I’ve spent some time recently in one of the nicer hospitals in Grand Rapids and they have these really cool wall fountains.  They are pretty sweet.  I’d love to have one at home!! The sound they make is so soothing.  I’d love to fall asleep to that sound every night! Plus they are beautiful!

For now I guess I’ll have to settle for the outdoor fountain up at camp.  The guys did a great job with that one!! It’s gorgeous!  And it’s practically in my back yard!

I think it’d be fun for her to learn.  I have been looking around and have found some stuff online here and there music related and whatnot, like here at propellerhead.  But I really don’t know what all she needs to get started, anyone have any pointers on what a beginner guitarist needs?

I also like the violin, but I don’t know how easy that is to learn.  I have a feeling that is a little harder.  You probably need little more discipline for that instrument…

I was have been looking all over for ideas for an April Flavor Of The Month for the cupcake biz and I have seen all kinds of Easter Gift Baskets and cute cupcakes, but nothing really jumped out at me til a few days ago. But when I saw them, I knew I had to make them!!

I’m excited about the project and I hope someone orders them!!  They are going to take a little more work than our average cupcake, but i think they’ll be worth it and they are adorable!! =)

I hope you stay tuned to see what I found!! See you soon!!

‘The Girl’ was perusing the diamond engagement ring section of the store and commented that she wouldn’t want a ring like mine with so many big diamonds.  She just wants one small one or a few small ones.  She has very simple taste.

For the record.  My ring isn’t that big.  It is just under 1 1/2 carats t.w. and only 1/3 c. for the center diamond.  It’s just that she has tiny hands and it looks big on her hand.  They are good quality diamonds, though.  I am thankful we got such a great deal on my rings when we got them!! We paid less than half of what it would cost to replace them! =)

What would your perfect ring look like?!?!?!?!

A few years back a bunch of them all had girls.  Must be something in the water?!?!?!

Anywho… I was looking around online and in the store and I came across these really cool baby jogger city gt ‘s. There are a few reasons I like them.  They are a mid-weight stroller so they are easy to push.  You can put a child that weighs up to 65 pounds in it (My daughter could have been in it til she was like 12 LOL).  They have been rated the easiest to fold up of any all-terrain stroller!

They  sound like a pretty sweet stroller to me.  And the look really cool! They have the single wheel in the front for easy steering.  You can click on the link above to see it.  They come in a few different colors, too.  Orange, Green, Yellow, and Black I believe.

They are a little pricey, but with strollers, generally you get what you pay for and if you buy one that is good quality, you shouldn’t have to buy another one for a good long while.  While I wouldn’t be able spend this much on a gift for someone, I would consider putting money together with a few people as a group gift for someone for sure!!

Just thinking out loud here.  =) Have a great weekend everyone.  I have a camp coming in this evening and will be busy busy busy!!

I eat , sleep, drink, breath cupcakes lately.  Not a bad thing if you like cupcake, which I do! I am constantly looking up cupcakes on this site and that site.  Here an there and everywhere.  I and always talking about my cupcake business this and my cupcake business that.  My poor husband has just about had it I think. He is such a patient man.

I’ve been talking to my ‘business partner’ and we giggle like school children (which is funny because she is a freshman in high school and I am in my thirties not a freshman in high school, hahahaha) about how we want to get a little shop and decorate it all cute in hot pink and have everything ‘cupcake’.  From the curtains to the switchplate covers.

Yeah, you read that right.  They make cupcake switchplate covers, pretty wild, huh? That’s what I thought , too! So, the next step for us is to go and see a man about a license and see what all that entails.  Just because some day I wanna do more than just person to person sales out of my kitchen (I’m happy to do that for now, but some day…) I’m hoping and praying it only entails a little paperwork and a little elbow grease and not a lot of $$ cause that I don’t have a lot of.

So, some prayers would be appreciated and if you’d like to help in the $$ department,  I’d be happy to give you my PayPal address  

Thanks for Stopping By!

One thing I’ve never heard of before, personalized coins. Yes, that’s right, you can buy coins that have just about anything on them.  Of course, you can’t spend them.  They are obviously for collecting purpose’s only.

I thought for all those genealogy buffs out there it might cool to get your family crest on coins and give them to your family for Christmas gifts or something fun like that.

What are you buying this year for Christmas for your loved ones?

But one thing I find a little irksome is that back in the day when I would have found plus size maternity clothes helpful, you couldn’t really find them anywhere.  Not ones you wanted to wear anyway.  You could find plenty of them with loud, wild prints that made you look as big as the side of a barn, but who wants to look like that?

Now I can find really cute clothes that make me look like the radiant mother-to-be that I am  (if I was) and not just some bigger-than-a-barn heifer who can’t keep her hand out of the cookie jar! Yeah, I just said that, for real!

So, go get yourself some cute looking maternity clothes, or not, it’s your choice… 

See Ya!

On the other hand, sometimes you don’t want to buy cheaper jewelry.  My husband bought me one of those pretty mother rings from a local retail store and the stones kept falling out.  We kept taking it back and they kept replacing them.  They didn’t give us any problems about replacing them, but finally I just returned it and got my money back.  But for the record, The ring wasn’t that cheap! We spent the same amount you would anywhere else you would buy the same ring! (Okay, maybe not quite as much, but still)…

The point is, some things (flour, sugar, butter, some soups, some jewelry, some pasta, napkins,  etc,) you can buy random inexpensive brands or whatever happens to be on sale at the store when you are there. Other things (chocolate, cream soups, certain pastas, eggs, lunch meats, etc) you have certain brands that you buy because they are known to produce a good quality product!

Thanks for stopping by, Catch Ya Later!

Some cards give you cash back.  Some give you gas.  Some cards offer merchandise as rewards.  Whatever you choose, you are sure to find something to your liking.

More often than not these cards have no annual fee to worry about and they even offer fraud protection.  And, you can get a great low introductory rate on all your  balance transfers from other cards to one of these reward cards!

Some friends of  ours make almost all their purchases on a rewards card from a major retail store.  Each time they buy something they earn points which they can spend on things in the store.  When they get enough points they go and spend them in the store or online).  So basically every time they buy gas, groceries, toilet paper, they are earning points to buy Christmas and Birthday presents or whatever else they want to spend their points on!

It’s great! I need to get one of these!!

So, I was trying to come up with what I would spend a little bit of money on if I could.  Anything I wanted.  Would I spend it on make up? purses? jewelry? unlisted shoes?  And then it hit me!   I know exactly what I will spend my money on!!

I am going to spend money on my new cup cake business!! I need so much stuff for it! I need boxes (for transporting from parties) and carriers (for transporting to parties) and a new bowl for my mixer and….the list goes on and on, and I’ll get it all… little by little! 

Life is Good , I am Blessed  and I hope you are too friends,

A friend of mine from Montana used to own a pair of redfeather snowshoes.  She would walk all over in the winter time with them.  Just for fun.  And exercise.    I always thought that was a cool way to get exercise in the winter.  That and cross country skiing.  I’ve done that before, But I’ve never used snow shoes.  I think that would be fun.

HHHmmm…now I wanna see my friend, and go to Montana, and go snow shoeing…

OK, TTYL!! BYE!