OH SO SWEET PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Rainy days are the best days for making homemade cookies.
It's been coming down here all day like a flood and we've been playing in the kitchen.
We made the best Peanut Butter cookies EVER!!!

I'm sure you want a bite so since I can't ship them to you, I'm

gonna share the recipe with ya!

Here they are ready to hit the oven and Tyler is lurking waiting on the first

batch to come out.

And here they are warm and sweet and ready to eat.

Tyler got the first cookie and then sis had to try them too. *giggles*

So we baked all day and this is what the babies did all day.

I may have shared this recipe before but if I did it's worth

repeating so here it is

EASY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

mix all ingredients and bake until golden brown around edges.

Check out the cookie on Kinseys little cheeks!

And Tyler was just a flood with joy.  LOL

DECOUPAGE TELEPHONE

The other day while in the midst of one of my many strange moods.

I sat at my desk trying to figure out what to do for my phone.  If you look

closely it has some blemishes and rough places and I just wanted it to look clean.

btw:  I got this phone at a yard sale for $3.00 after searching for one like it for months.

Then I see my Decoupage Finish sitting on a shelf and think to myself

"YES...that's what I can do to it."

So...I go to my stash of papers and find one I think I like and start

tearing paper and slappin glue then sticking it to my phone.

*crazy? not sure yet*

So then I had to finish around the dial with something and *giggles*

thought this white rope would be great!

Yes I did it!  Braided the rope and then glued it around the dial.

Then decided the reciever didn't look right so started in on that too.

Painted Decoupage all over the outside...2 layers.

I kept looking at it thinking *what did I do*

Sometimes even I wonder what is going on in this mind of mine!

Go ahead....it's ok to laugh. *giggles again*

So I decide to leave it alone for the night and see if I can adjust.

The next morning I walk into my office and it's the first thing that catches

my eye. *giggles again*  I shake my head and think maybe it'll grow on me.

UH...YEAH...No it's not working for me, in fact

it's pretty much a eye sore and all I do all day is look at the ugly thing.*haha*

 Everyone who see's it has a different reaction to it. 

 Daughter said she loves it,

Mom just looked and said *OH OK*  *bunches of giggles*

All I can say is *I GOT A WILD HAIR AND TRIED IT*

Give a girl a break!! 

LEARNING TO WRITE

Recently I took on a new task....learning to write.
Although, in this post you may not be able to tell if i've learned very much.
Every morning while everyone else sleeps, I grab my cup of coffee and
head to "my space" then give myself 1 hour to
read, learn, and write.
There are two great books I'm reading and learning from:
"WRITING DOWN THE BONES" and "OLD FRIEND FROM FAR AWAY"
by: Natalie Goldberg
If you want to learn more about writing these are two great books to start with.

I couldn't believe when I started studying just how much there
is to learn about the task of writing.

I've already discovered a lot about myself and how to write about it.
It's a very interesting and exciting process and
I'm loving it.

LIGHTENING IN THE LENSE

Hello my blogging friends. I have a question for you.
Have you ever....Stood on your front porch for 20 minutes in the rain
trying to get a picture of the lightening as it flashes across the dark
sky?
Have you ever listened to your family yell at you when the power
goes out to get back in the house?
Yet the photographer inside you cries out from your inner most part saying...
I must get a picture of this!
So...In the darkest of night you stand in the rain snapping away on your camera
just wishing for that one shot...that one chance to capture this
dancing electricity!

So the sky flashes and you snap a picture and you end up with
something like this ^
Ok so now my hair is starting to drip rain into my face but do I
give up? Heck NO!!!

The quest continues and as the sky lights up you snap again
and get this ^ *giggles*
Then comes a slight pause in activity so you decide to go inside
for something to drink and sit for a minute or two so the family will
calm down. *insert more giggles here*
Then it starts up again so you run to grab your camera, run out on the porch,
get ready to shoot, aim high and snap another picture.
And still get nothing. So then you just start snapping pictures thinking...
"maybe I can get one by pure accident"

AND GET THIS^^^^^^
GRRRRRRRRR
So 30 or so pictures later still nothing.
All I get for my effort is...
wet clothes
wet head
freezing cold feet
family upset
dogs shaking cowardly in the corner
and THIS is where I start to think...
"ok so maybe getting lightening in my lense isn't
so important afterall!"
To all who have been able to capture such beauty in
your camera lense I throw out a high 5 cause I sure
wasn't able to capture it!

AMAZING NATURE, AMAZING TREE

I saw this tree in someones pasture while out with Destiney and the babies.

There's something about it that just amazes me and yet can't really put my finger on it.

Although it does demonstrate to us how fragile the line between life and death can be and

maybe even remind us to live each day to it's fullest and appreciate that we have that day.

Half alive and thriving and the other have dead by some mysterious force that

made it's way through her trunk and left her to fade away.

I still look at it and wonder what happened?  Do you happen to have any ideas?

Maybe lightening?