My Easter Swap Gift :-)

Hi all!! Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! My mom, dad and aunt came over for dinner. We even had an Easter egg hunt in the back yard. It was a beautiful day.

Well, here is my gift that I received from participating in the Easter Swap at Le Minis Di Cockerina

My gift is from Kim at Flower and Art

Kim made me a lovely little garden bench, a beautiful pot of daffodil flowers, and 2 cute Easter baskets. Oh, and a watering can and trowel to garden with!

Thank you so much Kim!

Sunshine Award

I received an award! And I needed a little sunshine today. My grandfather passed away yesterday, so everyone is sad. Thank you to Lara at "Lara's Miniature World". I was trying to add her link here, but I just can't concentrate right now. I wil try later. Thank you!

Would anyone like to do a swap with me?

Since I have joined the "blogger" crowd, I have noticed several of you do swaps. All of the blogs I follow are done by wonderfully creative people! I see beautiful items every day. I am (although very slowly) working on my house. Now that the holidays and some other commitments are over, I should have time to work on it. I want to fill my house with handmade, unique items. So how do I go about it? I would like to swap with , say about 5 people. Are they suposed to be surprise swaps? Or does it get discussed before hand? If you would like to arrange a swap with me,or know the proper etiquette, please contact me.

On another note.......
I have not had good manners in welcoming my followers. I have noticed this is done on other blogs. I can't believe I have 45! I know you all are waiting for me to get busy on the house! I am sure trying! I want to so bad! I work full time and have a 9 year old and a soon to be 2 year old. So, life is busy!

I did it!! Changed background to Christmas!

Thanks to Taenia and Nikki! I was following Taenia's directions and about to give up, then somehow I did it!! I also added a Christmas playlist full of Christmas music. Now we will see if I can figure it out again after Christmas or we may have Christmas year long!! That may not be a bad thing though!

HELP!!! Need blog layout help

I want to change my background to a Christmas one and I can't remember how to do it!! I remember how to add the gadgets, but how do I change the background? I thought I should go to "Layout" but that didn't work. I read that I will loose the one I have so to download it to my harddrive. I did that. So does that mean can just copy that code later and add again to go back to the way I was? So can anyone help?
Thanks!

Question about distressing things, hummm....

I need some help on distressing items. I have never really done it and I LOVE that look!!! To me, it makes the items look more realistic!! I know some of you are pros! I have seen your work on your blogs. So, I am asking for help. If I want an item white with some dark showing through, do I paint a dark color, then white and then sand some off? How do you get items to look dirty?What about rusted?
Thanks and eveyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Now the fun begins!...

The house is built!!!! There are just a few things to add, like the steps. But, my friend said he had to stop or the olny thing I would have to do would be to put furniture in it! So, now the fun begins!! I am going to try and make myself take it slow . It is going to be hard I know. I will just have to take it room by room like Linda of Une Petite Folie. So, what shall I name it?