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Showing posts with label Wisconsin. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Cow teats, a coffee cup collection, the Texas dog rabbit & wooden flowers.

I brought my hubby and kids gifts back from my Wisconsin trip. My husband is a huge coffee drinker, so I always buy him coffee mugs wherever I go. Here's the one I got him this time...

Who can resist a hot, steamin' mug of cow teats? hehe He hasn't used it yet...I'm putting it by his coffee maker tonight, so he'll have no excuse in the morning.

This next cup is one the boys and I picked out for him when we went to Washington D.C. last year to visit the treasury (or whatever that place is called that makes all our money). We wanted him to know we think he's worth a million bucks (or 100,000 bucks, whatever).


This is a cup we gave him for Father's Day one year. I took a picture of the boys goofing around on the trampoline. This was a few years ago. I uploaded the picture to Shutterfly and had it made into a coffee cup. I love Shutterfly.


Another Father's Day gift to show hubby we think he's incredible. This was one of our favorite family movies ever!

No need to adjust your monitors or tilt your heads...the cup is kind of diagonal...on purpose.

When I got back from my Wisconsin trip (I know, you're getting sick of hearing about it, but I'm having so much fun typing the word "Wisconsin" because before now I'd never used that word), my boys had gone to a Home Depot Kids' Workshop and made me a "Welcome Home" early Mother's Day gift! I LOVE them!! I put one box by my computer and one on my bathroom counter.



These kids' workshops at the Home Depot are held the first Saturday of every month from 9am to noon at your local stores. It's completely free and they help your kids build the project of the month. My boys have made some awesome stuff...a race car, a pirate ship, an art caddy, and it looks like next month's is a catamaran. The above one that they just completed is a flower pencil holder (and I LOVE it!).


Finally, we made a little excursion to Target today, and it's bad enough I have to limit the spending on myself and two children, I also now have end up buying something for the dog.

We got Sweet Annie a rabbit. And, boy does she love to chew on it. I'm betting $50 it won't last the next 24 hours, and I'm going to find rabbit stuffing all over the house. Don't worry, I'll take pictures.





Writing in Wisconsin

So, as some of you know, I spent the weekend in Wisconsin, a state I had never before visited. I went to a writer retreat in Baraboo, WI. The retreat was put on by All Writers Studio, a fabulous resource for writers who want to take online writing classes (or if you live in Wisconsin, a real live class). I've been taking online classes through them for a year now and decided to try out the retreat. It was great!!!

I actually took very few pictures...mainly only of the drive from Madison to Baraboo (where the retreat was in the middle of nowhere). There are lots of fams, barns and tractors along this drive.









and they're really into cheese...



So, I listened to some great lectures, completed lots of fun creativity exercises, spent all day Saturday WRITING, got to workshop 10 stories and met a nice group of writers from all over!

I'm a pretty shy person, so this was out of my comfort zone...going somewhere I'd never been, all by myself, to meet and stay with lots of people I'd never met, and I had a great time.

I've come up with a fun new idea for a novel and have started it, so the retreat was definitely inspiring.
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