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Here's a cute idea for a carrot wreath created by Kimberly at Serendipity Refined last year for Spring 2017.
I saw a similar wreath at Pier 1 Imports last week, but it was priced at $79 so I passed it up.
Here's a photo from Pier 1 Import's website of the carrot wreath they're selling this year in 2018.
Pier 1 Imports is running a clearance sale and has dropped the price of their wreath to $55, but I still think I'll try making Kimberley's with maybe a few extra carrots to fill it out more.
According to Kimberly's post here, she used an old grapevine wreath, some leftover burlap and ribbon, and about $9 for the carrots.
The carrots are the same carrots I bought last week at Hobby Lobby and Pier 1 Imports. The ones I bought at Hobby Lobby were half the price of the other store by the way.
I'm using them to decorate the mantle for Easter with a Peter Rabbit theme...
If you are interested in making a carrot wreath, I hope you'll pop over to Kim's Blog and read her instructions and show her some love! She says it was really simple and took her only 10 minutes to do.
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What do Albert Einstein, my mother-in-law, my oldest son-in-law and I have in common? We were all born on March 14th!
YAY For Us!!!
I don't usually like to celebrate my birthday, but this year I am. Something about getting a year past 66 makes me realize I may not have many more opportunities to celebrate! Unless I take after my mother-in-law...she's 91 today and seems to be going strong.
Do you think people who have the same birthday are alike? I do.
My sister was born on Walt Disney's birthday and works at her dream job...at Disney World in Florida. She and her husband moved from Texas to Orlando about 5 years ago, in their late 40's, just so she could be near Disney World. A couple of years ago, she decided to go to work for Disney and, even now, she still goes to the magical kingdom to play on her days off!
My middle daughter was born on Mother Teresa's birthday. And yes, she puts other people first and gives and gives...sometimes too much.
The three of us born today on Einstein's birthday are not geniuses by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say we are all three in our heads most of the time. Think and rethink...again, sometimes too much.
So, Happy Birthday To Einstein And Us! And to you too if you share our birthday today. And as Walt would say...Have A Magical Day.
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Today, March 1, 2017, was a celebration for my in-laws Jessie and Raymond. They were married 70 years ago today in Dallas, Texas.
On their wedding day, they danced at one of the Dallas nightclubs to one of the big bands of that era. No doubt Raymond insisted on "Jitterbugging" even though they were dressed in their best clothes for the special occasion. Raymond loved to dance back then, in fact it was at a dance that he met Jessie just 11 months before they were married.
Raymond claims he knew the night they met that he would marry Jessie. He says he went home that night with a picture of Jessie and told his father "...this will be my wife!"
In 1997, the couple celebrated 50 years together by renewing their vows. They were younger back then and still had lots of family to celebrate with on Jessie's side of the family. Jessie comes from a family of 12 children...10 girls and 2 boys. Jessie and Raymond had hoped to have many children themselves, but they were blessed with only one child, Wild Bill, who was born on his father's 24th birthday.
After being friends since 1992, Wild Bill and I started dating in 1995 and we got married in 1997, the same year Jessie and Raymond celebrated their 50th anniversary. By sheer coincidence, I was born on his mother's 24th birthday! You might say we are them 24 years later.
Channel 12, the local news channel, sent out a reporter to video tape an interview with the couple. Jessie, at a younger 91, was pleased as punch to reminesce with the reporter and to have a video made while discussing her hints to maintaining a 70 year marriage.
On the other hand, Raymond...a little older at 93...was in a celebratory mood, but not in a mood to answer questions nor get his picture taken. He clamped up like an oyster shell when the reporter tried to interview him, one of the few times I've ever seen him unwilling to talk or smile!
While Jessie wasn't looking, he did swipe a beer out of their apartment's refrigerator on his way to the party room at the Senior Retirement Community where they live. He said he was not going to drink punch since it was a day of celebration!
The poor reporter had to go back and interview Jessie a second time when Raymond steadfastly refused to be interviewed.
The interview appeared on the local channel's 10 O'Clock News tonight. It was a lot longer interview than I was expecting. And there was Pop drinking his beer right on camera, but at least they did catch him smiling. I thought to myself... Jessie is going to kill him!
Oh well, I'm sure it wasn't the first time in all those 70 years that he misbehaved and had to ask for his wife's forgiveness.
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