Sunday, December 5, 2010

Can you Picture My Surprise?

Good morning to my 3 faithful followers and any sweet viewers who are welcome to join.  How pitiful is that?  LOL

Many moons ago, when my daughter was just a wee lil babe,   my mother in-law gave  me the most adorable print, you ever saw!  An artists depiction of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  I absolutely loved it!  Well, in the wake of a new baby, a preemie at that, and many moves we never intended on, I just never seemed to have the time to get it framed.  Fast forward nine years, I finally found a pocket of time to have this long lost treasure framed.  The framer seemed a little, shall I say - not so impressed, with the shape of the print.   And he really turned his nose up at the fact that I wanted Plexiglas in the frame.  (Um hello, daughter with Autism doesn't understand glass can hurt you.  She likes to take the pictures off of her wall to examine them).  Yes, I have motives behind my crazy ideas, Thank you!  Okay, I digress.  Back to the story at hand.  Last Friday, I just picked up the picture, and it was truly worth the wait!  I LUV it! Plexiglas and all!  In fact, I love it so much, I decided to look up the artist on-line to see if he had any other prints.  And much to my surprise, the print I just had framed - sells for $450.00 to $999.00 on-line!  WHAT - you say?  Yes!  (doing the whoot whoot - happy dance here)  I have a treasure, just like those on Antiques Road Show!  On a more sober note - I think it might be a while before I can get another of his ADORABLE prints!    (But, I'm a saving and a searching!) 

Here is the picture....





Should you want to check out his other amazing prints - please look up Scott Gustafson on Google.  His work is amazing!  http://www.scottgustafson.com/

I just can't wait until Jan/Feb when this fabulous picture is finally hanging in Sarlain's newly decorated big girl room!

PS.  Many thanks to my Mother in-law Wanda for the picture! xo

Friday, December 3, 2010

Temporarily ooc

We received these in the mail today...


How did they know we are all sick, and unable to begin the Christmas chaos of shopping?  Did they notice we were missing from the mall?  (uhm hello...why this is upside down, I do not know?)

I have so many little projects I wanted to work on/and post but alas...


these have been our best friends and activities for the last week.   I am feeling slightly better today, but Saralain is very coughy now.  It is so hard to have a sick child...and really hard having a sick child who can't tell you what is wrong :(

Here is a snippet of the progress we have made.

Hubby put up the tree for Thanksgiving...

and this is all the further it has gotten...
How sad is that?

Hopefully we are all on the mend now and I will have to race like a Earnhardt (now there is a clue to upcoming posts...) to get ready for Christmas and create some posts.  I have a Cookie exchange/Christmas movie night this coming week with my wonderful girlfriends...any suggestions on good GF cookies are welcome. 

Stay tuned...when we return, we have a little give-away planned.  For now, I'm off to peruse my magazines and order some gifts on-line.