Having a ghooooooulishly fun evening.....

Hope you are all enjoying a safe and

happy Halloween!  Mr. Biff and I have

really been digging an evening that is

"unpacking-free"!

Waiting on the Mail......

Well there's one thing I have learned for sure

 "snail-mail" is called that for a reason! 

 Sherry for Decorating with Cents finally rec'd

her necklace from my giveaway here

 (seems like eons ago!)

To add to the slow mail dilemma - I had packed

the original necklace and couldn't find it!

(Still don't know which box it is in).

Thankfully Sherry was happy to take

this one in it's place!

Thanks Sherry for sharing your win: 

check Sherry's blog Decorating with Cents out here:

Decorating with CENTS: I Won a Necklace Set!

 I am linking up to Rebecca's Meet Me Monday #9

here.  Please join me for the fun of meeting each other

and discovering some new bloggy friends!

Looks Like We Made It......

Whahoo......we made it!  We are "officially"

moved into the new digs!

The movers came and went today with

seemingly little effort (maybe because Mr.

Biff and I have been hauling stuff back

and forth for 2 weeks already!)

Here's a great shot of three ferries going

between Vancouver Island and the mainland.

Mr. Biff took this on one of our lunch breaks!

Anyway - now the FUN begins!  I get

to refinish all my great old new pieces and

have some home decorating fun!

Mr. Biff pulled together this awesome

meal as a first supper....notice the classy

tea-towel placemats (can't find the real

ones!) and the classy soup pot salad

bowl......

Glad to be back and hope you will

follow along with us as we do up this

great rental home on a tiny budget keeping

in mind that everything has to

be made "to go".....

Blessings,

Temporary Time-Out To Move....

I might be a little lax on the blogging for

the next 10 days or so as we prepare for our

move.....it's SO fun once it's done but man

oh man - it's a LOT of work.  This little clipart

reminded me of Mr. Biff driving our little red

truck back and forth to the new house this

past week.  Bless his heart he's a good man!

We are drowning in boxes at our old

house and trying to get it ready for the

landlord to show to potential new renters.

It's a delicate balance moving between

rental homes - out on the 31st and in on

the 1st - I've never figured out what you are

supposed to do overnight...LOL.   Thank

goodness we had the foresight to "double"

rent for a couple of weeks....makes things

much easier if you can swing it.

And then there's the pooches....worried because

everything is getting packed (again!)

Don't worry girls - you will be coming with us!

Some would say this is the prime time to purge but

honestly - I am just keeping my head above water

with packing and moving most of the

little stuff ourselves.

Then there's the "real" moving day when the

truck with the nice strong men comes!

Yeah!

And then.....

WE SLEEP!!!!

So don't lose sight of me while we are moving

I will try to check in with mini-posts!

Be good!  Be blessed!

all photos  & clipart from Google Images

One Lonely Blue Jar.....

One is the loneliest number that

you'll ever do (Thank you Three

Dog Night!)

It's true....I am blue....but oh so crazy

excited!  I got my very first Blue Ball Jar.
Now does that make me some kind of

graduate blogger?  I have searched and

searched my little island world over to try and

find the lovely blue-ness of the blue ball jar

but alas to no avail.

When I stumbled on this one little jar in the

bottom of a miscellaneous box of canning jars

at the local recycling depot today I nearly

peed my pants  - I was THAT

excited - I even did my dance of joy!

The lady who does the pricing thought I

had lost it.  She had trouble relating to my

obvious joy at finding the jar and then, if

you can believe it she said

(NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, tell me it's not so)

"Someone brought in a whole case of those

last week"....whaaaa.....?????

So for now I am left with one lonely blue

jar but suddenly I feel so grown up and somehow

part of a somewhat exclusive club......

A girl can dream.....

What to do with the one jar.......?

Maybe something like this!

Hope you're having a great weekend

and remember....



Moving on up.....

Well, we finally decided that it was time to

move on up to a bigger place.  I am so excited

to move (well not the packing/moving/unpacking

part)!  I have collected, over the past few months

several key pieces of furniture that were just

begging for the right place to live.

Now they will get their chance to be reborn,

repurposed, repainted, reupholstered or just

generally re-done!  Can't wait!

If you will bear with me while we get

through the necessity of moving - the

"other side" promises to be an ongoing

smorgasbord of furniture and decorating

delights.  Here are just a few of the pieces

we (Mr. Biff has to take some credit here)

have collected to work on:

Mr. Biff picked up this beauty today - a

pedestal table has been on my "most wanted"

list for a long time - this one has a leaf as well.

You will never guess how much it cost.....

nothin', nadda, zero, zippo, zilcharooni!!!

Can't you see it with a walnut top and distressed feet?

 Hutch - to be reborn in white

 Fireplace (mantel only) to be shabbied up....

 Headboard for spare bedroom - picture me minty

green and distressed....

Mr. Biff's (working) stereo cabinet - white maybe? 

These two little beauties will be a lovely blue in

their new lives....

Soooooooo much more to show and tell - such

fun - I can't wait!!  I started my Pinterest boards

to gather ideas......now let's get movin'!!

Linking to:

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

and I would like to take this opportunity to say

a HUGE thank you to everyone who walked

and/or ran today in Canada's

 CIBC Run for the Cure!

The statistics for breast cancer are such that

it is near impossible not to know someone

(or many) who have been affected.

  

My dear friend LM and her son walked

today in the rain.....

R with his Pink Ribbon Tattoo 

As a survivor I can tell you there's no

better gift than to be in someone's thoughts

and prayers!  I don't talk about it a lot but am

happy to share my story if it helps anyone at

any time to lighten their worries.  I am one of

the fortunate ones.  My dear sister Jewel was not

so lucky and succumbed at the young age of 43

to this nasty disease. 

Julie & I when we were young.....

It changed my life when she died and needless

to say affected me even further when I fought

my own fight. 

What I learned.....

Take nothing for granted, don't

be held hostage by your past and never,

ever postpone joy!

With love and a glad heart.....

Think Pink!

The Lazy Blogger.......

It would seem that I may have become a lazy

blogger.....oh, it's not that I don't have a lot to say

I always do!  However, I have not been in the mood

to write this week for some reason. *sigh*

 Mr. Biff and I are getting

ready to move and while that's very

 exciting - it's also a little daunting!

We are moving to a lovely house in the same

town we currently live in.  It's much newer

 and much larger!  Yeah!

I will share some pictures in the next few days of

the new place.

In the meantime - we (Mr. Biff and I) had a great

day out today - down Island.  Picked up some

fun things....here's just a small sample:

Aren't those bookends fun?  and is it just me or

does everything look better in turquoise?!

I hope you had as much fun today as we did!

p.s. the agate necklace giveaway (on my last post)

was won by "Decorating with Cents".....congrats!~