Smitten.

This has nothing to do with the South whatsoever.

I am totally smitten over this girl's blog. I say "girl," she's probably close to my age at least. You don't know how old I am? Oh, well, anyway...

I was browsing through the finalists for the Sam-e Good Mood Gig Blog finalists, one of whom is somebody I know, Susan from MS.

The finalists were asked to make a video of themselves and there were several entries that were hilarious! They did such a great job and were very clever.

This makes me want video equipment and editing software in a desperate way, which isn't a wild request...it's going on two years now that it's been on my "In Your Dreams, Honey" Christmas wish list.

Hmmm...Christmas is coming up...making a mental note of that.

The ones that really stood out to me were Bridgette from CA's video, Justin from D.C. and Rebecca from Utah! They were hilarious.

Bridgette is a video blogger and does an incredible job on her site. I'm officially smitten with her blog now.

Check out this post where she emulated Audrey Hepburn's style for 3 days.

Also, her Twenty Seconds for Twenty Days is really entertaining. I look forward to more exploring on her site!

I'm interested in reading Justin's blog - he's a budding writer and screenwriter. And I couldn't find Rebecca's blog! Rhatz.

Enjoy!

Locust Grove Berry Farm

For an early heads up on getting fresh fruit for the spring, take a look at the blog post that went up on Locust Grove Berry Farm in Jackson.

I visited in July and unfortunately missed the blueberries but there were lots of muscadines and figs growing!

Visit Mississippi Blog and things

I've posted a couple of things on the Visit Mississippi Blogspot with pictures and historical information from a few recent travels:

Heathman Plantation

Dockery Plantation

More is to come on the Culinary Trail along with photos for foodies. There's been some good eatin' around these parts in Cleveland, Merigold, Jackson and Hernando.

There is plenty more to post from the trips I've taken so far, too.

Onward and Nitta Yumaand Indianola

So, after life winds down after the wedding...I'll be whole again...??

This Thursday night, I am playing with my songwriter friends at F. Jones Corner on Farish Street at 830pm for a Jackson Progressives Benefit for Stewpot Ministries. We've been collaborating on a few songs and working on harmonies - love it!!

I Second That Emotion...20 Days and impatiently counting

This week I'll be working on some blog posts for the Visit Mississippi Travel Blog. A few of my coworkers have been traveling the state and posting pictures. It makes me a little jealous because they went to some gorgeous locations - and well, I didn't! I can't be too jealous since I have been traveling lately, too. Pictures forthcoming.

I am this close to finishing the Delta itineraries. For the past few weeks I've been making changes, adding information and collecting feedback from all the proofreaders. Bless them for doing that for me! I've also been tackling the Pines Region, squeezing in a few scripts to read and doing location breakdowns for each one.

Filmmakers send scripts to film offices all over the country, especially to the ones that have good incentives - which means, they get tax breaks for spending a certain amount of money during production. So when scripts are sent into the office, they are thoroughly read and reviewed to see if the locations needed fit the descriptions of those in our database.

In other news, I am going back to the Delta to visit Cleveland on Tuesday with my coworkers to visit with the CVB and other folks, see the sights, eat some food! Cleveland has been designated a Cultural Corners Community, which is a grant program through Tourism and the state of Mississippi to help preserve and promote its cultural heritage significance.

Here's more from the press release:

The MDA Tourism Bureau of Film and Culture established a Certified Cultural Corners
Program in 2008 that identifies communities in Mississippi that have cultural heritage
assets of national significance in at least two of the following areas: American Indian
heritage, art and architecture, Civil War history, Civil Rights history, culinary culture,
literary heritage, and musical heritage.

And from out of no where,
without any warning at all,
here's a wedding hijack!!

The horror!! Ahhhhhh!!!

QB and I have decided to do some decor-related things ourselves to help the budget, so rather than paying the florist to make us an arrangement for $300, we did it for probably about less than half, at the very most.

If I do say so myself, I think the arrangements turned out well. I wasn't sure how I wanted to make it look but it worked itself out, really, in the form of layers. Judging from the altar inside of the church I wanted a lateral arrangement rather than flowers sticking out of a tall urn. There's already a tall cross on the altar and I don't want to detract from that too much.

So, when you stick them together, this is what it will look like:

As you can see below, I have put the arrangements on the top of our kitchen cabinets so they won't get destroyed by the feline element in the house (QB's cat, Eliza, is notorious, in many ways, but flower arrangements in particular...my cat, Greta, is the epitome of perfection, naturally, like her mother...) Also, please ignore the skeezy kitchen curtain that hasn't been replaced since 1972. That's next on our list!

Only the end result was in sight while I was "in the zone" and that thought of taking pictures of the step-by-step process occurred to me while I sat on the kitchen floor after the project was complete. Whoops.

I can tell you what went into it, though:

2 brown baskets
two squares of florist foam each (that was be cut and arranged to fit in the baskets snugly)
4 feather "sticks" each
1 orange baby's breath flower packages each
1 green colored baby's breath flower package each (this was really just background accent color that shows up in the close-up pic more than anything)
1 package of branches each (comes with 4 stems)
2 bags of moss (still have some left over)
Hot glue for moss

I also finished another project but will share more about that later because I have to pick QB up at the airport! Yay! He's home from D.C!