Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! This week I'm going to share some beautiful gifts I got from my blogging friends.

These beautiful cards above are from M ~Tales from OC Cottage. They are from photos she took! I think I'm going to frame the one with the stacked teacups! She also sent me some more glittered starfish! I love these! That German Glass Glitter really sparkles! Did you see the great magazine she found? She wrote about it on her blog! It looks beautiful!
Next up is an adorable Halloween necklace from my friend Joy~Cupid's charm! I enjoyed wearing this for a couple weeks before Halloween and now I have to wait until next year! Joy has such beautiful jewelry and I have quite a collection of it now!
This pretty Cookie Lee bracelet was a birthday present from Stephanie. She knows how much I love shells! I love this!!

Thank you all for the beautiful gifts!

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Just a quick reminder that Monday will be my monthly giveaway party. I'll only be continuing this through the end of this year! There will still be plenty of giveaways...they will just be at random times!

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If you are joining in on Show and Tell Friday, please remember that your Show and Tell needs to be something from your home or garden. Please read the Show and Tell Guidelines for step-by-step instructions on how to participate.If you would like to join in, please enter your name and leave your exact Show and Tell blog post link. If your link has been removed from MckLinky, please re-read over the guidelines before re-posting, or e-mail me with any questions.

Thank you! I look forward to seeing everyone's posts...it may take me awhile to get around to visit everyone since I work full time but I'll do my best to get to your blog as soon as I can!

Beau knows!

Beau knows where the softest, most comfortable spot in our home is!
He doesn't even mind that it's a very girly bed! Sleeping is his favorite pastime...along with barking!
He thinks this is his bed and he just shares it with me to be nice!

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Don't forget to enter my giveaways, if you haven't already!

1. Click here to win Pfaltzgraff Holiday dinnerware on my product review page.


2. Click here to win a $50 Target Gift card by leaving a comment on my interview with Houzz.com
   

Meat Love

In our family we call this Meat Love, not Meat Loaf! That's because when Vince was about 3 years old he asked me one day if we could have Meat Love again for dinner! It took me a few seconds to figure what he was talking about! Ever since then Meat Loaf has been affectionately called Meat Love in our home!
To me, this is the ultimate comfort food-- meat love, roasted-garlic mashed potatoes with chives and roasted brussel sprouts!!! This is the meal I chose as my final meal on Sunday night right before I started Weight Watchers on Monday morning! There won't be any meat love and mashed potatoes for awhile but at least I can still eat brussel sprouts! (Actually, I can still eat meat loaf and potatoes on WW, just not very much).

Here's the guy that made meat loaf so much more fun! This photo was taken last weekend when he was out fly fishing....a major passion of his!
My (very simple, but good) Meat Love recipe:
2 lbs ground beef (or a equal combination of beef, pork, & veal)
1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
fresh ground black pepper

1/2 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
1 finely diced onion
2 slices of bacon

Preheat oven to 350. Butter loaf pan. Mix all ingredients together (use your hands) except for the bacon. Place meat mixture in loaf pan and lay slices of bacon on top. Bake for 45-60 minutes. Remove from pan and place on serving dish. Serve with ketchup!

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My Current Giveaways:

It's not too late to enter the Pfaltzgraff Holiday Dinnerware Giveaway, just click here to find out how.

There's also still time left to win a $50 Target gift card over on my interview at Houzz.com. Click here for details.

A New Find and a Giveaway!

Back in May I showed you this Pfaltzgraff teapot (on the right) I've had since 1979! Back then, when I was only about 20 years old I really wanted the large coffee pot that matched it but I couldn't really afford it. Well, 30 years later I'm really pleased to say I finally got it! It's the large pot pictured above! I went into a thrift store awhile back and found it for $15 and found out everything in the store was 30% off! Score!

Guess what? Someone from Pfaltzgraff contacted me again for another great giveaway! This one is perfect for your holiday entertaining! Click here to go to my product review page to see what you can win! It's good!!!

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Also, it's not too late to enter to win a $50 Target gift card...just leave a comment on my interview at Houzz.com, click here.

A new little teapot

First I need to mention that if you are having trouble loading my blog it seems to be a problem with Internet Explorer 6. If you are using this old version it is advised that you upgrade your web browser. Hopefully those of you that are having problems will see this before you get that annoying "not responding" message. I'm getting a lot of email from people saying my blog freezes when they open it. One of my readers said once she changed to Firefox she was able to view it again. Now that we've taken care of that business...on to the cute teapot/cup. This was a gift from Susan, one of my readers. She was out here from Arizona (I think) and went to Carmel and then came to Campbell to see my favorite store, Vintage and Vogue. Unfortunately she was there during the week while I was at work so I wasn't able to meet her so she left this gift for me to pick up.

It's a cute little teapot on top of a cup and this beautiful box of Earl Grey tea! Thank you so much Susan, I LOVE it! I'm so sorry I wasn't able to meet you there!

Also, it's not too late to enter to win a $50 gift card from Target by leaving a comment on interview at Houzz.com. Click here to enter!