tai pan should be renamed 'balls r us'...

yes it has been a long long time since i last posted.
(thank you amber for pointing that out)

so much has happened but i won't bore you with it except to say

1. we are all healthy

2. no one is pregnant

and even though i haven't posted, please note that i have still been thrifty and crafty and shopping and all those things we love.

now, to proceed with the ball post!

i didn't feel like working out thursday after work so i didn't.
sometimes you have to skip it.
 i took some time for me.

(summer-no comments about how all time is me time!)

i went to tai pan for some st pat's day inspiration.
and i found balls.
i assume everyone is now on the ballswagon* because here are photos of stuff i DIDN'T buy...

these were the 1st ones i came across.

i call them spring balls.

that orange and yellow and green look fantastic together!

hey-i go to church as much as the next person so i can say these are religious balls.

thank you friar tuck.

fuzzy balls.

no other way to call it.

(not to turn all 'schweddy balls' on you but these were so soft!)

these were in the st pat's day stuff.

green yarn balls.

these might actually come home with me another day.

and of course i couldn't leave empty handed, so i purchased these beauties!

this is really a turquoisey-blue ball with sparkles.

and you can't tell but this is yellow.

WITH a small noise making ball inside!

oh, and st patricks day...not that much other than the above green balls.
some 'kiss me' and 'lucky' stuff but nothing funky enough for me.
i guess i need to get out some spray paint.

*ballswagon is a trademark of thethriftyba

i got the fever! spring fever

so awhile back, i found these at savers. i knew someday we would be closer to spring and i could drag them out.
well, i guess february 15th isn't really close to spring. but i haven't crafted ANY st. pat's day stuff (but if you see some, send me a link!) and i think i am missing some spring/easter decorations.
i know why, but i hate to blame.
but i will...
for those of you who don't know, i have a REALLY bad back. i have ruined the discs between a few vertebra's and i'm not what you call limber. i don't lift unless i someone is bleeding or a bone is poking thru the skin.and i really can't bend. at all.
very sad for a woman at 38.75 years old.
so of course i let chris bring decoration boxes up and down the steps. and i rarely supervise.
so kinda my fault.
but not really.
actually, i will still blame him.
so i had my brother who is out here visiting from atlanta bring them up yesterday. i think i either need to...
1. find the rest of my decorations
2. make some more
3. spray paint anything that won't move green. (but what color green? apple?)
maybe all 3.
so yea, right now i have some flowers (with green stuff in the background) and a pot of gold coins.
i can do better than this...