Baubles & Blessings

A tray of mirror-ball baubles graces our dining room table.

More baubles and such good gawd adorns the corner table.

Got some golden spirals too.

(All loot for 25 cents on the dollar at Michael’s.  Love those after-Christmas sales!)

And what’s all that glitz for?

Why, for the 30 centerpieces for the concert / gala school fundraiser.

This weekend I decorated 12 of the 30 pots.

Jim calls the centerpiece bases “lovely.”

Kelly calls them “weird.”

I call them “Freaking Done!!”

And I think they’re kinda cute, (if I do humbly say so.)

The 8″ flower pots I scored from garden center recycling bins, whooo-hooo.

Then stapled brown satin and stuff on them.

The general artistic plan is to stand a tree branch and several golden spirals in each pot, held in place with stones.

(Branches and stones FREE from nature!)

Then hang varied whimsy in the glittered-up be-sequinned branches.

And see what happens.

With tealights in votive holders on the tables, I think the whole effect will be quite adequate.

Tomorrow I’m heading out to the wild with my branch loppers!  Wish me luck.

Friends are coming over Saturday for bauble hanging.  TG for the posse!

A tray of mirror-ball baubles graces our dining room table.

18 more bases await my loving creation.

And all is well.

Posted with love by a blogger who is about to hit the hay.
xoxoxoxo

P.S.  If YOU have any suggestions for this first-time centerpiece creator, now’s your time to let loose!

THANKS!!

Kit-Kat, Then & Now — in 55 words

Well this is highly suspicious.
She never feeds me outside.
Is this even REAL food?

Yep. It’s Friskies!

Wait, I bet she’s got me in natural lighting
so her iPhone will take a good shot of me
with the SAME cup from when I was
7 weeks old — almost 4 years ago!

Well, ain’t that sweet!?
And ain’t I (still) cute!?

A Friday Flash Fiction 55 posted on Friday at 5:55 pm (12 hours later than I originally planned to) for Our G-Man.

Whoooo-hooooo!

With love, Jannie

xoxoxo

Your Deepest Desire

When you were four your deepest desire was a kitten.

Boy, did you want that little kitty above! Remember!?  But he belonged to someone else.

Wasn’t it great when you got Kit-Kat the next year!? 

He’s still an awesome cat! He and you growed real good.

Then your deepest desire became a baby sister, which didn’t happen. Sorry.

(Supermarket check-out baby you wanted! Her mom wasn’t quite ready to give her away.)

I hope you’ll have bunches and bunches of kids of your own some day.

Being Grannie Jannie will be a great gig, I’m sure. The best.

NOW… your deepest desire is to be an actress. 

And I say “Why not?! ”

Why the heck not, Kelly?  Go for it.  Your dad and I will be there with you every step of the way.

(She made that little commercial up on the spot herself.)

(The clip is one I think we could use as part of an audtion tape to be submitted before an agent will even consider looking at her.)

What do y’all think of this child acting business?

Any advice for a possible future “stage mom?”

xoxoxo

Just A Little Song I Wrote About Sailing

What a GREAT day so far! I took The Child to school, then came home to totally clean off the back deck, do ALL my dishes, fold a WHOLE load of laundry, continue organizing books, and record this song for YOU.  And I did it ALL sans makeup!

EDIT…..  PLEASE FORGIVE…

Upon further listening, I really want to improve the vocal for this song, so I took down the Youtube. 

Will re-record again and re-post video one day.

Thanks for understanding.

The lyrics…

Verse1.
sail a child like a ship out on the sea
anchor her with love, then set her free
hear the splashing of the spray
as she goes laughing on her way
sail a child to sea.

Verse 2.
sail a child and your heart around the world
tiny, shiny angel dancing girl
stand upon the windy shore
where so many have stood before
sail her ’round the world

Bridge:
can it really be that little speck out on the sea is your daughter?
you knew there’d come a day when she would sail away but it seems too soon
oh, your little baby on the water
pulled away by love and tides and moons

Verse 3.
sail a child wherever she will dream
far away on waves of blue and green
trust the stars to lead her way
and sail her safely home one day
sail a child who dreams

sail a child like a ship out on the sea…
sail a child and your heart around the world…
sail a child wherever she may dream…

sail a child away
sail a child away
sail a child away

Now, I suppose I’ll go wash my face and get ready for my Hobby Lobby run. Put on a little makeup.

Are you wearing makeup today?
Do you wear it regularly?

xoxoxoxox

My Alexa Rank — a poem in 55 words

Why should I care my Alexa Rank’s

been slipping upwards for months?

What does a silly number matter,

when my trees are more singing than ever

my child more laughing

my husband more snuggly

you all much dearer

and the oceans more and more

dancing with the promise

of every sweet day yet to come?

Hey, that was a Friday Flash Fiction 55 for our G-Man.

 
The lowest Alexa Rank I’ve ever attained was about 150,000! 

Yes, FUNSTERLAND was the 150,000th most popular website IN THE WORLD about 3 months ago!!!!!

Then I started putting more time and energy into songwriting than blogging.

Now, I rank… but I don’t really give a flying fiddler’s flute about the number!

Posted with love and ocean-ment,

Jannie
xoxoox