Good Morning, I just thought I would share this picture of a pretty glass bug catcher that the girls put in my Easter basket, I hung it in my east kitchen window where the morning sun makes it glow.

Happy Birthday Lauren!

Happy Birthday to my sweet daughter Lauren! Lauren is 19 today and we have a lot of family fun planned for the day. She shares a birthday with her Uncle Bruce (Happy big 5-0!) so we will be heading over to his party for a while this afternoon. After church we will celebrate at a favorite restaurant and later this after noon will be cake & ice cream at home. The cake is a new recipe, sour cream chocolate cake. YUM! I love you Lauren. You have given your dad and I 19 years of pure joy and love as we watched you grow into the beautiful young woman you are! XXXXXOOOOO

Farmers Market Saturday!

Today was a gorgeous day and I had a great time going to the Farmers Market with a friend. The Famers Mkt. is one of my favorite places to visit. Besides being a total flower addict it always smells so good and has so many beautiful things. Today I bought a pink petunia hanging basket for the pergola, just the beginning of what will be hanging there. I also bought a pink mandevilla that will hopefully climb and cover the pergola. I have never had one before so I am taking my friend, Jan's word for it that it will grow like that.

Aren't these displays just gorgeous? I have a hard time deciding what to get because I want them all!

After the farmers market we headed over to a great subdivision sale, lots of garage sales and cheap goodies. I showed restraint because as I wrote in my last post I am trying to get rid of an overabundance of "treasure" from my own basement. Adding to it would not be wise. I got a cute hooked rug for Laurens room and a little porcelain box with roses for Victoria. Not a lot to tell about but it was such a lovely day just looking was fun. We bought hot dogs from one garage sale and punch and cookies from a little girl who was working the crowd at her mom's sale. I love the smiles you get from the kids when you give them the quarter for that punch! Worth every penny!

Hope you had a great day too!

Good Morning! As you can see I have been tweaking how my blog looks. If there is one thing that never changes with me, it is that I am always changing things around me! Here is a peek at the birdhouse I am making for the front porch. I want to add some finials and flourishes but for the moment it is out there. I am trying to get the stuff in my basement, all those garage sale deals, painted and resold. Too much stuff down there taking up space. Furniture we have used and don't need anymore, a cool dollhouse that I got for free that I have been working on for a couple years (ok, maybe it has been a couple years since i worked on it!) Anyway, I need to make some room and get those projects done!

I found a great blog the other day. It is called My messy thrilling Life and the lady there has some really great devotions every Monday. She is a great writer and is fixing up an old house on her own! You should check it out.

I have been so busy this past week. It seems like there is always some project or chore that needs doing. A friend and I have been trying to schedule some time together for the past 2 weeks and if she doesn't have commitments I do. Do you think that before women worked it was easier to get together? I know women didn't have all the conveniences we do now but I think they maybe did some of their chores together and were able to hang out that way,(quilting anyone?) I wish it were easier to see family and friends more often.

By the way, considering how few friends and family I have told about this blog, my numbers are way up to almost 400 views. That is really cool! So, either my friends & family just cannot get enough of me, (possible but not likely!), there must be some other people checking my blog. So hey, leave me a message, I would love to hear what you think and if you have a blog I can visit too!

Happy May Day!

Well, here it is, the basket I sent to my May Basket partner, Kim. You can't see everything very well so I will describe it for you. The feather pin on the front is old and I thought it went well with the bird theme I used. Inside the basket is a little nest with blue eggs and another little gold bird pin that I found at a second hand store and thought it was adorable. Two heart shaped boxes, one filled with potpourri and the other with charms I made of Kims children that I took off her blog and put between glass and taped and soldered, and a little birdhouse I painted and glittered. I also included a small flower pot I painted. If you click on the picture you usually get a larger view. There is a little set of gift tags that I made too. Kim tells me that her littlest daughter just loved the bubble wrap it was all packed in! LOL! Happy May Day to all of you :>)