PINK SATURDAY, BLUE MONDAY & A PEEK AT CHRISTMAS

Hello I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! Ours was wonderful!
I've had a busy and fun week since I've talk to you all last. I love being off from work and have gotten so many things done. My husband and I put a wood floor down in a little hallway in the older part of our home. I will be posting pics of that soon.

For my Pink Saturday post today I have these pretty little fleese throws that I picked up in, of all places CVS. I thought the colors were so pretty and I love to have these handy little cover ups around. I always keep my couch arms covered up in them in case Molly the Newf decides to get on the couch and use the arm as a chin rest. LOL

If you go to visit Beverly of How Sweet The Sound you can get a list of all the other participants. A close up below. Feel free to click on the pics to get a larger view. My daughter Jen made the cute little faux sugar cookie ornaments. Your can visit her here.

Now on to my Blue Monday post with Sally of Smiling Sally. This week while being off I finished this tote that I started months ago. It's a cross stitch that I did years ago and had framed but decided to make it into a tote bag.

If you look close you can see that she has little pearls for a necklace and little pearls in her hair bows.

I love her quilted chair that she is setting on!

Christmas is definatly in the air here. I have been busy pulling out all my decorations. Friday I spent the day taking down all my fall, cleaning house and started putting up Christmas. Look how cute these socks are that I found in The Dollar Tree. I love the old fashioned wool knee socks (that I can't find anymore) so I pick up these cute little holiday socks to wear with jeans.

They have lots of glitter threads in them that is not showing up here.

We celebrated my first Grandsons 19th birthday on Thanksgiving Day. My how the time does fly. I was so busy making pies so I purchased his Birthday cake. It was delish with Bryers Ice Cream! Happy Birthday Joey, we love you and are so proud of you!

My daughter Jen made me these cute little faux cakes for Thanksgiving. She makes so many pretty things, you can visit her here. Thank you Jen, I love them!

Another one of my favorite things that I have been doing during this week off from school is reading all my new Christmas issues of magazines.

Thank you so much for stopping by, it was so nice to visit with you. I have alot planned for my last two days off before I go back to work. I do enjoy being home and nesting, making a nice comfy home for my family but I do look forward to getting back to work. I'm sure the children will be counting the days until Christmas. It will be fun to share their excitement!

Have a great week!

Blessings, Shirl

Pink Saturday & Hello From Cape Hatteras

Hello and welcome to Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet The Sound. Please click on pics to get a good look!

We are still enjoying our time at Cape Hatteras Island. Look how pretty the sunset was last evening. I posted a few pics in a previous post if you would like to look.

Now today, another story, Hannah is headed in and the sky is dark. The realtor stopped by and said their has not been an evacuation notice so we can stay and should be just fine. They had a service man stop by to secure the kayaks, hot tub and a few things with the pool. The neighbor who lives here year round stopped over to say that she will check up on us after work. She said that if the water runs out of the bay it will rush back in and flood. So if we see water run out take our truck up the road to higher land to keep it from flooding. That was so nice of her to advise us, we would not have known what it meant. She also said if we flood not to walk in the water because snakes could be in it. Very sweet of her again, we would not have known that either.

Now on to some pinkness. Look how sweet this tote is, I got it at a little gift store by the ferry the first day we got here.

This little tote only has a little pink but I thought it was so cute and just had to share it with you!

A pretty little glittered star fish and a faux snow globe with pink bottle brush trees.

Some pretty pink on my nightstand in my room. I love to have all my pretty vintage linens and sachets close by!

A few closeups.

Thank you for stopping by and I will be posting some vacation pics and a Tea Party hosted by Jan & Tom on Sunday. Stop back if you have time.

Blessings, Shirl

I LOVE PURPLE WHEN THE LILACS ARE IN BLOOM

Hello, thank you for stopping by, I thought I'd share one of my favorite flowers with you. I don’t usually use purple in my decorating except as an accent in a floral arrangement but I love purple when the lilacs are in bloom. It seems every spring lilacs delight me with their intoxicating scent and colors in varying shades of purple, blue, white and pink. During that time I pull out all of my purple and lavender from around the house and make little displays on my kitchen window sills along with bouquets of lilacs. Please feel free to click on the pics to enlarge and get a closer look!

Lilacs can survive hundreds of years. The oldest living lilac in the United States is said to have been planted in 1750. There are more than 20 species and 1,000 cultivars of lilacs and all bloom at a different time so you can really extend the lilac bloom time well into summer. I plant a few every year and this year I planted two lilacs that re-bloom in summer. I purchased them from Michigan Bulb Company. As little as they were (only 7 inches tall) one of the plants arrived with little blooms on it.

In Kate Greenaway’s book “The Language of Flowers” she explains that in the Victorian Era they used flowers to express their feelings. The meaning of a purple lilac is “First Emotions of Love” and white lilac is “Youthful Innocence”.

My husband built me this cabinets under my kitchen windows, they are actually kitchen wall cabinets that he mounted on the floor under all four windows, they make a nice place for plants and seasonal decorations.

This cute little bear is made from a lilac print fabric. I bought it years ago and it's still one of my favorites.

These pretty little crochet lavender glass cozies I purchased on my last trip to NJ, I found some really nice antique malls that I go to on every visit. I always come out with some real treasures.

Some of the other jadeite on this cupboard I picked up on the same trip.

While I was in my purple mood, I pulled out this little Victorian cross stitch that I had done years ago and made it into a tote bag.

This pretty vintage crochet basket I picked up in the same antique store that I got the glass cozies at. I guess I was in a purple mood that day!

Of couse I had to have some bling so I used a vintage button with a little bling glued on top of it.

I love this print that I used on the inside, I have some left over that I thought would make some really pretty yoyo's for a quilt I'm working on.

My wisteria did not do to good this year because of a late frost but I did get a few blooms from it. This is the first time I’ve brought a bloom in the house, the scent was heavenly!

The next four pics are all my little clippings that I pulled out of magazines on lilacs, I have a folder full of them. They are nice to look back on when I'm in my purple lilac mood! If you enlarge these you can get a better look at some of the pretty clippings.

Well I hope you enjoyed this little visit of me while in my purple mood! Why not plant a lilac tree or two? I'm sure you will enjoy them as much as I do! Please stop by again!

Blessings, Shirl