Rambling on in Round Top

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I did not get a chance to update my Round Top experience on Monday. This was a busy week at work.

Unfortunately, I did not find anything that caught my eye this time or maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. I did see a cool mirror for Samantha's room, but I decided not to go back for it. It was an vintage shutter. The top portion of the shutter was taken out and a mirror was put in its place. Since we recently have remodeled Samantha's room I thought it would be a cute in her room. I will be on the look out for an old shutter to refurbish now.

I did take lots of pictures though. Check out the slideshow above. I love how all the vendors get into a Fall mode and decorate with Fall items.

Oh the anticipation!

Tomorrow (10/4) I will trek down to Round Top for my junk finding mission. What am I looking for. Heck I don't know! I just love going and finding some kind of vintage article or item that I have no idea what I am going to do with it, I just know I need it. I have posted just some of the off the wall, but fun things you can find in Round Top

Actually, there are two rooms in the house I have not touched yet. Our study, which is a hodge podge of everything right now and our game room. I have decided to add a vintage look to our study and I would like to make our game room more of a media room. I hope to find some vitange movie reels. Of course, I have to pay a visit to my favorite vintage wear store - Junk Gypsy. They also have a blog site, which is featured in my favorites. They have some really neat jewelry, little on the high side, but it gives me great ideas. And last but not least I need to find some ephemera collective items to add to my scrapbooks.

I will report my success on my new found treasure(s) on Monday.

Blog tagger

I got tagged by my friend Misty! You have to answer your top 4 answers in each category and then tag 4 people. I my case I think most of my friends have already been tagged who have a blog, so I will email my other friends personally.

4 things I love about my husband:

1. he loves to clean, so he is a big help around the house

2. he is a great father and husband

3. he loves to be a jokester, maybe even sometimes at my expense

4. he listens to all my gripes

4 movies I would watch more than once:

1. Urban Cowboy

2. Steel Magnolias

3. Forrest Gump

4. Sex in the City

4 TV shows I watch more than once: If your talking repeats, then I don't watch repeats, but if your talking about weekly shows I watch. I have listed them below.

1. Desperate Housewives

2. Brothers and Sisters

3. Dancing with the Stars

4. Lipstick Jungle

4 places I have been:

1. Alaska (Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan)

2. Puerto Rico

3. Florida (Orlando, Madiera Beach, Key West, & Tampa)

4. California (San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Lake Tahoe)

4 people who e-mail me regularly

1. my boss

2. Holli

3. co-workers

4. my scrapping friends

4 favorite foods:

1. Mexican

2. Sushi

3. Frito Pie

4. Chicken and Dumplings, but only my moms

4 places I would like to visit:

1. Hawaii

2. Italy

3. Paris

4. North Eastern states during the Fall season

4 things I am looking forward to this coming year: 2008 first two; 2009 last two

1. Get a raise; hopefully my boss sees this

2. Getting my Christmas shopping started early

3. Plan for our 2009 family vacation

4. Run a 1/2 marathon

4 people I would like to tag:

1. Holli

2. Lisa S.

3. Brenda

4. Amanda

Have fun girls!

Celebrating another year

Most people hate birthdays, especially as you get older. I love them! It's your only day where your 15 minutes of fame is 24 hours of fame, in my case I like to celebrate all month long. I also find it as an excuse to buy something for myself. Hey it's my birthday present to me!

My birthday was last Tuesday (9/23) and my mom's was Sunday (9/28). We combined both birthday's and celebrated Saturday evening. We went to a local restaurant and celebrated hibachi style. The food there is awesome! Samantha and I had our favorite sushi plate the 'Rock and Roll' and then we shared a hibachi plate with Hector. They serve a lot of food, three people can eat out of one plate. The presentation is something to see!

I got some great birthday gifts. Some printing cartridges from some of my scrapping friends, money, a gift card from Best Buy and Hobby Lobby, and a scrap day at one of the local scrapbook stores. I went solo to scrap yesterday (9/28). It wasn't as much fun scrapping by myself, but I got a lot done. I even got a compliment on my friend Amanda's gift that I was working on. I think I am going to even try and become a featured artist...free product, free product!

Until another year comes by - my 24 hours of fame has subsided.

Circle Journal Sneak Peek

A circle journal - What is that you say? Well if you heard of a round robin letter its the same thing, however with a circle journal you pick a theme send it to your scrapping friends to create a themed page around your journal.

This is our third round amongst my scrapping friends and there are usually 8-10 people who play. The first year my theme was music-past, present, and future. The players had to create a song that best described that part of their life or life to come. Last year the theme was a Girl Thang. I asked each of the players to create a page for Samantha and since she is such a girly girl I asked them to glam it up! This year its all about my favorites. What is most important in my life, things I like to do, and things I think I can't live without, but I really can. The first picture represents those things I consider my favorites. The second picture is our sign in page and each girl has to write a little something on their tag. The third picture is a sneak peak into one of my favorite items. For all my non-scrapping friends, next time your over ask to look at one of my books. These girls do an awesome job!

The final picture is from last years round. My friend Kareena her theme was show me your Happy Place. As all of you know I make my yearly trek to Round Top at least once every year, if not twice. Round Top is like a junk collectors heaven and if your not a collector its a great place to people watch. It's also Texas Longhorn country, so why would it not be my happy place. My second happy place the asphalt pounding on my feet. I know a lot of you are probably thinking is she crazy. Her happy place is running. Yes it is! It's my quiet time to myself and my friend the IPod. I do a lot of thinking and its great exercise too!

The Classics Rock

Tuesday evening (9/09) me and my family went to see The Eagles in concert at Toyota Center. Awesome as always! They are such a classic band with great presentation and harmonies.

Glenn Frey opened up by saying that this was the "Assisted Living Tour for the band that never dies." I have to admit that even I felt like a youngster in the crowd of fans and Samantha well her comment was "gosh their sure are a lot of old people here, I think I may be the youngest." Then I had to remind her that Glenn, Don, Timothy, and Joe were as old as her grandparents, so yes it will be an older crowd. Joe Walsh is such an awesome guitarist! I told Samantha wouldn't it be cool to have a grandpa like that who can blare a guitar with such emotion (he really gets into his music).

They opened with songs from their new CD 'Long Road Out of Eden', then came on strong with the classics. When Hotel California was played the crowd went crazy including me. The music takes you back to the time when you first heard it. I was probably about Samantha's age at that time 10-11 yrs old. I remember getting that album for Christmas and playing it over and over again hanging out with my cousins and playing or version of 'Rock Band' with fake mics, guitars, drums, and pianos. Don Henley was my inspiration for wanting to be the first female rock band drummer. The dream never came true, but I'm not dead yet!

So, if you want to enjoy real music pick up a classic and let it take you back to a time when.....

A view through my lens...more challenges

Listed below are my next intepretation of words with pictures.


Challenge #8 Handmade - This is a handmade birdhouse that my uncle made.

Challenge #20 Start - Start of school 2008-2009 year.

Challenge #22 Too Much -Too much money spent on school clothes and supplies.