PINK SATURDAY & HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

Hello, Happy 4th of July. I hope that however you spend your day you have a wonderful one! Were on vacation and were spending the day with a lifelong friend of my husbands. I love this holiday and seeing all the flags and red, white and blue everywhere. I grew up in a very patritoic family, my father a "lifer" in the Air Force, we always had a flag flying high! I'd also like to send a prayer of thanks to all our men and women that are serving our country and keeping us all safe!

Today for Pink Saturday I have my porch with a touch of pink along with my patrotic decorations. Thank you to Beverly of How Sweet the Sound for hosting this fun event!

A Patrotic view from my porch!

A pretty Patrotic cake with a topper that I made.

A little porch party from some time back.

Some pinkness from the road as we started our trip earlier in the week. We made a stop at "Cracker Barrel for breakfast and I could not resist take a pic of this pretty pink chair! One of my favorite places to eat and shop. I can always find the cutest little gifts in their cozy little gift shop!

A view along the road as we headed out of West Virginia! We drove through clouds all the way but lucked out and never hit the rain!

Finally, the "Jersey Shore". The Barnegat Lighthouse.

I find such a sence of peacefulness in watching a seagul!

Oh my how I have missed this beautiful site!

Thank you so much for stopping by, enjoy Pink Saturday and again have a wonderful 4th of July however you spend it! I will be back posting from the road for Blue Monday!

Bless you, Shirl

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Happy Memorial Day to you! I hope that everyone has a nice day planned! We are just going to take the day to relax on the porch! I love all the holidays that have a patriotic theme to them. I love to decorate with flags and red, white and blue. I have a huge collection of patriotic items that I have either made or collected over the years. Below are some of my favorite vintage post cards. I hope you enjoy looking at them and feel free to click on them to enlarge and get a better look.

Honor The Brave!

Many people in my husbands family and mine served time in the military, in honor of them I am posting some of my favorite pictures of them.

Below is a picture of my husbands Great-Great Grandfather Howard Franklin Adams 1843-1915 He served in the Civil War.
My husbands father Robert Hubbs served in the Army during WWII My father served in the Air Force for 20 years William Thomas Wunschel, WWII
My Uncle William Hart, this was a picture he sent to my mother during WWII. I thought it was such a cute inscription!

My cousin John, was in the Air Force during the Vietnam EraMy cousin Tom, (John's brother) served in the Marines, and sadly did not make it home alive from Vietnam

Here's my sweet Sailor Edward, he served in the Navy during the Vietnam era

Here's my little boy, he wanted to be a sailor like his Daddy so I made this sailor suit for him one Easter in the 70's.

My little boy grew up and here he is today. He's serving in the Army Nat'l Guard.

Below are some pictures of my patriotic needlework that I have done and collected over the years. I have always been intrigued by Betsy Ross, I guess since I love to sew so much. It must have been thrilling to of had George Washington come and ask you to make a flag!

This vintage embroidered Betsy Ross I picked up in an antique store last fall while visiting family in NJ.

Another Betsy Ross doing laundry.

Below is a peek into my newly decorated patriotic bath, which I will show you in a future post.

Well I hope you enjoyed our little trip down memory lane with all my veterans and collectibles! Have a very blessed Memorial Day! Shirl