Random Happiness

It doesn't take much to make me happy . . . 

planting pansies in a pot on the porch . . . 

a walk on the beach on this glorious fall day . . . 

playing on the beach with Little Lulu even though I gave her a bath yesterday . . . 

 time to make my favorite cookies (1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg) for JP . . .

looking at the goodies I made in a 3 hour craft workshop yesterday

a Christmas card hanger with decorated clothes pins . . . 

a little stamped muslin bag and Christmas cards . . .

a Thanksgiving candle and a bag to carry all my goodies home.

The Virginia House

I am headed downtown to my favorite antique store, American Home & Garden now and I will be really happy if I can find a little desk like this beautiful desk I saw at The Virginia House.

What is making you happy today?

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Hop on over to these parties with me to see what others are up to this week:

Art @ Home - My Happy List

The Little Red House - Mosaic Monday

The Dedicated House - Make It Pretty Monday

My Short Attention Span

I have a very short attention span which can be detrimental to my productivity, but sometimes it's a good thing.

This morning, my plan was to CLEAN the house from top to bottom.

I got as far as cleaning the entry way, ironing a table runner and cutting flowers for the dining room.

My first distraction from cleaning was deciding that the display on this shelf in the dining room needed refreshing.

 I looked in cupboards for  anything yellow to put on the shelf.

I was happy with the results, but this little plate drove me further off track from cleaning.

The plate has holes for a ribbon and I found some THANK YOU ribbon in my stash, but ended up going with some cute little bee ribbon.

The THANK YOU ribbon made me think that I needed to get with the Thanksgiving program so instead of moving on to clean the living room, I headed to the garage to make some question tags for the family to use on Thanksgiving.

I looked for rubber stamps with words that could lead to questions.

I used two different sizes of tags.

First I stamped the cards.

Then I rubbed colored chalk all over the cards.

And finished up with a snip of baker's twine on each tag.

The little yellow heart shaped bowl is now holding the colorful tags

Steve came into the dining room to ask me two questions -

Are you done with the vacuum?

and

Do you know it is about time for you to leave for your volleyball game?

Unfortunately, the answer to both questions was no.

I tore through the house finishing the vacuuming and made it to the game on time.

Unfortunately my girls had a heart breaking loss of 14-15 in the third game - we won't be going to the playoffs.

My short attention span got me sidetracked, but the house ended up clean and I created a fun little game for Thanksgiving dinner.

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I am joining these fun parties

Coastal Charm - Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Our Home Away From Home - Tuesdays at Our Home

Cozy Little House - Tweak It Tuesday

A Stroll Through Life - Inspire Me Tuesday

Kathe With An E - You're Gonna Love It

My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia - Tuesday's Treasures

White Lace Cottage - The Scoop