Scribble and Scrambles ~through my mind's eye...

Newest weird obsession.

Texture.

Here are some texture pictures I took during my stay-cation.

Serials and Scenarios ~ Waterbrook Book Giveaway...

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Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Scenes from the State Line...

Lily lounges and Lola checks out the scenery on the Iowa/Nebraska state line.

When they've hoofed it a half mile or so, they began to calm down enough to get a nice sit out of them.








Lily checks out the river. And apparently I'd yelled for them to say "Cheese!" since they are looking very expectantly at me.


I think we hit a perfect and balmy 90 degrees. Then five days later we shivered through the second coldest 4th of July on record. Go figure. They say that if you don't like the weather in Iowa to stick around for 20 minutes because it'll change.

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Have a Baaaaang Up 4th

Hang in there til the end. This is pretty amazing and relevant....watch the whole thing, you'll see. Ha. Happy Fourth.

Scribble and Scrambles ~ Partly Arty...

I'm feeling like posting some bright and bee-you-ti-ful pictures from the weekend.

Hmmm, possibly a theme?

Scribble and Scrambles ~Shopping Scenes...Warning....

My friend Kim says I'm eclectic. My friend Michelle says I'm a freak. They probably mean the same thing and I'm taking both as a compliment.


Here are a few scenes from Saturday's shopping marathon.


Notice the adorable kerchief-headed ninnie-muffin. These photos were the alternating views in my rearview mirror.








And let's just say a van containing five females who happen to find kerchief-headed ninnie-muffin hilarious is not a quiet van.



The cup-on-the-head incident pales in comparison to the delirious scarf dance at the store that directly followed the cup-head factory.

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ So the Credit Card is Smokin

My weekend included a few splurges.

In my defense I'd like to claim peer pressure AND the saving up of shopping urges.

That said. Four pairs of shoes. Buy One Get One 1/2 Price - all. One pair has already been worn. Another ended up netting me an additional four $ off.

I am the queen of justification.

Gifts. Bargain ones at that. Really. How can THAT be bad?

An uber-bargain on bar stools for my new island...the one that is still in my hubby's mind and hopefully falls out very soon in a three-dimensional form with doors and drawers.

I didna spend much at all at Target, and only three $ at Bed, Bath and Beyond. And I really felt that was necessary since a burst of enthusiastic behavior may have lost them a few customers.

But the best thing of all...was a set of pictures that I have wanted for an entire year. I saw these at the art festival last summer and regretted not purchasing one or both. Together they cost me way less than a daily cup of McD's drive thru coffee. And they bring me as many smiles.

My wonderful husband told me to get both. I hesitated twelve seconds and then slapped the plastic magical buying implement down on the counter.

Aren't they cute? They will be fabulous against my red kitchen walls.