zing? haven't even had a ping!!

Yep ,, you read that right.. life has not been too full of zings lately. More like, a plop here and there.. it's called having a cold and sleeping a lot.. so hopefully I will be back zinging things soon!!

I wanted to find something fun to take a picture of and add to this post.... so I was looking around my art studio and realized that I no longer have my favorite thing around.. in fact I dont have a clue as to where it is! A long time a go my daughter came home with a small bouquet of button flowers she had made... I think she was in high school ! I have loved those flowers ever since and I must have packed them as we thought we would be moving .. then we decided to stay and I totally redid my art area and somewhere along the line I have lost track of those flowers.. I know they have to be somewhere ,,, the question is.... WHERE??? I am so sad ):... so when it warms up I will have to go on a search for them out in the storage house. In the meantime I will have to put up with the tiny button flowers I made from buttons I got from the thrift shop this week... but they have none of the special zing that my other bouquet has.... rats..and thus ends my post on taking a picture of something fun! P.S. I will get better at taking pictures... I have a plan!

Just had to show you the rose that my husband came home with for valentines day. He is one of those men who remembers to bring home flowers every once in a while and he loves to find something a little different. Isn't this a beautiful rose?

THIS IS THE TALE OF TWO BOXES. Yes, this is a box. They are both made from the same pattern. I just changed colors and trims.

We actually went back to Winterset ,Iowa and finished checking out all the stores and had lunch at a real old-fashioned lunch counter in a drug store. Then on to DesMoines .. We missed a few things.. so I guess we will just have to go back sometime. But for now we have had a little adventure. Who knows another one might be just around the corner.

Here is a stop in Kansas City. We found the famous Curious Sofa store and really enjoyed it. We found lots of other stuff too ,,, in fact a store called 'Stuff' !! However anyone who knows us knows we move fast, by 3pm we were ready for another adventure. We had seen all of Kansas City!!( not really but it was time for us to move on.) So we did!!

Our first real stop was at Madison Co in Iowa... neither one of us knew much about the book or movie.. in fact I am not sure we have even seen the movie!.. but it was so much fun to find the bridges ,, climb out of a really warm car and take pictures out in really cold weather of some incrediable 'buildings' . We also had a lot of fun talking to the ladies at the county information center. We still didnt have a map . We just saw a small sign and decided to turn off the freeway and see what we could see.

here she is!! the first stop on any trip must be the bank for money and the coffee shop. And that is just what we did! At this point she didnt have a clue as to where we were going! However it doesnt take much figuring out when you turn south on 35 and you know its going to be a 6 hour ride. She figured it out . Kansas City here we come. It is important to celebrate life and that is exactly what we were doing. A Birthday was coming up and this was the best way to celebrate it.. The funniest part was I didn't even have a map with!.. We got to the middle of Iowa and I really wanted to know how much farther it was... We stopped at an Iowa information center and was very glad they also had a Missouri map!!!

Your life is not complete till you hear your husband singing and playing guitar downstairs as you are working at your desk.. and the best part is the song he is singing!! Have you ever heard the song " I 'm my own grandpa?' . For the French gang it brings back many memories. And now I am hearing " Sweet Violets"! another one of those memory songs. I ran down and asked why he was playing and singing... ( it had been a long while since he had pulled out the guitar) his answer was ... it was sitting there!!.. I had moved it 6 inches earlier in the day!!! maybe that is all it takes. Move something in your life and bring about a whole new change!!!!.

I have had so much fun this week creating something new. I call them my Egg Huggs... have you hugged your egg today??? I have 6 designs... lamb, chick, duck,pig, bunny, and elephant... And now I am on to another project... Really cool boxes for easter~!!! Seems I love to cut paper!! ... Oh that reminds me I am now really and truly published.. I have one of my projects published in a book that is put out by Bluegrass Publishing.. Its the Diva book. It is such a nice feeling to see something in print... Look for the Egg Huggs coming soon to a computer store near you!! More later.