31 cent icecream

What could be better? Join Baskin Robbins on Wednesday, April 27th from 5pm to 10pm for .31 icecream scoop night to honor America's Firefighters! Baskin Robbins will donate $100,000 to the NFFF (National Fallen Firefighters Foundation). Come out to your local Baskin Robbins and help this great cause!

What flavor is your favorite? I love the Mint Chocolate Chip!

Mermaids

Super sweet Mermaids are swimming their way to ST2! Come on over and get yours :)
Hair / skin color is your choice. The Tail is done in a super cool Hot Pink BLING fabric (other BLING colors available). $22.00 plus shipping!

The Rusted Chain Giveaway

Beki over at The Rusted Chain is giving away 2-$25.00 gift certificates to her store. Several simple ways to enter, so go on over and enter to win! I have :)

Do you....

Make a meal plan for the week? My friend ERIN over at Mommy Octopus
does and I've been trying this for a couple of weeks. It seems to work pretty well, keeps us from going out to eat a lot, which, of course, is a huge money saver! :)

I will probably start making the meal plan on Wednesdays or Thursdays. (The sales brochures come out on Wednesday). Here's what I came up with this week:

Monday:
Jambalya (Zatarains mix, just added andouille to it! YUMMO!)
Green Beans
Rolls

Tuesday:
Country Ham
Grits
Fresh tomatoes (just added salt and pepper!)

Wednesday:

Tilapia (Grilled with lemon pepper and olive oil)
Roasted potatos
Salad

Thursday:
Eye of Round (Baked at 300 for 2 hrs, comes out Med. Rare)
Turnips
Rolls

Friday:
Baked Chicken
Scalloped potatos (Betty Crocker box, got these at Publix cheap!)

(Since the kids are off for Good Friday, we plan on taking them to an awesome restaurant in Blakely, GA for lunch, so we might still be stuffed from that, but the chicken will be good to pick at for a dinner!)


Saturday:
Leftovers, chicken salad sandwiches (from any leftover chicken from Friday)

Sunday:
Beef tips with rice
yellow squash with onions (sauteed in butter,salt,pepper)

What do you have planned this week? Do you have any websites that you get your recipes from?

First giveaway.....

Ok, to start off this GRAND OPENING of my NEW blog, I'm giving away a set of REUSABLE SANDWICH BAGS from my Torrilynn123 Store.



You will get your choice of fabrics......



One Sandwich bag and Two (2) snack bags are up for grabs!






Kid friendly fabrics.....




One of the sets you can win!!!



Ways you can enter!

First and mandatory entry:Go to my Reusable bag store and tell me what fabric/bag you'd pick if you are the winner!

1 entry~ Subscribe to my newsletter over to the right ----->>>>>>

1 entry~ Become a FAN of my Facebook page (over there :-) ------>>>>>>)

1 entry~ Favorite my Reusable bag store

1 entry~ Favorite my Southern Traditions2 Store

1 entry~ Favorite anything in either store

1 entry~ Blog, Tweet, Link, Facebook about this giveaway (leave link so I can see too!)

1 entry~ There's a new item on ETSY, there's a LIKE button for stores and a LIKE button for each individual item too, LIKE one of these for 1 ENTRY EACH

5 entries~ Purchase ANYTHING in either of my stores!

Please be sure to leave a separate comment for EACH THING YOU DO! I want to be sure you get an entry for everything!!! This giveaway will end May 2nd at midnight CDT!

Good Luck everyone and thanks so much for looking!

Blessings,
Torri

PS Don't forget to also follow my blog on GFC for 1 entry too!

Beach Wear.....

Ready for summer? This would be the perfect tee for your kids (adult sizes available too!). I love the brown/tan/blues from the sample tee, but can be done for our princesses in limes/pinks, black/hotpink, etc....you name it! :)

Check it out in my ETSY STORE .

Get ready for some giveaways! I'm going to have my GRAND OPENING starting April 18th with some awesome ideas and giveaways from me, and others as well!

International Delight Coupons

I LOVE LOVE LOVE flavored coffee creamers and it looks like International Delight has two new flavors to try, Cinnabon and Almond Joy! Go HERE and print out your .55 coupon. These make for a great price, especially when Publix has them BOGO or on sale!

How do you like it?

How do you all like the looks of my new blog? I LOVE IT!!! :) Sara over at Sara's Pixel Studio designed this for me and did a fabulous job! She is just awesome to work with and is
so.very.patient.
too!!!! (Thanks for putting up with me Sara!!!) :)

Be sure to check back often, as I plan on several giveaways from SouthernTraditions2and others as well!

Got your Irish Legs on?

Cute, cute tshirt! Go HERE to get yours! Available in several different color tees, and adult sizes available for $2.00 more!

Get YOUR green on!

Didn't realize sewing was dangerous....

Have been sewing FOOOORRRRREEEEEVVVVVEEEERRRRRR.
Never had a problem.
Until.......
September I sewed over, or I should say, through, my finger.
Went right through the nail and to the other side.
Good thing I didn't bleed on the ghost tee I was making!




Then comes yesterday.......
Embroidery scissors.
Extremely pointy and long.
They fall.
They bounce.
Right into a vein in by my ankle.
Blood spurts, looks like a horror movie, I'm the main character.

I hobble into the house, say "ouch", the kids come to my rescue!
Miss M is cleaning up the blood on my kitchen floor and yellowbox flipflops.
Big Poppa is getting me a band-aid and peroxide.
I tell the kids "Thanks", and my son says, "Well, you do it for us all the time!"

Thanks God, for my good kids! They rock :)

Signs of Spring

 

We had an awesome time this weekend.....here are some pictures :) Hope you are have a blessed weekend too!

Want a chance to win?

Hey Everyone! Want a chance to win one of my Felt Hair Clippies again? Go on over to One Bored Mommy Blogspot and enter to win one!

Courtney is having her 2nd Anniversary Giveaways too, so be sure to enter all of them!

Thanks so much for allowing me to participate Courtney! :)

Well, Hello, Kitty!

One of my new character towels is Ms. Kitty! Had a super sweet customer want one, so, of course, I was happy to oblige!

Here she is:



Want one? Go HERE to pick one up for your favorite little girl :) Bow can be done in any color, along with your choice of font for the name and thread color!........SOOOO SWEEETTTT!!!!!

Where's spring? (Fingerprint Friday)

Wet. Dreary. Wet. Cold. Wet. Windy. Wet.

Thank you God for the rain, but please bring out the sunshine! Looking outside at the bleak-ness (hhhmmmmm, not sure if that's a word, but sounds good to me :-) ), kinda makes you wonder if Spring is around the corner.....then I walked outside with my camera yesterday and came across this........



SOOOOO thankful that God made reminders like this! "Praise the Lord! Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." Psalm 106:1

And, thanks to Beki over at The Rusted Chain Blog! I've been able to play around with my camera and get some decent pictures lately! She's been so helpful with her post on "How to take pretty pictures"! Thanks Beki!

Be sure to go over and check out her Fingerprint Friday post~!

Take a look at your surroundings, I'm sure you can also find signs of Spring!

Conversation Heart Necklace GIVEAWAY!

I had completely forgot I still had several of these CUTE puffy conversation heart scrabble tile necklaces left from last year! I'm glad I found these the other day, as I'd love to give 3 of my lucky readers one of these necklaces (tile will be my choice, but I will try and give you an option or two! :O) ). Will come on a beautiful satin rattail cord in either white, hot pink, light pink, purple or black.




Here's how to enter:

1 entry ***MANDATORY*** ~ Leave a comment on what your favorite Valentines gift has been!

1 entry ~ Like my fan page on Facebook (Top right side, click on the Badge)

1 entry ~ Follow my blog!

1 entry ~ Blog, FB or tweet about this giveaway, and leave link :)

1 entry ~ Heart either of my stores (links below) and also my daughters store HERE

5 entries ~ Purchase anything from my SouthernTraditions2 ETSY Store or my Torrilynn123 ETSY Store (reusable sandwich/snack bags).

PLEASE BE SURE to leave a SEPERATE COMMENT for each entry!

Thanks so much everyone and I look forward to sending you one of these cute tiles!!!

Ends February 6th, 2011