wow these all sound like awesome baskets! i got my basket from Vina and wow! i am floored and don't quite know where to start. there were ladyfinger cookies, chocolate marshmallow eggs, chocolate truffles, and adorable chicken statue for the garden wearing red galoshes lol, a really cute test tube vase for the window, a chili pepper (which i am going to convert to a christmas ornament for the veggie patch section of the tree ), soap shape dlike a garden fairy that is too cute to use, a picture book of here comes peter cottontail, eggs filled with candy, all nestled in gold ribbon and wrapped in pictures her kids colored!!!! so cute and what a great idea. there were also bleeding heart plats, an adorable bunny shaped tin filled with seeds and a cool blue and green shell bracelet (and i have the perfect hippie skirt to go with it), and a red peony!!! i think the easter bunny probably got a hernia carrying this to my house LOL. ooo and a flower notebook and a cute card signed by all. thank you so much and tell billy and taylor i loved their coloring. i am smoothing one of them out and hanging it on my office door :) little dog came home safe and sound-- exhausted and extra dirty, but better than she usually is after one of these excursions. thank you all for your support! and now, for bingo! bonnet lamb quack tulip Bonus word 'cause it's friday: columbine* Bonus word becasue little dog came home :): polliwog for those of you who missed it, the person who gets the most bonus words gets a prize too :) how are the bingo boards? anyone close? i need to go through and mark all the lists i have. hope everyone has a great weekend :)

Once again, beautiful colors and items! I love the napkins you just bought, they would be so nice in MY dining room, but I'll only watch them and, maybe I will find a new tablecloth and napkins when I'll go shopping in two weeks to decorate my table after having removed the Easter decorations ;-) However, we have not had our Easter dinner yet because of the snow and the bad weather. Hope that we'll have it on Sunday... so, the Easter decorations are still there and will remain for some weeks.

Cindy, everything is lovely - I love how you've decorated the top of your Hoosier. Pretty but not overdone (as I am sooo prone to doing) and the bunny tray is fantastic. I love birdcages. You've done a nice job on the wreaths and all the other decor is very pretty as well. I think I'm now going to put away 3/4 of what I have out. Perhaps less is more (sometimes) altho I have great difficulty with that concept. TFS I learn so much here.

Thank you, everyone. My friend and I were talking yesterday and we think it was something I did on the online assessment test. Lesson learned to say the least. It's been a very long day here. Dad's up in the hospital for overnight observation. They think he's dehydrated or experincing side effects from some of his medicines (allergy or blood pressure-I forget which, and I only got 6 hours of sleep (3-9), so forgive me if I sound a little out of sorts. He has a stress test tomorrow morning, and hopefully getting out tomorrow afternoon. He's in good spirits though. I'm remaining optimistic about better job oppertunities in the future. It's very difficult, but somehow I always manage to make it through. It's hard to smile in the face of adversity, but that's been the last 10 years of my life. But enough about that. Sorry if I sound so depressed, but it feels like my limits are being tested lately. And yes, my best friend is like a brother to me and one of the very few people I trust completely in this crazy world. We don't see each other very often, once a month if we're lucky. He's very protective of me (for good reasons) and he was born with an outrageously extreme sense of humor. You know what they say: laughter is the best medicine. Brad AKA Moonwolf