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Showing posts with label Michael. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael. Show all posts

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Oh the Places I've been - this week!

 
 
Oh Boy! The places I've been. This week. And none of them were what I planned to show. :-(
Who recognizes the first picture?
 
Pinterest. Addicting. A great repository of all the pretty things on the web. I was a bit shocked at the number of pins. And the number of boards. Boards are like file folders. And you save pictures into the folders. Yours, from followers, from those you are following, from the web, yep.
 
 
I try to keep my folders in alphabetical order. It's that a-type personality disorder.
 
These are just some of the things I "pinned" today. Notice the mailbox pictures at the top? Why mailboxes???? I won one today!!! Yippee. I'll have to do a before and after shot of that change. We never changed the one that was here when we moved it. It will be a shocker. I promise.
 
Oh, and then there is Ebay. A box got delivered today. On Mr. CJ's afternoon off. Of course he wanted to know what was in it. Guess!
 
We are also relaying brick in the back yard. That was the queenly we. Not me personally. Being the only female in the house has it's benefits. When I say "We need to....", the men folk know it doesn't involve me! This is really much easier than it looks, if you have the skills. We have sons. They have skills.
 
And we went to watch our youngest perform. His genre of music is so different than ours. But it was fun.
 
And last, but not least, I was in the studio this week. I'll share this cute remake later. Getting ready for a table setting. Soon. I hope your week was a bit more exciting than ours! Next week, we'll travel to France, or maybe Mexico!
 
 
Linking to The Tablescaper's new Friday (Thursday evening) party - the places I've been - posts about places we've seen.. I hope you will join us!
 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Welcome Spring

I welcome Spring! With open arms. With baited breath. 
With my whole being.

Tree, Saturday Morning.

Tree, Saturday Afternoon.
Amazing.
If I hadn't had pictures, I couldn't prove it!

There are so many bad things said about elms.
But I love their color.
Their bark.
Their fluttering leaves.

 Clearing out old shrubs that had been
neglected enough to become wannabe trees!

Snow drops.
I have an affection for these.
This year they bloomed with abundance.

Work commenced on the Cantina.
Our son has done so much work around here!
What a blessing.
I can't wait till it's finished.


The last of the Narcissus.
This fall, I think I'll plant some with white and orange.

ps.. most of these pictures were taken with my cell.

Happy Spring!!!

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Today, I am thankful for...

Ooh boy, I've not been thankful since last Wednesday! Ooops. There was a lot for which to be thankful. My friend Stacey, with whom I had a fabulous lunch and then spent the day on Saturday. We crafted and had a blast.. So totally thankful for Stacey.

And I had my BSF leader's meeting way too early on Friday morning. But so thankful that I am part of the group. So awesome.

And today, well that pile of leaves got even bigger and it was drizzling... and still our son got them off the patio. So thankful these leaves provided shelter from the blistering sun this past summer and so thankful for this young man. You rock Michael!
...counting the days till I can be thankful for leftovers! are you?

Monday, September 5, 2011

Cherubs and candy - Monday photo of the week

A few favorites grouped together

The candy dish is German. It belonged to my maternal grandmother. She used to keep her best candies in there. Behind glass in the china cabinet. If you were especially good (or even if you weren't) you could go get you one.

Hard to believe this baby is going to be 30 in two weeks. Where has the time gone?

Fell in love with this porcelain and brass cherub when I saw it whilst looking at fabric for a living room chair. It just popped into my hands and after it was paid for properly, it rode home beside me so that it could sit in this spot.

The runner is made of french silk ribbons sewn side by side. Each end is embroidered with tassels. All sewn on my trusty Bernina 730E.
 

Monday, July 18, 2011

I love you this big...

Our youngest son. I can't believe he's going to be thirty two months from today!

When he was little, he would come running into the room and spread his
arms open wide and just say "I love you this big". 

A few weeks ago he called me and said "Mom, I love you this big."
And then he said you've got to listen to this.



Michael, I love you "this big" right back!

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