I Feel Like Sally Field - I'd Like To Thank ......

The Sunshine Award ~ For Me?

How in the world have I been so lucky to have met so many kind and caring friends?  Ya'll have heard me talk about Sweet, Sweet Kymberly from Free Trinkets and Treasures before.  She is always, ALWAYS caring, giving, sharing, comforting, loving and in general just waiting to be a BLESSING to everyone who knows her!  She has her own struggles like we all do but never fails to be here for others.  She is a gift to be treasured and I can't say enough good things about her.  She just included me in her list of six that she awarded the Sunshine Award too.  And as if that wasn't special enough you should really read all the wonderful things she said about each of us.  I keep wanting to go back and say "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake on the name, you can't possible mean me."  Like I said I feel a lot like Sally Field ~ You like me, you really, really like me.   he-he.  Thank you so much Kymberly, I like you too!!! 

Here are the rules Kymberly passed on:

 Here are the rules!
Copy and paste the above award in your post!
 Think of 6 people that you would like to
 present this wonderful award to. Someone
who makes you smile, makes your day,
 and brings sunshine into your life!
Now post a link to the person's blog that
gets the award so that others can visit
their blog sites and experience the sunshine
for themselves!  So, my wonderful friends, get your
award and start giving it away to those you love!

Take a moment and stop by Free Trinkets And Treasures to view Kymberly's blog and the other five bloggers Kymberly awarded the Sunshine Award to.  

FYI - I've been in bed with yucky stomach bug so as soon as I get the opportunity I'll be posting my 6.

Is Anyone Tire of Giveaways? NOT ME EVER

Giveaway # 1

Heather at Speckled Egg is having one.  I get so excited when I find a wonderful giveaway to share with all of you.  I'm still thinking about creating a blog page just for these.  But shoot.  I'm having trouble just getting my Etsy store started.  So for now I will share them right here.  If you would like to enter Heather's Sweet and Springing Daisy bracelet giveaway just click on her name, blog name or here.

 Giveaway # 2

Congratulations to Marydon at Blushing Rose!  Today she's celebrating her one year anniversary and more than 300 post.   Not only have we been lucky enough to get to know her for a year now she wants to give us something to celebrate.  That always feels a little backwards to me.  It seems like she's already given so much I should be giving her something for her anniversary.  So if you'd like to add your name to the hat just click on Marydon's name or her blog name Blushing Rose or here and go visit her and leave a comment.  You'll be doing yourself a favor if you don't know her already.  What a sweetheart she is!  Thank you Marydon.  Love you.  

Hope everyone is enjoying the giveaways.  I'd love to hear your opinion on me starting a giveaway, sweepstakes type blog.  

Have a blessed Sunday Ya'll.  Hugs....Tracy :)

Giveaways Make Me Smile

Win this set of Spring Pillows

It looks like Spring Fever is running ramp-id.  Everyone is in such a good mood, they seem to not be able to resist giving things away.  What could be more spring like than this totally cute Cotton Tale Lizzie Pillow Pack. 
Jenny at Fated Follies thought that a giveaway might lift her spirits and perhaps ours as well.  I absolutely agree with you Jenny!  If you would like to enter Jenny's giveaway just click on her name, blog name or here to go visit her and leave a comment on her blog before March 23.  Easy as pickin' daisies on a warm spring day.

By the way Jenny is also hosting May Day Petite Basket Swap.

I've joined up and am really looking forward to this.  Go by Jennys and check out the swap and the giveaway.  There's lots of eye candy to check out at Fated Follies.  Jenny's the sweetest little thing.  I have a feeling that this young woman has a very old and loving soul. 

Good Luck and have a terrific Tuesday.  ooxx's.......Tracy :)

Warmer Days Bring Giveaways ~ I Keep Adding More

You know I love giveaways.  I'm seriously thinking about a new blog for just giveaways and sweepstakes.  Thinking, thinking, still thinking.....
So for now I have decided to share some blog love with you right here.

The first one which is pictured above is from one of the Sweetest girls I know.  Anne from Fiona & Twig is hosting a wonderful giveaway called Paris Flea Market Giveaway.   



She has the best eye for beauty and display.  And on top of the giveaway she had planned she has decided to wait until she gets back from her trip to Warrenton after buying some awesome treasures from her shopping excursions during Antique Week!  There is going to be one very LUCKY WINNER!!!!  Be sure and click on her name, blog name or here to enter Annes wonderful giveaway.  Warning if you've never been by Annes, you will be there awhile.  Awesome blog!

2- The next giveaway photo is of the precious Easter Blocks pictured above.  Maleah Matthews is hosting her March giveaway and Gongy And Squish

are her sponsors.   I just think these are the sweetest little blocks.  So be sure to stop by Meleah Mathews Photography and follower her directions for entering.  You will love her amazing art.  Talent abounds in blog land.  You never know the winner might be you!

3-  And last but not least is the giveaway from Sweet  Marie at Spun by Me pictured below.  She is having a wonderful giveaway to celebrate 500 post.  Way to go Marie!  I can't imagine ever getting there.  Please go by and congratulate her and you can be entered to win this glittery giveaway pictured below.  It's Martha Stewart's "essential colors glitter set". Martha says, "These fine glitters in 24 vivid colors will add sparkle to any project".   Just click on her name, blog name or here to enter.

Marie is so interesting.  She post the best stories and lots of pictures that I just love looking at when I visit.  Be sure to take some time and enjoy her blog.  Bet you love it as much as I do.

 Well I'm not done yet.  I have a new one to add.

 
4- Rebecca over at A Gathering of Thoughts which is truly a girly pink shabby chic gorgeous blog is having a giveaway too.  She is giving away one of her beautiful Angel/Cherub Sachets with a Matching Card and Hang Tag.  She is a very creative soul and her items are so delicate and precious looking.  Another blog you won't want to leave!  You can enter Rebeccas giveaway by clicking on her name, blog name or here.




Good Luck & Hugs...Tracy :)

The World Is Full of Miracles

Hi ya'll.  It's good to be back with Miracle Mondays after missing a couple of weeks.  The photo above is one my son took in Nebraska a couple of years ago.  Isn't it beautiful.

Thanks to all of you who stuck it out with me, loved, comforted and prayed for me.  I love you all so!

I have a challenge for you.  Each and everyone of you.  If you choose to accept this challenge you will be given a task that will change your Monday.  It will bless you and fill you up with goodness.

The challenge is to look at your Monday with as if you are a tourist in your town, new to your job, maybe a stranger passing through.  You're challenge is to see the beauty in your town that you normally take for granted.  To appreciate it as only a stranger would. 

What about your job is there something positive you can find there.  We get so used to complaining about our lives and jobs.  Okay, so maybe it's just me but it still wouldn't hurt to look at things a little differently.

Is there someone that you don't really know or maybe someone that just clashes with your personality.  Try speaking them today or find something you can like about them and let them know.  

Maybe the snow is melting and the sun is shining in you corner of the world.  Maybe the flowers are even peeking through.  I know you will find an amazing miracle somewhere.  Planet earth abounds with the blessings of the Lord.  Please share with us by describing what you saw and felt today.

This is the last time I saw my only child Ty was Nov. 1, 2008.  Boy would I  like to see him and the rest of the family.  They live in NY.  He's only slightly taller than me. hee-hee. 

Now he is truly my MIRACLE!!!!

Have a blessed Monday Dear Friends and remember love abounds.  Hugs...Tracy :)

P.S.  My photos are not showing up on the blog dashboard anymore and I can't figure out what to do to fix it.  Can anyone help me?  Thanks...

My Part In The Valentine Swap

Well by now I'm sure everyone knows I am number challenged.  Not just any numbers, numbers as in dates and times.  

Yes, I admit it.  My name is Tracy and I'm a lateaholic.  I'm notoriously late.  I don't want to be, I hate to be.  What a curse it is.  What an embarrassment.  It's really pathetic, it's not like being a horrible singer, which by the way I am.  It is something that could be controlled, changed if you will.  But just like any other holic I can't.  I'm just like my Daddy.  It must be a curse or something.  It's kind of funny Daddy was late for everything but never, ever work.  In all my years I only remember him being home sick one time.  Other than that he worked 34 for the Jacksonville Shipyard and the only other times he would take off was for an occassion funeral and even then it was usually only a half a day.  We take that sort of thing very serious here in the South.  You must show respect and make sure you turn that radio down before passing the funeral home when someone lays inside.  

Back to singing what makes being off key even worse is the fact that close family (Neil & Ty).  Have to hear it because I LOVE to sing!  Oh' the nightmares they must have.  That reminds me of  a story when my son was about two.  

Everybody:  Oh' no, not another story.  Is she really going to tell it?
Me:   Yes, yes I am.

When Ty was about two I had a little blue convertible Fiat.  I had to say blue because Ty's eyes were blue and he was so cute in that car.  Now remember, Ty was born when I was 19.  He was only 10 months old when I decide to divorce his Dad and we moved home to Moma and Daddys.  This is where I promptly got to enjoy my age and be a kid again yet I was also the Mommy I had always wanted to be.  Ty and I used to go everywhere together.  We always had the top down and usually listening to something like Prince, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran or Boy George, obvious 80's.  There we were riding (flying) I'm so glad he lived through those years with the young me, and I'm singing and Ty's saying "Don't sing Mom".  I'm laughing and singing even louder.  Then and there he burst into tears, crying "No Mama, don't sing, don't sing".  ROFLOL!!!!  I was not the Mother who could sing her child to sleep.  


I've been asked to join the church choir at different times and my answer is always the same.  No Way!  It would be just like the Andy Griffith show where Barney joined the choir and they couldn't get rid of him and had to turn off his mic.  I wouldn't put them or myself through that humiliation.  Just because you're smiling and singing in the pews doesn't mean you're doin' it loud enough to get kicked out of church.  Hee-hee.


My family teases me (or maybe they're not) about my long winded, don't leave out a minuet detail stories.  So back to the reason for this story.  

I'm just now posting the Valentine boxes I made for the Petite Inspiration Swap ~ Valentine Edition that Heather hosted at Speckled Egg.   Wasn't that about the longest way around to the end you've ever heard of?  Anyway here are a few pictures of the boxes I made for my three swap partners.  I also filled pink vintage style glass bottles with lavander, which I forgot to get a picture of.  I also found this cute little bird house that I thought would be fun for them to spruce up as well as bundles of 3 little heart print fabrics and the cutest heart suckers.

So while ya'll are all out there sharing your lovely Easter/Spring goodies here I am sharing Valentines.  Better late then never as they say.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.  I sure had fun with Heathers Swap.

Have a blessed Sunday and be sure to join me for Miracle Mondays again.  I'd love to hear about your own blessings.  Hugs...Tracy :)

How In The World Did I Get So Lucky

 Hi Ya'll.  

Well I'm  just beside myself.  Mail two days in a row.  Not just any mail.  Special mail!  Winning Mail!  Goodie Mail!  That's right the man in brown came to see me and he was carrying a treasure chest.  Oh' he didn't know it but it certainly was.  I won twice in one week.  Can you believe it?  Does God bless us when we need it most or what?  I'm just certain all your prayers to see me through the dark, to help me feel loved when I felt cold, well I'm just certain that those GENEROUS PRAYERS were heard and my cup runneth over.

I was so excited to hear that I had won Lisa's wonderful Thank You giveaway from tarnished and tattered.  Just get a look at all the fantastic vintagey goodness she sent me!  I had been looking for a pair of vintage baby shoes forever so you really can't imagine how excited I was,  spinning and twirling with GLEE!   It is everything you could want in a present.  

• Velvet millinery pansies and yards of delicate old laces.
•  Sweet cabinet photos.
• My precious much sought after baby shoes. 
• A lovely frame
• Beautiful German glass glitter in a cut glass shaker ( I have been wanting some of this for quite a while too).  
• One of Lisa's wonderful homemade vanilla candles in an elegant stemmed glass dish.  
• Darling old crocheted doilies.
• An old jar packed with vintage white buttons and they were packed so sweet with vintage seam tape, a brass B stencil with a lovely beaded jewel.  
• Not one but two cherished old hymnals.
• A big bag of her shredded vintage sheet music.  
• 2 - sheet music's that I know I'll enjoy crafting with.
• 2 softly colored photo display pages from an old celluloid album. 
• The most fun vintage french flash cards.
•  2 magnificent vintage French postcards.
•  A wonderful wooden frame with a birds nest.  
• There were even these sweet little flash cards included.
• Everything came wrapped so sweetly in vintage pattern tissue.

I'm just so excited about spring now.  I have a song in my heart bursting with gratitude.  I'm am so ready to get crafting, I can't wait!  THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART LISA!

Now for those of you who already know the Sweet Talented Lisa her craftiness and style come as no surprise.  And for anyone who doesn't already follow her ~ well you don't have to miss out anymore because you can just click on her name, her blog name tattered and tarnished or here and go right over there.  She has some terrific tutorials and can you believe she does all this with a house of TRIPLETS?  AMAZING!!!