My Giveaway Wins and Some Great Thirfty Fines!

Finally, I am starting to feel that Spring is really here and I am showing off my fully ready mini greenhouse I won from Troy over at i-refuse-to-recede.blogspot.com/.

In all her splendor here she is

Isn't she is beauty? I had some seedlings to start and now where I put them for safekeeping is beyond me! But once she is settled on the patio I think I will be begin to enjoy my new hobby. My daughter Rebekah and her honey Phil planted a burning bush and a spruce/pine tree in the backyard so we are getting ready for Spring! Thanks Troy and thank the random generator for selecting my name! I am so thrilled to have this in my home!

I won Jenny Matlock's Easter vintage and here is Jen's beautiful creation (J Nichelle) which is currently residing in my china cabinet.

This sweet little lamb resides in this pretty pastel pink egg house complete with a baby chick hanging out back! Both Jenny at jennymatlock.blogspot.com/  and Jen, the designer of this sweet treasure at jnichelle.blogspot.com/ are awesome for helping me make my Easter holiday 2010 a day to truly remember!

My friend Sharon gave me yellow peeps and Alyn gave me a beautiful Easter lily. I am so loved!

Tonight, my hubby, Super Chef, is creating a new dish. He took a recipe from a Princess House Easy Idea flyer (see you should have entered that giveaway too!) and created this magnificent soup. It is called Tortellini Soup and here it is

Sorry, it is so tasty it is hard to stop eating and snap this picture! Here is the recipe for you:

1 cup chopped onion                     1 14.5 oz. can tomatoes, regular or Italian
2 cloves of garlic, minced               1 14.5 oz. tomato sauce
2 tbsp. olive oil                              1 10 oz. frozen chopped spinach            
1 tsp. Italian seasoning                   1 16 oz. package tortellini
48 oz. chicken broth                       Salt and Pepper to taste
1 zucchini, thinly sliced
Saute onion and garlic in olive oil then add the next 6 ingredients. Heat to boiling and add tortellini., simmer 15 minutes, until tortellini is cooked. Season with salt and pepper. Serve in individual soup bowls and sprinkle with fresh parmesan cheese. I was thinking, zucchini, fresh herbs, I may have to grow some in my greenhouse along with some spinach!

Finally here are a few of my thrift store fines from yesterday.

A bumble bee mini tea pot. $2.00

This is a cute little porcelain sugar bowl with pink roses painted on the front and very detailed. $1.50

Three ducks with colorful scarves on a stoneware teapot! $2.50

The hand painted mini vase with scallops 75 cents and one of two sets of a Pfaltzgraff Tea Rose teacup with matching saucer for 75 cents each. These stoneware items are USA made! :)

Enjoy!

My Double Giveaway Win(s)!

I won a three book set at Kat's. Her blog ishttp://godsheart-heart2heart.blogspot.com/. She reviews books and I always enjoy going over to her blog to listen to what she has to say! She had a double book set giveaway and I won the first one. I will post more when my prize arrives! I was tickled and truly blessed to win this! Because I still have two daughters at home it was especially meaningful to win this book giveaway.

Then I came home this evening and found out I won Jenny Matlock's give away  athttp://jennymatlock.blgospot.com/. It was a fun Vintage Easter surprise. When it arrives I will blog about it too.

I feel so blessed to have won two giveaways! I spend lots of time commenting on blogs and reading your great comments over here. I like to find new giveaways but I also like the friendships I have formed over here in blog land.

We had warmer temps today but it was to be in the 70s. It was a bit overcast and very windy. You would think it was March! Laugh Out Loud! I am hesitating to plant any of my veggies and herbs because I don't want them to get overwhelmed in the house. The first full weekend in May will be my planting time. You can not trust Colorado and snow in the same sentence! I got married on May 3rd 26th years ago. On April 30th that year there was a major snow storm. You just never know living here. Being a native I know how the weather can be. Finicky, or particular or downright mean and rotten!

I also will post about my first ever giveaway win at Ruth's http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/. My daughter and I scraped at her house yesterday for about 9 hours! She has a fantastic scrap booking room. My daughter Hannah made a birthday card for her honey who has an Easter birthday this year! We did not take pics only of the food we ate! My cute little scrap booking book with paper and stickers from Ruth is so precious. I thought of doing black and white pics in it then got an idea, I am going to make a friendship book with it! I think I have enough pics to make it really cute! Yesterday we made a page for Boots my big kitty and one for Easter with pics of the kids, all five of them, when they were small. I have a page or two to dedicate to my late sister and even one for my unborn daughter Rachel who I lost 23 years ago.

I have a first communion veil that I still have in its original little case. I wore that veil for my first communion along with four of my nieces and two of my daughters. I am putting a page together with those photos. It is quite the family heirloom.. I am showing a few food pics because Noelle drove to Pueblo on Saturday and bought  kielbasa at our cousin's  t Market, "Frank's Market and  my sis gave Noelle 2 blood sausages.

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