Showing posts with label Paddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paddy. Show all posts

Sunday, February 27

ME Monday

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It's been a busy weekend with the Birthday Celebration continuing all weekend long. I actually received a few Mary Engelbreit gifts from my dear friend Christina that I'm sharing this week.
A rubber stamp that says it all!

A Christmas tin to add to my collection
Enlarge image to read easier
 Audrey, one of my customers, peeps, and new friends reminded me this weekend about this wonderful poem from Mary's book The Blessings of Friendship.  If you follow my blog you've often heard me speak of my sweet neighbor Paddy.  This so describes how I feel about our friendship and I wanted to share it today with everyone. I hope each of you has a neighbor who you can share this with.
 
Sorry about the glare :-(

Did you see the Mary Engelbreit Giveaway that Geralyn from Greeting from Geralyn linked to ME Monday last week? You have until March 7 to pop over to her blog to enter  her generous giveaway celebrating her 300th Blog post. 

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Sunday, September 5

IKEA is not for MEa on ME Monday...

It's a Rollover Picture
Ugh! Don't even ask me how many hours I spent trying to figure out this After and Before Rollover code! I even had instructions...sigh.

For a long time now, I have grown weary of looking at the mess in my backroom where I design my jewelry. Last weekend I got this brilliant idea to see what kind of furniture I could find at IKEA that would give me workspace and storage space. I wanted to move everything to my unused office room so that I can close the door and people who visit me would not see all the bead hoarding I have done. 
Well last Monday by sweet neighbor, Paddy, who is always up for an adventure, made the trip with me over to IKEA. We had been once before when they first opened, well over a year ago, but not since then. I saw what I wanted online but we decided to walk the store just for the exercise.  Little did I know that I was expected to pull my own boxes off of the shelf, load them on a cart, and wheel them up to the cash register. After paying for them we had to load them into the car by our self.  Yikes! I wonder if they have lawsuits out the kazoo from people hurting themselves trying to rustle up the boxes off of the shelves in their warehouse. I had to ask a very nice woman shopper passing by me if she would mind holding my cart while I maneuvered the second huge box on to it. THEN the gal at the cash register had the nerve to act annoyed when she could not scan the price code because I hadn't loaded the 1000 lb. box in the right direction! Paddy smiled at me while I "politely" shared my opinion with the cashier on "allowing" customers to fetch their own boxes.
I have assembled massive amounts of furniture in my lifetime but I can't say I've done any in the last three years. This was far too much work for me. What a pain it was trying to shove all those little dowels in the holes and then try to get the other holes to line up. That's when I decided...no more IKEA for Me.
I'm very happy with how things are progressing and I still have more to organize but I thought I would share what I have accomplished here on Mary Engelbreit Monday since my office/workspace is filled with ME stuff.
A  few more Before pictures....
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More Afters........



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