update to an oldie

This was posted way back but I am reposting cause

she just got an embellishemnt!

When my mom passed away we went to clean out her home and

this is one of the things that we found in the basement.  It

was dirty, water damaged and needing some TLC.

I wanted it but hubby wasn't so sure.

I won!

We brought her home and she sat around

for awhile looking pitiful. I wasn't really

sure how to help her or even sure that

I wanted to tackle such a big project.

I found caromal colours

on a blog and decided to give it a try.

I was going for a more shabby, french chic look

and hubby was cringing at the thought of even

painting over an antique!

Being that he is a master craftsman

this was a stretch for him.

Truthfully there was a lot of

disagreement over this piece.

But in the end it all worked out!

Now this is what I added today to her.

Now I have my french look that I wanted.

I added paper liner inside and it really makes this piece pop. I think

I will leave the doors open just so I can look at her.

The paper is from Hobby Lobby and is really just wrapping paper.

I used Duro all purpose spray adhesive that worked great.

Her knobs also came from Hobby Lobby.
To see the original post got to Nov, 2010

An up and coming project

This also came from my mom and was also in the basement.
It doesn't look so bad in the picture, but old girl has
some damage on her beautiful legs and on her top side.
I am thinking I want to do a duck egg blue
from Annie Sloan Paints.
What do you think?

from birth to standing

This momma doesn't seem to mind that there is

a crowd watching or even a care in the

world that she is being filmed

for an entire world to see.

The beauty of God's creation

and a mother's love

Mama Blue

Last year we had a family of Eastern Blue Birds that took up residency in this awesome little house that hubby made. It was so adorable to watch momma and pappa tending to them and when it was time for them to fly away, oh my I had a blast watching them!! Momma was in a tree and Pappa was in the bush and I just know that they were prompting them with all of their little tweets. I know because I could hear them! Then a few months later another family came or it could of been the same family. I watched them daily- building, sitting, feeding and I also watched a big hawk eyeing them! I worried about them so! One day I came home and the door to their little house was open!! GASP!!! There was no way that they could of done that!! I know that mean old hawk got them!! It took many months for "new tenants" to move in but they did. Hubby put a new latch on so that "mean old hawk" can't get them. I hope this means we are back in business and will have many more blue bird families.

This photo was from March but I am reposting for

Be Still

Lake Murray Prosperity, SC
shot early Memorial Day morning.

and know that I am God.
I have to remind myself of this daily.
The control part of me tries to take over
so I have to continually shove her to
the side......
AWWW, to just live with no worries, no
regrets and to just simply trust.
Lord help me today to just
simply be still and to
know that you are
GOD!

Happy Sunday and
be blessed!

Crazy Days of Summer Photo Challenge

I found my way over to Project Alicia Blog today
and decided to participate in her Crazy days of SUMMER
weekly photo challenge.
This week's theme is flowers.
I thought I could use this magnolia picture
that I shot last month.
Head on over there and give it a shot!

Hacked

I was  hacked a few months back!

My dear SIL phoned to say that I had better change my passwords

because she just received an email stating that I was in England

and needed money badly. 

This email went out to my entire contact list!!

I was able to log into my email account and right

before my eyes I could see my emails being deleted!

Hubby and I just sat there stunned that this

could be happening. 

The hacker was deleting the emails

that were coming back to me with people responding

to the hacker's email.

I immediately tried to change my password,

but I was too late - he/she had already changed it!

I felt totally violated, robbed and very vulnerable.

I felt that there was nothing that I could do.

I then went to my Facebook account and sent out

a blast post telling my friends that I was hacked

and to not respond to this.

At that point the hacker took over

my fb account or fb shut it down

Loving friends and family

did respond to my hacker and the hacker

had the nerve to plead and beg for money!!

I phoned my internet provider several times

with no success (they could not help me regain my account back!)

They told me that since my email was msn they could not help....

GRRR.... I was upset.

I then emailed and phoned Microsoft. After several attempts

I finally spoke with someone who gave me an email

to microsoft escalation team.

They replied back to me a few days later

and helped me regain my account back!

I feel like I hacked the hacker!

I was pretty pleased at that point!!

In the meantime I emailed FB and they

as well were able to get me signed back into my account.

Through FB I learned that my hacker was from Nigeria!

Lessons Learned

Do not have your pc remember your username or your password!

(this makes it easier for the hacker)

Change your password at least every 3 months!

(this is a pain but worth it)

Make your password HARD!

Use capitols, lowercase, symbols, numbers and have it make no sense!

Have two email accounts with different passwords

(this is in case you are hacked and need an alternate email to be contacted at

AND you will have a back up of your contact list!

Create a different password for your FB acct

Do you know why hackers hack?

Because they CAN!

They make a ton of money doing this

Can you believe that people really send

them money?!

I have a friend that works at WalMart and they

see people come in all the time purchasing

a wire transfer for the purpose of

helping out a stranded friend.

WalMart tries to warn as many as possible

but some do get by.

Just in case here are is what I used:

MSN escalation  1800-386-5550

sub.support.msn.com

abuse@hotmail.com

Microsoft  1 800-936-5700

support@microsoft.com

abuse@microsoft.com

Download for free:

malwarebytes.org

Take precautions and be safe!!

Honey Badgers Reunite

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