Sweet Indulgence

When I was buying all my supplies for Easter dinner I decided to stop at the Dollar Tree and see if I could get another bag of jelly beans.  You say why didn't I buy some while grocery shopping?  Well, you see this particular bag of jelly beans were called gourmet jelly beans, and they just had a certain tang at the end of the chewy delights. Really how could they be called gourmet if you buy them at the dollar store right, or if it didn't say jelly belly on the bag.   I had bought some for my grand children's Easter baskets a week ago and fell in love with them but when I went back to get more they were all gone!!!  I was so bummed since the remaining jelly beans that didn't go into the kid's basket stayed with us and yes we at them all up before Easter. 

When I got home I had noticed that I didn't buy any color egg dye so back to the dollar store since I new I had seen tons of those packages earlier in the week.   I go there quite a lot for convenience since it is close and when I was a child this was one of the things I will always remember we did as children.  Also, I had remembered a lady talking once that she uses these dyes all year for her hard boiled eggs so she knows which ones are which.  So as I am heading back to the dollar store I think to myself I will get a few extra so the next time I do hard boiled eggs I will use them. 

Since I am such a color person I was excited to have remembered it.  Well, when I got to the store they were all gone too!!!  So I looked around the store, none, then decided to go back to the Easter section one more time before leaving and then I spotted one box of color dye!!  I snatched that up so fast your head could spin.  Then as I looked on the last Easter display just to see if I could just find one more I spotted one bag of gourmet jelly beans!!!!  I just couldn't believe it I mean I really shouldn't even be eating sweets and had come to the conclusion that it was better that I didn't find any but did that stop me from grabbing that bag out of the box?  No way!!! :) Can you say score.

I got home and enjoyed coloring my eggs and finding one of my pretty dishes to put the jelly beans in and of course I always have to snatch a orange one and black one which are my favorites. We had such a wonderful dinner with our son and stuffed ourselves silly and thought to myself I can start that diet tomorrow!

Well, today I will be trying to finish a painting I started last week on the song/video call "Paint your Picture" by Julie Meyer it so touched me that I new I had to try to do a painting of the colorful video.  So stay tuned for that post, I will show you the process as well. I also have tons to do on my photo challenge and art journal pages and hope to get caught up this week since last week was so busy. So in the mean time have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by I so enjoy our visits.

xo

barb