Future Home Decorating and Giveaway

I am not posting about the usual child antics, triathlon happenings, or strange, but true stories today. Instead Lucky Blog Reader you get the opportunity to weigh in on the color scheme of my future home. (Only 12 more days!!) I am already leaning towards one, but I wanted some opinions anyway. My last house leaned toward browns and bluish-greens. I want something different, but bright. Just so you know these are the schemes for my kitchen, living room, entryway, and dining room which are all sort of connected.





~ Choice 1

It's different. Bright. I don't know which of these colors would be a good color for living room walls.

~ Choice 2
My mom who is a great decorator says peach and red are going to popular soon. I think it may be popular, but not so popular everyone does it. What do you think?



~ Choice 3


I like this, but it isn't much different from my last house. I just don't know.



~ Choice 4


I like this. That first color is peachier than it shows here. It's more pastel than bright though. But I feel like rooms could painted these colors without being too garish.

~ Choice 5

This is the same as Choice 2 except the red-ish color is different. How would a bright red-ish entryway look?

I put up a poll at the top left of my blog. I thought I was so clever, but now I realize it is very hard to see. Oh...tough it out and vote anyway. I need help here.

If you are stopping by from the hops feel free to vote too. What the heck, huh?

I decided to give away something else since it was so fun last time. In the spirit of painting I am going to give away a $20.00 gift certificate to Home Depot.

To Enter:

*Be a follower.

*Tell me what colors you would want your house to be.

(You can stick both of these in one comment. )

- Comments must be in by Sunday at midnight.

- I will choose and post a winner on Monday.

Everyone have a great day and a great weekend.

Here's the hops!! (Excuse the lack of buttons, but they aren't saved on this computer.)

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Coffee and Quotes - Giveaway

I love movies and I love coffee. Well maybe LOVE is too strong of a word. I enjoy movies and I enjoy coffee.

To celebrate 250 lovely followers I am going to do a giveaway. (Bear with me. I have no idea what I am doing here.) I wanted to make one entry contigent upon a movie quiz. But I don't know how to hide your answers from each other.

SO, Just answer the darn quiz for fun, honors style and then leave me a comment telling me you follow and how many quiz questions you answered correctly. I will pick a random number on Tuesday morning as the winner of.........

..........A Starbucks GC - because I enjoy coffee. I enjoy coffee while I blog and so in a way, if you think about it, sometimes it is like chatting with ya'll over a cup of coffee. Except that I can't see you and you can't tell how many times I have gotten up to go to the bathroom. (If you don't live near a Starbucks you can pick something else.)

Here is the quiz part. Please tell me the movie the following lines came from. (These are my family's favorite lines and can be heard as a regular part of our conversations.) Deadline - Midnight Monday, July 5.

(Edit to correct numbering.)
1. "You shut your mouth when you're talking to me."

2. "If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy."

3. "Looks great...little full....lotta sap."

4. "In the morning, I'm making waffles!"

5. "Candlesticks make nice gift. Ok? Let's get two."

6. "Nooooo touchy."

7. "You'll shoot your eye out."

8. "I put in a dollar, I won a car. I put in a dollar, I won a car. I put in a dollar, I won a car."

9. "Why don't you make like a tree, and get out of here?"

10. "Why so serioussss?"

11. "You're killin' me, Smalls!"


Bonus** "Egypt? Easter, Easter Bunny, Easter parade........" (Ok. I don't think ANYONE will get this one and if someone does that person is officially as weird as my little brother.)

Answers are at the bottom of this post.

I really appreciate everyone who has read and/or followed this blog, even those friends and family members who were forced. I also love reading all your smart and funny comments. Thanks you have made my foray into blogging such a blast.

Answers:
1. Wedding Crashers
2. The Breakfast Club
3. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
4. Shrek
5. Bull Durham (I don't know why I have 2 #4s.)
6. Emperor's New Groove
7. A Christmas Story
8. National Lampoons Vegas Vacation
9. Back to the Future
10. The Dark Knight
11. The Sandlot
** Bonus - My weird brother has so generously volunteered his copy of this movie as a prize for the first person who correctly identifies the quote. (It's used - just so you know.)

We don't have very sophisticated taste in movies do we? And one last thing, I had asked The Coach and the kids to suggest quotes and now I can't get them to QUIT saying the quotes. Oi vey!