Thursday, April 25, 2013

Grits & tomatoes & hushpuppies AND a giveaway win, oh my!

My body is back from South Carolina, but my mind is still there. It was an awesome vacation that definitely ended too soon! The ocean, the history, the food, the beach, the sunshine, the food, the palmetto trees, the architecture, the food…. did I mention the food? ;-) I’m now officially addicted to shrimp & grits, fried green tomatoes, and hushpuppies. I won’t tell you how many of them all I ate! It never occurred to me to take pictures of the food – well, maybe it did, but I was too busy stuffing my face! – so here’s a little sampling via Google…

southern food Images via The Professional Palate, Eat Good 4 LifePamela’s Products

Luckily, I remembered to take pictures of everything else we saw and did in SC – like the driveway to Boone Hall Plantation

run Forrest, run pm

And houses in Charleston…

house with magnolia pm

Once I get my {thousands!} of pictures organized and resized, I’ll write some blog posts about our trip. If you haven’t already been to SC, I highly recommend going :-)

Just before we left for SC, I found out that I won a super-awesome blog giveaway. Jessie at Mix And Chic teamed with Murals Wallpaper to give one of her blog readers a wall mural up to a value of $500. Yep, that’s FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS! Holy crap! I was beyond excited when I found out that I was the winner – especially since I got my entries in just under the wire. Sometimes procrastination pays off :-) Now the hard part – which mural choose! These are just a few of my favourites…

Textures-Raindrops-Room

Design-Black-and-White-Wood-Print-Wall-Mural-Room3

Design-Blueprint-Boat

Giant-Pebbles-Wallpaper-Mural  Floating-Dandelion-Wallpaper-Mural-Room_0

Grunge-graffiti-Mural-Wallpaper

A HUGE thank you to Jessie and Murals Wallpaper for the awesome prize! I can’t wait to get started designing a new room around one of these amazing murals!

8 comments:

  1. Glad your trip was amazing. You have your work cut out for you choosing a mural!

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  2. I am sooooo glad you had a great time and so glad I could sort of-in a round about way- be a part!!! Can't wait to see more pictures!

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  3. Charleston. I know. What's not to love? You deserved that vacation. Can't wait to see what you do with your wallpaper prize.

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  4. Choose the pebbles - they will remind you of your beach holiday !!

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  5. Ho Kelly Can't wait to see what you do with your wallpaper prize.

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  6. Kelly,

    Sounds like you're a busy gal. Love the first one alot great for a guest bath. I can't wait to hear more about how you use your prize...congrats!

    Bette

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  7. wow, congrats on winning the wall mural!!
    I LOVE, LOVE fried green tomatoes. And since I love shrimp anyway it comes I bet I'd love shrimp and grits -- have yet to try hush puppies but they sure do look good. Anything fried is good, right? :)

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