I've Been Everywhere....

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you may already know that I am a Proud Marine Wife... I've been married to my Marine for 7 1/2 years, and we've been fortunate to have been stationed at places for decent lengths of time.  Here's our 'story':

My husband started his military career in Quantico, VA at OCS (officer candidate school).  From there he went to Pensacola, FL and Corpus Christie, TX for flight school. {Insert new wife here} After receiving his wings and finishing top of his class, he chose Kaneohe Bay, HI as our next duty station.  We were there for 6 years with 3 deployments to Okinawa, Iraq & Afghanistan.  Currently, we are stationed back at Quantico, VA.

On my mantle, I now display my wood block village of each duty station and deployment location that my husband has been stationed/deployed.  I think it's a fun way to show people as well as remind our family of our journey.  It's been full of memories, and what a great way to reminisce!

If you want to display your own personalized military village, you can get them in my Etsy shop, as well as my Zibbet shop! The hand painted trees are also available! These will also make a great gift for your friends and family who are in the military!

Each block is a different color and I can create any duty station you need. Or if you would like something else on the sign, I would be glad to accommodate!

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Fingerprints on the Fridge

The Shabby Nest
Chic On A Shoestring Decorating
Simply Sweet Home
Fun to Craft
A Few of My Favorite Things 
The Trendy Treehouse 
Home is Where My Story Begins 
Iron Violet Designs 
Embellishing Life

Christmas Candy on Clearance

I just bought up  a few big bags of Christmas M&Ms (the red and green ones) for 75% off!!!  Now I know most people don't care what color their chocolate candy is... just as long as it's chocolate!!  But... if you do care.... you can separate the Christmas colors.

Red for Valentines Day

Green for St. Patrick's Day!  

All for 75% off, and a few minutes of sorting!

When you didn't have time to make teacher's gifts for Christmas...

...you make New Year treats!!! I am serious when I say I don't know where December went!  Christmas came way too quickly, and I just didn't get a chance to make some teacher treats for my son to take to his teachers.

So, to make up for it, I'm sending him back to school tomorrow with New Year treats!

I found the recipe for the cookie mix in a jar here. However, even with using a quart jar as called for in the recipe, I wasn't able to get all the flour in the top!  So I just made a side note in the recipe to add more flour if needed!

To dress them up, I cut fabric circles with my pinking sheers large enough so that I could close over it with the screw top lid.  Then I tied matching ribbon around that and tied on the recipe and note with raffia!

Giveaway Alert!

Check out a great giveaway HERE on What I Made Today for a chance to win your choice of a mini nature inspired journal from A Walk In The Woods!

Check out her Zibbet shop here!
And her Artfire shop here!
Giveaway ends next Wednesday! Seven ways to enter! Good luck!

New items in the shop!

 I listed some new kissing balls this weekend in my Zibbet Shop!!

And I made few pearl covered decorative bowl fillers for decorating your home! I love how elegant they look!

You can find these in my Zibbet shop!

Video Message from Santa....

My husband showed me this site today that he heard about from a buddy at work.  It's pretty neat! It's a site where you can customize a video message from Santa himself to be sent via email to your child, or even your spouse!!!

You can specify certain qualities that your chosen recipient has been doing well at, or needs to work on! It's really fun! And, it's perfect if your little one is pondering the reality of Santa! This will surely keep them believing!

PORTABLE NORTH POLE

I know that this may have come a little late, now that Christmas is over... but you may want to save this website in your favorites and bring it out during the year to keep your kiddos (or husband) in line! Enjoy!

Caramel Chocolate Pretzels

I'm slacking on my Christmas baking this year! I've only made sugar cookies (which still need to be frosted) and gingerbread (which all got eaten already)!

One of my husband's favorite treats are chocolate covered pretzels.  So the other night I decided to dip him up a batch.  About halfway through, I had an idea...

I wonder what it would taste like if I dipped the pretzels in caramel first, and then chocolate??

 

Well,  it takes twice as long,  but they turned out pretty darn good! I've had to hide all the pretzels now so that they will make it to Christmas!!! Standby... more baking today!!!