Remember when I blogged about the Butterfly Garden? Well, after reading the post, my boyfriend was really intrigued with the idea so I ordered it for him. Well, complete success! Every one of our caterpillars morphed into beautiful Painted Lady butterflies!!!

Click here to purchase a Live Butterfly Garden for your loved one.

We named them Tiger Lily, Mona, Spots, Flaming June and Tiny Tim.  Tiger Lily was the first born and Tiny Tim was the last.  Unfortunately, although Tiny Tim is making his way around the habitat, his wings have not unfurled properly so he doesn’t seem to fly well.  We plan to release the butterflies into the garden so that they may enjoy most of their life outdoors among the beautiful flowers that are in the yard but we worry …read more

This is our first Gift-Away!  I’m testing your sleuthing skills – if you can answer this question correctly What is different about our site?  and give a bit of feedback (the rest of questions are optional) and you could win SET!

Click to enter Gift-Away!

I originally learned about SET from the wonderful staff at Games of  Berkeley and wrote a post about it back in March while I was in California and we still love this game!

You have one week to enter (entries accepted through August 23rd).  Please, only one entry per person.  The winner will be selected at random from all of you who can answer the question correctly and will be notified by August 24th.

Good luck!!!

I had a Frugal Friday post all written for you and then, when looking for a simple how-to for you to accompnay the blog I accidentally came across this.  This has absolutely nothing to do with the blog I was writing – it really was pure accident – but a happy one.  I found this post so inspiring, sweet and beautiful (and sad).  Please read it.  True gift giving at it’s best.  I cry just thinking about it.

Note that the thought behind it is what makes this so sweet.  The gift itself is beautiful but the fact thatiIt was done secretly so that it would be a surprise, the gift was meaningful and representative of having loving arms wrapped around her.  Not everyone has the talent to make something like this but anything made, or not – just even given – with this much love …read more