it happens to the best of us

and it happened to me! I turned 50 today.
(Please, hold the half a century jokes, I’ve heard them all from my kids)
I had a wonderful day too – flowers from my son and unexpected flowers from my online friend Pam, a Dunkin Donuts gift card from my daughter (who shares my coffee addiction) We had a nice dinner followed by cake, and tomorrow, my best friend (and her family)  is taking me (and my kids) out to dinner and I’ll get my big gift from the kids then. (I think it’s jewelry based on hints) So all in all, not a bad way to turn half a century lol.

from EJ

pam's flowers

After dinner, my kids went to Halloween Adventure to look for costumes for the parties they’re going to on Saturday. Corinne came home with this getup, then I realized I had some ugly teeth from a few years ago, so gave her them to use. Scarily realistic Amy Winehouse, don’t you think?

I also went to my local Goodwill store yesterday. I picked up three books, a moon and stars wall mirror (part of a Christmas gift), a planter and this old revolving spice rack. (Unfortunately, I didn’t take pictures of it before, but it was sufficiently dirty and well used)  Somewhere online, I saw a picture of a converted spice rack and wanted to do the same. I spray painted the rack itself white (I love my white spray paint!), washed out the bottles and lids, glued some pretty paper to the lids instead of the ugly spice labels and filled them with crafting bits and pieces — doesn’t it look great? I really wish I remembered the site from which I got the idea – her craft room was just wonderful.