Showing posts with label St.Louis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St.Louis. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Vintage Valentine Cards on Silver Sunday

I've been waiting for today for weeks...
Since Joan at Anything Goes Here
announced her Vintage Valentine Party!

I've sneaked in some Valentine photos
 this last week or so,
hope your not tired of all the "love",
 and some of the same photos.

As my kitties like to say;
Valentines, Schmalentines.



I'm also linking with Beth
from Gypsy Fish Journal today
to be a part of her monthly party,
Silver Sunday
(can't miss that!)



So I'm including some of my Vintage Valentines
on a large footed silver tray on my
Dining Room buffet,
where all things "holiday" seem to land.


This is a silver necklace that my sweet mom
 bought me for Valentines Day this year.
Love the initial and the crown on top.



And a silver bud vase with faux roses.



I found this intricate large Valentine
this summer in St. Louis.
It's supposed to be 3-D,
but I wanted to display it in an old
ornate frame I had been saving.





Here are a few of my vintage Valentine postcards.
The cutie boy here reminds me of my nephew Spence.
(tulips from my sweet sister)



My entry way dresser is holding
another smaller 3-D valentine.
And the pink Hull vase was
 a Valentine to myself this year.






                                        






And here is my sideboard again,
with another Valentine and
some altered children's Valentines
 that I have been playing with.








This framed simple Valentine is an
original from my paternal Grandfather
to my Grandmother, from the early 1920's.
He owned a print shop and this is another of his pieces.
to my Grandmother's Birthday Party.






Have a Sweet and Cozy Valentine Weekend,






Hugs and Love,
Debra

p.s. Thank you all for your sweet comments!
I seem to be having a "time management" issue with
preparing for the new booth opening.
Please just know I love you all and that
each and every comment
blesses me.


 

Friday, July 31, 2009

Out on the Town

We had some really great fun this last weekend. The kids are up on all the trendy places to eat and hang-out. (Wow, that kind of slang really dates me) Erin really went all out on showing us some great spots. I think everyone in St. Louis was out Saturday, so there were no parking spots at a couple of places we wanted to try, but we did get into a great spot called "Vin de Set", which is somewhat close to the Arch. These murals were painted on the walls inside, but we headed out to the rooftop for drinks and coffee with a few crepes thrown in for good measure.



















This picture is on the rooftop with the Arch in the background.
All that you can see of it is a tiny silver sliver over hubby's right shoulder.
It was all lit up, but hard to see in a photo.













Saturday morning we headed out for coffee at one of the neighborhood spots, Winslow Home. At one time it had been an old storefront, so they kept the idea and turned it in to a "general store" of sorts. They served bakery items and lunch and then had the best displays of home items, linens, chocolates, candies, stationary, etc. Tons of organic produce...really a cool place. The sunflowers were the largest I have seen, that came from the farm that morning.


Just look at that tin ceiling.











Then we headed to the "Central West End", which is kind of Hippie, Boho, Arty. You know the kind of place. Little pubs and outdoor cafes...antique shops..book stores...coffee shops, and oh my, a cupcake shop! It was a lot of walking and oogling and window shopping, so we stopped at an outside spot for a yummy little lunch.






The weather was PERFECT this last weekend with upper 70's and low 80's,
a bunch of little clouds and a heavenly breeze. perfect.



Great old buildings everywhere you looked.





These kids cannot take a bad picture!





Below is the storefront to one of Erin's favorite stores, "Cassie's". Here you can have perfumes, lotions, creams all mixed for you personally. I love her concoction of cherry-almond. Wonderful!
She was showcasing her "Harry Potter" potions here in the front window.




These are just a few of the hydrangea bushes that were everywhere in Forest Park.






These are a few of the houses in the neighborhood. Tudor Style has always
been my favorite, along with English Country furnishings.
I would have paid good money just to have been invited in for a tour
of some of these amazing places.

This looks like a place out of Hansel and Gretel or some other fairytale or nursery rhyme.
It is directly behind Erin and Keith.
























Sunday we headed to the Galleria to have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory,
another beautiful day to eat al fresco.






Next to Forest Park at the Boathouse. Kayaks and paddleboats could be rented,
but we sat in the shade and sipped our favorite beverages.
St. Louis made diet root beer.






This was a dog-friendly zone, as is most of the park, so we had lots of laughs watching
all the dogs, and how they related to each other.





trying to cool off.




This guy was just too cute





We visited Anthropologie, where I found an awesome scarf,
Restoration Hardware, where I bought my favorite "Crack Cream" so good for dry skin, Brighton, where I just had to get new earrings, and Dillards,
where the salesman of the year talked my man into a new pair of great shoes...
not to mention tons of other great places, where I was so busy oohing
and aahing that I actually forgot to get my camera out.
St. Louis is amazingly beautiful with all the old buildings, and architecture,
great places to eat and shop.
Thanks for coming with us.
Debra

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