Failure is only postponed Success.

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First off I wanted to thank all of you for the lovily comments, they really stroked my ego, you know, the one that I am trying to dissolve. (Reading The Art of Happiness and loving every bit).

As for this post, it is about something that has been pulling at my heartstrings for years now, Australia.  I would love to live there someday but for the time being I will be happy with visiting, so I have entered  a contest to win a trip for two on a wine tasting get-a-way.  It is called Taste your way around Australia.  I have played their little wine tasting game 75 times now, my goal is 200. (each time you play it is another chance to win)  My chances to win are high, but since I never win anything, I don't feel overly confident.  I have become an Australian wine expert through this little challenge.

  My persistance will pay off one day and one day I will be in Oz.  Enjoy, Heidi

This is me.

 The other day I got this crazy idea to take a picture of myself in a mirror like I have seen all around blog land.  I see lots of blogs and lots of blogger's families, but what I really like to see is the actual blogger so I can put a face with the name.  I am using our old camera since my mortician husband took my new one to a mortician's convention and left it at the hotel.  I clearly remember telling him not to take it because what was he going to take pictures of, other morticians?  Gross.  Well, so long new camera, and who ever has it now is enjoying all of the pictures I took of my little boy rolling snow balls during our blizzard and his little crack showing.

This one is a little better.  You can see on my cheek a blotchy red patch which has turned out to be a ringworm. Nice, I have koodies.

Since my folks paid for me to have braces, I better smile with my teeth.  Notice I did not photoshop out my angry elevens between my brows, I earned those babies from squinting in the Texas sun.  I have always felt vain and concieted  about taking my own picture.  When my friend heard me say that once she told me to get over it. Hope you enjoyed my shoot, now I dare all of you to do the same.  Heidi

Twins.

Jeff Andrews Design.

Domino

Elle Decor

Tammy Connor

Country Home

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Bedroom Lover

 I slept so hard, apparently on my face that I woke up with one seriously derranged eyebrow.  Those hairs seemed to be permently krimped, bent and something only a flatiron could straighten.  So I plucked out half my brow and drew it back in.  These kinds of things happen when you find yourself sleeping in heaven or when you re-rock an entire wall on the outside of your house.
 (sleeping hard that is) 

Here are some heavenly beds to feast your eyes on.  Enjoy, Heidi

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Southern Accents

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House Beautiful

Horchow

Country Living

Veranda

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Kaa Design Group

Traditional Home

Coastal Living

Better Homes and Gardens

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William Hefner

Country Homes and Interiors

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Night Night

Sleep Tight

But don't sleep on your face 

So your eye brows look Right. 

Kitchen Reno

Getting all geared up for the big Kitchen Renovation. I can't believe that it is finally happening. I have lived in this 136 year old drug store building for 16 years and we are going to have a bright shiny new kitchen. I'm glad in a way that it is happening now because I got to find the most perfect images to help me decide on all of the details, thank you blogland. Enjoy, Heidi

Windsor Smith

There will be a sink/dish washer island.

House and Garden.
There will be a range in the center of the room on the back wall, oh yeah... and 13' celings.

Traditional Home.
The dining table will be in the room as well, kinda like this but not exactly.

Elle Decor.

I love this range hood and range but don't think I have the cashola to pull it off.

Looks like open shelving too instead of cabinetry.

Still trying to decide if I am going to paint the floors black or white?

Mirror Mirror on the Wall......

I have a mirror addiction. For the past 5 years I have been on a mirror diet but it's just too impossible, I love MIRRORS! I love etched ones and old eroded ones, beveled ones, Italian and French. Enjoy, Heidi

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Image found on Sweet Home Style

Traditional Home.

Found on Braborne Farm.

House Beautiful.

Elle Decor.

Whew!!!

It's been an eventful 3-4 weeks! We have quite a bit of glass in the OKC Symphony Show House. This year it is a 17,000 sq. foot home on the the east side of Lake Overholser. The address is 2550 E. Overholser Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73155. The date is May 1 to May 16, 2010. We've also had a ceiling sculpture with an April 1 deadline. We've been busy blowing glass and fabricating the steel structures for our projects. Ron Licklider with J. Kimball Interiors asked us to do a "obnoxiously large" glass sculpture for the show house that needed to be installed before today. Heap big thanks to Ron for giving us this opportunity to get noticed!! We are making the deadlines so far. The large (about 9' tall) glass scupture is in the "Art Gallery" area. We also have several other pieces of glass in different parts of the home. We have a total of 5 pieces consisting of transparent turquoise, turquoise and white, and white cane pieces in the kitchen utilized by "Domain Interiors". Kristi Forhan and Heidi Smith are the designers and owners of Domain Interiors and did a fabulous job with the kitchen and have been so nice to work with. We also have several of our large art vases we call "Redento Raffinatos" in the Mathis Brother's design area by designers Angela Davidson and Todd Stepp. We may also place another set of beautiful Chartreuse with Gold Ruby accents (a stunning color combination!) within the house. We are so grateful to Angela and Todd for giving us the opportunity to get our Redento Raffinatos looked at by over 15,000 people in the 16 days. I just had my 50th birthday. Mixed feelings about that. Not too happy about being that old, but really happy that I am still having birthdays. Growing older is mucho better than the alternative, if you know what I mean. My son, Micah, honored me greatly! Without my knowledge, he contacted Dante Marioni and bought me a signed goblet from Dante. A DANTE MARIONI SIGNED GOBLET! Did I raise a great son or what! I am literally holding it now as I type this! But then....... But then..... But then...... yes, out of the box came another signed Dante Marioni goblet as a gift from Dante Marioni himself! I now own 2 Dante Marioni Goblets! One a gift from my son and another a gift from "The Man". Whew! I have to stop now. I'm getting too excited and all wore out from thinking about it. I'll post pictures of stuff later.