winner, winner, chicken dinner

so....i enter a bloggers' giveaways. quite a few. but only for really, cool stuff. not crappy things. and so...i freakin' won. yep. won. me. yeah! me! and here is what i'm-a-gettin':

http://makeroomforstyle.blogspot.com/2009/04/and-winner-is.html

basically, something else for the girls to fight over. so...instead of going with the whimsical bunny toile, i chose fabric to match the living room (i know, some of you are asking, "match it to what?!" i'm right here. no need to yell, okay?) in order to make the "snuggle set" a "brown chair" exclusive. it's not enough that the girls bicker about which of my legs they get to snuggle up on. nope. now i'm gonna add a "snuggle set" to the equation. but there will be no trips to either girl's bedroom. i repeat: not trips to either bedroom. maybe my own bedroom, but not my offsprings', okay?! that outta last, oh ummm? a day.

anyways...here are the fabrics i chose (after spending a couple hours online scrolling around):

PILLOW: http://www.javisdavis.com/designstudio/fabric.php?mat=0713

SOFTEST BLANKET . . . EVER:

http://www.javisdavis.com/designstudio/fabric.php?mat=0636

&

http://www.javisdavis.com/designstudio/fabric.php?mat=0462

(tell me that you could've resisted the :butter fluff"? really? could you have? i thought not!)

title of this blog? yeah...i have no clue what teeny-bopper show it is from, but a mom of a almost double-digiter said this to me when i was telling her about entering blog giveaways. i am almost certain that she was making fun of me.

no. i. AM. certain.

contentment

yesterday was such a good day! i did miss having hubs be able to go to lunch with us girls, but i am thankful for his job change last august (even if he is DTO now instead of just a few blocks from home)! the girls & i ran a couple errands (mailing uppercase living orders & some banking), went to the bookstore and got 3 (yep, three!) new books and Easter Basket books for the girls...and then lunch at our traditional birthday place: red robin! ah...good day! i did go into work last night, but even that was okay! they surprised me with a yummy ice cream cake...and then when i got home...another surprise: hubs and the lils CLEANED UP THE LIVING ROOM, KITCHEN, BATHROOM & GIRLS' BEDROOMS! i had asked hubs to just have the girls pick up their toys since we have our babysitter, kristyn (who my littles L-U-V! she is awesome!!), comes this afternoon...he went above and beyond!

a few days ago i had a couple minutes to myself and beelined it to one of my fave fabric stores. i am feeling the urge to sew (after tax season of course!). so i got some swatches to make fresh-springy pillows for our couch/living room and each of bedrooms! i will post a photo of my purchases another day! this leads me to a fabu site that i have fallen in complete unabashed love with: http://www.javisdavis.com/index.html i think i must have the "cottontail toile"...since it has 2 of my faves: toile & whimsy! the only thing that could totally make me nearly faint would be if it were damask! i found this site through blog-hopping and ventured on a new blog that i will stalking, err i mean stopping by, on a daily basis from now on! http://makeroomforstyle.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

(and it doesn't hurt that she too does accounting AND is creative, too...it can happen!)

oh, the photo? some of my birthday loot!

oh, the title? yeah, sometimes i need to remind myself that contentment does not always lie in big, amazing moments but in the tiny, seemingly ordinary, real-life ones!