Barbie Cars

Last night was the first game of the season for my grandson's Cedar Ridge Raiders so if purple were pink I'd be set.  He played a fabulous game and fortunately for you all my camera died and I only got this one shot! But unfortunately for you guys I saw a pink Barbie car at the game and my camera was dead!  Seriously – it was fabulous and I figured if I googled it someone would have a picture.

I found this picture here and swiped it.  Oooh – there are some serious  Barbie Hummer Haters there on that site.  Haha -  the car guys are seriously upset that this macho Hummer went pink!

 

And recently I saw this  - uh – art car? Too funny – and I was able to get one lousy picture with my phone! It was covered with Barbies and toys…..

only in Austin!

Happy Pink Saturday. Thank you Beverly!

xoxo Nancy

Cupcake Love

Last Saturday as I was dreading/preparing to make cupcakes for LaVerne 's (Riverside Studios) party look what arrived out of the blue? Actually out of the pink!!!  came this package from my best friend I've never met…Dana of  The Stone Rabbit. 

Dana, for those of you who have been on a desert island for the past few years, is that famous blogger from Missouri.  What you probably don't know about Dana is that Dana is a psychic.  I KNOW!  She had no idea that I would be baking cupcakes – heating up the kitchen when it's already 105 outside – yet she timed this package to arrive just in the nick of time!  This allowed me to have a total "cold" meal.  Tuna salad stuffed tomatoes and pasta salad. One of my friends has decided late in life that she is a vegetarian.  Really – try to wrap your head around that – she might as well have changed her gender preferences which wouldn't have involved menu changes. haha   But I digress – instead of our usual party chicken salad we had tuna!  Isn't this the cutest cupcake arrangement 5 pinks and fill in with chocolate.

So…on Sunday we went to see The Help.  It is so good -  the clothes and hair and furniture is spot on and then came back to celebrate LaVerne's birthday.  She tried and tried to blow that candle out. 

See?  She's still trying.  Whose husband conserves digital pictures like they're Ektachrome  film.  We're in our 60's – meaning you need to take at least 10 of the same shot on the off chance you might get a decent shot of everyone. 

So that's it for today.  Happy, happy birthday Dear LaVerne and thank you, thank you Dana for these nobake delicious pink cupcakes.  And warning to Jeff – if you eat one more pink cupcake you will turn into a girl – the last three are reserved for their intended purpose – stress eating – which I am right now – stressed!  Really stressed but I've got the solution for that!

xoxo Nancy

Now go see Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday without whom I'd have never met people like Dana and the rest of you fabulous bloggers!

Tagging Along With Pink Saturday

his year I've been tagging along with Elizabeth's Happy Homemaker group.  I'm making two tags each month.  One for me and one for my partner Scrap For Joy. My theme is a Year of Celebrations and for the month of August I'm celebrating PINK!  Perfect for Beverly's Pink Saturday.  Since August is about to be the end of me because of this Summer from Hell. I had this

      Bright Idea!!!      

I decided to send some cooling positive pink vibrations to August.  I live in Austin and we send positive energy all over the place so why not see if it can bring us some cool vibrations. 

The pinkest thing I could think of is Pink Flamingos.  As if they aren't flashy enough I've added a little bling to these girly flamingos. These fancy flamingo girls are just full of pink girly messages.  Just between you and me I'm thinking…

Right Pink Sistahs???? Pink is all about Girl Power!!!  (With EXCEPTIONS of course! ahem)

I figure you can't have too much

and because I'm ….

I decided to do something different and cut my tag out of a transparent binder!

The thing about pink is – it's almost a neutral.  It looks good with soo many other colors. Pink and red, pink and brown, and my absolute favorite color turquoise looks even more fab with pink.

It's not just a color – it's an attitude, a mood and most of all it's fun and girly.  Because of Beverly's Pink Saturday I have met some of the coolest gals in Blogland.  So Put a little Pink in your life and…

Look at those l.e.g.s…..

So do you want to see my legs????????NoNONOO…How about my tags????

Isn't she a happy pink Word Bird?

Oops…come back here girl.  Always preening – she must be looking for her high heels.

Thanks for "Tagging Along" for Pink Saturday.

My good friend LaVerne is being featured for Pink Saturday – so head on over to Beverly's How Sweet The Sound.  Way to go LaVerne…… take a bow girlfriend!!!

Austin Weather

J U S T  Shoot ME!  Rainfall?  What's that? A total of 7 and a fraction inches of rain… for the year.

So ready for fall and the chance, however small, for cooler weather. 

Sooooo – on a different note – what's your weather like????