Baby Bracelet GIVEAWAY!!!

For my very first giveaway, I have a sweet baby bracelet! My heart just melts as I make these little bracelets.
Would anyone happen to have a baby I can borrow?

Maybe my little ceramic bird will work for now :D


The bracelet measures 5 inches long without extender. Perfect for a one year old!

With the extender it can fit up to an 11 year old!

Here's how to enter, there are two chances:

First Chance: Leave a comment for me :D You can always e-mail me at stilldesiring@gmail.com.

Second Chance: Put a link on your blog for this giveaway.

You can enter up until 4 PM (EST) on Sunday (July 19) afternoon. The drawing will be held on Sunday evening at 8 PM (EST).

*You do not have to have a little girl to win this. It would make a great gift! The winner can choose to have it mailed to themselves, or sent to a gift recipient.

It's a Giveaway...Starting tomorrow!

Hey Ladies!!

Tomorrow I will have a giveaway up and running! I will post a picture of the prize tomorrow afternoon when I "officially" announce the giveaway. I am SUPER excited because this is my first giveaway!

You will have up to two chances to win. For the first chance, you must leave me a comment and enter yourself. If you blog about my giveaway, I'll give you two entries! Yay! How fun!

See you tomorrow!

Wooden Mail Organizer

I bought this from TJ Maxx or Marshalls a couple of years ago, before I was even engaged to be married. I fell in love when I saw it. I was so tempted to buy each matching piece. I absolutely LOVED the color, but found when I got married that it really didn't suit our home. It's kind of a minty green.

So I spray painted it red (Cherry Red in gloss by Red Devil - Big Lots)! My husband REALLY loves it and so do I! It matches our decor perfectly and sits on the kitchen counter to hold our mail. I will eventually go back and distress it, but for now I'm just enjoying the color and usefulness of it!


Of course, if I ever wanted to change it back or to a different color, all I have to do is paint it!

Snake!!!

Every morning on my way out to work, I look down on our cement porch to make sure there is nothing that I could step on. Baby bird, snake, big bug, etc. There are large bushes on either side of our porch, surrounded by pinestraw...so I never know what might be there.

All clear! I thought to myself, what would I do if there was a snake on my porch? I reasoned that I would go back inside and call my husband and have him, or our landlord come and "get rid" it. After all, who wants a snake around in the bushes?

While getting into my car, I turned and looked back towards our apartment to spy something above our porch...it almost looked like a vine growing up the brick. I looked closer....A SNAKE!!!!

A snake was weaved around several bricks and just hanging out near our bedroom window. So, I called my husband very quickly. While I was on the phone with him, a neighbor was driving past. My neighbor saw me looking up and had stopped when suddenly the snake *jumped* backward! I quickly pointed up to the snake so my neighbor could see what had scared me.

In the end, my neighbor (who happens to be the landlord's son who lives in the complex) offered to get a pole to get the snake down. I really appreciate him being such a gentleman. Even though the snake probably wasn't dangerous...a snake is a snake in my book.



By the way: My Prince Charming was preparing to come rescue me :D

Lights Out!

This evening our electricity was out for five hours. It's not the first time our power has been out since we've been married....maybe the fourth or fifth time. This time was definitely the longest. Tonight we decided eating out would be the best thing, so we drove over to Huddle House :D

It seems like every time our power goes out we realize all of the things we take for granted. We spend that time talking by candlelight and just enjoying being together. Now that the electricity is back on, I'm on the computer and he is playing video games. That's how we relax. Would we have survived in the days before electricity? Of course we would have. Things are just different now.

Other than everyday convenience, what would you miss most if you didn't have electricity?

Do you FLY?

I am sitting here contemplating what to do next. Finally I can do something I really want to do....or something I have been needing to do, but too busy with normal housework to do. (Wow, lots of "to do's!"

Today I have:

*Washed all the dishes and shined my sink.
*Completed my zone cleaning for the day, scrubbing my counter tops
*Decluttered our office for 15 minutes
*And washed two loads of laundry amongst many other FlyLady tasks.

I'm just curious....are you a FLYing?

Happy Father's Day!!!

I am very thankful for a Heavenly Father who loves me so much, that He put is own Son on the cross to die for me, the sinner that I am. I am also thankful for the earthly father He gave me.

My dad is the sweetest man. He is kind, sensitive, strong, and funny! He is not closed-up, he tells me he loves me and gives the BIGGEST bear hugs ever!


We like to eat Peeps together and an hour can pass quickly when we talk on the phone. Even though we are hundreds of miles apart, I am always thinking of him, and cannot imagine my life without him. God has brought my family through so many things in life, and having my dad as my dad, has made it so much easier. My dad often worked two jobs to support our family. He is always going out of the way along with my mom, to make holidays extra special as a family.

When I got married, my Dad was determined to give me the wedding of my dreams....and he did. He worked so hard from decorating dozens of cookies with "S's" on them, to helping set-up the reception tent the day of the wedding. My dad is also so wonderful with his grandchildren. They light up his life, as I know he does theirs'. He would do anything for them, and has proven that in recent times.

Oh how I love my Dad!

Happy Father's Day to all the the great father's out there!