The Hostess with the Mostess

So it was time for the annual You're a Doll Banquet at church. We heard a message from Micca Campbell. She is with Proverbs 31 Ministries. We heard some good music. Our very own Diva who hangs out with Sandy Patti helped lead us in worship. And we got to sit at a beautiful table.

Here are a few pics from the evening...

Oh look, it's our Hostess. This is her being all hostessy. I remember the first time I ate dinner at her house. It was a Tupperware party. She served me a full course dinner on china in the formal dining room. For a Tupperware party. If you call and tell me that you're having a Tupperware, jewelry, Southern Living party and you plan to serve me a full meal on china...I will be there and I will be your forever friend. No china, no RSVP. Sorry, I'm spoiled now. When you see the pictures below you will see that it's really not my fault. I blame it on Hostess.



Here is our place setting close up. Love the pink/lime/black combo. Notice I said lime and not green. I'm all up with the Southern Living color talk. They use words like wedgewood(blue), saffron(yellow), mandarin(orange)in their magazine articles. (My favorite part in Steel Magnolias is when Shelby tells everyone the names of her wedding colors. First person to name the colors gets a prize.)



Hostess bought us all a ticket and didn't let us lift a finger. Oh, wait, I take that back...she made us carry our dirty dishes to the truck. Just throw it all in the back of the truck she said. No worries, no stress. I'm not sure but some people might be stressed out by this happy, go lucky, handling of the glassware. I'm just sayin'. Not Hostess. Hostess was still happy. Here we all are with Hostess.

Nicole, Shelley, Hostess, Andrea, CoolShelleyT, Big Nanny, Robyn, Diva


Thank you Hostess for a wonderful evening!

For your viewing pleasure...a few pics of some of the other tables...

This table was done in honor of a lady at our church who was diagnosed with breast cancer this time last year. She's doing great now and her friends did a breast cancer awareness table for her as a surprise. She cried big time. Very sweet.



This table was done by Kyla and Tonya. Love this shade of blue with the black. Very pretty.


This table was done by Chris & Sandy. Love the little stones you did as favors. Love those red chargers. They really add a special touch;)



Thanks AJ for planning a great event for the women of our church. If you're reading this you should turn the computer off and go take a nap.

Even the most resourceful housewife cannot create miracles from a rice less pantry

I looked up that quote on the www. I think it implies that if you have rice in your pantry you can create miracles. I have rice in my pantry. No miracles are happening around here. I came close when I made the Pioneer Woman's Chicken recipe. Easy recipe and it tasted good. But you can't really go wrong when you add two sticks of butter to a recipe. Helpful hint: I think one stick of butter would have been enough. Most of my friends will not try this recipe because they don't eat chicken on the bone. Yes, you heard me correctly...not only do I have friends that don't eat hot dogs, I have friends that don't eat chicken on the bone. I'm not kidding you. Somehow I missed these two very important facts on the getting to know your friends questionnaire and now I'm too emotionally involved and I just have to look the other way when their placing asparagus on my dinner plate.

Anyhoo, back to the pantry...





I placed lunch box snacks in these plastic drawers. Yes, I already had this.


And no I didn't go to Target and buy one of those bag holder things...I made do. I know that idea is gonna have Oprah calling.

The inside of the door is a good place to keep important school papers, permission slips, calendars, etc. Insider tip: teachers and school principals (aka: preschool directors) don't really like it if you don't turn your stuff in on time. I'm just sayin'. Oh and you thought the director "forgot" to place next year's registration in your child's folder.



Looks like I'm out of sugar. Don't worry I have new neighbors.

Messy Monday: April 14

Honestly, I really didn't think I would keep this up, but you keep encouraging the blogging of my mediocre organization projects and I've got plenty to do. You're stopping me in the aisles of the superb Target to let me know that your buying containers to do your own closet and you're stopping me at church to let me know about your current organization projects. I'm very impressed with your participation. So in an effort to give the blog readers what they want I will continue on.

Today's Messy Monday project is...



the pantry.

I'm not going to Target to buy any cute containers. I'll have to make do with what I've got. I'll be back at the end of the day with the after pic.

Please don't write Oprah and tell her that you have found the latest organizing guru. She will call me and want me to be on her show and I'm not drinkin' her Kool-aid anymore. It would be hard for me to tell Oprah that I can't be on her show. I haven't watched her in over a week, but I'm not sure that I want to be tested yet:)

Happy Monday!

Terrific Tuesday

Well, yesterday was a Messy Monday but today was a Terrific Tuesday because this arrived...

















And for those of you who are thinking that I'm being shallow and showing off my new furniture...I am! I've waited almost 19 years to have nice bedroom furniture and I'm showing it off. My sister called me tonight to find out what my new purchase was and she was excited that I got new bedroom furniture. And my sister is the kind of person that only gets excited about her new stuff. Not my new stuff. She's like that. But that's how bad the furniture was. She felt the need to tell me how bad my furniture was tonight. Of course, if you drove by my house today and looked at my front yard then you know what I'm talking about. And if you live in my neighborhood you have probably already called the homeowner's association about me.

Anyhoo, if you're looking for furniture Jones' Homes Furnishings is technically still open this week. They got bought out by a furniture liquidator and will be open for the rest of the week and will have an auction on Saturday. This is what the delivery guys told Lawnmower Man today...I'm not responsible if he did not hear correctly.

I realize this was not a real Messy Monday project. I'll do better next week.
I feel like a grown up now.

Messy Monday

Today is not a regular Messy Monday. I do have a project going on today and it is taking longer than expected. I've moved some furniture out and the killer dust bunnies are a little out of control. Tune in Tuesday night or Wednesday for the big reveal. It involves a local furniture store going out of business:) Sorry, I didn't take a before picture.