Hooked On Friends!!

Friday means it's time for Julia's Hooked on Fridays Party!

This Friday I am TOTALLY hooked on my FRIENDS!!

It's been a CRAZY week with the Samsung contest!

I have some awesome friends & family and

amazing Tidymom readers

who have been helping me all week!!

Seriously, there are no words to express my gratitude!

This contest will end Friday Oct 2 at 11:59pm Eastern Time

If you still want to help and leave some comments on my

Where is the Heart of Your Home post ,

I will be forever thankful whether I win or not!

So many people have dedicated a lot of their time to helping me win!

*NOTE* in the 23 years we've been married,

we have never owned a BRAND NEW appliance!

{sigh......Samsung would be our first }

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Getting goodies from friends is always fun!

I found an unexpected package in my mailbox earlier this week, only to open it and find a new Twilight t-shirt that a friend had sent me as a thank you gift for something I had sent to her! She certainly did NOT need to do that, but I LOVE my new shirt!♥ - on a side note, we just purchased our movie tickets for the midnight premier of New Moon on Nov 20 !!!!WOOHOO!

Sorry if it looks a little wrinkled, I've been sleeping in it! LOL

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Earlier last month I won a giveaway on It's So Very Cheri - I was the winner chosen as she reached her 200th follower!! Woohooo!! Cheri sent me this wonderful fall pumpkin plate and plate holder!! Can you believe I STILL don't have any fall decor out! - I'm going to try and work on that this weekend!

Be sure to check out Cheri's blog carnival she hosts every Monday! There are always loads of GREAT links!!

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And last, my bloggy buddy (whom I've also met IRL because we live near each other!)

Jenny, awarded me with a Best Blog Award- Thanks Jenny

But really, you need to head over to Jenny's blog, Our Nifty Notebook

and see the GREAT fall/Halloween items she's been working on!!

Like these Fantastic FAKE Caramel Apples!! - you won't believe how crazy easy they are to make! Click the picture to see her post

Jenny, I'll trade you - some fake caramel apples for some of my cookies!! Deal?

I will be linking this post to Julia's Hooked on Fridays Party!! Be sure to click over and see what other's are hooked on! ~

Whooo hooooo!

Last week I entered the Pet's Category on i♥faces.
You can see my post by clicking here.
While the guest judge of the week did not select my picture for his top ten, one of the site's co-founders, Amy of Living Locurto picked MY PICTURE as her favorite in the Pet's Category!! Yay!

Thanks Amy!! Click here to view Amy's comments.

Freshening up the bedroom

Yesterday I posted pictures of the white dishes I bought over the weekend.
I eventually want a nice collection that can be displayed all together.

For now, I found a nice spot for 3 of the pieces in our bedroom,
on my dresser.

I picked up the little mercury glass vase and blue box at Big Lots the other day for
a mere $16.

BEFORE
(click to see larger)

Here's a before picture I found on the computer of how my dresser
has looked for the last several years.
I was tired of the berries around the chimney with the candle in it,
the black round shaker box.

I like this new look!
It looks fresh and feminine.
I still need to do something with the lamp, and maybe
the jewelry box

AFTER

This is where I need some help!

I'm trying to work on our bedroom.
Right now it's in-between two stages
Our room used to be "Americana"
Red and Blue with stars
I'm now working on Brown and Blue and I'm wanting
to get rid of some of the "country" in the room, and
make it more feminine.

Here's a shot of one side of the room.

It's not a large room - and I know it has too much furniture in it.
I want to paint the stained 2 door jelly cabinet
- any suggestions on what color?

I posted about my lingerie chest here,
it was the last piece of furniture
my dad made for me before he passed away less than a year later.

I would also love to hear some suggestions for over the bed.

My list of things for this room
♥a new headboard
♥new window treatments
♥wall decor
♥throw for the foot of the bed
(or whole new comforter)
♥get rid of the boom box
♥new frames for the little pictures
*the big pictures are pictures of my grandfather as a baby
and my great & great great grandparents

Please leave me some comments
on what to do with this poor room.

EDITED TO ADD
You have to check out the FLATTERING honor that
Amy over at Living Locurto
just gave to little 'ole ME!!
The BEST MOMMY Award!!
yeah, that's right! click that link and you'll see!

Thanks Amy!
Like I said, you're a GREAT bloggy friend
and hope we get to meet some day!!

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only 2 more until the celebration!

This and that...

You might want to "touch" me right now!

That's because I seem to be pretty lucky lately.

I've won 3 blog giveaways in the last few weeks!!

My first win was a FANTISTIC new shapewear piece called

Slimpressions from The Dirty Shirt

This little dream slims and smooths your top half

- muffin top, back fat AND ARM FLAB!

Finally someone helping us with THAT embarrassing spot!

Be sure to check the Slimpressions website for all the information.

They come in 3 colors and 3 styles.

I've already worn mine on several occasions and just love it!

You don't even know you have it on.

Here's a picture Sunshine took for me with it on and with out.

I highly recommend Slimpressions and plan on buying more in other colors

Join me so you can be "Flabuless" too!!

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My next win came when I happened across

Alyssa's blog "Life From My Laptop"

She happened to be having a Giveaway for an awesome Flip Video

sponsored by Newbaby.com

All you had to do was blog about your "mom hair"

and wouldn't you know it,

I had just blogged about my "mom hair"

here and here

Imagine my surprise when I opened my email a few days later to find out

I won the FLIP Video from NewBaby.com

I've only had my new Flip for 2 days, but I can tell you I already love it!

As does my family, The Bug Man has actually had it for the last 24 hours!

It's SO very easy to use and

you just plug it into your computer with it's built in USB arm

and easily publish your videos online, email them

or even edit and create movies!!

I can't wait to vlog with it!! (if The Bug Man ever gives it back to me)

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My third surprising "congratulations" email

came yesterday when I won one of the door prizes from

Krista of We Are THAT Family's

Valentine "S.W.A.K" carnival

with this post

I will get a free marriage audio download from

Sheila Wray Gregoire -author and speaker

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My new Twitter and bloggy friend Kris

of Simply Happy Me

has tagged me with a wonderful award!

Kris is always there on twitter to offer support, comments and laughs!

Thanks Kris!!

Love ya Award!!

These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!

I'm supposed to pass this award on to 8 other awesome bloggers, but I think you're ALL awesome, so if you'd like to pick up this award, please do so!!

Now that you see that people really do win giveaways....

you don't want to miss my 100th post Giveaway that will be coming up in the

next 2 weeks. I promise, you will be FLOORED with this great giveaway!

I'm also working on a face lift for my blog,

so I hope to have a "new look" soon.

I'm trying to come up with a cute tag line as well,

so if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them!

If I get a few, then maybe I could have you guys vote.

I put this out on Twitter as well

and WhitneyCaroline suggested

TidyMom "The best thing to have in a messy world"

Sorry for such a long rambling post..........

but I really wanted to give 'shout outs' and

a big THANK YOU for all of my wins!!

Don't forget to leave me some tag line ideas!!

Giveaways, Award and Friday Facts

Did you know that all around in Blog World there are GIVEAWAYS going on? This is free stuff I say! They just GIVE it away! For FREE!!!!

My good friend Pam of Antique or Not is having a celebration for her 100th blog post!! Pam has a GREAT giveaway on her blog, instead of choosing a gift for you - YOU get to CHOOSE YOUR GIFT!!! That's right, the winner of Pam's giveaway will receive a $25 gift certificate to her website AND she will ship your prize for FREE!!!! Now how could you pass THAT up? All you have to do is go over to Pam's blog and leave a comment! But hurry, you only have until Aug 31.

I found another blog today, and fell in LOVE with her work! And what do you know? She's having a giveaway too!!! Shay of Olde Colonial Peddler is not only giving away one prize, but THREE prizes!! So head over there and check out her blog and her GREAT work and sign up for your chance to win!!


Next, I received another award!!! This time from my new friend Pam of Grits Greens and Cornbread Thanks Pam you're such a sweet friend.

Now for my nominee's, I'm going to list some prim blogs I love to visit.

Just Country
Fruit of Her Hands
Cozy Coops Corner
Bittersweet Prims

Tomorrow is Mr. Tidymom (aka Steve)'s birthday! It will be the 17th anniversary of his 29th birthday! So I need to bake him a cake today!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

I thought I'd try to post some Friday Facts each week - so here you go...................

Real Facts

1 - Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas
2 - Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
3 - Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
4 - Cats have over 100 vocal chords
5 - Camel's milk does not curdle

My first Blog Award!!

This was an award given to by my new bloggin' friend Janae. I LOVE Janae's blog Crazy Coops Corner she has a love for prims, just like I do! Thanks Janae!!

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you’ve nominated.

There are many other blogs out there that I love to read. I'm also thankful for everyone that visits my blog and comments. I get so excited when I hear my computer say "Girlfriend, you've got mail".

Others with blogs that I love to visit and that inspire me that I pass this award on to are:

1. Pam at Antique or Not
2. Cathy at Cobblestone Farms
3. Pam at Farmhouse Primitives
4. Cindy at The Gathering Room
5. Liz at Brown and Hopkins
6. Dana at Homespun Cottage
7. Heather at Faith Lane