And The Winner Is....

LORI of Wildflowers!!!!!

I used Random.org and they came up with Lucky number 6 which belonged to Lori!!

Lori, please contact Kimmy over at Mimi Charmante.

Thank you so much for entering and following my Blog!

Zizette

Last Day for Giveaway!!

Wow, it certainly has been a crazy week!

The Tricky Tray event is OVER and we did well but I will save that for another post since I want to post some pics of the prizes.

Then my birthday passed.

Between regular life stuff and the big event I was swamped.

Yesterday I thought a boat would take me away from all the rain.

BUT

I am just giving a quick reminder that the Give back/Giveaway is coming to a close - tonight at 8 pm EST.

Good Luck!!!

Zizette

Thank You

I so APPRECIATE all the birthday wishes and lots of love.

I am SUPER SWAMPED as tomorrow is my BIG EVENT.

I Promise to answer all of the wonderful responses and comments I have received.

I love you all, you touch me so.

(P.S. I have a SUPER ANAL husband who after the ladies took all of the baskets out of our house, he ran around sweeping and vacuuming)

I PROMISE to take lots of pictures with my new friend, I am deciding if I should name my camera as some of my friend's have.

Lots of Love to you all.

Don't forget to enter in the big contest/give back.

Love,

Zizette

Happy Birthday to Me

Yes it is my birthday and I went out an treated my self right for the occasion.

I finally bought something for ME with my birthday money (thank you generous folks).

I got this:

Yep I sure did and I LOVE IT!

I absolutely CANNOT wait for things to bloom around here to get some awesome pictures.

SO, since I got something for MY birthday I wanted

to give back to my friends and maybe even some of their friends.

I am having a give back/giveaway:

The Prizes you say?

Well, being that I got the camera and I am friends with the Lovely and Awesome Kim of Mimi Charmante it is as follows.

Kim is donating one of her fabulous prints from her Etsy shop AND I am including a $25 Gift Certificate to Kim's Etsy Shop (she really has so beautiful treasures there).

Here's the rules for entry:

Leave a comment = 1 entry

Post on your blog and link back to my blog = 1 entry

Become a Follower = 1 entry

Just let me know if you Post on your blog and if you become a follower.

I will choose the Absolutely Lucky Winner on Sunday March 14th, 2010 at 9 pm EST.

GOOD LUCK!

Zizette

5 Days and Counting....

Until my BIG Fundraiser.

Spent almost a year planning - actually the past 3 years because this is actually my third year doing this.

I run a TRICKY TRAY.

What is a Tricky Tray you ask?

Find out here.

Basically I have over 200+ gift baskets filled with stuff that needs to be auctioned off.

My committee has shoppers and let me tell you, they are THE BEST.

They hover around Target waiting for everything to go 75% and it does.

Then they bring it all to me and in two weekends we wrap it ALL!

Of course, there are stragglers and they presently reside in my not so finished living room.

I still have to finish my program (which is out of the question for today since it is OSCAR night and I have FIOS my other good friends do not since they have Cablevision - you are invited over if you want to watch).

So I will have to try tomorrow to get that program done.

It is a huge event I still have a list of things to do like balloons, printing the program that is not done and so much more.

BUT

It will be fabulous and I plan on having a great time!!!!

New Experiment

So, I am tryng to keep up with my promise to try new recipes.

For some reason I have this memory stuck in my head that my mom used to cook Chicken Cacciatore.

Which is so odd since my mom's idea of spaghetti sauce back in the day was ketchup.

I had the idea suck in my head and decided to go for it. It was fabulous.

I sort of looked at a recipe and sort of improvised.

Chicken Cacciatore

1 Chicken cut up (8 pieces or so - you can use just breasts, with bone and skin, if you like)

Salt

Pepper

1 28 oz can Crushed Tomatoes

1 package mini portobellos

1 small onion

Olive oil

Italian seasonings

Salt and pepper the chicken in a bowl or plate. 2-3 turns of olive oil in a big pot. Add onions until translucent (add a little salt and pepper), then add chicken to brown the skin. Add mushrooms until cooked. Add crushed tomatoes and let simmer.

I really don't know how long I let it simmer but it was delicious over some egg noodles. My daughter tried it and she loved it. The sauce was great too. I plan on making this one again.

Enjoy!

Fallen Off the Scale

I have been so darn good it was scary.

But something in me is stopping me from moving on.

I have fallen off the scale.

I am not doing well with my diet.

It's almost like I am content where I am (BUT I want to lose more).

I need to lose more.

Help!

Everyday I think I am starting off right but somewhere I lose sight of the big picture.

I need to get back on track....