you mama.. you are the GREATEST! She's my friend, loyal supporter of everything i do, best mamaw in the world to my kids, great cook, the ears to listen when i need to talk, the best loving mama anyone could ever ask for.. Hope you had a wonderful Birthday.

All about the cake

Randy & Kelly are getting married in December and Kelly's bridal shower was yesterday. This was her cake. My FIRST time ever doing roses.. I started practicing only 3 days before and believe me the verse that says "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me" was never more true than this weekend. Yes, God will even help you make roses. Cant wait for another reason to practice some more.

Make some Art Monday..

Have had a wonderful weekend,, busy but good. I'm linking up with ChrissieGrace for Make some Art Monday. Okay, i know it may be stretching it a bit to call this art, but the theme was quotes and I do love some quotes. I had a brand new project in mind, but life and a bridal shower and other things had to come first. So im posting a previous quote item i've done.. "Live Simply, Love greatly, Laugh Readily, Speak Kindly And leave the rest to God". Thanks for stopping by and be sure to go on over and say Hi to Chrissie and check out all the other posts linked up.

strike out

I know alot of people know how to do this ,, but i just learned today, pretty cool.. and so easy.

All about Sandy

Its Monday,, and I wish i could find the words but its so hard.

Sandy Alexis Mann ~ October 2001 - October 2009

We lost a much loved family pet this morning, her name was Sandy- Sandy Alexis Mann is what the kids named her. A yellow lab. She was perhaps the best dog in the world, at least to us she was. We got her for the kids as a Christmas present in 19992001. She was the family dog but she bonded with Jeff. He took up time with her and taught her to sit, speak, and fetch. And she knew what it meant when you told her "daddy's home", she would run and start looking for his truck to pull in. She was so smart and loveable and loyal and was always carrying something around in her mouth, whether it was a sock, a leaf, a ball or plastic bottle. I know she loved us as much as we loved her. I've never been a dog person until we got her. She was more than a dog she was part of our family and she'll never be forgotten

Fathers Day 2009

Very late in posting about Fathers day,, but I couldnt locate the pictures on my flash drive, they were hiding from me.

To my kids the best papaw ever!

My daddy and his "babies",, best daddy in the world! Would give the shirt off his back, literally, for any of us. I love you Daddy!

My babe and my babies, my life! They had a dinner for their daddy at their house.

I did it without my hubby,

Hey, everybody

The Shanty2Chic girls are having a "I did it without my hubby" party.

This is a memo/photo holder that I made awhile back for my daughter. I really needed to cut the boards and make them all even and such, but I didnt want to ask "him" for help so I just laid out the boards and stapled them together and then modpodged the whole thing with brown paper. After all that glue and paper it held together really good.

You can click here to check out Whitney and Ashley's blog and see all the other posts that others have linked up.

Happy Fall Ya'll

From one pumpkin to another!!!!!!! A woman was asked by a coworker,
'What is it like to be a Christian?' The coworker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.'
God picks you from the patch, brings you in,
and washes all the dirt off of you.
Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed.
Then He carves you a new smiling face and
puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.'

Have a wonderful and blessed Fall season!

Apple pie

I found the recipe for this apple pie at the pioneer womans blog. It sounded simple enough. So i thought i'd give it a try tonight. When the pie crust would not roll out and was entirely too crumbly (before it was baked) I thought for sure that i had really goofed and wasted alot of stuff for nothing. But I shouldnt have worried, i kept right at it, pieced the crust together into the pie plate,, and you'd never know it, except that I just told ya.. but anyway,, this pie was delicious. A little different than the same ole apple pie.. and it has yummy caramel topping. Oh so good!