Etsy Treasure Hunt

I won! I won Mary Ruth's  Etsy treasure hunt! Happy dance! You can read my entry post, here.

Mary Ruth, I tried to post a comment both yesterday evening and this morning, but it won't let me see the box for the CAPTCHA, so I can't post it.

Here is my acceptance speech:

I'd like to thank my mom and my mamaw for instilling in me the love of unique Christmas candles and cozy crocheted snowflake ornaments! And my fellow bloggers, because without you, this would not have been possible. Thank you!

One of the many Christmas Candles.

Seriously, I was pretty excited about winning. I was having a rough day and that put a smile on my face. :-)

Kevin and I went Christmas shopping last night. We did pretty good sticking to our budget for everyone and even had some money left over, so we treated ourselves to Chinese for dinner. Yum!

I was raised in a household where presents, no matter what the occasion, are to be a surprise until you open them. We were never given any hints as to what they were or even allowed to open them early. We always got a pair of cozy winter pj's and we could open those on Christmas Eve. This year, Kevin and I decided just to get our gifts when we were with one another so that we could keep up with the budget. We made a deal that we can't use them until Christmas though. I told him next year we aren't doing that. I wanna keep it all a surprise! haha!

We also went to Target b/c we had a gift card from my big sisters (yay!) to spend. It really made my day to pick up a few things for the apartment I've been wanting!

Wanna know what my favorite thing I got was?

Over The Sink Colander

I have been wanting one of these for the past year. We didn't even have a colander, let alone one of these cool ones! I can't wait to use it! :)

It's Wednesday, thank God! We're half way through this week...and I can't wait until Friday! Today seems like its going to be a good day though. I sure hope so!

Snowflakes. :)

Today I'm entering my first blog contest! How exciting!

Its actually really simple! Momma Ruth is having a weekly treasure hunt on Etsy. Each Friday she'll give us a "theme" to search for on Etsy, we find something that we like or is meaningful to us and then post about it. After we post about it, we go back to Momma Ruth's blog and enter it into the McLinky box. Can someone explain to me what that is?

This week's theme is snowflakes. :) I was really excited when I saw this! I immediately headed over to Etsy and started my search. Wow! Soooo many pages came up with so many cute items dealing with snowflakes. I honestly didn't know what I was going to choose.

That is, until, I saw this:

Fine Threads

When I saw this, I couldn't help but smile! This instantly reminded me of my mamaw! As a side note, when I mention my mamaw, it is my dad's mom. I don't have a relationship with my mom's mom. It also reminds me of my mom. When I was younger, we'd spend several evenings going out and buying all kinds of Christmas decorations. My mom and mamaw would get all kinds of candles. They'd be shaped like nutcrackers, snowflakes, Christmas trees, etc. They'd set them up all over their houses. Everywhere you turned, there was a candle. But, my mamaw also made her own Christmas decorations. She'd crochet ornaments that looked somewhat like the one pictured above and would also make ornaments out of the plastic sewing canvas. She made some for my mom's tree and she still has them!