I know…for some of you, it’s not May Day anymore, but just pretend.  Technically, I’m just squeaking in under the wire here.  Did you all have a good weekend?  And watch THE wedding?  {Swooooon}  Start the weekend with a gorgeous, fabulous wedding and end it with the pretty flowers of May Day — what a way to uplift ye old gloomy end-of-winter spirits, huh?

In between those two happy events, we drove a few hours for our last counter top viewing.  I deemed it would be the last time we looked at stone — a decision would be made, one way or other.  My number one choice would be a gorgeous creamy limestone, but it’s an unknown, so I chickened out and went with the safer choice of granite.  Truth be told, as long as it’s not ugly green tile, I’ll be happy.  The stone place we visited was amazing — they had an unbelieveable selection of marbles, travertines, granites, you name it if it’s a rock.  There were even samples with fossils in them just to remind us what we’re dealing with here.  Here’s a picture of one such example — it was so pretty — I wish you could see it in person.  Needless to say, at ~$35k, is won’t be coming home with us!

So, back to nice, happy thoughts. Stacy Julian shared this video on civility on her blog today and I thought it worth repeating.

Have a great week and let the market countdown begin:  5 more sleeps for me!

XOXO,
Anna

P.S. Here’s a little tip: Don’t name a blog post Dirty Little Secrets. It was innocent enough, but I should have known LOL!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We had a nice, quiet Easter dinner with the family, minus the boys and SweetiePie who couldn’t make it home.  Boohoo. MyDadLovesMeBestSister outdid herself again as hostess and everything was wonderful.  MeMum made a delicious ham and a corn casserole.  MDLMBS made scalloped potatoes, carrot puff, broccoli salad, fruit salad and a carrot salad.  Yum, Yum.

I made dinner rolls (which I love, but here’s a tip — don’t try to transport them just before they’re set to go into the oven — they’ll fall!) and  Ms. Humble’s Lemon Marscapone Cream Cake.  The cake was super fun to make —  time consuming, but not nearly as intimidating as it sounds and it was pretty tasty. It’s definitely a European style cake though — not a fluffy American style cake.  I would make it again, but, TheManoftheHouse is an American style cake guy, so I don’t think he was as excited about it as moi.

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m getting really excited about market.  A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon the Sarah Jane Studios blog and she mentioned that she has a new line of fabric that will debut at market.  Her illustrations are just gorgeous, so I’m super excited to see the fabric.  If it’s anything like her art, I’m thinking it will be The Pips on steroids!!!

And one last thing, you’re familiar with Despair.com, aren’t you?  Here in ThimbleannaLand, we’ve loved their funny posters for years (probably 15?) — the procrastination poster is our all-time family favorite.  Anyway, here’s a knockoff poster for all of my friends who have recently suffered with the Verizon (or whatever they’re calling themselves now) shenanigans (Warning:  If bad words offend you, Look Away!)

Ok boys and girls — off to bed!

XOXO,
Anna

Edited to add:  Oops!  I should note that the Verizon complaints were from home Verizon users who had their rates raised unexpectedly.  We have Verizon Wireless and love them!

One.

Poor, Poor Blog.  She’s been so neglected.  It’s been all play and goofing off around here this week, so there hasn’t been much to write about.  Last year, my good buddy Jewels told me that her kitchen re-do took all summer.  I just laughed and thought no way.  Boy, was I out to lunch.  It’s going to take me that long just to make the decisions.  Our kitchen work started today and now we have a hole in the ceiling.  Our range was never vented to the outside, and since we were going to change a few things, we thought we might as well do the venting.  If everything goes this well, it’s going to be a great experience.  The workmen were awesome.  They ran a vent through the kitchen ceiling, floor joists, the linen closet on the second floor, the attic, and the roof.  All in just 4 short hours.  I’m pretty darn sure, nothing else will happen that quickly!

Two.

During the few evenings  that I was home this week, I got a good start on my UFO applique borders.  Sadly, I thought all of the pieces were already prepped, but, I was about 70 leaves short.

Three.

Quilt market is almost here and I’m so excited I can’t stand it.  I can’t wait to see the Gulls again and show them some of the fantastic things that Utah has to offer!  I’m thinking I might cancel the hotel reservations and we’ll camp out in the mountains, coming down just for market.  That’ll show us what they’re made of, won’t it?  Haha — not really, but wouldn’t that be fun!  Besides, what’s a little mountain lion or bear when you’re used to deadly snakes and alligators?  Anyway, I leave just two weeks from today so that I can spend a day or two with family before market week — Yipee!

Four.

Our local Borders is closing — Boo.  I was in there the other day and managed to pick up Where Women Cook at half price.  I’ve always been interested in the Where Women Do Anything magazines, but this is as close as I’ll get to owning one.  They’re nice magazines, but at fifteen bucks, they’re just too frippin’ salty for me.

Five.

It’s been raining all week here.  Here’s proof — I snuck a picture of these hard-core golfers.  You can’t really tell, but it was raining pretty hard.

Ok. Wait.  I’m sneaking in Six for Friday since it’s almost Easter.  Via Pinterest (I’m officially addicted) I saw pictures of Peep S’mores.  A Must Try.  I think when we have our family Easter Dinner on Sunday, I’ll pin all those skinny people in MyDadLovesMeBestSister’s family to the floor and force them to have a Peep S’more.  Put a little fat on their bones.

Ok, that’s it — I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  And since I probably won’t make it back here by Sunday, have a Very Happy Easter — May you find all of your eggs!

XOXO,
Anna