Round one of the Good Mood Blogging Gig is over and guess who didn't make it?Thank goodness. Now I can go back to my usual bad mood. Kidding.In my own defense I keep telling myself I started a week behind the competition in accumulating votes so I was at a disadvantage to begin with.That's the story I'm sticking to anyway.Thank you everyone for faithfully voting for me and allowing me to obnoxiously plaster my blog and Facebook account with requests for votes. You can bet I'll be applying again

Today is the final day to vote. Please take a quick second and go here.

Whoever said #1 never wins? Congratulations Jill and Davis on winning "Green Interior Design" by Lori Dennis! And if you're not tired of seeing my face plastered all over my blog yet...here I am again. Reminding you to please vote. Wednesday is the last day to vote so we're in the home stretch.I'm just 6 places away from making it to the final! Vote here everyday! Thank you!

A big thanks to all you supporters out there dilligently voting for me in the Nature Made Blogger job quest. The good news is I'm just 6 places away from making it in to the finals! I'm so close! This Wednesday will be the last day to vote so please keep voting each day until then here.

We got ourselves all cleaned up (quite a miracle) last weekend for our annual family pictures with our favorite photog, Michelle Rasmussen. Here's a little sneak peek.Go here to see more. Don't forget to vote for me here. I still need LOTS of votes!

My $15.00 garage sale chair is back from the upholsterer and I couldn't be more pleased. If you've been following the tale of two chairs you'll remember that I orginally found the first chair at an antique shop that I had re-upholstered in this white vinyl and black piping. Then a few years later I found the identical chair shown here at a garage sale.I had this great idea to use them at the heads of our new dining table but the curvy legs of the chairs were a hair too wide for the table. RATS!