*~O!!! I AM SOOOO EXCITED!!!THOUGHTS DO BECOME THINGS!~*

oF COURSE! I had to update my Blog comment photo once again!!! LOOK!!!!!! who came to dinner yesterday!!! FINALLY!!! I just knew he or she? would come!!! Sending my turtle love tile to Thea, finding that old beach pic from years and years ago from Va. Beach on my back porch also this week and then yesterday while sitting and shooting the breeze with my oldest son, Damon, there he stood!!! I jumped up and raced in for my camera!! LOOK at those COOL markings on him! I came in to upload my pics of him and went back out on the porch and he was gone!!! GONE! until I located him again and I threw a cherry tomato in his path!!! I then went in to lay down and finish my "Chrysalis" book, it was HOT yesterday, no mood to do any housecleaning!! and it wasn't for very long and I went back on the porch and the turtle and the cherry tomato was GONE!!! I looked everywhere, all over my yard but turtle was gone! I looked again today just to seeeeeeeeeeeeeee if maybe it had come back but No.... I'm just GLAD to have seen it yesterday!! Can YOU believe it???!!!! LOL I haven't seen a turtle in years!!! Have YOU???!!!

O! and the winner, THE WINNER of my "SING A SONG DARLINGS" IS

VEDRANA, YOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sweetie!!! I'll be emailing YOU for your address and I must warn YOU, I am slow like a turtle mailing out things!!!! sORRY!

thoughts DO become things!!! Sometimes, at least, I've been thinking about a NEW MODERN HOUSE too but I think that will have to wait unless I hit the BIG LOTTERY this week-end!!! Please leave me a #(1-55 OR 1-42 for the powerball# if YOU think of it!!! I will play it!!! hehe and I will give YOU some of my winnings!!!! YEAH BABY!!! BEHAVE!!! LOL

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK-END SWEETIES!!! MOTHER TERESA DOUBTED HER FAITH, I SOMETIMES DO TOO! IT'S COMFORTING TO KNOW SOMEHOW MOTHER TERESA DID DOUBT TOO, SHE WAS DOWN AND DIRTY KNEE HIGH IN THE TRENCHES OF HUMANESS, NO-ONE IS SUPER HUMAN OR PERFECT, I THINK SHE WAS A SAINT!!! LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLES SHE HELPED AND COMFORTED!!! IN THE MEANTIME, Let's THINK "WORLD PEACE!!!" LOVE AND PRAYERS, Cinda xoxoooxxoxoxoxo

SHE'S BACK!!! LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!!

WOOT! I'm bringing back one of my old comment photos, Miss Cinda Rae O!!!! the turquoise cro gal!!!(from Monday, January 15, 2007 archives from my Blog) As YOU can seeeeeeeeee, I have her on a t-shirt!!! I think she is cute, my daughter thinks she is hilarious!!! O well, everyone's taste is different!
I opened up a Cafe Press store, YOU can click onto it on my sidebar anytime or click here***http://www.cafepress.com/turquoisecro/As YOU can seeeeeeeeeeee, I don't have much in it!! Phew! I like to seeeeeeee firsthand what I'm selling sooOOOOOooo the "She is My Friend" tiles are from a collage I did for a friend, Thea to let YOU know back in March of this year.(Thursday, March 29, 2007 archives) The colors are very pretty on this though and I LOVE my shirt, it is sooOOOooo soft! and it is FUN to wear it out and seeeeeeeeeee all the reactions of people! LOL
I had to change the lettering on the collage for the tile I am selling just soOOOOoo YOU could read it! ( "She is My Friend")
as YOU can seeeeeeeeeee, the red tiles, the one on the left I had to revise the pic and include Cro on it but I'm GIVING the one on the right away, it is my very first tile I bought!!! I'll sign it on the back. The one I revised will be for sale on Cro stuff ASAP!!! SOOoooOOO If YOU would like to be in my drawing, leave me a comment!!! I'll draw your name out Friday morning!!!
I'll be putting some tiles on my Cro Stuff Blog soon!Check it out on my sidebar! GOOD LUCK!!!! hehehe

COSMOS SUNDAY

"COSMOS SUNDAY"

CANCER begins my Sunday

Miles Levin has died,

I go outside

and breathe in my Sweet Cosmos

They seem to dance in the wind

ahhhh, butterfly days

soon too will be past,

reading snippets of "Chrysalis"

moles and malignant melanoma

I've known them well,

I'm hoping this story has a Happy ending

white cupcakes

a Sunday drive with my Sweet Gina,

a peaceful visit with mom and dad

their old dog sings us a song!

a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! CHEL!! WISH

thinking of YOU today!

a call from a childhood friend,

he says, "I have oral cancer"

he says while visiting his mom in the hospital he flips thru a Good Housekeeping,

6,000 die a year of oral cancer

what an end of a Sunday

Is Cancer trying to tell me something?

CANCER ends my Cosmos Sunday

Cro

On a BRIGHTER note, not too long ago I recieved a SURPRISE! IN THE MAIL! from a Blogging Companion, Joyce Ellen Davis. She sent me a book she had written, "In Willy's House" I've yet to read it again, it was very good!!! Thank YOU!!! once again Joyce! I HOPE to surprise her by posting this pic of her other book, "Chrysalis" which I got for .78 from Amazon! Yes! I am including a post of a poem from her "In Willy's House" ***http://myunclepepeksjournal.blogspot.com/2007/07/pt-i-only-ask-for-now.html *****all we can do is PRAY for all the missing miners, the quakes and the hurricanes! Phew! The UNIVERSE is too busy for me although I'll spin right beside all of YOU!!! sweet dreams!!! xooxoxooooxooxo

****kIND OF THRILLING!!!****

back in JUNE, June 18th on a Monday to be exact, I was busy Blog Visiting and I visited Beauty Full Vedrana's Blog. Violet Metamorphosis
She had us visit "The Houston Literary Review" for her photography! I LOVED it and on a lark I thought I would send a sample of one of my collages and wondered if they would be interested! They were!!! sOOOoooooo YOU can check out 3 of my collages here today!!! "Miss August" wasn't selected as I was HOPING she would be! since it is August! Maybe they thought she was too ugly!!! LOL I don't really care, just to be recognized for your art is thrilling!(and notice the grass background, it was in a magazine not too long ago and You have copyright issues sooooOOOOoooo) Thank YOU !"Houston Literary Review!!!" and Vedrana, did YOU notice the little striped leggings on "Be Romantic" I told Vedrana if they accepted my art I would do one for her dedicating it to her by striped legs!!! Like hers seen here!!!http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/summer2007photography.aspxHere's mine! WOOT!(Blowing my own horn isn't my cup of tea but Hey! I knew YOU would be interested and they have many venues, maybe I'll be looking at your stuff!!! Yeah! hehe)http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/august2007photographyii.aspx

WAKE UP! YES, I NEED TO, TOO!

hAVE YOU heard of Miles Levin???

Here he is accepting an award. He is now at home dying. He is in my prayers(I am praying for a miracle!) and it seems we are not doing enough for childhood cancer. If YOU can't read what is on the girl's hat, it says, "Scheduling a wake-up call for your spirit" I am taking requests for prayers, if anyone needs me, let me know! xoxoxox******http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4447888069191155&hl=en*****

*LETS DANCE TODAY

AND SING AND PRAY*

In the lower left hand side it reads "Thank GOD for flowers" They sure do PERK me up, how about YOU???!!! Thea, my Cosmos finally SURPRISED me!!!

Watching "So You Think You Can Dance" is getting sOOooo spectacular, each dance these kids do gives me goose bumps!!! WOWiEEEEE! Did YOU seeeeeeee Neil do the Plange??? LOL and Danny kicks sooOOOoo high and Sabra doing that donut??!!! Phew! I never have seen that done before!!! YaYYYYYY! to all those sweet dancers! Pasha, Lacey, Neil, Sabra, Lauren and Danny! Isn't that Cat cute??? and that Mary Murphy gives me a chuckle when she screams!!!I bet that makes YOU chuckle too Tammy!!! I'm going to get on the "HOT TAMALE" train too pretty soon, not that my dance will be sexy but it is Blazing HOT here in West Virginia!! I HOPE YOU will join me in a dance too!!Mia is sooOOooo cool!!! Don't forget to say a prayer for those Utah miners and of course always our military guys and dolls!!! xoxoxoxoxooxo ps. Chel, I'm thinking of YOU! Do you recognize those cherries??!! They're from a sweet letter from YOU! Hope YOU are feeling much better!!!

~***~A TIME TO CRY~***~

"THE SADDEST DAY"

DEATH

ON A SUMMER DAY

AM I REALLY

GOING TO DIE TOO?!!!

I WAS A LITTLE GIRL

WHEN I FIRST LEARNED OF

DEATH

IT WAS THE SADDEST DAY

Cro

hahahaha! This lil fella didn't like the looks of that Big Black dog's size soOOOoo he stayed close to Mama! Seeeeee the Big pooch below him! I tried getting his face as he went by! LOL That's the last I'll seeeeeeeeeee of my cousins for a while til Sept 1st probably unless my Gina and I go to seeee them Friday!

***IT'S TIME TO LAUGH!!!***

i went to the Blackberry Festival to seeeeeeeeeee my cousins, The Davisson Brothers play last Thursday and they had a pet show before them! It was sooOooooOOO HOT and MUGGY! Look how miserable that little pooch looks and LOOK at that BIG one! He was soOooo BIG!!! Isn't he cute??? Sorry I didn't get his face, the owners were kind of looking not so fondly of me taking pics, like I said we were all sweating and HOT!!! Phew! Don't forget! It's TIME TO LAUGH!!! xoxooxooxo

***~HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAMON~***

i xoxoxoxooxoxoooxDIDN'T have a cake mix soOOoo what do I do?!! Make a cake from scratch! Yeah! I might have got it a little too brown but it is YUMMY! DAMON JEREMY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I LOVE YOU!!! XOXOOXO
RECIPE FOR CHOCOLATE CHUNK COFFEE CAKE
tOPPING=10 OZ semi-sweet chocolate ,coarrsely chopped(I used morsels)
3/4 c. walnuts
2/3 c. granulated sugar
CAKE= 3/4 C butter or margarine
1, 1/4 c gran. sugar
3 eggs
1, 1/2 c sour cream
2 tsp vanilla
2, 1/2 c flour
2, 1/2 tsp baking pd.
1 tsp baking soda
Preheat oven 350 +Grease tube pan but I used a glass rectangular pan
Layer cake mixture with the topping!
Damon's fiancee', Natalie SURPRISED Damon and came in at his workplace around 7:30 am with her hands full of cupcakes from a local bakery! Damon said the guys LOVED them!They went FAST! LOL I don't think Damon got a one! Phew! HOPE your August 1st starts SWEET!!! too! oxxoxoxoxoxoxoooxox