My Dandelion Wishes

Another Saturday adventure shopping with good friends and Starbucks. Colleen and I decided we needed a visit to Merchant Square and so we invited Kim and Aliya to join the adventure. We met them at Starbuck's for a leisurely coffee, passion fruit lemonade tea, and apple juice. Aliya will be as addicted to Starbuck's as we are. Just sharing the love!!!! After all what is a Saturday morning without Starbuck's??? From Starbuck's it was to Merchant Square. As usual we lost Colleen in the first aisle. She found a wonderful birdcage and she was off. The rest of us Kim, Aliya and I strolled slowly through but eventually we all went our separate ways and all of us found wonderful treasures and great buys. At least we think we did. So here we go a picture tour of my finds. No birdcage for me as I have the real thing "Mr Bird" at home. One of my first great finds was this very old canning jar with wooden beads in it. I think these beads were originally strung on leathe...

Last nite was our monthly Stampin Up class at Jan's house. This is our last class till August. We had many a good laugh thanks to Colleen and also managed to make beautiful and cute cards. Stampin UP had a sneak peak stamp set that will be released in August but we were able to order for our June club. Love this stamp set. We did two cards with this set and as usual Jan created another really cute summer card. One of two cards made with the new stamp set Summer cards And the second note card using the June special stamp and note cards. One more day of work and it is Friday yahoo weekend is coming

I joined a swap hosted by Beth and Karla through Vintage Workshop and Monday my panels came in the mail. I love them. Thank you Amy Tatum, Carol Campbell, Amy Wald and Valerie Whicker. They are beautiful and I am enjoying them perched on my shelf above my computer. I will look forward to the next swap hosted by Vintage Workshop and the talented Beth and Karla. Also in the Summer Tag Swap there are a few spots left and you are welcome to join. Details in the post below

**********EDITED*************** Tag swap is closed there are now 15 participants. I will email the details to all this weekend. Thanks to everyone for joining Sherry I will be hosting another tag swap and everyone is invited to join. It will be a "Good Ole Summertime Theme" Think of all the memories of your best summers: Beach, Lemonade, Swimming, Camping, Vacations, Sight Seeing, Playing with kids on your block, Baseball, Catching Fireflies at Night, the 4th of July, & Picnics. I guess I could go on and on but any summer theme you would like is fine. Here are the details: 1. Sign ups open till Monday June 10th or until 15 participants have signed up 2. You can email me at bammydon@att.net or leave a comment on this post 3. Make/create 15 tags and mail to me by the 21st of July 4 Tag size 4 3/4 x 2 3/8 (standard shipping size) 5. Put your name, email and blog addresses on the back of the tag 6. Stamp, paint, college, sew whatever you want to create no limits 7. Just hav...

So far this has been a great weekend! Relaxing, retail therapy, laughter, good food and great friends!!! It can't get better than that. *****Edited to add:**** Congrats guys you all completed another Marathon. I checked in just as they were posting your times Today is the "Rock n Roll Marathon" in San Diego. Sending good vibes to the Doc, his brother and Wally. Hope you guys are doing well and having a great weekend on the beach. They run both the Phoenix and San Diego Rock N Roll Marathons in Jan and June and then in August the Quebec Marathon. Ya the doc is fit and a running guru me I am not give me my computer or classes and I am a happy camper. This is a past Marathon picture So yesterday Colleen had to go pick up her layaway at Home Again in Phoenix. Of course I wanted to go and we knew that Kim and the girls were really really wanting a road trip too:) Well Kim for sure. So we made arrangements to meet at Mystic Paper at 10. Yeap Colleen picked me up at 0845 and ...

Well this has been a short week of work with having Monday off. That extra day makes a big difference that is for sure. So here it is Friday again and another long weekend for me. I have Monday off again. Going to be taking an administrative day and work from home. Guess we will see how great my computer tech skills are and if I can get on my computer at work from home. TJ and the Doc have given me instructions so we will see. If not I can be creative:) Not too much to report it was a pretty quiet week. We seem to be getting lots of new patients so that is good for us bad for them. I am sure going on dialysis was not in their whole scheme of future plans. My knee rehab progresses and we seem to step it up a notch every week. Along with the weight training. oh ya and my complaining!!!! Wednesday was outside for knee rehab. Can I just say it was pretty hot out there in the sun??? But I attempted to run (I am sure that was a funny site)jump up and down off the curb didn't happen and m...

EDITED****** 5/25/08 Check out Kim's blog for her exciting news. She will be teaching at Mystic Paper in the very near future wahoo. Can't wait for her first class. Colleen and I helped her celebrate as only we can by shopping away the day. It has been so hard to be quiet until she could announce it but as I said we are thrilled to pieces as this will be such a good fit for Kim. CONGRATS Kim!!!! This has been a day of exploring, seeking and finding hidden treasures in many many thrift stores on 7th Ave in Phoenix. Despite the clouds and sometimes a drizzle we had a great day. Colleen picked me up and to Starbucks for our addiction we headed. We relaxed over our favorite beverages and a blueberry oat bar for me. Kim from Mystic Paper had let Colleen know that the rest of Tim Holtz metal embellishments had arrived, so off we headed to pick those up. We arrived early and had the store to ourselves for a few minutes. Met Kim H as planned minus Ms Aliya, who decided to stay home...

here are all the nursery rhyme tags from the tag swap. They have all been mailed and I had so much fun hosting this swap. The tags were all so unique and beautiful. Stay tuned for another tag swap as I have had several requests to host another one. I do have a few ideas mulling around in my brain. Than you to Carol R, Heidi W, MaijaL, Susan M, Suzanne B, Colleen J, Kim H,Cheryl S, Rebecca G for participating.

****WARNING**** Long post So today started as Colleen would say at 0 dark thirty. Colleen picked me up at 6:30 and off to the Merchant Square Flea Market and sale we went. Of course with Starbucks in hand. We actually got there at 7am when it opened. Parking was not too bad. But the flea market was in the parking lot and by 7:30 am it was hot in the sun. Kim joined us mid way through Colleen and mine meanderings through the booths. I think the first 3 booths Colleen had spent her money. She found some unique stuff including a beautiful rhinestone bracelet, bird cage and on and on. Me being on the more conservative side saw lots I wanted but alas there is no room for more benches, wall hangings and such. I managed to find some unique old jars, a beautiful meat tray, and I scored on some jewelry in a satin pink box. Also found a beautiful vintage camisole. My most exciting find was the bell jar cover and metal plate. Love it. About 9:30 we bid Kim goodbye and headed to Mystic Paper for ...