Have you heard? The Osbournes are now licensed. You can buy an Osbourne bobblehead in September. See a bigger picture here. And coming to a novelty store near you: a complete line of Osbournes merchandise! How odd that must be for Jack & Kelly to be teenagers with licensed merchandise. I can’t wait to see…

They’re baaaack OMG- I’m so excited! Look! Over to your left! Archives! Holy Schnitzel!

Nachos! My sister and her husband gave me a deep fryer for my birthday. It’s really for my husband though. He’s so excited about this. Tonight we’re going to deep fry pickles. If they’re successful then I’ll post results! In the meantime, check out what we did the other night. We made nachos. We even…

baltimore trip! ** warning ** very long post, but hey- i’m catching you up on a solid week of shenanigans! monday, 8/5 our travel day. meet our travel chicken. i brought silly putty along for entertainment. husband would call out something for me to sculpt and i’d turn my hot pink silly putty into a…

i’m going to be an aunt my sister, sara, the one who got married june 29th, is going to have a baby with her brand new husband. she told me sunday. congratulations to the new parents-to-be.

for your reading pleasure:a trip down memory lane… since i don’t know how to get my archives working, i scrolled through and pulled up the 1st week of posts to this blog. read the 1st post ever below, then come back up here for the ones following. funny how i thought things would work out……

sparkle and shine is 1 year old! yep, that’s right. i started this here blog up a year ago. i did it as a way to keep my birthday resolution to keep a journal. time flies. it was a couple of months before anyone but me and husband actually knew about it, but that’s all…

we’re home we had a great time! i’ll tell all about our trip and meeting rachel later. right now i have a ton of catching up to do here at work!

birthday goodness this weekend has been great. a good start to our holiday. we did a little shopping to get ready for our trip, had dinner last night at casco bay with the family, cleaned the house, did last minute laundry, etc. i just baked some cookies to take to the neighbors as a thank…

early birthday surprise i came home from work last night to find a surprise husband left for me. he had to close at work (til midnight). i’m so excited about this gift! it’s sooo thoughtful. he bought me a craft table and set it up in the office where all of my crafty things are.…