Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Top Three from Be Inspired

It's Wednesday and time to check out the Top Three Visited Links
from last week's Be Inspired.

ahhhh chippy white wicker...
it's addictive!
The Curious Boys have just opened a new space in Texas;
you'll love checking out all their great Funky Cottage Finds.


more fun chairs...
at Gail's Decorative Touch



and a great Laundry Room Makeover 
at Lewisville Love


thanks for coming to the party, Everyone!
Hope to see you tomorrow 11ish, AM Central for


love ya,

Pretty in Pink

Thanks to my sweet husband, my computer is up and running again. He's a "computer savvy guy", so he knows who to call when there's a problem. YAY!!


This post is long overdue, by about 2 weeks, actually, since that's been how long ago my Peonies were in bloom. I've waited for several years for them to mature and they rewarded me this year with some lovely fat, ruffled, oh-so-heavenly blooms. 




They needed a special vase,
 and I thought that this antique pink Depression Glass Biscuit Jar
 showed them off to perfection.


I'm not really a "pastel" person, but this wonderful soft pink had me thinking of ways to show them off. My one nod to pink in decor is in my love for rosy-posies patterned vintage china, so a little impromptu garden tote filled with my mismatched pieces was the answer.



A pink plaid vintage "luncheon cloth" was the foundation.



Over the years I've collected several different pink floral patterns
 of salad and dessert plates 
that I just keep stacked in the Dining Room. 





I also brought out two of my Heisey etched glassware goblets
 for a little more lacey feminine charm.


























Vintage floral embroidered tea towels serve as napkins, 
with mismatched dessert silver.














In an update to the yard mess from the storm, we were able to get most of it cleaned up, but it took our Father's Day to get it all done. Lousy timing, but glad that we had that day to do it. At least I can look out on my deck now and not want to cry. I'm sure most everything will be back blooming in a week or two. Just seeing these photos makes me feel better...

I'll be joining in on these great weekly parties:

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings
Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style

xoxo,

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Marketplace: Etsy and Boutique Showcase


Hi Everyone, time for The Marketplace
A place to link up your Etsy and Online Boutique items,
then stay for some shopping fun!

If you read my post yesterday I was telling you all that we had horrible storms on Saturday and that my desk top computer is now out of commission due to a lightening strike. Sooooo. I'm going to be working from my laptop this week, where I have no email or photo storage. I'll be hosting the parties as usual, just won't have as many features. I'm grateful for my laptop otherwise I wouldn't be here. These are a few fun links that I grabbed from last week's party.


from Sweet Southern Vintage



La Croix Rosion



from Bei Fiori Embellish



from The Zoe Bird

super cute, don't you love those faces?


Hope you'll link up to three of your individual items from your Etsy Shop or Online Boutique. If you have a blog post about your items then that's great too. Please just make sure that your items linked up are FOR SALE. You don't have to have a blog to join in. I'd love for you to be a follower of this blog, and if you'd like, grab the image below for somewhere on your blog. Thanks so much for joining in for the shopping fun. This linky is open all week, so come back by later to see what new items have been listed.


Have a great week,


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Veggie Garden Flower Pot Wreath

Hey you all! What a day yesterday was...
Storms most of the day. Hail, (marble to ping pong size), lightening and anywhere from 5-9 inches of rain in about a 3 hour period. All the blooms on my plants were ripped off, and my hydrangeas that I have marveled over and pampered are in a heap on the ground. I'm just hoping they will survive somewhat intact. Our yard looks like a shredder has been through the trees with leaves covering everything. The pool wasn't flooded with mud, but it is filled with tons of oak leaves, sticks and small branches. Thank the Good Lord, no tornadoes. I'm hoping that today we can get out and clean up the mess.

Another kind of bad news is that a lightening strike took out the modem for my big computer that is my workhorse. So it will be a few days of pinch hitting here on my laptop that I keep in the kitchen. It's not set up with any of my photo storage, links, or my email. I'll be blogging with one arm tied behind my back. Hope you all will understand if things are sparse around here. I'm just glad I can post at all.




I did have these photos in draft for a blog post, so I'm sharing them with you today. In last week's post of the Vintage Wheelbarrow Tablescape  I used some vintage French seed packet labels for tags that could be used for guest seating place cards, and then some cute little flowerpot napkin rings. I've been wanting to do a flower pot wreath since last year when they went wild over on Pinterest. I know several of you gals have done them recently, so hope you don't mind if I'm a copy cat.


I just used gardener's twine to attach the flower pots and then filled them with moss. The base is an old grape vine wreath I'd had out in the garage for a few years. I thought about putting faux daisies and other flowers in the pots, but in the end with the veggie tags it was much too "busy".



Sorry these photos are a little blurry. I was using my big lens and didn't realize they were fuzzy until after I'd already hung the wreath up, and then by that time I had put away the step ladder and cleaned up my mess.



Here are the vintage French seed packet labels attached to the tags, 
from the tablescape post.




and then one of my whitewashed flower pots that was holding silverware.


Here's the wreath hanging above the sideboard;
I'll show you the rest of the "recycled veggie wheelbarrow" 
that's now on the sideboard, soon...



I've looked through Pinterest, and love all the different flower pot wreaths, but this was the only one I'd seen done in whitewashed pots. And you know me, I love me some whitewashed, chippy anything.



Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, 
and that you're weather is better than mine.

joining in on these parties:

Blitzed on Pinterest at Debbie-doos
Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings
Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm
Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House
The Scoop at Cedar Hill Ranch
Knick of Time Tuesday
Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style
Homework at The Everyday Home
TTT at Stone Gable

Oh, and Happy Father's Day to all you wonderful guys out there!
we love you.


xoxo,