Nurses Day.

This is just a small collection of the Nurse items I own

Hello everyone,

Today is National Nurses Day and the start of Nurses Week. Don't ask me why we would start our week on a Thursday! Maybe because most of us are so used to working every other holiday and weekend; that we really don't care when the week starts.

When I was working - I was always cold at work. In winter cuz it was winter and in summer because most places blasted the air conditioning. So I used to wear a lot of sweatshirts. Every Nurses day my mother bought me a new sweatshirt to wear at work and I thought I'd share just a few of them with you today.

A Nurses Prayer

Dear Lord

Give to my eyes - light to see those in need.

Give to my heart - - compassion and understanding.

Give to my mind - knowledge and wisdom.

Give to my hands - skill and tenderness.

Give to my ears - the ability to listen.

Give to my lips - words of comfort.

Give to my spirit the desire to share.

Give to me, Lord

The strength for this selfless service and

enable me to bring joy to the lives of those I serve.

Amen.

To all my Nursing Friends, I want to wish you all
A Happy, Healthy, Nurses Day. God bless each and every one of you.


Hugs,
Penny

And the Winners are..........

Hello evffuryone,

Its time to announce our winners,for our giveaways. And since mine was the best I will go first.

I must say picking a winner was kind of hard - all those little paper pieces that Pellie put in the bowl all smelled the same. So I finally just clamped my teeth down on one and then Pellie came and took it away from me; before I could even give it a good bat around the kitchen.

Drum roll please.

The Winner of "Can Never Have Too Many Cats" are my friends over at Jan's Funny Farm.
Congrats to all of you. Hope you like the goodies.


Purrs,
Genghis

The Winner of the "Crafter's Delight" is Dana over at Sinderell'a Studio

The winner of Viva La France is... Twyla & Lindsey at Two Crazy Crafters

And last but certainly not least - the winner of the Sweet Treats is... all our friends at the

Kool Kitty Krew

Well that's a wrap on the prizes now I need to gather up snail mail addresses so I can mail these out. I might not get then mailed out till this coming Sat or Monday, so don't even start looking for the postman to bring them till after that.



Hugs,
Penny

Great American Grump Out

Hello everyone,

Today is the 9th Annual, American Grump Out. and according to their website...


"The Grump Out asks sour pusses to suck it up and refrain from getting their grump on -- at least for 24 hours.

That includes no grumping, no frowning, no grousing, complaining, punching, slapping, hitting or killing. FOR ONE WHOLE DAY. "

Grump Out goals:

1. To help people better understand the connection between negative attitudes, stress and health.
2. To see America give themselves permission to be friendly, playful, supportive and loving for just one day.
3. To lighten up our planet and reduce unhealthy stress through humor.
4. To have FUN

Well I'm all for fun; so lets make sure nobody , absolutely nobody is a grump today.

Hugs,
Penny

Teacup Tuesday.

Hello everyone,

It was a fairly nice spring day here, weather wise; and they say the forecast for Tuesday is for the low 80’s, but we will see.

Over the weekend I was visiting a few new blogs and one of them was Artful Afirmations who along with Martha' Favorites has this participation post called Teacup Tuesday. Since teacups and tea pots are a few of the things I own in multiple I thought I join in. I'm not in the same class of photographer as these girls, but we try.


I thought it only fitting that my first post be about these two large cups I am offering in my “Viva La France Giveaway”. I won these in a box of a lot of miscellaneous items at one of our local auctions. In the box there was also a teapot and sugar and creamer set. (Unfortunately they were in a rather woebegone condition and beyond saving - so they went into the circular file. - without me even washing them up.)


These two cups are a French Ironstone and are large - larger than the poor teapot was - so I presume they are soup sets. The flowers are so dainty, but the cups has some heft to it. So If any one is interested - these are part of one of my giveaways.- which will be drawn after midnight on May 5th - please feel free to comment and enter the Giveaway.

The auction this past weekend wasn’t very good for me - things were going higher than I wanted to pay and a lot of the stuff was rain damaged - as they set up the day before the auction and we had tornado warnings and terrible rain that evening. The rain even intruded on the auction and my poor old body was hurting real bad because of it. So Sir Knight was kind enough to take me to the Goodwill where I scored just a few fun pieces.

Many fun things are happening around blogland that I want to participate in, I'll keep you informed as the month goes on.

Winners to be Drawn after midnight on May 5th for all the Giveaways. Hope you win!

Hugs,
Penny

Happy May Day

Good morning everyone,

Sir Knight and I will be going to another auction today - don't know if it will be any good - but we love to go anyway.

Genghis's eye is doing much better, even though he is not a model patient. Sir Knight and I have multiple scratches , but at least its working.

Hugs,
Penny