My Bunnies

I love bunnies.

Doesn't this cute bunny remind you of the White Rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland"?

I'm hosting our BUNCO gals next week (for those of you not familiar with BUNCO it is an easy to play dice game) and really just an excuse for 12 women to get together to have FUN and TALK.

I have been busy cleaning and de-cluttering the kitchen and family room.  I cleaned out kitchen cabinets and drawers that haven't seen the light of day in years.  

I couldn't believe all the saved business cards we had stuffed away.  Every time I turned around I found another pile of them.  

They are like bunnies multiplying...

Another dark and rainy day but I know the trees, shrubs and grass love all this rain.

I bought the cute chick and bunny mugs with the stuffed animals at our local grocery store.  They are easy to store out of season and just fit my kitchen window ledge.

I made the EASTER banner too!

Yesterday I went to Michaels (our local craft store) and picked up some supplies for BUNCO...cute paper plates and napkins in lovely spring colors.  

I spotted this adorable white fur bunny and, of course, she came home with me.   

She will make a cute center piece for BUNCO. 

I took two plastic Easter eggs and tied ribbons around them and set them in my glass candle sticks. 

Easy, no cost decoration.

I taped my SPRING banner on the fireplace and put some more bunnies out.  

I haven't been crocheting this week as much.  I'm stuck on this round of my motif - this side isn't working out right.  I don't know...maybe my stitch count is off on the previous round.  I already frogged the previous round and re-did it.  And it still isn't working out.  I love this motif so I'll keep working on it.  

So true!!!!

(click here to see all things EASTER at Teacup Lane)

Spring Header

A gal can dream...

This is what we woke up to this morning.  

I wish it was to this beauty instead...

Even though snow is on the ground I'm thinking of Spring so I changed my blog header to a more Springy one using Ribbet.com. 

Valentine's decorations are put away and Easter decorations are coming out here at Teacup Lane.

It's fun to make these blog header collages at Ribbet.com.  

And it's free...

 Although you can upgrade to premium account at a small cost. 

Today I also tried out a new iPhone app call "BlogGo".

It's similar to the "Blogger" app...with one important feature.  

It will let you post photos within the text rather than inserting them all at the end of your post.

I'm not sure why there are these strange, outlined boxes around my photos with those ugly open spaces?

I set to have the photos "large" in the app maybe if I had set them to XL the photos would have filled in the spaces in the box outlines. 

There is always a learning curve with any application.

But this app is already a winner!

Watch the video to see all the great features it offers.

It works for iPad too.  

Click (here) for an excellent article I found entitled, "Ten Must Have Blogging Apps for iPhone". 

Then next blogging app I have to try is "Blogsy".

I don't know anything about Blogsy...apparently it works with iPad.

 I'll have to find out if it works with iPhone too.

That's all for today folks.

Think SPRING!      

Starting to Pack...

Yesterday we purchased our new luggage for our trip across the pond this Spring. 

It was a beautiful and unusual sunny day.

We went to the mall...found our new luggage in a luggage store...visited the Apple computer store, the Bose store and had a fantastic lunch out.  

Hubby had his favorite, French Dip...

And I had delicious salmon...and stole some of Hubby's french fries.

These were really big meals for lunch time so we had "lunch" for "supper" in the evening.

 OK..back to traveling.

You probably think since we travel all the time in our RV we would already have suitcases? 

Well, the answer is "yes" and "no".

Suitcases are too big and cumbersome for the tight, small storage places in our small travel van.  We never use any there.  Even trips in our car we are more likely to use soft fabric duffle bags.

All we had in the form of luggage was very old...two-wheel, carry-on, overnight suitcases from our working days that we used for all of our business travel.   But for this tour we upgraded to larger suitcases (Samsonite) that are called "spinners"...the ones with the fantastic four wheels.

Mine is 29 inches tall and Hubby's is 25 inches.

Now we can see how much stuff we can take... or not. 

  Luckily during the tour our main suitcases will be taken care of by the tour staff.  That leaves us handling them at the airports to and from England.

My goal is to have everything packed the weekend before we leave because the week before our trip we are busy with appointments.

It's fun to pack for this special trip. 

It will be my first trip overseas and only Hubby's second.  

A while back we drove up to Cabela's (a huge outdoors hunting and fishing store) and I got a new pair of Keen walking shoes.  

I love my Keen sandals and I found a very comfortable walking shoe with lots of support.   

I like to shop at Cabela's as much as Hubby does.  

I got my rain gear there too.  

My jacket is actually a fishing jacket and is very waterproof.  

So if it rains everyday in England, Wales or Scotland we will be dry. 

Source:  Internet

So true....

LOL !