Treasures from shopping with Friends ~ and Weigh in Wednesday is back!

Hi friends,

Hope you are all having a wonderful day! It’s beautiful here! The sun is shining and the birds are singing and you can bet when you see all I bought last Saturday you will know just what kind of mood I’m in!

Lets start with my treasures from Primitive Blessings!

A medium sized nest.

A peat pot nest!

(Look at the wall… I spy a kitty paw print in the paint! Bad kitteh! lol!)

  

SO cute! Pam made these. :)

  

A huge nest! Loved this!

 

Wrapped in pretty willow.

And I promptly took it in the kitchen to the bowl I bought it for. Love it!

Bad kitty!!!! No nomming Mommy’s nest!

  

Pretty!

Sniff sniff.

Three little nests that I’m going to put in my year round tree.

Some more faux mercury beads and rice lights for my feather tree.

Eggs and feathers.

7 little nests for my tree and peat pots.

Eggs for my nests in my tree.

     

These three adorable potted herbs!

I bought specifically to go in this from last weeks thrifty Thursday. Cute right?

   

And lastly my free gift from Pam for shopping!

Three cute little nests…

 

And two YUMMY votives!

On to North Shore…

I got this hanging candle holder for my quilt rack.

 

I removed the dresser from the bedroom and hung this up instead. Not sure how I feel about it yet… time will tell. I still need to decorate the shelf.

And this sweet little pear pin keep. :)

I placed it on this shelf in the hall with 2 other pin keeps I have. I am really getting into unique pin keeps.   (and I don’t even sew! HA!)

   

So that’s my hoard from shopping day!

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I’m bringing back Weigh in Wednesday. Some of you will remember I did this last year and you can click to the left to find those posts. But now I’m encouraging my fellow weight watchers gals to join with me. If you don’t want to share your weight… you don’t have to. But you can share how much you lost with the rest of us on Wednesdays! I know for sure there are 5 of us on it right now… and I net there are more! Having encouragement and sharing is a great way to have the support you need to keep at it. I would love to support anyone who needs it! I will be your cheerleader if you will be mine. :)

I’m going to go WAY back to my last weigh in on April 6, 2011 and we shall start there. 

Ideal Weight: 115

Starting Weight Jan 3, 2011: 145 Pounds 

Weight on April 6, 2011:  130 pounds 8 ounces (Got lazy again.)

Weight on January 9, 2012: 150 Pounds (Yikes!!!)

Current Weight: 139 Pounds

Total lost so far:   11 pounds

Woohoo!!!! 11 pounds in 6 weeks!

I started the gym back in December and started on Weight Watchers January 9th. I’m pretty happy with where I am headed with my weight loss. If I can keep on track I should be close to my goal weight by June.

That’s all for today!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats

~ Shopping with Blogging friends ~

 

Happy Fat Tuesday Friends!

Big response to yesterdays post asking people to remove the word verification. I was surprised at how many didn’t even know they had it on there.

From now on… when I come to a blog with word verification I’m just going to ask the person if they knew it was on there and then link back to my post so they can see how to remove it. Hopefully seeing all those comments you all left will convince them to do so. :) Feel free to do the same. :)

This past Saturday was spent shopping with blogging friends! And we had so much fun! Old friends getting together. Earlene came to my house Saturday morning and had coffee with the Primcats and then we headed down south to meet up with Cindy and her sister Vicky at Primitive Blessings in Orient, Ohio.

 

Pam’s shop was my favorite of the day! So beautiful and springy! Garden inspirations everywhere. Plus her shop is just so fun to look through. Always something new to see! Everyone left with tons of goodies! If you haven’t seen Pam’s shop yet this Spring head to her blog and check out the pics! You will not be disappointed!

http://primitiveblessingsvintagegiftshop.blogspot.com/

After we headed outside and took some pics at the creek beside the shop. So pretty!

 

Here’s Vicky, Cindy and Earlene.

And Here’s Vicky, Cindy and me.

Next we headed off to Bob evens for a serious gabfest and some food! Found out me, Cindy and Earlene are all on Weight Watchers which made for some interesting math at lunch trying to count points. lol!

Next we headed to North Shore Primitives. A stunning shop in Washington Court House, Ohio. This shop is filled with tons of Prim furniture that I drool over every time I go there. Maybe someday. :) I picked up a few small wares here and we headed to our last stop of the day.

The Olde Farmstead at Tanger Outlet mall. I didn’t pick up anything there but Cindy got an amazing treasure! You will have to wait until she posts tomorrow to see!

Then I dragged everyone down to the Pottery Barn because someone gave me a $50.00 gift card to there for Christmas. If you can even believe it I didn’t even find one thing to spend that card on.

From there it was time to part ways. Hugs all around until next time! You can bet there will be a next time too. Sooner rather than Later I am sure. We just had so much fun.

When there is a next time I will be sure to let you all know so if you want to join us you can! We would love to have you!

You can see more pictures at both Earlene and Cindy’s blogs so stop over and check them out too! Earlene took some pics of the Primcats too.

I will be back tomorrow to show you my treasures!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats

How to protect your tree from your cats and more Primitive Blessings

This is a repost of a post I did last year... but I"m bringing it back because clearly my cat loving friends need to hear about this because I'm reading to many stories about

Cat – 1
Human – 0

I sent many years being 0.

No more! I won!!!!  Hope this helps you all too!

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If you don’t want to end up with this…



You need one of these!!!!

 



We live with 14 cats… and I’ll be darned for years I could not win with the Christmas tree. The year we adopted the Katrina kittens, 2005, the tree ended up in a box! (Lovely Photo Above.) LOL. It was hysterical and will forever be a fantastically funny Christmas memory… but darn it… I love my Christmas trees and a few years ago I found the solution to keeping the cats out of the tree.

It’s called the Tattle Tale and it’s a little box that you can hang inside your tree like an ornament and it sends out a loud reprimanding tone if they shake the tree. It WORKS! A few times getting screeched at and they don’t touch the tree again!



Here is a link if you need one! Click the picture.



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I also got another room posted on Pam’s blog for Primitive Blessings Vintage Gift Shop yesterday. 


Here are a few sneak peeks… you can view the rest of the pictures here:


http://primitiveblessingsvintagegiftshop.blogspot.com/

Head over and check them out.









Until Next time…


Carmen and the Primcats

Shopping at Primitive Blessings

Hi friends…

This post is way over due but I’ve been so busy. When I went down to photograph Pam’s shop, Primitive Blessings Vintage Gift Shop, I also did some holiday decor’ shopping. How could I resist!

Here’s some of my spoils that you will see in this years décor!

A cute winter table runner.



A snowman Tea towel.



Faux mercury beads for my feather tree.



Name plates! ♥



Handmade Reindeer.



Beautiful wreath.



Yummy can candles! Love these!



Cute Kitchen ornies.



Two wonderful buckets. Favorites!



A wonderful Burlap stocking. I really love this!



A snowman in a big stocking. Awwww.



And my two most favorite pieces ever…

A huge snowman and reindeer! (shown here with the sled I got from the thrift store.)



Everything I got is already up and displayed in the house and I can’t wait to share my Christmas house with you.

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats

OLM Ornie Swap and more Primitive Blessings

Good Morning Friends!

It was another productive night at Primcats last night. Hubby helped me work on the Christmas tree display in in the living room. I am pretty impressed right now. It’s super prim… sorta drab… like nothing I have ever done before… but it looks really cool. I love it. And I can’t wait to share with you. But you are just going to have to wait as there is so much more to do and I don’t want to giveaway the best part first!

Speaking of Christmas… I joined my first ever blog ornie swap over at Marie’s blog http://primitivesbyoldeladymorgan.blogspot.com/

My box arrived yesterday and I could not be more thrilled. Wow! We have some seriously talented ladies out there!

Just look at all the prim goodness I received!

From Shirlee at http://farmhouseponderings.blogspot.com/ the cutest darn Gingie I have!!! Love. And the finish is prim perfection! I would love to know how to achieve this! Smells yum!

Thank you Shirlee!



From Becky at http://primitivesnstitchin.blogspot.com/

Oh Goodness… this guy is adorable. I’m so glad he came to taunt the Primcats!

Thank you Becky!

 


From Marie at http://primitivesbyoldeladymorgan.blogspot.com/. Our wonderful host. Some kisses.

Thank you Marie!

  

From Sheila at http://countryimpressions.blogspot.com/. An adorable little bag of goodies!  Smells yummy!

Thank you Sheila!



From Amy at http://bumblebeelanecottage.blogspot.com/

The cutest little bees wax Santa ornie ever. Smells Good!

Thank you Amy!
 

From Rachel at http://rachcode-somewhereinthemiddle.blogspot.com/ the most adorable Salt dough snowman head ever.

 

From Tammy at http://aprimitiveplace.blogspot.com/ the cutest little sock with candy canes.

Thank you Tammy!

  

And yes… I photographed them all on my Christmas tree. :)

Thank you Marie for hosting such a wonderful swap! And thank you to all the talented ladies who participated!

How about another room at Primitive Blessings… introduced by… KING! Pam’s baby and the shop mascot! 

   

FYI… I am not really sure King is a dog. I’m pretty sure he’s a pony disguised as a dog. He’s HUGE! But adorable and lovable!

  

     

    
  

 

 

 

  


Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats