JK Just kidding recycled vintage decoupage beads necklace

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Just Kidding JK Recycled Vintage Decoupage OOAK Necklace

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I had this very old Hickock tie bar that has the initials JK...and decided to "marry" it today with some old beads that I spray painted and decoupaged with the phrase "Just kidding". I added some vintage buttons an old chain and some new charms. I placed this on a recycled piece of gold tone chain. The necklace is 24" long and the "JK" dangler is 4" tall.
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decoupage,vintage tie bar,vintage buttons,vintage chain,new cloisonne bead,glass bead,spray paint

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My Recycled Tampon Cozy

I don't know if any of you out there experience this......but I often find myself showing my newest creations to my hubby.  I ask "Do you like this?" Or "What do you think?" And I'm not even sure why I ever ask for his opinion on my creations because he always tells me something like "That's nice".
So today I decided to play a little joke on him... and I made this "Tampon cozy" when he was out mowing the lawn.   Then I take it outside and go tell him "Hey babe I  wanted to show you what I just made.....it's a tampon cozy....do you like it?"  So he looks at it and I tell him that I added the cross so that all of my tampons will be blessed and that instead of M&M's I could put Midol or something in the dispenser and I'm trying to decide where I am going to sit it because I don't want to hide it inside of a cabinet...that Tampons can be a very artful thing if you look at them just right.
Poor guy! LOL!  But this time he didn't tell me "That's nice." He shook his head and said something about me being one in a million.  So I have M&M cozy dude sitting on the sink in the bathroom.....I'm gonna leave him there for awhile just for giggles :) And Alibaba be forewarned....I own the copyright on this....don't go trying to mass produce my baby....LOL!

Happy Sunday.......

There is no better way to express yourself than by sharing something you have created.   Happy Sunday . :)

 

I still luv Etsy Artisans...always have always will

Okay...so tonight I changed my blogger profile pic to one from my personal FB page....and the reason I did that is this....
I love handmade....I fell in love with Etsy when I found the site....I have never considered myself to be an Etsy basher...even though I also Love me some good doses of "Regretsy" LOL...we all just have a few questions every now and then....However----in my new blogger profile pic-----   Along with my grand baby sharing LOL! ---I am also wearing one of my most fave hats of my entire all time purchases from (I think) a fabulous Etsian.... LOL! Yahhhh...that's a pretty BIG statement  (considering the fact that I make a lot of purchases from many on-line venues) ......anyhoo...I bought that hat from Runzwithscissors on Etsy..and sorry RUNZ  if I spelled it wrong......
alllllllzzzzzz I'm saying is this....I love hand made....
and even tho I still have my shop on vacay there after a so called "trainwreck re-seller thread" that I started one night................... I can see what the sellers there are feeling....you don't want to bash the sight you are on..it's kind of like giving yourself a very bad hand-job so to speak.....but you don't want to drop to your knees and say "How about some more CHEESE PLEASE????"  Because quite frankly.. I think that is what the sellers are getting doled out there....in small batches be that as it may....but come on.....we all know that it's all about the bottom line $$$$$....when any sight outgrows it's intended intentions...is it time to move on to the hopefully NEXT big thing....or should you play it safe and stick with what you know and love...even though they might be in bed with partners who are all about the BIGGEST $$$$ money honey?
HMMMM...so who exactly is the "Winner winner chicken dinner"... on this one?
Mehhbeezz some could be calling it a "loser loser Ahmmmm just a boozer " situation?    
And Still....aboutzzzzz.... me myself and I...I luv and always will luv all of the amazing Artisans I have met on this site..... I have never considered myself  a loser but almost feel like this.....after I found and keep losing the direction that this sight seems to be going....

Am I indeed a loser for believing and allowing myself to get  "sucked in" in the first place ?  Am I indeed a loser for questioning my loss in that belief later on ? Am I indeed a loser now for posting the recent issues that many shop owners there are dealing with? I know that there are indeed many things I won by finding the Etsy venue...and they will never be taken away from me ....and even though I do not have an open shop there now...I still have to say "Hollah" and best wishes to the true handmade Artisans who are still there just trying to thrive :) Ya'll are winners in my book!
P.S.....my profile pic that I had up means a lot to me....taken on the day of my Momma's funeral and the fact that I smiled that day..kind of gives me inspiration when I view it---- but my new profile pic....means a lot to me as well....support hand made... that is the only thing in question....to support a "collaboration of collectives"??? are you serious you CSI Crackdown CRACKER WHACKERS??? more people were hired on by you to Crack down on the cracksters ??? ARE you serious bischhhhesss??? That takes up too much time and energy on my part to keep searching to see if you are really real or not..come on CSI team...come on..be 1/4th of the McGuyverer's that you acted like you thought you would be or were  in that WSJ post and at least!!!!....get the lead and biocide issues out of the issues first and foremost puh-leeeze....Don't make these and them your most favorite people that you are proud of and say others should emulate and perhaps some day will be able to quit their day job----sorry about the cheeeeez sneeeezzzzeeee :(

I'm A Fat Jealous Loser For Life Classic Come-back :)

I'm sure that at some point in our lives' we have all blown up and said some things that we later regretted....in most cases we end up apologizing and hopefully end up being a better person because we may have learned something from the incident.  In my case a lot of times I often  learn that I don't need anger management....I just need people to stop pissing me off :) .   But that's a different story....................
So I spoke a bit about the Pinterest board that I stumbled into last night where someone had a bit of a blow up.....and to me....their excuse of "I was only joking" doesn't quite float my boat in the sea of sincerity.
When Mariana called Beteena "fat" and later a "loser" 

Ecologica Furniture by Mariana Schechter also commented on Solid Reclaimed T...:
"See if you can capture this one "LOSER""

and Beteena said----- wrong! "I'm a Fat Jealous Loser CF4L"....I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.  That was one of the most classic come-backs I have heard in quite some time :)

About The "Accused" Etsy Reseller Posting What I myself think are some Questionable Comments On Pinterest

So I am spending quite some time on Pinterest these days ...and this pin caught my eye tonight  and sure enough it was from the recent seller Ecolgica Malibu that has been in the spotlight for the past few days first on Regretsy..(thanks again April Winchell for keeping it real)...IMO---sometimes funny sadly real but always always as real as real can be !.....So I go  to this link on Pinterest and this certain said "featured seller" was bumping in and out and commenting and then made what I considered to be a very uncalled for and extremely rude and unprofessional comment for someone who is being looked at so much these days ( I mean I honestly think that if Etsy is going to keep defending her...they might want to consider "kidnapping" her and putting a sock in her mouth until this situation blows over)  but that is just my 2 cents here .....Okay so she she went back later and removed her posts that she made on this link.....however...they were indeed captured  and saved.....once again showing that what you do on the net is not written in pencil but indeed in ink!

Keep in mind that the person mentioned has only one "comment" here that they hadn't  deleted when I went back and "captured" the page...but the Pinterest emails....allowed those involved in this "Pin" to save all of the comments that were later deleted.....

 

Alex Sorensen

Uploaded 2 weeks ago

Solid Reclaimed Teak Sideboard from Ecologica Malibu

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Maggie Krawczyk
This furniture is made from wood coated in lead paint and various biocides (poisons to discourage barnacle growth)

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Maggie Krawczyk
And the big fiasco on Etsy, where Ecologica was first interviewed as a Featured Seller, then was found out as being a reseller... How about when Etsy erased all the comments about your public outing? You know: http://www.regretsy.com/201... What's your quick answer for that?

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Maggie Krawczyk
Actually I hadn't pinned this or any of your items to my boards. It's nice to see just how maturely you handle criticism. It disgusts me that someone who behaves like a silly child made money off an ill gained Featured Seller spot on Etsy. By the way, here are all the comments on your article that Etsy tried to erase: http://neogami.com/baligate...

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Maggie for the WIN!

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Kimiko P.
Baligate lol!! But this whole situation just saddens me. Some people can be so shady. I don't know how she sleeps at night knowing she is a fraud. Tsk tsk.

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Beteena Paradise
You said you have a certificate for lead paint, but what about the extremely toxic biocides which are put in balinese marine paint? Some of them are not even legal to use in the US on boats. Do you have a certificate for that?

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Kimiko P.
The problem here is that Etsy is supposed to be for HANDMADE, Supplies, and vintage ONLY. Unfortunately Ecologica, your items are not handmade and by Etsy supporting you it has caused a complete uproar and people are now protesting Etsy by closing up their shops. It's really sad.

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Kimiko P.
Not handmade by you, I should say.

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Kimiko P.
No Mariana, that is unacceptable. I think that Etsy is making matters worse by silencing the community there. And a lot of people don't like that Etsy is not abiding by their own rules. My honest opinion here, I think you should revise your shop or title and put a disclaimer that the furniture is designed by you, but not made by you. But the choice is yours and I do think that this whole thing has gone WAY too far.

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Beteena Paradise
You have answered about the lead a few times now, but you still have not spoken about the biocides which are put in marine paint to kill algae, barnacles, etc. These are EXTREMELY toxic and there are several sources on the internet that state that the ones used in Bali are so bad that they are not allowed to be used in the US. As you are a parent, I assume you realize that children chew on furniture. So simply touching furniture would not necessarily be the extent of the interaction with the paint. What do you have that states that your furniture, or should I say Kurt's furniture, does not have these hazardous biocides?

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Beteena Paradise
Also, I would like to state that I think death threats and the like are absolutely unacceptable. However, I saw the coffin comment and what it said was a coffin for the death of your integrity, not the death of you.

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Beteena Paradise
I am not making any suggestions about whether or not you work hard. I don't see you so how would I know? But I have repeatedly ask about the biocides in the boat paint and you have refused to answer. That indicates to me that you don't know whether or not your furniture (some of which you recommend for toddlers) contains these hazardous substances. Here is a link to an article from the National Center for Biotechnical Information and US National Library of Medicine which talks about the amount of toxins left in paint chips from boats. If you research those toxins you will see that most are classified as cancer causing agents. I am not sure why you feel you would have to be rude in order to answer whether your chairs have been checked for this. It seems to me it would be a YES or NO answer.

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Beteena Paradise
Here is the link I forgot to put in the above: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

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Beteena Paradise
Here is a link to a book available via google entitled Ecotoxicology of Antifouling Biocides which specifically discusses the toxic levels of the boats and eco systems of Asian waters. While this does not specifically discuss how this would impact humans who are sitting, touching and possibly chewing on the paint, the fact that it has contaminated the waters to such a degree that some of the paints were outlawed 20 years ago, it seems to me that direct contact would be even more toxic. By the way, can you verify that the wood from these boats are less than 20 years old? http://books.google.com/boo...

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Beteena Paradise
By the way, the link you provided only lists the names of companies on the Biocide council. However, it does say that the Environmental Protection Agency has formed a task force to study the long term effects of Biocides on Humans. So I think your link supports the fact that there may be serious health consequences. Why else would they form a task force to look at it?

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Beteena Paradise
You mentioned that you have a certificate to show that your furniture is lead free. Do you have any documentation to support that your furniture is also biocide free?

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Beteena Paradise
And it was specifically tested for biocides? Or was it just tested for lead. I strongly suspect that it wasn't, because if it was you would have given this answer originally. You certainly didn't hesitate to answer about lead poisoning. and it took several questions about the biocide before you said that you couldn't answer without being rude. Now you say that you had it tested. Why not just say that originally if it is the truth? It seems to be a pattern of behavior. You avoid questions and then change your answers to be the "right" ones. In future, you may want to consider just telling the truth from the beginning and then sticking with that even if it becomes inconvenient. Have a wonderful day.

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Beteena for the win!

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Beteena Paradise
Marina, you are a vile person. I guess that is why you lie to Etsy, to your sellers and in this conversation on Pinterest. And, yes, I am about 30 pounds overweight. But guess what... I am working with a trainer to lose wait and I can be thinner. You can't do anything to gain back your integrity or your honesty. And that is what you are teaching your child. So maybe it is YOU that should think about what YOU are instead of making petty comments about someone's weight. Just remember, the internet is FOREVER. Every lie you have told and every page you have been rude is saved somewhere. They will never go away. There will always be a record of the fact that you are a ugly person on the inside. I feel very sorry for you.

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Bateena for the win! Even better that you misspelled her name!

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
I'm amazed she stated she seals over lead paint with varnishes! This crap writes itself!

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spankyluvsvintage
wow! I am truly amazed that someone being "under the microscope" is attacking someone here and judging them about weight :( .....Most people that I know are concerned about truth and honesty and that pretty much outweighs all the other issues I think !

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Spankyluvsvintage for the win!

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Beteena Paradise
I did. It is like I told Mariana... stuff posted on the internet is around FOREVER. And I pasted the comment about my weight on a website which we all know and love. ;-)

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Beteena Paradise
Btw, Mariana, let me explain to you why I am not a Cyber Bully though I do give you credit for googling to find a popular phrase. I asked you a simple question about your products. All you needed to do was answer with a simple yes or no. But instead of doing that, you ignored and then evaded the question. And then later gave the answer. People who are honest do not behave like that. They simply answer the question with the truth. They do not have to wiggle around giving an answer as you did. And had you done that, our conversation would have ended very quickly. And I would like to point out that I let you have the last word TWO days ago. I didn't bother to post again, but you decided to post again to me and insult my appearance. It seems to me that you are the one who has behaved like a bully. And even though you have since deleted it, I have a copy and copies have been posted on the internet to show what kind of a person you are inside.

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Technology is wonderful!

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Beteena Paradise
Trust me. Reading it once was enough. But I knew you would probably delete it the way you deleted your other name calling statement... remember the "Confederation of Dunces?" So now even though you have deleted it, others can read it. Oh and by the way it is CONFEDERACY of Dunces.

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Beteena, I wonder if there will be a C written to you regarding this?

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Beteena Paradise
By her? If so she will probably delete it like she deleted the others. But you know what? There are not enough f--ks in the world for me to give a single one about her. LOL! Have a great weekend, Karie.

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spankyluvsvintage
I am glad it was "captured"...I went to link it to facebook and came back and the comments had already vanished.....

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Lol! Have a great night and weekend! Happy Pinning!

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Ecologica Furniture by Mariana Schechter
Have a great weekend! Peace! BTW I was just joking...

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Beteena Paradise
I did, Mariana. I am up to 8 images of screenshots. Care to make it 9 with more evidence of your lack of maturity and common sense?

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Lol! Screen captured that one! I win! I also love the email notification setting Pinterest has, so regardless of its deletion, I have every email of the posts! CF4L! This is so sad, yet funny, yet sad.

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Beteena Paradise
Told you she would delete it, Karie! LOL Besides she got it wrong. I'm not a LOSER, I'm a FAT JEALOUS LOSER! CF4L!! :D

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Karie Dzenkowski Winchester
Ha! I just want to thank Alex Sorensen for pinning this and for allowing the comments to carry on. FJL4L!

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 The person on this link was actually accusing the other of Cyber bullying :)  and then removed all of their posts????  Hmnnn...things that make you go WOW?!!!!....I am sure that this recent spotlighted  "Etsy featured seller"  is in a place where she is indeed very defensive these days....but you certainly don't make or score points by having the attitude that I witnessed tonight!.... and by the way....
I have never met any of the other posters on this link prior to this eve!

Short Term Steroid Treatments For Fibromyalgia and Arthritis

So I recently finished another short term series of steroid treatments for my fibro and arthritis and in my case it has so far been something that really works well for me.  I know there are pros and cons about steroids but the treatments are one thing that really seem to help.  I also recently had some numbness in my lips and the right side of my face, but once they determined it wasn't anything neurological...I stopped worrying about it ...and this round of steroid treatments also made the "numbness" go away. I have to admit that whenever I get done with the treatments...... I end up looking in the mirror a bit more trying to see if my face is starting to resemble "Sponge Bob Square pants"..... but we simply do what we feel we need to do in order to preserve the best quality of life possible right?  :) Oh well...it's really great to be square.....hee-hee

Ah The Good Ole Days...Remembering Annette and the Mouseketeers...

" M-I-C.....see ya real soon
K-E-Y....Why? Because we like you
M-O-U-S-E"...........Does anyone out there remember singing along to that tune? 
I was born in the 60's....and back then I honestly think that ..the 50's were already being referred to as "The Good Ole Days"......I remember watching the original "Mickey Mouse Club" on a black and white television that had about 3 channels I think.   And Annette Funicello was one of my favorite people on television.  She had such a warm smile and was just so gosh darn cute.   Later on I remember watching the "Beach Party " movies with her and Frankie Avalon.   I have a lot of fond memories of Miss Anette...yes indeedy I do :)


So a few years ago a man walks into the store that I manage and ended up purchasing some furniture and he has on this big ole "Mickey Mouse" watch.....turns out that he is Annette's hubby and he was buying the furniture for their ranch in Shafter, Ca.  And he told me "She's outside...why don't you go and say hi?"   So I knew that Annette has been battling multiple sclerosis for many years....but when I walked outside and the window rolled down....she still had that amazing aura of beauty and that twinkle in her eyes.  I told her something like "I just want to thank you for all of the wonderful memories!"  And I tell ya...they were so nice and down to earth and I was grinning from ear to ear that day,


Then a few months ago,  her hubby Glen came back and purchased a few more items and he was surprised that I recognized him and he told me that I sure had a good memory and I was all "Are you kidding? I adore Miss Annette...how could I not remember you? LOL!"

So my nephew was there at the time and I was telling him "Annette Funicello is outside in that vehicle! " And he of course has no clue who I am talking about....I'm throwing out hints...."The Mouseketeers....Beach Blanket Bingo....Elvis Presley.....the good ole days...etc etc."  And of course he has to end up googling her to find out who I was talking about :)   While he is googling a delivery person shows up who is a bit older than my nephew...and when he walks in the door I was saying "Help me out here!  Do you remember The Mouseketeers ?"  And nope he wasn't any help....he says "I grew up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers"   :)
Ahhhh..the Good Ole Days........these young bucks simply have no idea what they missed out on LOL!

I'm gonna add a little pic of a night stand that I had decoupaged several years ago with some Americana, Good Ole Days...stuff.   I still have the night stand....and guess what?   Right at the top is beautiful Annette Funicello  :).....I simply love older stuff and have it stuck and displayed on just about everything I can think of .............C-Ya Real Soon! ..............................................

Farts and Farting In Public....More Confessions From The Edge

I'm sure many of us have all had that "awkward moment" at least one point in our lives where we simply "trusted that fart waaaaay  too much" :)....
And last Saturday  an encounter with a customer led  me to thinking once again about the difference between many cultures when it comes to farting......and I'm not saying that any view on farting is right or wrong...to each his own right?
So this  gentleman was shopping for a dining table , and as he is talking to me, he cracks out about 4 loud farts in less than 2 minutes.  And he was born in another country and obviously grew up in a culture where farting is not taboo :) . And I was thinking to myself . "Wow the dude can talk and fart and never miss a beat!".  And of course I was quite amused and trying to stifle my giggles.  Then he is debating between a table and chairs that have bi-cast (the new spin on vinyl) seats, and one that had chairs with wooden seats.  He asks me which table do I think is best for him, and I am picturing him and his family sitting around the table....saying something like Hey can you "PFFFFTTTTT" pass me the potatoes?  And I am imagining all of the noise from all of those farts rippling and echoing and rumbling off of those vinyl seats as he and his family are having their Sunday supper.  (I don't know if you ever noticed that farting on vinyl is kind of like farting in the bathtub...it pretty much intensifies the whole process).  So I convince him to buy the set with the wooden seats and I tell him that because he has young children the wooden seats will be much easier to care for and not have to worry about nicks and tears and such.  .......Okay...so I kind of sort of fibbed but he was happy with his purchase...and I felt like I had had some sort of entertainment for the day :)
So in my neck of the woods....you kind of grow from one extreme to the other when it comes to farting.  As a child you somehow go from  all "Whoo hooo! Look everybody I just farted!"  to the point of where you learn not to draw attention to yourself when you are farting and you eventually actually  learn that farting is supposed to be embarrassing.  And as you get older you kind of learn that farting is a pretty good way to gauge a relationship.  The first time you let the other one hear you fart or vice versa is  a pretty good indication that you are feeling more comfortable with one another. When my son was in his "tweens" he and his friends of course went through this stage where it was fun to try and embarrass "mom" out in public.  We'd be standing in a long line of people and he'd suddenly crack out a fart bomb (I'm telling you this kid could somehow fart on command or he knew how to magically store them up for moments like this or something) ..... and I would be all, "Kevin Ray! Say excuse me!"  and he would be all
"What Mom???"   Then I would usually say something to the people next to us like "I'm sorry...we're vegetarians..we eat a lot of beans."  And of course we weren't vegetarians but it seemed to be about the best excuse I could come up with for a kid who thought it was funny to try and embarrass me by sounding like he was crapping his pants every time we stood in line somewhere. :)  And speaking of kids crapping their pants.....a few weeks ago, I had a young Mom in the store looking at bunk beds.  She had a boy who was approximately 4 years old named "Andy" and his sister was a bit older but I don't know her name because "Andy" was the one who kept getting yelled at by his mom. So Andy was running around jumping and climbing and I'm thinking to myself "This is proof that some kids need to be medicated"
Just kidding of course, but that is indeed what I was thinking.   So Andy keeps saying and also singing "Ooops I farted" and "Oops I farted again" and it was almost starting to sound like a Brittany Spears remake....and he keeps laughing and giggling and really cracking himself up...he reminded me of one of those evil "Chuckie" dolls on crack....So while I'm in the middle of telling him "Honey don't climb on that you'll hurt yourself".....he says once more "Hey I farted again" but then he suddenly gets this look of panic on his face and starts screaming "MOM! I have to go to the bathroom right now!!!!!"   
And I have to confess......
I was honestly glad that Andy  pooped his pants while he was in the store because I was tired of telling him to stop jumping on stuff while his mom was busy texting on her cell phone. When she wasn't on her phone she would scream at him, but while she was on her phone she somehow temporarily forgot that she had 2 small children with her.  I see that a lot these days...but that's a different story :)

I solemnly pledge to keep living life on the edge!...............

Spring Bear

I love this Spring bear image :)