Links on Friday

linky links

 

I can’t wait to sit down and watch Emma

 

Great place for photography tips

 

oh-so-cute Valentine wreath

 

Okay, I would totally make these hanging glitter hearts made from cereal boxes. If we were allowed to bring glitter in the house.
  

Have you ever visited One Pretty Thing? I love this site. Fun place to browse around.

I would LOVE to do this to the closet downstairs.

 

I gained like ten pounds just looking at The Ultimate Dessert.

 

I love these cute little Valentine kiss jars.

 

Do you have any links you’d like to share? I’m all about finding ideas online, and, um, never doing them. But I do like to look & dream. HA!

Things I Took Note Of

1. The waiter at Cracker Barrel had no clue what I was talking about when I ordered creamed potatoes. They should be called mashed potatoes.

2. McDonald’s in Georgia & Florida do not serve sausage gravy biscuits.

3. People really do not look in the mirror before they leave the house. The skinny jean is meant for those who are stick skinny. Men who have big bellies please, I beg you, buy a shirt that is long enough to cover your entire belly area. Some things are just better not seen.

4. Most of the people who ride in motorized scooters (around the parks) really should be getting exercise and walking. Oh, and put down that big turkey leg.

5. Saying y’all is a sure fire way for someone to figure out you are from the south.

6. We noticed the happiest people down there were from different countries. You could see the excitement on their faces, in how they walked and talked. They said excuse me, please & thank you.Offered a helping hand.

7. Americans, not so happy. Which I found to be weird, since we were at the happiest place on earth. I mean come on, it’s where Mickey lives. Families rude to one another, rude to everyone around them, could not stand to wait in line, for anything. Grumpy!

8. I am so glad we don’t have cable or satellite. I would watch tv constantly if we did.

9. Disney is the only place where you get good customer service. Just because you are in Florida, does not mean that everyone who is there to serve you, the costumer, does it with a smile. More than likely it is a grumble.

10. People do not follow the rules. Big shocker there. If they tell you not to use flash photography, please do not use flash photography. It takes away from the show or ride for everyone else. And for heavens sake, do not jump in line. I mean really, you think no one notices when you scoot your way up from the back of the line.

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One of the biggest things I took note of was how beautiful the weather was. Oh, I just wanna go back! ha! We are getting snow and ice this weekend.

Florida is not.

Becca By The Book

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

Becca By The Book

Zondervan (January 1, 2010)

by

Laura Jensen Walker

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Laura Jensen Walker is an award-winning writer, popular speaker, and breast-cancer survivor who loves to touch readers and audiences with the healing power of laughter.
Born in Racine, Wisconsin (home of Western Printing and Johnson’s Wax—maker of your favorite floor care products) Laura moved to Phoenix, Arizona when she was in high school. But not being a fan of blazing heat and knowing that Uncle Sam was looking for a few good women, she enlisted in the United States Air Force shortly after graduation and spent the next five years flying a typewriter through Europe.
Her lifelong dream of writing fiction came true in Spring 2005 with the release of her first chick lit novel, Dreaming in Black & White which won the Contemporary Fiction Book of the Year from American Christian Fiction Writers. Her sophomore novel, Dreaming in Technicolor was published in Fall 2005.
Laura’s third novel, Reconstructing Natalie, chosen as the Women of Faith Novel of the Year for 2006, is the funny and poignant story of a young, single woman who gets breast cancer and how her life is reconstructed as a result. This book was born out of Laura’s cancer speaking engagements where she started meeting younger and younger women stricken with this disease—some whose husbands had left them, and others who wondered what breast cancer would do to their dating life. She wanted to write a novel that would give voice to those women. Something real. And honest. And funny.
Because although cancer isn’t funny, humor is healing.
To learn more about Laura’s latest novels, please check out her Books page.
A popular speaker and teacher at writing conferences, Laura has also been a guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows around the country including the ABC Weekend News, The 700 Club, and The Jay Thomas Morning Show.
She lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband Michael, and Gracie, their piano playing dog.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sales clerk, barista, telemarketer, sign waver…
At twenty-five, free-spirited Becca Daniels is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. What Becca doesn’t want to be is bored. She craves the rush of a new experience, whether it’s an extreme sport, a shocking hair color, or a new guy. That’s why she quit her bookstore job, used her last bit of credit to go skydiving, and broke her leg.
And that’s why, grounded and grumpy, Becca bristles when teased by friends for being commitment-phobic. In response, Becca issues an outrageous wager—that she can sustain a three-month or twenty-five date relationship with the next guy who asks her out. When the guy turns out to be “churchy” Ben—definitely not Becca’s type—she gamely embarks on a hilarious series of dates that plunge her purple-haired, free-speaking, commitment-phobic self into the alien world of church potlucks and prayer meetings.
This irrepressible Getaway Girl will have you cheering her on as she “suffers” through her dates, gains perspective on her life’s purpose, and ultimately begins her greatest adventure of all.
If you’d like to read the first chapter of Becca By The Book, go HERE