30 Day Journal: Day 1 & 2

A friend of mine is participating in this on her blog (See Heather's Blog Here) so I thought I would join too! I missed the first day so this post will actually contain 2... look at it this way, you all get a 2 for 1 deal... it is like a prize!!! haha



Day 1: Favorite Song

This topic is so hard for me! I have been singing all my life, in public since I was three, so you could say music is a big part of my life... I cannot choose just one song! That said I will let you in on a few songs I have loved over time.

Tony Bennett "The Way You Look Tonight" This is one of my all time favorite songs! It always makes me think of my Dad for some reason.

Rascal Flatts "It's Not Just Me" This was my favorite song for a while. It is still the one I find myself singing the most; especially in the shower. Haha!

Corinne Bailey Rae "Put Your Records On" This song just always makes me happy and is great to sing along to!

That ends Day 1 for favorite song. I could continue on but then I would never stop.

Day 2: Favorite Movie

My favorite movie has been the same forever...


and my favorite Christmas movie is...


Although those are my all time favorite movies, I also like Star Wars, The Notebook, Failure to Launch, Lady and the Tramp, and a whole host of other movies.

I think this 30 days is going to be fun! Join in if you like!

Mrs. Wilks

And now for the rest of the story...

So you know how you mean to do something but then you get busy and forget… and by the time you think of it or have time to do it you feel like it is too late… you may even put it off longer because so much time has passed you do not know where to begin??? Well this is where I am on my blog… I left you all (my 9 readers… haha) hanging with my guilty pleaser ending of Ugly Betty; and then I fell of the face of the earth! The best way I know to handle this is to no longer make promises of posts, so that when I don’t have the time I will not feel bad for leaving everyone hanging.

Now that the business is out of the way I will continue with a new post…

Wednesday, I was at lunch with Pop and Aunt Red when the hostess seated an older couple at the table beside us. I naturally, being the people watcher I am, looked over to see if it was anyone I knew. The couple, I noticed, had sat on opposite sides of the table; which is my opinion of the optimal situation for talking over a meal when only 2 people are present. Only, instead of sitting directly across from one another they sat on opposite ends of the table as well. Now granted this is only a 4 person table so it was not like they were on opposite ends of the universe but they looked like 2 people who had been forced to eat at the same table. It reminded me of elementary school when the teacher gets the bright idea that everyone will behave better if seats are assigned in the lunch room and you end up sitting by the only person in the class that you don’t want to sit by so you sit as far on the other side of your seat as you can… without falling off. Any way I don’t know how often you guys eat out but I have never been at a restaurant where the force you to sit where you don’t want to or be seated with a stranger if you do not want to be seated with them. So obviously these two people had made the decision to come eat lunch together but their body language was telling the world a different story. To top it off we finished our meal before they did so maybe things changed after I left but in the whole time we sat beside this couple they never said a word.

My question to all of you is do you think this couple was angry with one another and had to come eat because they were starving and simply could get food any other way? Or do you think they have spent so many years together in Love that they are completely content in simply being in each other’s presence? It also made me think; what do I do when out in public, that others may see and have questions about? Am I a mystery or am I living my life so that my actions portray my feelings and my love for the Lord? In the case with the couple in the restaurant… if the answer was that they were in love and simply revel in the presence of one another, then why did I have to ask the other question? Shouldn’t I just be able to tell?

Another one bites the dust...

5/15/2007 was a day that will always stick out in my mind... that is when Season 7, Episode 22 of Gilmore Girls aired. It would be the last episode EVER! AHHH... I was so sad because it was my favorite show of all time; with Friends (also ended) as a close second.



Why do they have to come to an end!!!

Anyway I say all of that to announce that again one of the shows I like to watch will be airing for the last time. Tonight will be the last night of Ugly Betty! I know many of you are probably thinking “what a crazy show!” However, for me, it has been a wonderful way to escape my everyday life. To follow a girl who starts out wanting to write things that will make a difference in the world and ends up in the world of fashion as the side kick for the editor in chief of Mode Magazine.

I admit Ugly Betty has been somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me over the years and I am sad so to see it go. Betty has come so far and sometimes I feel like I have a little Betty inside me. In fact I think we all have a little Betty in us. We face obstacles every day at work and in life and like Betty we have to make choices. I know that she is just a TV character… but hey! can’t we all learn a little something from TV… hahah. Betty always makes the right decision in the end even when it is hard; which I believe is a positive considering some things on TV these days. (haha just sounded like a grandma) Ok so enough rambling... I will post a recap of the show tomorrow. I have high hopes that it will not leave me totally devastated at the end but we shall see.... Until tomorrow! Mrs. Wilks

PS: Here are some pictures from the show in case you are asking yourself: “Who is this Betty and why is Mrs. Wilks calling her Ugly?”

This is how Betty looked when the show first started.


This is Betty now: beautiful and confident!

Make It Your Own!

I am and have always been a firm believer in being your own person and making things your own. So when Grandbee, Aunt Red, and I decided to throw my very good friend Mrs. T (or soon to be Mrs. T... hehe) a wedding shower, it was only appropriate that I make invitations that not only suited the shower but also reflected the wedding and the bride as well. So I went to Hobby Lobby on a search for what to do. Having made my own invitations for many events, including my own wedding, I felt confident I would have no problems with the task ahead of me. I had a hard time making my choices simply because I wanted them to be as close to perfect as possible and with the many colors being used in Mrs. T’s wedding my options were truly endless. I decided on a plain white note card and envelope. I also bought a multi color stamp pad and heart shaped stamps since I had acquired printed heart napkins and plates for the shower.

I love to use stamps to personalize things! Not only do they make your stationary unique from other stationary but each individual invite is unique. Anyone who has used a stamp pad knows, you never get the same outcome twice. Sometimes the color is darker sometimes it is lighter. However, I am a bit of a perfectionist so I like to get them as close to uniform as possible. This is why I had Mr. Wilks laughing when I drew a line down the side of my stamp so I could line it up the same each time with the multi color stamp pad.

When creating homemade invites I think it is important to personalize the message as well. This was especially important in the case of Mrs. T’s shower because Mr. Wilks and I introduced Mr. & Mrs. T (to be) on a blind date. I wanted to include something about the way they met on the invitation. After racking my brain this is how the invite read:
She dreamed of the day when her prince would arrive,
The way he would look and the car he would drive.
She found him in, a peculiar way,
With friends on a date, not hardly knowing his name.
Now the date has been set to tie the knot,
But everything they need for their house has not been got…
So Join with their Friends, as we celebrate the upcoming big day,
To give to Mrs. T and Mr. T in a big way.

It took me about two hours to print, stamp, seal, and address the invites. Thanks to my sweet hubby helping out! He is great at the sealing, putting address labels, and postage stamps on. Anyway, I say that to encourage those of you who say it takes too much time, to reconsider doing invites on your own. The other great advantage to doing them on your own is the money you save. I spent about $15.00 on supplies and now I only have to buy more note cards the next time I choose to use this design.

And now for the best part, here are some pictures of the invite!


This is the stamp pad and stamps I used for the invites.


This is a picture of the envelope. (You can see, I also stamped it to make for a more personal look)


This is a picture of the outside of the note card invite.



This is a picture of the inside of the note card invite.

If you have any questions about making your own stationary or have some you have made you would like to show off leave a comment!

Mrs. Wilks

PS Sorry for the quality of the pictures... they were taken with my camera in the living room floor. Haha And of course the black boxes were not on the real invites I just didn't want anyone's info to get posted on the web. :-)

Sorry...

Just wanted to stop in and say I am so sorry for taking so long to put an original post. Things have been so busy with school, Mr. Wilks softball and all the other fun things we have been up too… (i.e. Showers, showers, and more showers) I just have not had time to get the ball rolling. I am working on some posts about the cruise but I think instead of waiting until they are finished, I will just bring you all up to speed and then leave those posts to be mixed in here and there. I am going to promise a new post by tomorrow night. Hope everyone is having a wonderful blessed day!
Mrs. Wilks

Not Me! Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

It is not me who wore panty hose yesterday just so I didn’t have to shave the stubble on my legs. Nope not me…. And it was also not me who held my niece while she was throwing up thinking how awesome I was to not be joining her; only to later dry heave at the mere thought that the whole thing had happened. Again there is no way that was me, cause I have a strong stomach and can handle anything. (Haha) Oh, and it was not me who made up a recipe last night using the microwave and ingredients that did not require cooking just to avoid having to actually fix supper. Nope it was definitely not me! I love to cook and have time and energy every night to cook four course meals for my husband because I am Super Wife!!! Have you had things you too are embarrassed to admit you did? If so, join in and write a comment letting us know were not the only ones out there.
Mrs. Wilks

Mrs. Wilks Simple Pleasures

Hey everybody! Sorry it has been a few days since my last post. I have just been swamped at work and getting ready for a trip… more to come on that one in a later post. Ok, ok just one hint…



Anyway, I was reading Kelly’s Korner (a blog I have recently become an avid reader of) and today she had a post on Simple Pleasures. It prompted me to list some of mine and to encourage all of you to leave comments of some of your own Simple Pleasures.

Where to begin…

The smell of anything baking

A small vanilla Ice cream cone… actually any ice cream cone

A Lazy Saturday

Buying stationary supplies in the fall because school is starting and they are on sale everywhere

One of my nieces running up when they see me

Knowing that no matter how old she gets Katie-bug will still love me the most!

Cotton Candy

Buying something on sale that you have been eyeing for months

White Chocolate Mochas with a shot of cinnamon

Date night with Mr. Wilks… even if it is just out to the grocery story

Slobbering baby kisses

Tuesday night knitting classes (even if the only reason it is a pleasure is because of the other people in the class)

Hallmark movies… or is that a guilty pleasure?

Preschool Children’s Church

These are just a few of the things that I consider simple pleasures. Please feel free to join in and let me know what things you see as simple pleasures. And stay tuned for my next post about our trip.