who who who...

Harvard Grad students created a rotating mechanical tongue and concluded 3,127 licks.

Whoooooooo thinks spray paint is almost as magical as duct tape?

I doooooooo.....

Last night - around midnight - I heard an owl talking somewhere in my 'hood. I tried - REALLY HARD - to talk back to it, but each time I did I broke out in to side-splitting giggles. Apparently my Dr. Dolittle skillz are in need of Dr'n....

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I paint all kinds of critters... sometimes on accident - sometimes on purpose. What have you painted lately?

spoiled rotten.

The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?

The red.neck Step-Daddy spoils me rotten...

Forrest!

I say (after eye-ballin' "the Mama's" wooden box): "I want a box"!

The next day? I have a box!

J.R.R. Tolkien

Do you know how much fun I'm going to have switching things out in my box?! I might even put it up on cinder-blocks...



comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I figure the red.neck Step-Daddy built me a box for my dining table so I wouldn't go shopping at his house and purchasing "the Mama's" box using my five-finger discount... he likes to keep the peace 'round his neck-o'the-woods...

Memorial Day

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron

Have a wonderful day...

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." ~  Norman Schwarzkopf

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide...


P.S. Just in case you were wondering... hee-hee... the winner of Annie Selke's/Pine Cone Hill giveaway is Michelle who said: "I LOVE IT! It's too cha cha for words!"


Thank You to EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of you who played along - I loved reading your stories about eyelet!!!!! Congratulations to Michelle!!!

make it!

Mama Debinator and I were talking a few weeks ago - running ideas back and forth between each other like 2 squirrels on a phone line... ideas concerning bed-skirts...

She screeched to a halt at one point and said: "table runner!" Sew... I made an eyelet table runner! Out of a bed skirt!

It's easy: rip the skirt portion off of the body...
(something about that sentence doesn't really sound right...)

press it flat. Then place the eyelet - face to face - and stitch it up! I used just one side of the bed-skirt because I always keep my dining table at it's smallest... but for a longer runner just use both sides of the bed-skirt.

Press the middle seam flat, then flip the whole thing over and stitch some small eyelet trim right down the middle.

Hem the ends and... Voila'!

You have one bed-skirt table runner. Isn't Mama Debinator brilliant? Bed skirts are all kinds of fun - I use them for... well... all kinds of things OTHER than making my bed.

Oh... hey! If you serve breakfast and you're using this table runner under your fine china - would it be "breakfast in bed"?!

This is a simple - fresh - SUMMERY table runner - kind of like Annie's/Pine Cone Hill's eyelet duvet cover, pillow shams and napkins that you still have a chance to win! Go HERE on my blog to sign up - and hurry 'cause all of the eyelet fun ends tomorrow at 8am!

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where you should hear Mama Debinator and I on the phone... she's a Trash Talker with squirrel moments, THEN she gets ME climbing trees and runnin' around like I'm a squirrel! 37 subjects in less than 4 minutes..
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eye'd wear...

this dress:

and eye'd like to say eye'd wear the eyelet dress with these boots (after a spray tan... or a magic marker... i wonder if krylon paint will work?):

but chances are eye'd wear it with THESE boots:

and then eye'd sparkle me with some leathery fun:

and add a happy daisy ('cause that's how i do things):

and eye'd top it alllllllll off with this glamorous piece of plastic and sparkles:

where would eye wear this you ask? *snicker*

To come see you and remind you to sign up for my giveaway HERE because you can't have enough eyelet and you SURE can't have enough Annie Selke/Pine Cone Hill eyelet!!! Deadline is Friday morning!

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where eye really think eye need those sunglasses... they could be part of my "super red.neck" disgeyes....

eye spy a giveaway!

Last week one of YOU went to visit Annie Selke and cheer her on as she re-launched her blog!

While cheering Annie on - she  WON a GORGEOUS Eyelet duvet cover, standard pillow shams and four eyelet napkins from Annie and Pine Cone Hill!

CONGRATULATIONS jaybird and - THANK YOU!!!

Because you told Annie I sent you - I WON TOO!!!

(operation: "Clean Your Bedroom Robelyn so you can find your bed and then make it" is now under-way.)

This story gets EVEN BETTER though...

YOU can win THE SAME SET from Annie and Pine Cone Hill because Annie is letting me spread her AWESOMEness to you too!

Yep - tell me what you like about eyelet - right here, right now - and you are entered to win! That simple!

I'll get the ruffled eyelet trim rollin':

When I was little, I was a tom-boy with a penchant for eyelet, lace and ruffles.... lots of ruffles. "the Mama" made all of my little red.neck fashions and EVERY DRESS had eyelet, lace and/or ruffles on it. She would even make me short sets with - you guessed it - eyelet, lace and/or ruffles. HA! Because my Grandmother and I shared our birthday, "the Mama" would make us matching shirts each year, so Grammy wore eyelet too. (She was also my age each year... youngest Grandmother I ever knew of!)

On Easter each year "the Mama" would hide our Easter basket and we would have to find it in the morning before going to church. Mine always had something fabulously lacy and ruffly and girly mixed in with the Easter eggs to wear to Easter service. When I was 8 I found my basket behind a big rocker in the corner of the den, and there was an eyelet blouse folded in to it. It was snowy white with little tiny buttons running all down the front... ruffles on the sleeves and around the neck... it was the most beautiful blouse I had ever seen!!! To this day, I remember standing there looking at that blouse and wondering how many days in a row I could wear it - I remember touching it over and over, holding it up under my chin and gazing down at it imagining all of the places I could wear it. I think it was the only thing I EVER hung up in my closet. I think I even let "the Mama" fix my hair that Sunday morning. (if you know me at all you know i have the whole bed-head thing down to a science... and have for many many years...) THAT is how impressive the eyelet blouse was!

So - what I like about eyelet: the stories and feelings and fun that each piece holds!

Annie's question was: "what's your go-to breakfast in bed"... my answer was Pop Tarts. Yeah... I'm a junk food junkie - BUT! Pop Tarts are the breakfast of red.neck champions world wide!!!

I will be all ears for YOUR story - or whatever you would like to say about eyelet - through this Friday (May 25th) at 8am!

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I could out-run those stinky boys any day of the week... ruffles and all Even in my shoes that had bows and sparkles on them. hee-hee