Gingerbread Men

Hello there!

There's something about gingerbread men cookies that is so appealing.  I was at Panera the other day and spotted these guys!  How cute right?

But, alas, this is not a happy tale of dancing gingerbread men--no! 
It's a rather sad tale in fact--there are times I say "NO" when I should say "YES"!  When the guy taking my order asked me if I wanted to add a sweet treat to my sandwich order (for .99), I said no!

I didn't realize that I could have had one of these guys for .99!

Now, I can't stop thinking about them.

If you have never been to a Panera's, you gotta go!

Because, there's more yumyums--

I'm thinking I need to go back to Panera's and grab me a couple of those

gingerbread men cookies and devour them unmercifully.

Wanna join me?

As always, have fun in your life and when asked if you want to

add a sweetums for .99--SAY YES for crying out loud.

Always SAY YES!

Yuki

I Love Netflix

Hello there ma blog peeps!
Can't help it but I love Netflix.  I know that recently Netflix has taken some flack because of their price increase but I still love 'em.
When I was working, I used to buy movies all the time, usually from Sam's Club, at about 20 bucks a pop!

When I retired and Zip retired, we couldn't afford to do that anymore.  Spending around $60 - $80 a month on movies that we watched ONLY ONCE was out of the question.

In came Netflix.  We started with one movie at a time, liked it, then went up to three movies at a time.  LOVE it.  Love the choices, love the freedom (no driving--just walk to our mailbox), love their promptness.

Netflix go out of their way to make things right

if there is a problem with any of the movie CDs.

We also had, and still do even with the price increase,

unlimited streaming of movies.

We watch them on our big screen TV (with the help of Roku).

We LOVE to watch movies!  Can you tell?

For the price of one movie

(when we were buying them), we can watch more movies in one month 

 than we have time for--for less than a dollar a movie!

When we are away on our roadtrips for weeks, sometimes months,

we put Netflix on hold.

Is Netflix for everybody?  Probably not.

But for us--it's the best.

Check them out and see what I mean!

As always, be open to new possibilities! 

 It's just more fun that way!

Yuki

So True!

Hello there blog peeps

This post is for everybody who wishes they were organized but aren't.

Recently, Zip and I had lunch with Sambo and afterwards, we went over to her house.

She has this hanging in her stamproom.  I love it.

As always, have fun NOT being organized.

I know it's hard to have fun looking for stuff

but

at least you have stuff!

Yuki

I'm the Serious One!

Hello Blog Peeps
I love my friends!  Even when they can't be serious for one second--I still love 'em.

Yes, I'm the serious one.  The other two "clowns" are Cynthia and Tony.

These were taken during the Red Hot Social Play Day, right before

the rest of the gang arrived.

From left to right, Marie, Rhodeen, Yuki, the serious one;

Cynthia and her tongue; and Tony the pointer (a new kind of pointer breed).

Here she is going through my pile of lace and making clothes out of them!

And just a warning--If you ever invite Cynthia into your house, NAIL everything down or else

she will move everything around.  Trust me, I know from experience.

And, don't even ask me about my poor little

Travelocity gnome!

As always, have fun--I'm sure you have a Cynthia and Tony in your life too!

Yuki

All Elf Is About

Hello Blog Peeps!
A whole mess of us girls went to the movies the other night!  It was a girls' night out with the Zipster too. 

We saw "Tower Heist" with Eddie Murphy.  Very very funny--go see it if you haven't already.

While we were there, I snapped this photo because I just LOVE what it said.

All Elf is about to break loose!

Just too elfing funny!

As always, create your own fun!

Yuki

More RED

Hello there!
I just couldn't resist showing you more of my red accent photos.

Here's a photo of Zip's Disney birthday celebration cake on board

the Disney Dream cruise ship.  Yum Yum Yummy!

Here is the same cake with my camera set on

color accent RED.

As always, put some fun in your day

whether you want to or not!

Yuki

Magic in the Clouds

Hello Blog Peeps!
WOW!  On our first evening on the Disney Cruise something REALLY magical happened--magical clouds  to bid us farewell.
Take a look

Do you see 'em?  A magical dragon and . . .

Mickey!!!

The clouds were truly magical that evening!

As always, see the fun all around you.

Yuki

The Color of Red

Hello there!
WOW!  I love taking photos.  Been interested in photography nearly all my life.  I was the yearbook photographer for my high school for my junior and senior years (that's how I met the Zipster!).
I would take the photos, go over the photo craft shop on Ft Sam Houston, developed my own black and white negatives, then printed the photos.

I LOVE TAKING PHOTOS!  Just in case you didn't catch it the first time!

I have this superduper "mini me" digital  Canon camera (and it's RED) that I carry in my purse all the time.  I have a "big me" SLR digital Canon camera too but I don't carry it around with me all the time--just too big to fit in my purse!

Well, my mini me Canon camera is awesome because I love playing with the settings and creating kewl photos.
Take a look at some photos I took:

It was really really dark so I changed the settings to ADD a bunch of light.

I found a nonmoving FLAT surface to rest my camera on because the

shutter speed was sloooooooow. 

I love how the photo came out.

In this photo, I wanted the moon in the background. 

You can imagine how dark the night was, right?

It was DARK.

So, again, I had to add a bunch of light

to my photo.

Again, I had to find a good steady surface to

rest my camera on.

WOW!  I love the photo, don't you?

Okay, this is the BEFORE photo.

This the AFTER photo.

Know what I did?

I selected a feature in my camera that lets me

pick which color to accent.

In this case, I picked RED!

Anything not red will come out as a black/white photo.

My little camera is so much fun!

Here's another example of color accenting.

And another.

Oh!  How do you like this one?

This one is so much FUN.  LOVE IT.

Such a kewl photo!

These photos were taken by my red

Canon PowerShot SD780 IS.

THE MOST AWESOME AND VERSATILE

little (fits in my purse)

CAMERA IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

As always my friend, find the fun behind your camera and

see the world around you in a whole new light.

Be the photographer you were meant to be!

Yuki

BRRRRR--it's December

Created by Red Hot Shana Neuman

How did it get to be December already?????

Seems like yesterday it was New Year's Day 2011!

What a great December page created by Shana.

Looking at her page--can you feel it? I do.

The cold wintry winds and white crunchy stuff all over the ground. Brrrrrrrrr. . . .

Hope you keep warm during December!

And in case you were wondering--"Yuki" means "snow" in Japanese! :}

Kewl House

Hello Ma Peeps!
Is this a kewl house or what?  Whaddathink?  Shouldn't be too hard to do, right?

We're in Downtown Disney, Disney World, near the House of Blues!

As always, life is too short to NOT to have any fun. 

Yuki

Magical Entrance

Hello there!
How can you NOT feel magical going through this huge Mickey Ears Hat to start your Disney Cruise?

Yes!  I would love to come aboard!

thank you, Mickey!

As always, have fun and let the child inside you

be a part of your life every day.

Yuki

America I Love Mickey and Us

If I haven't said it enough, let me say it again--I just love living in the greatest country in the world--the United States.

If you are a US citizen, how wonderful is it to be US-homegrown?  We are so lucky, and I don't go one day without thinking about it and being thankful.

So here we are!  With "America I Love Mickey" at the Shades of Green (the hotel for military personnel) at Walt Disney World.

That may not be the official name for this Mickey but that's

what I'm calling him--America I Love Mickey.

Here's the Zipperonia with Mickey!

We are going to stay at the Shades of Green this December!

Walt Disney World during Christmas--is there a MORE

magical place to be during Christmas?

I don't think so.

As always, let the magic happen and have fun with it.

Yuki

What ARE These?

Hello there!
Is there anybody out there who can explain these to me?

Anybody?

As always, have fun even when you don't know what's going on.

Yuki

A Dragon and Me

Hello there blog peeps!
Here I am in Disney  World WITH a dragon.   Yikes!

Good thing it's mouth was already filled with time!

As always, have fun and don't be scared of dragons--they like time better than people!

Yuki

Me and Pooh

Hello there!
I'm not a cartoon watcher but I do like Pooh Bear!

Maybe it's the honey I like?

Here's Zipper with Tigger and that little pink pig whatit'sname!

See the raindrops on Zip's T-shirt?

Rain!

Something we Texans don't know much about!

As always, never let raindrops keep you from having fun!

After all, it's only water!

Yuki

Leggos!

We love going to the Leggo store!  Talk about FUN!
Here we are with some Leggo people and dogs.

This is incredible.   All made out of Leggos!

SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE has waaaaay too much time on their hands!

As always, create a little fun and let your imagination run wild.

Yuki

It's a Squirrel's Life

Hello Blog Peeps!

Is this funny or what? 

I took this photo from inside my sunroom because I didn't want to scare him/her off.

As always, take a few minutes out of your day to savor the little things--it's just more fun that way!

Yuki

The Mother of all Desserts!

Hello there!
Is this a dessert to end all desserts or what?

And, YES, it was as good as it looks!

As always, have fun and NEVER pass up something as yummy as this!

Yuki

More Spooky Fun!

Had enough of Halloween yet?  NO?
Good.   Here's more. . .

For the second night of Halloween fun, I'm a withcie witch.  Like my witchie shoes?

Some delectable sweets.

The terrifying trio of Tinkerbell and two twitchies.

Add a Raggedy Ann and a ghoul--and you've got yourself a PAR-TEE!

!

Wtichie Yuki with ghostie friends, dancing in the background.

A vampira, a mousie, and two witchies in the Texas Transportation Museum giftie store. 

Trouble is brewing!

If you have never visited the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, TX, why not? 

It's a FUN place full of train stuff and more!

Yuki

I Wrote the Book

Hello there!
Have you written a book?  A short story maybe?  Do you even like to write?

I do dream about writing a book and then becoming famous and, above all, rich!  But I'm thinking that is not my path.

Yet, I HAVE written a book!  It's basically a book about me (surprise!) and it includes only a few years of my life--it's my blog book.

Here's the front cover of my book!  Zip took that photo of me while we were touring inside one of the caves near Mt Rushmore.  I like that photo of me!  :}

This is the dedication page.  I dedicated my book to Zip and me because without us,

there would be no book! 

We are standing on top of glacier in Alaska.  We have both been dreaming about doing this one day and we finally got to do it on one of our roadtrips.

This is my back cover.  You can see that my book encompasses the years from Jan 2008 to Feb 2011.  Zip took this photo of me while we were on a Princess cruise to Alaska.

Oh, just a closer look of the front cover photo.  I think you can even see that I'm wearing a Mt Rushmore T-shirt.

This is what I decided to put on the spine of the book because it really is all about me.

Here's a glimpse into some of the pages of my book.  When ordering your blog book, you can decide to include comments to your blog post or not.  I decided to include them in my book; I love reading your comments so keep them coming okay?

More pages of my blog book.

These are pages when I first started my blog, back in 2008.

WOW!  I love my blog book.  Can't wait for the next one.  I'll give another 2 - 3 years and then publish my second blog book. 

If you have a blog and want your very own blog book, check out Blog2print.

They do a fantastic job--the quality is superb, quick turnaround time, and very affordable.

As always, have fun in your life and then write about it.   :}

Yuki

Two Blogs!

Hola blog peeps!

I have some new news for you! 

In October, I started a NEW blog called, Art With Sprinkles and I'm really really excited about it. 
For many many moons, I've been thinking about starting a separate blog where I could share little bits and pieces of the stuff I create, apart from all my roadtrip stuff.

It took me a while to come up with a name for my new blog--oh the names I went through!  FINALLY, "Art With Sprinkles" became THE NAME I wanted to go with.

Art = I am an artist.  I love to create.  What I create is art (at least to me!).  I love sharing what I create.
 
Sprinkles = I love sprinkles.  I love the word "sprinkles"!  Sprinkles are colorful and fun.  Sprinkles make me happy. 

Art With Sprinkles = my art makes me happy like sprinkles on a cupcake!  

I hope when you peek inside my new blog, Art With Sprinkles, you will find colorful and fun bits and pieces of my creative creations that will inspire you to create your own art sprinkles. 

I've created a tab beneath my header where you can go (quickly) to Art With Sprinkles.

If you want to see what Zip and I are up to, please continue to check out this blog okay?!  :}

As always, have fun and ONLY eat cupcakes with sprinkles!  Why?  Because, as in life, a cupcake is sooooooo much better with sprinkles on it.
Yuki

My Most Favorite Scotch Tape

Hello there!
Have you thought about the scotch tape you use?  Do you love it?  Do you like it?  Do you hate it?

Well, I hate the "satin" gift wrap stuff--what a waste of money!  First of all, why does it say it's specifically for gift wrapping?  When you do use it on a gift wrap, it's so noticeable that I think it looks hideous.  Secondly, I take issue with "satin"!  I don't know why I take issue with that word to describe tape but I do!

And have you tried the tape that says it's invisible?  Really?  Really?  Invisible?  Like I can't see it at all after it's applied to something?  Please stop before I have to slap myself to wake up from this nightmare!

Then there's the tape that says it's clear (sorta like invisible) but it's really not.  There is nothing clear about the clear scotch tape I've used.! 

And if I'm not on a scotch tape hating spree as it is, let's talk the tape that won't stick even after pressing it down a number of times.  Shouldn't that not even be an issue?  Tape that won't stay taped down?

And please don't get me started on Magic Tape.  What the heck does that mean--magic?  What is so magical about magic tape.  I don't get it.

It's been hard dealing with all this UNTIL
I accidentally stumbled upon the MOST PERFECT scotch tape in the whole wide world.  It's so my favorite that I can't imagine my life without it now.  Buying two rolls of this tape was NOT an option; I needed at least three rolls.

Shhhh, I really bought tons of this tape because I love it so much!

Yes, it's from Dollar General and it's only $1 a roll (a HUGE roll may I add).  It is truly CLEAR--and it's so pretty in its clearness.  It is about 99% invisible when applied to anything, even gift wrap.  It is very very sticky.
It sticks really really well like something called "tape" should. Imagine that!

If you have issues with your roll of clear satin magic scotch tape, then you need to run to your nearest Dollar General store and buy a roll or two before I get there!  :}  Hopefully I didn't buy them all.  :} 

And please don't ask me exactly how many rolls of this tape I have because I may have to deviate from the truth a bit to not appear strange!  (And yes, I know Scotch tape is brand of tape!  So cry me a river and hand me a Kleenex will ya!)

As always--have some fun--buy some Dollar General scotch tape.  Life is too short to do otherwise.
Yuki