HOW TO TRANSFORM A SMALL TRADEGY INTO TERRIFIC ~ THE TALE OF THE TUREEN!

A fractured fairy tale or...to trash or to transform!


Turbert the Tureen sat proudly in Tina's hutch....

PINK SATURDAY & GIVEAWAY WINNER REVEALED

Happy Pink Saturday Pinkettes! Hope everyone is doing well and recovering from all the Easter festivities!

Now fess up...who had a Cadbury Egg overload? ha!


Please don't get defensive...I have a confession. For me, something about those make me a bit, queasy. I just can't connect with it's sweet chocolately goodness when the inside looks like this....


Just seeing that photo makes me feel....


...me and those of you who had one cad too many! LOL!

I know, me bad! Oodles and oodles of peeps love them, including my beautiful daughter and my handsome son, aka Monkey Head Fred.

I'm sure you KNOW I'm just stalling and I KNOW some of you anxious peeps have scrolled ahead to see who won. ha!

I truly wish I could surprise each of you like Oprah..."everyone look under your keyboard...!" But I can't.

I do want to give a big huge thank you to all who entered, and major big smoochies to you darlings who tweeted and posted and helped spread the word about my giveaway!

You are all so special to me!


I completed the tallying, adding the tweets, postings and side bar announcements of the giveaway and the final number came to 205. I put it into the RandomOrg.com thingy...


....random number 65.....and ....here is that portion of the list....

BARGIN HUNTING & $50.00 TARGET STORE GIVEAWAY

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter! The weather was horrid here, windy and raining buckets. We've had loads more rain the past 2 weeks, it's definitely messing up my furniture painting schedule.

So no furniture to show you yet. But a bit of progress on the living room project.

On one raining day I stopped into Joanne's fabric and found this in their remnants aisle....

PINK SATURDAY ~ MY THANK YOU GIVEAWAY & A GIVEAWAY I WON (MY FIRST)

Happy Pink Saturday! Lots to go over, so let's get started!

First, I (finally) won my first giveaway! *happy dance* I won this beautiful original art created by the very talented and creative Denise & CC @ Couture de Papier! I saved it for today because it is so perfect for this occasion!....


It is beautifuly handpainted shabby roses in acrylics pink on vintage hmnal music sheet and adored with vintage wallpaper and paper lace on 12x12" gallery wrap canvas!


Thank you so much Denise & CC, it is so special.

Next, I'd like to wish everyone a very safe and Happy Easter! I made this collage, featuring my Guardian Angel cameo, just for the occasion!


Before we go on, I'd like to get a little sentimential. When I started bloggin back in late May 09' I had no idea what I was getting into! The kind, sweet, charming, clever, talented, creative people I have met over the months completely blew me away! You are all so amazing! *Clapping*

So here I am with just over 300 followers! OMGosh!! I am so completely thrilled that you not only came over to visit for the first time, but you wanted to come back for more! I deeply cherish each and everyone of you very special friend. *hugs*

Now, we had the poll, most of you have seen the results...Target Stores won with 54% of the votes! A special *hug* to those of you who participated in the poll!


The winner of my Thank You Giveaway will receive a $50.00 Target Store Gift Card.

How to enter:

All you need to do is leave a comment here.

For a 2nd chance, become a new follower or if you already are a follower, mention it in your comment.

Additional chances: This is not mandatory, but for those of you who tweet or post about my Thank You giveaway linking back to this post will also count. Don't forget to let me know by leaving a comment in this post!

UPDATE: THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO ENTERED!!

I'll announce the winner next Pink Saturday, April 10th!

Thank you again to all the lovely friend who have joined in on my madness! I love you all!

A big shout out to our fabulous Beverly of HowSweet the Sound for Pink Saturday! Thanks so much for all your hard work, Beverly!


Wishing you and those you hold dear a very safe and Happy Easter!

Cheers!

IS YOUR PAGE HEADER TIRED?.......

I just had to share this with you!

As most of you know, Monkey Head Fred was home for spring break to work on my agenda (painting furniture). Well, it turns out we did work on an agenda, just not mine! ha!

Due to the unfortunate turn of events a few months back, (you can view post here), I've been trying to find a way to put my creative juices to work. This is what was proposed to me; and of course me, being forever the adventurer, I decided to give it a go.

I am so pleased and so excited to announce the launch of our new online service.

Taking a bit of liberty with a double entendre, we have settled with...


My Custom Page Headers
The "My" being the double entendre ha!