Calling ALL Photo Enthusiast...

 I found Clickin' Mom's in October. I have learned a LOT from there already! I love the way everyone is so willing to share and help one another. I love that I can buy used photo equipment with the confidence that it's been well taken care of!

  Come take a peek! It is a subscription based website but if you sign up by Jan 31 you can use coupon code FRIEND and get 20% off any subscription! (new users only.) So that makes a 6 month subscription $24 instead of $30. You can get a longer subscription and save even more, if you want! (or a 1 month subscription if you're not sure about it!)

  I'd like to think I'm all you need when it comes to learning about photography (*SNORT*!) but you've got to check this place out!

If you DO sign up, please use my screen name as a referral. (4thememoriesofU)

A tale of two laundry rooms

One day I was trying to come up with a solution for more storage for seldom used kitchen things (crock-pot, electric skillet, cake supplies, etc), as well as home canned food. (We do have a storage room but it's too warm in there to store canned food!) I decided that it would make a lot of sense to move my scrapbook stuff (I almost never scrapbook at home anyway) to the basement family room, and move the laundry up to my scrapbook room, (right off the Kitchen!) where there would be space for the deep freeze and tons of storage! 
We just got the cabinets ordered , and haven't moved the deep freeze up yet but I am LOVING how it's coming together! So here's a peek at what it looks like right now... hopefully in less than a month I'll have some great updated pictures! 

My basement laundry room... It was out in the open in the family room so not a bad space, but not the most ideal either!

 

 

 

 

Frosty the Snowman...

...Is melting on my cookies!

  Aren't these just the cutest melting snowmen you ever saw?! 

We baked 24 of these cuties for Kyrie's kindergarten class party!

Tutorial can be found HERE

My kind of Coffee!

This, my friends, is MY KIND OF COFFEE! Rich, Strong, Deep... I love to drink it in all day long - it touches the soul. Ahhh, those EYES!

Confessions

I have a confession to make; I've been working on my photography skilz and didn't tell you. Wanna see? Maybe you've already peeked?! A few of us are doing it together... sorta. Come take a look! Shutter Friends Blog



 I have another confession to make... That cool little 'signature'? It's driving me NUTS because it never goes where it's supposed to without me banging on the key board and mouse and thinking about throwing something at my monitor. I didn't have the energy to fight with it today.

The only difference between the Men & the Boys...

...is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys!
We have a new toy in the house... Keep your head down!

Autumn Splendor

Autumn is my FAVORITE time of the year! I love the warm colors, the change, the crispness and coziness of it all! This year, we have enjoyed more color than all the 8 years we've lived here put together - but unfortunately, I never got a picture of the TREES! Here's a few of the things that I LOVE about this time of year...

 Sausage Potato Soup

  Warm autumn scents

 

 

The Pumpkin Patch!

 CANDY CORN! I love this stuff! 

 (and I LOVE my Longaberger butternut muffin pan!)

Beautiful hand made accents that never go out of style

Comfort Food - the kind that involves melted chocolate!

 

Sweaters - the cable knit kind - heavy and cozy.

More comfort food 

- the kind that involves cream cheese, bacon and green onions.-

(and my Eggplant Longaberger!)

 

Homemade soup with Homemade Bread. It just doesn't get much better than that!

It would seem that most of my favorite things about Autumn involve FOOD! It's a wonder I'm not 300lbs! 

  I've been putting off this post thinking "maybe I'll see something else I'll want to add"...

Doesn't look like that's going to happen!

Last Minute...

There's no time like the.. er... last minute!

  Today is Kyrie's school Fall Party. Not halloween party - FALL party. No costumes allowed. 

Last night, when I was tucking her into bed, she said "I want to wear something fancy for the fall party". Right... because we have a closet full of fancy clothes just waiting to be worn to school! Have you noticed, that there are VERY FEW "fancy" clothes out there for this age?! I don't want rock star, preppy princess or scull & crossbones, OR tween queen for my 6 yr old! Just some cute and maybe a few fancy clothes would be great, thanks!

  

  Back to the FALL party. So instead of coming up with something clever for her to wear for the fall party last night, I spent a few hours finishing my long overdue photo-editing. And this morning at 6:40 I decided to come up with something clever. Her ride was supposed to be here at 7:30... wonder WHERE I picked up the "last second gene"?! (Love you, Mom!)

  But really, who needs fancy clothes ready made in the closet when you have a hand-me-down-black-dress-for-next-year, photoshop, a printer, iron-on printer paper and an iron? (I burnt it - surely the teacher won't notice the slight stench - they should have given the directions for 1/8 page - 30 sec- BEFORE the directions for more than 1/2 a page - 3 minutes - just sayin'!)

  And we have a "fancy" outfit for the fall party! She wanted pictures taken too.

And we didn't make the 7:30 "bus" - I had to take her at 8:55 - but she was still smiling. Ah, small victories. =)