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Shopping Trip!


Recently I had the opportunity to go on a really great shopping trip!

You know the kind...you dress up, gather up, and head out in search of that one and only, that special little something that only you will have. You're excited, you have your friends with you, money in your pocket, the weather is just right and away you go!

Travel distance for our trip was .03 miles from my house.  Attire required was long pants (old ones)  boots, (unless you're from TN and you are crazy...in that case you wear flip flops) gloves and a cap.  Instead of money, we took along a pry bar, screw drivers, pliers and a large hammer! And...we had buckets of excitement!  We had been given permission to go through two abandoned houses that my neighbor owns and we were allowed to take anything we wanted. 


Wowzer!!



 All I can say is...you just had to be there!


When you have friends like I do...it just can't get much better!!!

Dillard's...who needs it?








It's in the Bag!!


What do you do with an old pair of jeans, a sofa pillow, leftover scraps of an old shirt, hardware from an old purse and pieces of a belt you found at the thrift store?


You make...
a...
really...
cute...
tote...
for...
 your sister in law!

My husband's brother has recently been diagnosed with cancer.  Their life has been put on an altered course and so I wanted to make her something fun and useful.  The jeans were old ones of her hubbies  and the pillow one she no longer wanted!  Filled it with magazines and things that she might find useful as they begin trips to the doctor. 


She loved it ...smiled upon opening...and that was the point of the process!