Flipflop

These are my feet. And my favorite way to wear them, too. bare!

These are my feet in NEW flipflops and my old bad shoes in the middle.

my new flipflops!

There is a story behind this-

I have terrible arches- hereditary! So my mom made me a deal. She'd buy me new shoes- dressy, everyday, and outside- if she'd let me get rid of all my old ones.

Deal.

So I bought these flip-flops, and got another brown and pink pair just like them for variety. I also got Teva sandals for outdoor wear and I have no use for dressy shoes at the moment.

THE END!

I know, beautiful story isn't it? I bet it brought you to tears.

Well here's something to end this post with a laugh. Dry your eyes and click play!

(P.S.- roses are

one of God's

most beautiful flowers!)

Questionita4 Answer!!!!

Red!!!!!!

Memorial Day Weekend....

is just around the corner!

and summer is coming too! Now THAT'S something to celebrate! :)

(I love the flag impression on the picture. It gives a wonderful patriotic feel!)

A few weeks ago I shared this picture.

I was bored and tuned it up...

And now it looks different... I don't know if I like it or not. lol. :)

Mushrooms! I don't technically like mushrooms but they make good pictures!

I'd like to shout out to Lucia Marie for making this absolutely AD-ORABLE header and button. Thank you so much, Lucia! They are s'wonderful, s'marvelous!!!

Also, if you have a Memorial Day picture I would love to see it. Please send it to me at minshipwriter@gmail.com and I'll display it on my blog!*

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

*if you do not wish for me to post your picture, feel free to tell me so when you e-mail it to me. I will respect your privacy. If you do not say that you wouldn't like it to be shared, I will take the liberty of showing it on my blog, but I will not share it anywhere else, copyright it, or photoshop it. All rights of the picture belong to the photographer.

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SOOOOO..... here we go.

fav 1: Comments.

I couldn't find a picture of comments so here is my analogy.

Comments make me smile and so does Garfield so here is a Garfield comic representing comments that make me smile. :) hehe...

fav 2:

Digging through the archives to find SOOC pics. No editing, no nuthin, pure camera lens...uh.. photography. Lol :).

Well I know I didn't live up to last weeks promise of RED because I remembered that I didn't like red that much. I feel sooo smart. :):) hehe. See y'all next week!

Floraliea

Hehe.....I don't know what Floraliea means but somehow it matches this post.
I was bored today and was thinking about adding a signature to all my photos...and I edited and played around with some pictures too.

How do you like it? Which one do you like best?

Blogger of the Month Award

"I really like your blog! I especially like it when you post the "Blogger of the Month" awards. Do you take nominations for that? Because there is a blog I really like..www.one-beloved.blogspot.com. Her name is Lucia and she is a wonderful, encouraging blogger. She has been a really huge light to me and so many others I know. I would love to see her get the award! Blessings, Miriam"   This was one of the commets I recieved at last month's Blogger awards.   "I love Anna's blog. :) Are you doing nominations for this blog award thing? I think one blog that would be REALLY deserving of this is "From Under My Little Umbrella." by Lucia Marie. She has been a huge encouragement to me!! Just a suggestion! Love, Carrie"   This was another.   So I hum-dee-dummed over to Miss Lucia's blog... and my jaw dropped. (ok not literally...but she is AMAZING!!)   So it's no surprise that this month's Blogger of the Month Award goes to...   Miss Lucia Marie at From Under My Little Umbrella!!!!! Congrats Lucia Marie! Do I even need to list why she is absolutely fantastic? 1. Her blog is SO inviting and adorable. 2. Her posts are humorous and make us all feel good. 3. I leave in a better mood. 4. EVERYONE loves her blog and she has 385 followers to prove it!!! 5. She's a beautiful, Godly girl, staying pure, and she's using her influence on us to be a good example!!! Lucia, your blog is wonderful and I am honored to present you with this award. Thank you all for coming to this month's Blogger Awards Ceremony!!! See you next month!

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Awesome! The 15th Twosday Favs.... actually it's not alot if you think about it... so DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!!! lol.

Twosday Fav One: RAINBOW!!!

This cake is SO adorable, don't you think?

This pic is just so perfect for stating "a rainbow cake"!

Twosday Fav Two: Garden Tea!

So charming, so enthralling and captivating!! What words describes the almost-mesmerizing feeling of the enchanting garden tea??? It makes me so peaceful and content and makes me feel like saying "how lovely!" lol :):)

See you next week!

P.S. Next weeks theme (unless I forget I told you guys this) is going to be RED!

Pretty in Purple blog party

I'm not entering the giveaway, but I'm answering the questions for fun!

Favorite thing about summer? Well, this summer I'm really looking forward to camping. Can't wait to get away from the city.

Twilight fan?  No. Is there more I can say? It's....no. no.

Favorite quote?

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."
— Matthew Henry

Best thing that has ever happened to you? Becoming a Christian.

Think of every place in the world possible... which of those places would you go to? To the country. To a farm in the middle of nowhere, completely surrounded by nature. After that I'd go to a London hat shop with a gift card :) lol

Favorite food?  Potatoes... served in lots of different ways. Mashed, whipped, scalloped, baked, fried...

What type of music do you like?  Christian soft rock- like Francesca Battistelli and Britt Nicole, also Paul Baloche and MercyMe

Flipflops, bare feet, heels, or flats?   bare feet. But I have terribly bad arches so I have to wear shoes that I can put my arch supports in- so I have these cute Nancy-Drew loafers.

Skirts or jeans? Skirts!!!!!!! Jeans are so uncomfy to me. I've never liked them, even though I've only been wearing skirts for about a year.

Fresh or saltwater?   Fresh. :) It tastes better and saltwater hurts to swim in... like Salt Lake. I've been there once, a really long time ago on a trip.

Skittles or M&Ms? SKITTLES!!!!!!!! Yum-mer-ito

are you a morning person or more of a night person?  Well I get a crazy half-hour at night but I like mornings sometimes.

So, your best friend is talking to a new girl in school... the new girl asks who you are... what do you think your best friend says?  "She's Mary." what else would she say? Unless I was being really imaginative then the friend would say something like, "Oh, her? She's Mary Minship! She's my BEST FRIEND and she's a published writer! Isn't that awesome? She's so sweet and nice and kind and she's so gorgeous!!!" Lol.

Pen or pencil? Pencil

Paper or plastic? Neither.... plastic leeches bad chemicals into food and paper is paper.... I like glass or ceramic or whatev :). But if I had to choose, I'd choose paper.

Read more: http://dezzysblogerificblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/pretty-in-purple-blog-party.html#ixzz1MSBkOIsE

New look

How do you like it?

Comment and tell me what you think!

Have you noticed... I have almost 5,000 pageviews!!! How exciting! Just a few months ago I was reeling with excitement because I had 100 PAGEVIEWS!!!!!! And now... 5,000!!!

Fred and Tree are doing good. It rained today.

Church was great...

Yup, I like Sundays.

I've been thinking about doing a Fantasy Fiction Week where, for one week, every post you do is from someone elses point of view. Say, you could write posts pretending to be Rapunzel or something, or a pop star, or an African servant in the 1800's. Would you like to do that?

With love, Mary

....and fred

I saw this at the store the other day and I wanted it.

With a little teeny weeny price tag of 13.00 buckaroodles,

I couldn't resist taking him home.

Sooo.......meet my tree. He is unnamed. Although I did try out a few like Bob and Holly or Polly or Chester or Lentils. Ummm.....no. I am not naming a tree lentils. My tree was named Lentils for about 1 minute and Bob for less and Polly for like 1 second.

Meet "tree"! Nice name huh? lol.

The shivering leaves make such a pretty sound! I guess that's why they call it a Quaking aspen... d-duh!

OH!

I can't forget about the little "sucker" (as the lady at the counter called it) in Tree's pot!

(you can see my lovely toesies in the picture... beautiful I know- ew!)

Meet Fred.

I named my little tree and not my big one? huh? I know it's backwards...

No those are not raindrops... they are hose drops. I watered Tree from the top down.... oh wait I watered Tree.... and fred. :)

I love Tree!!!!!! ....and fred.

Someday Tree will grow big and fat and large...and fred.

Ok so Tree is not an apple tree but he will grow big! ....and fred.

hopefully soon!

and fred.



*sigh*

I need a new blog background... and button... and header.
So.....I would say "I'm holding a contest for anyone to enter and make me a new header and get me a new background blah-blah-blah." but i only have 13 followers so i would probably get like 1 entry hehe.
So this is just suggestion because I desperately need a better blog look :) and if you would like to help I would be forever grateful until i change my blog look again :)
so just find any pictures you like and get started if you want to!!!!!!!
email your suggestions to me at minshipwriter@gmail.com

p.s. did you notice i figured out how to use the striker? lol

Dogwood and Strawberries

This was the first time I ever remember seeing dogwood trees. Oh, they are so gorgeous!

From far away they look like pink trees. But even from a car looking at one on the side of the road, you can tell they are each individual, huge flowers. I was so surprised! They look fake.

But they are not! Aren't they pretty? I couldn't capture the real color with my camera... and I was trying manual mode and that is why the picture is so dark hehe :)

And they were all different colors! light pink, dark pink, and white greeted us.

Along with all the springy-leafy-growing trees!

The moon was shining as I could see it up there and so I snapped a shot.

This absolutely gorgeous tree! You know what I like about cameras? They let you see things close up. I couldn't even see what these little pink flowers looked like without my camera so I zoomed in....

But before I show you those beautiful flowers I just had to show you this sun-shiney pic.

alright...

here are those pretty zoomed-in flowers

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Aren't the GORGEOUS?!?!? I have said that like 5 times in this post... but who cares everything is!

They look like snow, it is so gorgeous (i've said that too much lol) pretty!!

and then we had sweet strawberries!!! We got some a few days ago that were so deliciously at the height of ripeness they were the best I'd ever tasted. Then we got these. They were sweet, but I think since they are still yellow at the ends that means they aren't as sweet. But they were good!

and they were huge!

The end!

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Hello there!

Fav One

We got this from the library- It's such a FUN book and it's great ideas too!

Fav Two

I love this!!! Thrilling and suspenseful and clean too! Teaches about how lies will always catch you, and choosing good friends, etc. :):)

Shadows and Silhouettes Photo Contest

I just snapped this shot at random in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart parking lot. It actually turned out quite well aftera teeny bit of editing. So I am entering it in the Shadows and Silhouettes photo contest! I may enter another (you can enter 2 photos if you like- so I don't know....Anyway, here is the picture!



hosted by Raquel at http://www.god-sdaughter.blogspot.com/ and Lucia at http://www.one-beloved.blogspot.com/



Questionita4

Question: What color do you think this tulip is?

(Answer photo will be posted soon!)

(Vote on the side of my blog!!)

Well, here are some other pics I took!

The leaf and the petal kind of merged together... strange, but it's really cool!

Almost blooming!

This is a cherry tree growing at the back of our yard....never actually gotten cherries from it. We can see them way up high in the tree, but they aren't reach-able.

Grape Hyacinths- the perfect "ingredient"! We used to play with these all the time. As soon as they bloomed we were so excited because we could "cook" with them and use them as "exotic" foods and "grapes"! :)

;) wink

 ok so I don't know why I winked.... maybe because I was reminiscing??

anyhew, bye!