Cath Kidston

Jon's Dad got remarried last weekend. My daughter Laetia was the flowergirl and Jon gave the bride away (don't ask.) The bride is younger than me (don't even go there!)


Here is Laetia.

My Father-in-law, his new wife and my husband Jon.


My kids, Lucas and Laetia.


And yes, this is me :)


So Cath Kidston has a new collection out and I think it is one of her best. Softer, pretty patterns instead of the bright, retro prints of previous years.
I swear one day I am going to have a feature wall of Cath Kidston wall paper. It is going to take some very hard persuading and various "favours" for Jon to agree to that one!



Isn't this radio to die for?



This is my fave of her new prints, a pretty rose patchwork.

Until next time!

What is a "Hair Square"

Well I don't know..but this is what it looks like.

Makeup by Aveda..Hair by Whole Brain Radiation

LOL

Off to get an EchoCardioGram today

& back to doctors next week for results

I've been feeling good, eating fine, having grandsons over

& even went to see 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

& out for lunch with my BFF

Joys

Dare I Say a "Hair Square"

Friends 

Driving 

The Promise of Spring

Prayers Answered

PS ..what's up with the Gadget

Follow this Blog?? I can't click on it

to visit my followers.

Winter blahs and a few pretty things.........

Urrrrrggggggg.. Winter is back in full force here in Minnesota. It started snowing around Noon today and they are predicting up to 8 inches of the fresh white stuff by midnight tonight. Is winter never going to end?

It’s a good I worked from home today and didn’t have to be out driving on the messy roads. That is never something I look forward to. I only took a short walk out to the central mailbox station in our culd-e-sac and nearly slipped and fell on a patch of ice that was hidden beneath a layer of snow. Thank goodness I was able to catch my balance. Sure would have been embarrassing to fall and land on my rear out in the middle of the road. What a funny sight that would have been…. LOL.

To make up for the dreary weather, I had to show off a few pretty things. One is new and the other is old. The new is this darling little lamb baby planter that I found in an antique store a few weeks ago. I just love the sweet look on its face and the soft shades of pink and blue.

The old is this pretty floral vase that has my favorite colors of pink, blue, yellow and green. It so reminds me of the spring I am longing for.

Seeing these pretty things everyday always puts a smile on my face, even when the winter blues having me feeling down.

Hope you are all having a wonderful week and that you have fun plans for the upcoming weekend. Tomorrow is payday for me, so that means I might have to visit an antique store or two over the weekend to see if I can dig up some pretty new treasures.

Take care and come back soon………..

and the Winner is.....

Tis Deborah of The Painted Nest

Thank you EVERYONE for your kind comments

An overdue update!

Hmmm, where to start? I've been busy with life and it's stressing me out. I would love to take a vacation and do nothing. Even on my off days I feel they are filled with things to do. My stitching took a backseat for a while but I've picked it up again recently. I have two finishes to show as well as two WIPs. The finishes were for exchanges that I was extremely late mailing *hanging my head in shame* First up is the HoE Lizzie Kate Exchange, I stitched "Wear a Smile" and made my first boxtop finish. I added blue trim to the border but forgot to take pictures afterwards so the only pictures I have is before the trim. I love how it came out and can't wait to re-stitch it and make one for myself!Next is the long pillow I made for the HoE Valentine's Exchange. I stitched Scatter Hearts and making a long pillow was another first for me and I'm happy with it. I don't have a picture so I'm going to borrow the one my partner posted on the HoE blog.I went to my LNS and saw this stitched up and had to have it. This is Country Cottage Needleworks "Dragonfly" and I'm stitching it on evenweave which is NOT my favorite fabric but I'm dealing with it. I took this picture with my iPhone so it's not the best. I hope to finish this but at the same time hope I can get through that border. It's really a pretty piece.

My other WIP is "World's Above" by Midsummer Night Design. I've loved this piece since it came out and can't wait to get it done, framed, and up on the wall :-)

And that's all I got for now! I've been dying to buy some new stash especially since all the Nashville Releases have come out...I may splurge but really don't think it's wise *sigh* I have adult bills now which are definitely more important. Who would have thought owning a car was so expensive? With gas, tolls, parking, and insurance most of my spending money goes to my car which I love but I also love stash and would like some hehe. I'm getting a nice income tax return so maybe I'll take a few hundred out of it and get a few Primitive Needle charts :-)
Until next time!!! Thanks for visiting and I'll try to update more often. Buenas noches!

Sign Up for My Give Away

This is from the March/April issue of 

Victoria Magazine

(Please click on it to enlarge)

 Take a peek at their website, it's a great magazine.

Have you seen the Spring Issue of Victoria Magazine??
It's the March, April issue.

If you have it ..check it out

 Just comment on this post . I'll chose one name to win a sweet heart 

shape wirecard holder on Feb 25th. Tell your friends too.

 I am giving one away on my Tattered Works of Whimsy 

blog also, you can't win on both, but you can enter both.

teehee

Good Luck

Fondly,

Hair Progress

Me before chemo or whole brain radiation

 Now from Feb. 5th, 2009

to Feb 20th, 2009

I'm good, not sure I'll ever feel the same, but I'm good.

I've been sorting , donating and tossing out.

Nesting I think.

Grandsons are coming for the night..and so is snow..but

Spring is near!

I have tests again in April . I'll let you know the results.

I have posted on my Nature Blog too. Signs of Spring.

Joys

moving forward

Spring coming

life 

love and health to all of you

Pink stuff for the office.......

Gosh, this week is going by so fast. I can’t believe its Thursday already and that I haven’t done a new post since the weekend. Sometimes, it feels like all I do is get up in the morning, go to work, come home, cook dinner, clean up afterwards, do laundry, clean the house, blah, blah, blah , go to bed and do the same thing all over again the next day. Makes me feel like a robot sometimes… LOL.

By the time 7:00 or 8:00 pm rolls around, about the only thing I feel like doing is crashing on the couch and vegging out in front of the television. I’m sure all of you who work outside the home can relate.

As for work, I’m lucky in that I have the privilege of being able to work from home two days a week. I’ve fixed myself up a nice and pretty office space in the lower level of my home. I spend a lot of time in this space either working or being on the computer. I love to surround myself with some of my favorite things in some of my favorite colors of blue and pink. If you haven’t seen photos of my office space, check out my blog archives. I did a post last year.

Here’s a picture of something pink and pretty that I have sitting on my desk. I purchased this lovely shabby pink letter holder at from Cindy at Cute Pink Stuff. If you’ve never been to her online shop, check it out. She has lots of great stuff to decorate your home office space with. I have the letter holder filled with some Laura Ashley stationary items (note pads, post its, etc) that I found at JoAnn Etc. They came in a gift set with 3 matching folders, and an erasable monthly calendar. They are so pretty, I almost hate to use them, but I know that I will eventually. For now, I can just enjoy looking at them everyday.

Enjoy the rest of your week. I'll be back soon.

Changes...

Hope you all had a great weekend and a Happy Valentines Day...

I was looking for a little change and decided to change the photo on my blog header. This one is just as pretty as my old one as it has my favorite pastel colors of pink and green, with a little red thrown in as well. It is a picture of some of my treasures that I display on a bookshelf in my living room. Someday, I may go back to the old one, but for now, this one will stay. The colors remind me of spring!!

Another old treasure that I have sits on my nightstand in my bedroom. It is a vintage jewelry box that is covered in a pretty paper depicting different Victorian images.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week !!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentines Day !!!!!

Oh my, what is a poor girl supposed to do when she doesn’t have a sweetheart on Valentines Day??

Well, she can just play “let’s pretend” and think of all of the wonderful things her sweetheart might do for her if she actually had one.

First, that imaginary sweetheart would bring her a beautiful bouquet of pink roses….

Then, he would give her a box of homemade chocolate candies which he surprised her with by putting them in a vintage fabric covered heart shaped candy box….

After giving her the beautiful roses and box of candy, the girl’s sweetheart would take her out for a romantic dinner and some dancing….

Once he’s brought her back home, he would surprise her again by giving her a beautiful heart shaped necklace made of pretty pink stones………..

A girl can dream can't she?????

Wishing you all a Happy Valentines Day!!

Vintage Candy Box.....

Not much to post about lately as life has been quite dull, so I was going through some of my photo's that I haven't used yet and I found one of this lovely vintage candy box that I found many years ago in an antique store. The cover of the box has a portrait of a lovely lady and is done the softest shades of pastels, including sage green, lavender and cream. The sides of the box (not shown..) is covered with a small floral patterned paper. So pretty!!!

Hope you've been enjoying your weekend. Take care and come back and visit again soon.

Please Pray for Baby Aaron

Update   April 23.. 

Baby Aaron is home and doing well

CLICK HERE

to see him and his family!!! He's a sweet lil guy!!

He's a teeny tiny guy & he needs some prayers to

keep him strong

You can see pics of him  and read about him here.

He's the nephew of my friend Joyce, The Secret Gardener

JOYS

friends who care

a warm day

finding cardinal feathers

I've Been Tagged.............

I’ve been tagged by my new friend Debbi at Marionberry Cottage !!!

Here are the things to do:

1. Go to the fourth folder in your picture file on your computer.
2. Post the fourth picture from that file
3. Explain the picture
4. Tag 4 more people and have them do the same.

Forgive me, but I must cheat at this game of tag, for to understand the significance of the fourth picture in my fourth folder, you must also see the third picture, so I am going to show both of them. Just call me cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater (hee, hee , hee.....)

Just a little over six years ago, I took a giant leap of faith in this thing called life and I purchased a townhouse. This was quite a scary process for a single girl who doesn’t make tons of money in her job, but I knew that after more than ten year of apartment living and all the restrictions that applied and throwing my money away on rent, it was time to “grow up” and start investing my money is something that I could eventually call my own and turn it into the real home that I wanted.

When I bought my house, there was a large overgrown lilac bush in front of the house that just kept growing and growing to the point that it got too hard for me to manage and which, within a few years became an overgrown MONSTER!! I’d like to know who the idiot was that thought it was a good idea to plant a lilac bush less than two feet from the structure of the house. Didn’t that person realize how fast those things grow and how big they could get?????

By last summer, the lilac bush pretty much covered the entire left side of the front of my house. In addition to the lilac bush, there were also a few low ground bushes, a half dead pine tree on the corner of the house and another tree of some unknown type that was also on the corner of the house (which one of the townhouse association board members figured probably grew from a seed planted by a bird). That tree grew so high that it reached the overhang of the house and would bang against the house whenever it got very windy.

Well, after 5 years of being in my house and with some financial help from the townhouse association, last summer I was finally able to have some major landscaping done in front of my house.

Out went the overgrown lilac bush, the overgrown and half dead trees on the corner of the house and the poor dead bushes that had been buried under the lilac bush where they died from lack of sunlight. In went some new brick landscape edging, three small, easy to keep trimmed bushes and a few Day Lily plants.

Now, for the pictures.

Picture #3 in my folder was the before shot of what the front of my house looked like before the landscaping project started.

Picture #4 in my folder is the after shot which shows what it looked like when the project was completed. What a huge difference and one that I am enjoying very much. You can see that I actually have windows now. They were covered by the lilac bush before.

Doesn’t it look soooooooooooooo much better now?? It’s amazing how different it looks all cleaned up. I’m still amazed each time I go back and look at these pictures.

These are my blogging buddies who I’ve tagged:

Queenie at

Queenie's Vintage Finds and Treasures

Janice from The Faded Cottage

Lorena from Rose Chic Friends

Valerie from Traveling Through

Now, I'm off to let these lovely ladies know that they've been tagged.

Until next time............

Hair's the Comparison

Hair today 2/5/2009

Hair on 1/20/2009, a difference 

Yep it is growing

I've lost about 3 more lbs..but I do feel better.

JOYS

watching American Idol

driving to the Dry Cleaners

meatloaf and garlic potatoes

Advil PM 

emails from friends