Holy Guacamole!

Woke up to an inbox full of Birthday Wishes

from just about any account I've ever had! 

Unbelievable.

Some of these I don't even use anymore,

but hey it's good to be remembered.

Happy Birthday dragonflytreasure!!!

dragonflytreasure,
Happy Birthday! We hope you have a great day!
Celebrate, have fun, and take lots of pictures! :-)

Blingee 

 

Dear Debra,
                      Happy Birthday! We appreciate your past and present use of LovelySkin.com and want only the best things to happen for you on your birthday. To start it off, please accept our gift of 20% off and double rewards points plus a free deluxe sample!

 

Hey Debbie,

Happy Birthday from all of us at Social Calendar! Happy Birthday, Debbie! 50 Swag Bucks will be added to your account when you click the 'Claim' button below Dear deb newton Happy Birthday! To help make your day special, Shabby Apple would like to give you 10 Shabby Apple dollars to be used for any purchase at www.shabbyapple.com.  Just enter in 'Birthday 2013' in the coupon code section before you check out. Coupon expires one year from today. Have a wonderful day and an even better year! Warm wishes, Shabby Apple The Shabby Apple Team.

 

A new look?

Yes you May.

Celebrate your Birthday by

freshening your look or trying something new.

Check out our Style Gallery on Supercuts.com.

Select the style you want, print it out, and bring it along on your next Supercuts visit.

Our rockin' stylists are expertly trained

to help you get the look that's right for you.

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Print out the coupon below for your

special Birthday Price!

Hi Debbie Avila Newton!

Wishing you a Happy Birthday!

Then to top it off I won these prints by Allie Kelley from

Bliss in Images  contest!!

Thank you Jacqueline and Allie!!  

My day is starting off great!
Just hoping it's not all down hill from here! LOL

Thank you everyone ♥♥♥♥ 

Meet Molly - a most heartwarming story



A most heartwarming story---beats the heck out of murders, politics, and terrorists!

She's a gray speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana. She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled.

While there, she was attacked by a dog and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg became infected, and her vet went to LSU for help, but LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes.
But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn't seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her.

She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight and didn't overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival ethic.

Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee, and a temporary artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic and her story really begins there.

'This was the right horse and the right owner,' Moore insists. Molly happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She's tough as nails, but sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain.

She made it obvious she understood that she wasin trouble. The other important factor, according to Moore , is having a truly committed and compliant owner who is dedicated to providing the daily care required over the lifetime of the horse.

Molly's story turns into a parable for life in Post-Katrina Louisiana .........

The little pony gained weight, and her mane finally felt a comb.

A human prosthesis designer built her a leg. The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca, DVM, Molly's regular vet, reports.

And she asks for it. She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too. And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. 'It can be pretty bad when you can't catch a three-legged horse,' she laughs.

Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kay,the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers. Anywhere she thought that people needed hope. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people, and she had a good time doing it.

'It's obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life, Moore said. She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others.' Barca concluded, 'She's not back to normal, but she's going to be better. To me, she could be a Symbol for New Orleans itself.'

This is Molly's most recent prosthesis. The bottom photo shows the ground surface that she stands on, which has a smiley face embossed in it. Wherever Molly goes, she leaves a smiley hoof print behind. 

God's creatures often reflect the character we aspire to.

Another Surprise!



Like I said HERE we have several days of celebration

between my and C's Birthday's and Mother's Day.

Look what I received from my kiddos!



Isn't it pretty?!

Now I just have to keep it alive ;)

Happy Birthday to MY BABY!

Wishing a Happy Birthday to my youngest son

who will be turning 22 today, May 10.



You were the best Birthday present any Mother could ask for!

 

Yes, he was born on my Birthday.

We won't mention how many I will be turning!!

 

Since our Birthday's and Mother's Day are so close together we celebrate the 3 of them here and there making it a 5 day celebration!

So far I've been surprised with

YUMMY DONUTS!!!!

 

and a new solar flower!

  I had one on my dashboard but after a few years it died. I've been on the look out since. This one has Bees that wave instead of the leaves like my other one!!!
I L♥VE IT ALL!!

Do I have the best kids or what!!??

Another Window

Yes, another window :)

What is it about old windows that just grabs you

and says "you have to have me!!" ?

This one I picked up for a song.

I've had a vision circling in my mind for years now.

Since my hall bath has a beach theme

and this idea was beach themed, it was a no brainer

 where it would end up.

I could see a mermaid, sand and shells along the bottom.

 Blank paper "frames", here and there with vintage 

 photos inside of Bathing Beauties of relatives past.

Netting, Starfish, a run aground boat, little things 

to represent found items from beach combing ~ 

string, seaweed, bottles. 

Well, you know me. 

Sometimes I get so excited and start right away,

 not thinking about taking photos and....

forget :(

I did manage to get one or two during the process

I mixed Modge Podge and sand, kind of molding it along the bottom of the frame for beachy area.

Ordered the mermaid stencil and wording "A day at the beach" off line. While waiting for those to show up, I dug in my fabric tote for a piece of netting I knew I had, draped it over the left top corner and stapled to the back. Went in the backyard and gathered up some sticks to place on the left side. Some were tucked through the netting, a boat from my Treasure Pile was added in front which helped hold them in place. I tied a couple of glass vials by thin jute here and there and, of course, a wonderful Starfish  in the center of the net.

The stencils arrived!

Once painted on, 

I could place my paper with little jute ties.

The jute is just for decoration, 

but I'm sure you already figured that out.

Love my Mermaid!

I finally could place my other family photos ♥ 

I found one of my Grandmother at the beach.

Not sure when this was taken,

either before I was born or when I was a baby.

She lived with us and I don't ever remember going to the beach when I was little, so who knows.

I came up short on old beach photos, of course.

Farmers don't make it to the beach very often.

But I found one of my sister and

 I in our backyard "pool".

Probably from the early to mid '60's.

(That's me in the floaty) oh joy

Then I came across this photo of me at

 "The Plunge" in Calistoga Ca.

My Grandmother would go to Calistoga

for a week every Summer.

My sister and I are 10 years apart,

 so she was always allowed to stay,

but I was too little. 

I kept waiting to get bigger,

but by that time

Grandma was getting older, 

and quit going   :(

Now this one is a hoot!

I found it in my Dad's old photo album

and replaced the one that I originally had up .

I assume they are relatives but who knows?

All that is written on the back was 1929.

I love it!

I do wish I could have found older photos 

that didn't include me,

but hey, you've got to work 

with what you have, right?

Here it is completed and hung over the

left side of the bathroom mirror.

I am satisfied with it...

OK I Love IT!

but still on the lookout for 

old beach photos of my family.

Total love!

Better than paper towels



COFFEE FILTERS

Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for $1.00, even the large ones. 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome... Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.

12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..

13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them.. It soaks out all the grease.

14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers.."

15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliquéing soft fabrics.

16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.

17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.

18 Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car..

19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.

20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.

21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.

23. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a zip-lock plastic bag until they sprout.

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book.

25. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.

26. Great in the tool room when separating nails and screws then use in to bottom of containers to remove moisture and prevent rust.

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE

IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO!



WHOSE HANDIWORK IS THIS?

I don't know who originated this, but it is beautiful!

 

 

 

 

Today is a gift of grace; let's have a good day, today