Finished Projects

I had gotten a sock monkey from my secret Santa at work last Christmas and I had said that whomever got me a sock monkey I would name the monkey after them. I’ve always a wanted sock money. Becca got me the sock monkey and I’ve wanted to embroider her name on a felt heart for the monkey since I got it. Well, yesterday I finally got it done! However, I started losing space when embroidering the name on the heart and had to make the last letters smaller, but I think I was able to balance it out with the little green dots on the side of the heart. What to you think? Now, the sock monkey is officially named Becca.

The other project I finished was to cover a crack I made on a frame. I purchased this adorable Valentine’s Day frame at Target to put a picture of my husband, Belle, and I from the day that Belle graduated from puppy training class. I cracked the corner of the frame as I was removing it off my entertainment system to dust. I was very upset with myself and moved the frame onto my fireplace. It wasn’t that noticeable, but I knew it was there and it bothered me. So, I embroidered Belle’s name and a little pink bone onto a felt heart. I used blue thread for Belle’s name to match the color of the frame. I’m very happy with the cover-up! LOL! And, the embroidered heart goes well with the ones printed on the frame.

I can’t believe I got two small projects done yesterday. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get more done this week!

March’s Book Club Meeting

Like always, this was another fun filled book club meeting. We discussed the book “Delirium” by Lauren Oliver, which we all liked. I actually read it in one week and I consider myself a slow reader. I highly recommend this book. The book is about living in a society without love. Unfortunately, I won’t have a book giveaway for “Delirium” since the girls are gradually switching to electronic devices like the nook or an iPad to read their books. But no worries, I will be having some kind of giveaway this month.

For those who love cupcakes, I know I do, you’ll love April’s book. It’s called, “Crazy about Cupcakes” by Krystina Castella. It’s a cupcake recipe book. We try to spice things up with our books. We have read self help books and this will be our first recipe book. Regina (second on the left) choose this book and said we don’t have to read the whole book just the intro. She’s such a sweetheart that she bought all of us our own cupcake recipe book so we don’t have to buy it. She wants us to pick a recipe from the book, bake a batch, and bring them to April’s book club meeting for everyone to enjoy. There will be cupcake trivia and cupcake judging. I’m so excited! I can’t wait! So, I’ve decided to make my next giveaway cupcake themed! I just don’t know exactly what yet.

The conclude this post, I will like to announced March’s book giveaway winner…

Congratulations Rocio! I will be emailing you to get your address to ship your book “Outside Valentine” by Liza Ward. I hope you enjoy reading it!

Gambling with Grammy

I just got home from Harrah’s Rincon Casino in San Diego, CA with a happy wallet! My husband’s grandmother whom we call Grammy invited me. We met the P.S. Tour bus at 7:30 am in front of our local Target and it only cost $10 to go, which I got back as credit for the casino. The bus was filled mostly with seniors. I was the youngest one there but I didn’t mind. During the two-hour drive, they handed out donuts, coffee, and water. We even played black out Bingo for $1. It was $1 per Bingo board and we got to play on it three times. I didn’t win but the lady behind me did. It was so much fun.

We arrived at the casino around 10am and I received my $10 back in credit plus $25 more for signing up. Grammy introduced me to Star Trek slot machine that has become my favorite game! It was a penny game with a maximum bid of 35 cents. I played on that game for over an hour on $20. I left the machine when I had nothing left. The way I saw it, I was winning. I was able to stay busy for over an hour on $20 at a casino.

After playing a few more slot machines, and using up my $35 free casino credit plus $25 of my own, Grammy and I got some lunch. We ate at Pink’s in the casino. Grammy said that it is a very popular hotdog place in Hollywood. I had a Chicago spicy hotdog and shared some onion rings with Grammy. Grammy said I must have been very hungry because I gobbled it up, even though I told her earlier that I wasn’t very hungry and could wait a little longer.

About two hours before meeting our bus at 3pm for departure, I watched Grammy play some slot machines. Then, we headed to the Star Trek game again. I wanted to play on it once more before we left. On about my 5th game, I won $266! Remember everything is in pennies so I had no idea how much I had won because I am the worse person at math. Grammy told me to cash out and I jump of excitement when I realized how much I had won. I gave Grammy a big hug and told her that I was done for the day.

When, I texted my husband to tell him the good news he didn’t believe me. He told me to text him a picture. Oh, on that note, sorry about the cell phone pictures. I didn’t take my camera because Grammy said that I didn’t need it, though I really did, but I had to please. I took pictures with my camera of the pictures I took with my phone.

The whole point of going to the casino with Grammy was to spend some good quality time with her. I’m not big on gambling. I really don’t like gambling my hard earned money faster than I can work for it, especially when there’s no guarantee that I will win. I rather spend it on something I really want. That is why, when I do go gambling on the rare occasion, I have a limit of how much I am going to take.

I’m glad Grammy invited me. How could I not be, I won! Grammy must be my lucky charm. Now, I have money to pay my taxes. Oh, the joy!

That's me at home after an exciting day!

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My Saint Patrick’s Day Evening

I took the rainbow picture last month as I arrived to work after a rainy morning. I was holding on to it because I though today would be a perfect day to share it with you guys.

I had mentioned to my best friend Pam that I wanted to go to a bar for Saint Patrick’s Day and have my first green beer. We decided to go to Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, which is right next door to my work on Saint Patty’s Day. We met at my work at 5pm then walked into a packed Buffalo Wild Wings. Luckily, we were able to find two seats at the end of the bar. We both started with girly drinks, raspberry vodkas. Let me mention that I am not a big drinker and a total lightweight. My goal was to just have one drink, chat, and then head home to my sick husband who was okay if I spent a few hours hanging out with Pam, that due to our busy work schedules we barely hang out. After finishing our drink I wanted to go watch a movie since it was still early but nothing started into later so we decided to stay and have just one more drink. Since, our raspberry vodkas weren’t green I order a Blue Moon beer since I came to have a green beer. Sadly, the bartender didn’t use green food dye in my deer, don’t know why, so no green beer for me on Saint Patty’s Day. Sad face. However, Pam and I had a blast cracking jokes and catching up. We shared an order of ultimate nacho and had a nice non-alcoholic water to recover before we headed home. I didn’t get the green Saint Patrick’s Day beer I wanted but I was lucky to have shared that evening with my best friend.

I hope you guys had a great Saint Patrick’s Day and remembered to wear your green. I did!

Spring Wreath Giveaway

My dear and talent friend, Sarah, is doing a giveaway of a beautiful colorful wreath on her blog, Oh My Deer! I have a mini-me version of it and it's absolutely adorable. So, go to her blog and enter to win. You know you want too!