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Wow! Time Flies It has been a long time since I was here writing. Happy New Year Friends I have visited many of you in the last several months but have not left any comments. Personal stuff going on. I took a job at the Elementary School in the afternoons so my time is so limited and since I am creating the program for these after-school kids, most of my creative energy goes there. But the new

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Greetings Friends, My computer and my business have been moved back home for the 4th time and this time it is for good! So now I can blog again and keep up with all you guys out there in Blogland I was forced to close my shop, because we just couldn't get the things we were promised when we signed the lease so alas I am working out of my studio again and doing flea markets, shows, custom work,

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Happy Saturday Everyone,      Today was the first day that the temperature was above 50 degrees in about 6 months which to me is a bit of a tease because I know it is still going to be cold but it was a wonderful blessing anyway! Every year I complain about the long winters but the exuberance I feel when spring arrives just wouldn't be the same anywhere else.  Today I am sharing some fun I was

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Happy Pink and Green Saturday, Pink and Green have always been one of my favorite color combinations. With spring on the way and so many of us waiting with bated breath, I would like to share this glorious tulip that embodies both hues. St Patrick's day is one of those holidays that I know little about but I know it is customary to say "Happy St. Patrick's Day" to all you Irish so be it, have a

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Greetings friends,  It has been too long.............. My life has not been my own for quite some time but I am now claiming some fun time. We have lived with my daughter and her 5 kids for the last 8 weeks so needless to say I am never alone. My shop has taken much time as I have been trying to keep it looking good all the time. Never mind the mountains of snow and the cold of winter, I just

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Hello friends, If anyone would have told me that I could learn how to do photoshop elements a year ago I would not have believed them. But here I am and loving it, thanks to Kim at the Cafe [see my sidebar] I have been following Mary at Greenpaper for a long time and always wanted to do one of her monthly challenges [she provides the emphemera and you do the creating] but alas never did. But

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Greetings Friends, It has been so long since I have updated my blog that I hardly know where to start. First I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season with the ones you love and secondly my best wishes to you all for the new year. It would be difficult to go over all the events and emotions of the last months so I will start where I am now. We've moved our Home Goods to a brick and mortar

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I t has taken awhile but we [hubby and I ] will finally get to see our youngest baby grand this week. Ok I know I am prejudiced but tell me he isn't the cutest little thing you've seen in a long time!!! Can't help but brag on something so wonderful! Blessings Meg

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Hello Friends, Sorry it has been so long since I've checked in but so many things needed to be attended to. I will post more about that at a later date. This is my 100th published post and although I have several drafts that I haven't finished yet, today I am celebrating HOME, my favorite place to be in the whole wide world. My house was finished in 1901 and has pretty much been left alone for

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Greetings from our garden home, I haven't been around for PS for awhile but that doesn't mean that the pink has gone!!!! No, There is still plenty of pink. Yesterday was my daughter's birthday and my grand-daughter and I have been planning to make her a cake for Sunday afternoon so this little one is spending the weekend with me.  I happen to find these great little boots for her and she is so

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Greetings from the north country, I think I don't like goodbyes!!         No, I know I don't like goodbyes!! Last night was our first frost and the end of the bright colors of summer in my garden. Goodbye tomatoes, goodbye summer squash, goodbye pole-beans, and goodbye beautiful zinnias. Goodbye warm and wonderful sun on my back as I till my own little Eden. I am however so blessed that

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Greetings blogger friends,          Somehow or other I managed to throw my back out as we set up for Brimfield Antiques Show and I am home mending for a couple of days so I am rested up for the weekend and the final three days of the show.         My poor hubby always goes along with these crazy adventures of mine, he keeps his sense of humor and always supports me when I am getting low or down.

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This being the last Tuesday in August I just couldn't miss another Bloomin Tuesday and I, like you Jean, have many pics to share but too little time to blog until after the frost which will be in a couple of weeks here. This is what my garden room looked like today at 8am, as you can see we are beginning to get the bronze red tone of fall, a bitter sweet tone for me who loves summer hot pink

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Back to Blogland- Sunday was the last day of my commitment to this years VBS Day Camp Kids Program and boy am I exhausted! what a great time we had and no rain!!!! We have had such a great growing season that the garden looks like a jungle. Literally!!! I have always loved that tropical look and have tried to get a taste of it here in my zone 4 garden and this year Viola!!! Here I am under the

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Greetings from my home and garden,  Oh Glorious Summer, How I love you, Let me count the ways!!!!!!!!!! This is why I live in Northern New England, hot clear days, cool nights, emerald green hills, swimming holes, freshly baled hay and cows grazing in the fields. Now that is not what I see in my yard but it is an everyday occurrence around here. Here is what I see when I look out from my perch

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Happy Pink Saturday to you,Just in case you think the only thing I ever photograph is flowers, I thought I would share a couple of pink-finds from my antiquing with one of my baby-grands.  She was such a sport, at 11 years old I was worried that she would humbug everything but we had a blast even though one of the dealers was rude and crude we got past it.I thought this lamp was wonderful though

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Greetings from the garden and I do mean literally,I named this post summer joy because as you may have noticed I love this time of year. Seems a bit strange for me to be planted where the summers are so short, but I am sure the Good Lord knew what he was doing when He moved me here.  Ecclesiastes 3:1" There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven." I think I have a

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Greetings from my garden,I can't believe it has been this long since I have posted,but my life has been overflowing with grand children and boy am I blessed.   Before I go off and start to work on the items I need to prepare for the flea market I am doing next weekend I have picked you this bouquet with my favorite "Bright Eyes" phlox which is not only gorgeous but the fragrance is heavenly

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Greetings from my garden home,There are many many things in bloom right now but this is peak garden-work time so I don't have as much time to blog or take pictures when I am pulling weeds and watering, although looks like we will have day 7 of rain this week. When it comes to color, I am not an orange lover but this particular begonia really caught my eye and then I saw the name "Million Kisses,

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Greetings from my garden home,I have been participating in Pink Saturday for over a year now but my success in meeting Bev's challenge has not been realized. I think the problem is when I go visit on pink Saturday I forget who I have visited and then it takes too long to go back so I just blog along justifying my laziness and wishing I had jotted down a fellow PS gal's blog to use for next week,

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Greetings from the Northeast, I very rarely cut my peonies because my hubby can't take the smell of them in the house. But I made an exception today knowing the temperature would reach 90, they will be short lived. These are in front of the house in a border garden so the people passing by get to enjoy them more than I do. I want to transplant them into the garden room but the fall chores take

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Greetings from the garden,There really is a mystery to gardening that goes beyond all that one sees.  Truly Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as glorious as these!!! A wonderful meticulous Creator has his signature on all this design around us.  Having the greenhouse this year has allowed us to be a part of the butterfly dance as it tours our region. I try to grow many of their

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Greetings from the garden, This has been one of the warmest and driest springs I have ever seen here in Vermont.But that doesn't stop the old stand-by's from producing their show. These irises came with the property and although they are not as striking as some, they certainly are prolific and faithful! I don't know their name but I have moved them all over and they spread every year and kinda

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Sorry I am posting so late. Today was the first day we are open at the garden shop. Too much to do, Too little time. Here is my first roadside display. Our business is called New Creation Home and Garden. We sell annuals, perennials, vintage home and garden goods and some of the custom things we refurbish at our studio. I am excited about the shop because I am finally working on my own property.

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Greetings and Happy Pinks,I sneaked into pink Saturday this week. I bought this little vase at a thrift and I think it is vintage but I don't know anything about it. Anyone ever see one? Just the most wonderful shade of pink.And the two little pink kids holding flowers. Adorable! I didn't get to post my Mother's Day flowers, so here is my Mother's Day Bouquet.   That's the nice thing about photos

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Welcome to our garden home and the third pink Saturday in May. We have not seen the riot of the color that is going to come when the peonies begin to bloom so right now we will settle for the more subtle pinks like the crab- apple blossoms on my header or my not to subtle garden gloves which will soon not look too pink.                          I may have showed you these petunias last season

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Hard frosts every night!!!!!! I had hoped that the damage would not be much but unfortunately the perennials showed up before it was their time and Consequently we have loses. I thought to myself last week, as I counted the lilac buds that "I should bring those lilacs in and force them" since this is their third year and finally enough for a bouquet. But He who hesitates looses................

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Greetings, I wasn't going to post today because I have had a terrible cold and I am way behind on my gardening and greenhouse duties. Besides that temps last night were in the very low 20's and I have a bunch of extra work to do to remove all the coverings we put on the most tender of the perennials some to no avail. But I love Bloomin Tuesday and wanted to see what was blooming where it may be a

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Greetings from my garden home, Let's wander around and see what is blooming, I am really not a yellow flower person but it seems that in Early May that is what is blooming here.Or are those blooms?  Well what we think are blossoms are really leaves because this is a spurge, one of those plants  like the poinsettia that actually has tiny little blooms and what appears to be yellow blossoms are

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Greetings from my garden home,Today I am sharing my lunch with you! Every year I grow collards in my garden but because there is always so much else to choose from in the summer, we don't eat much of them till after the frost, which is when they are at their peak or so they say. My favorite time to eat them however is NOW when they are preparing to go to seed. I think if they were strong enough

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Greetings from my garden home,Today I have a short post for PS. My grands are having their first dance recital this weekend, so surely I will see lots of pink tomorrow.Did you ever buy something that was not your style at all but for some reason you had an attraction to it? That's how it was with this jardiniere / planter I am posting today.Most of the pottery that I collect is McCoy, green, or

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Greetings from my garden home,Today is May 1st and time to show off our baskets! I received a wonderful basket [very early, i might add] from Shelly at Bungalow Bling and it is as though she has known me forever! Look at all the wonderful stuff she packed inside!Here is all the stuff that was inside and below is the basket after I unwrapped it from the great muslin bag it was packaged in. Shells,

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Greetings from my garden home,I had been trying to get seeds planted for our open house but we didn't get the heat situated on time so I was only able do a small amount since I have to bring them in every night to avoid the below freezing evenings we are having.I did however get the elephant ears divided up and they are on their way to stardom.The other seeds that are started here are the castor

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Greetings from my garden home, I have changed my banner to show you what greeted me today, and I must say it is really quite beautiful although I am not sure of its effect on the growing season, especially the fruit trees. What a difference a day can make!!!!Climate changes are everywhere, demonstrating our interconnection with one another and our interdependence on the same earth for existence.

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Greetings from my garden home,  This has been the strangest year for weather that is for sure! Here are a few pics for Bloomin' Tuesday and although the flowers aren't unusual for most gardeners, it is rare for them to be this far along while the calendar still says April! So I am glad I grabbed the camera today because this may all look very different after Wednesday. The prediction is for snow

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Greetings from my garden home,Spring is everywhere around us  here and although these peony stems popping their little heads through the still cool dark soil may blur the line between pink and purple, it sure is great to see them emerge after the cold of winter.  It has been an early spring for us here in the northeast and I am wondering if a frost will kill all this wonderful display and then

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Welcome to my garden home,Today is Pink Saturday, well at least that is what some of us bloggers call the Saturdays that we choose to participate in Beverly's at How Sweet the Sound pink posting extravaganza! So here is what I am sharing today two recent purchases from the local auction.This first one is probably going to be used to contain flowers and plants for an outside display at the garden

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Greetings from my garden home,April Showers bring May flowers or so the song goes, but do snow showers or even a couple of inches of snow bring anything in May? Like I said in my last post we could easily get snow again and it is not out of the ordinary in fact it is to be expected! All that warm, gorgeous, delightful sunshine that sent the temps here into the high 60's  and low 70's now that was

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Hello GirlfriendsI don't think that an early spring changes much, except maybe I will worry more about whether my early flowers will survive a hard frost that we are sure to get this being only the very beginning of April. Heck we could easily get a foot of snow between now and Mother's Day. But all that being said, it is sure awesome to have garden flowers in bloom and these few warm sunny days

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The Sun is Shining Hooray!!! Today is Pink Saturday again and spring is just one week away! Oh my, That means the greatest time of the year is upon us. The earth awakes from its slumber. New Birth and New Life Whenever I get worried or concerned by all the disasters and sad things that happen in the world in which we live, the Word of God comforts me. God does have a plan but you can only see it

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Greetings! During my recent trip to Ct I had an hour to spare while my hubby was at an appointment so I headed out to do some window shopping and really had no intention of buying anything. I found a really nice home dec store and since I owned a home dec design store for 8 years I am always interested in seeing what other's  designs look like. The store had great furniture pieces. It was in a

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Amaryllis in Profusion! What a great weekend we just had. We went to CT for my Mom's 75th birthday . I went a few days early because I was to make the cake with my two grand-daughters when they returned home from school on Friday. While driving them to school, the radio announced that today was day two of the CT Flower Show and guess what? I was only two miles away.  Do you know what I did while

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Hello Ladies!Recently I have become interested in old paper and this little booklet caught my eye at the auction. You will have a good laugh as you see some of these pictures but the phrase "You've come a long way baby." certainly rings true here!  This is a little beauty magazine from 1925 called Wilfred Waves.  It is mostly ads for all the latest beauty inventions of the time and an attempt to

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Here I am finally getting the last post up of my swap weekend, the gifts I received from my swap partner, Josette. I am so truly thankful!I love the heart box that she covered with this elegant DaVinci print, I think I will fill it with my favorite vintage buttons that are not for sale.  When I first opened the package it smelled heavenly, not only was there wonderful french soap but a dried

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Happy Belated Valentine's Day Here is the rest of the information about the Amour Swap. I am sorry that it has taken me so long to get it all up but this weekend also began Winter-Break and I had a houseful all weekend. Below is the list of all the participants in the Swap and I hope that you will visit them all as time allows. I do love these swaps and I appreciate all the work the coordinator

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I must admit being a part of Cathy's Amour Swap made Valentines come along early and last a long time. I do get a bit confused at what I am supposed to show whether it is what I sent or what I received or both, so today I will show you what I photographed of what I sent and tomorrow what I received and just mix it up. So here goes. Cathy had suggested that we buy a heart shaped box but I found

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Today we join the Pink Saturday Gals as we celebrate the holiday of Love! The first thing I want to share is my latest blooming Amaryllis, this one is called Zombie and it is the only one that I was able to get to bloom from last year.Next I must show you my little pink grand-daughters in their cute valentine aprons as we made cookies twice this week.  And here are some of the cookies that we

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Since Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching and I want to get my Pink Saturday post up on time,plus the revealing of the Amour swap is this weekend, I figured I better show you this cute little card before I run out of time and the holiday is completely over. I went to the drugstore and picked out a great one for my sweetheart and I was so blessed that there are so many to choose from.

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This is my 50th post, a major accomplishment for me since I can't type and I learned to post a picture by accident and then had to ask someone how I did it, lol, the tools of my trade have always been needle and thread but it sure is fun to learn new things! This past weekend my son visited with his two daughters and my daughter came over with her two daughters and the baby and we made valentines

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The time has come to order my seeds. I don't know why I always wait till the last minute, but the deadline for the coop order is Saturday so I am going to get the catalog out and figure what I want tonight, ordering seeds and February 1st means that spring is just around the corner.Yeah!!!!!!! We put a greenhouse up last year but I have not blogged about it yet so stay tuned as the seeds will be

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Yesterday's blog was a great eye -opener for me. I have been getting up at 4 am so I was writing my post way before the sun came up,waiting for the coffee to brew. It's been kinda crumby weather lately, no sunshine for several days, Hubby is injured, Christmas is over, then came the terrible tragedy in Haiti,so all in all I was a wee bit down! Consequently when I started my post, it reflected my

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I haven't blogged for awhile and I was actually thinking about giving it up. Does anyone read it anyway I ask myself and then I meet a friend who doesn't blog and isn't even a follower but somehow she found my blog and she confirms that I haven't been around in blogland and maybe people do read it she says [ since she does ] and they just don't comment. I wonder??? I read alot more blogs than

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     My husband and I waited for the holiday season to be over before we began the re-organization of our lives project.Now that our beautiful daughter has her little baby boy and everyone is back to their normal lives we are ready to begin.We plan to spend the whole month on this activity and have broken it into little doable projects and put our steps and ideas down on paper. Hubby does not

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I know that this little guy isn't really pink, but please indulge me, he has two pink sisters that I've shown you before. He is one week old today. Notice the pink flowers by his face and have a wonderful Pink Saturday. Make sure you get back to Beverly's at How Sweet the Sound to peruse all the other pink posts. Have a great weekend! Blessings Meg

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Greetings Friends,  I've heard this statement [Once in a Blue Moon] all my life and always wondered where it came from until this week. Once in a blue moon really refers to the season that has four full moons instead of the usual three. It happens every 2 and 1/2 years or so. Commonly it has become known as the month with two full moons and that month is December this year and tomorrow will be

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Yesterday, December 26,2009  my daughter, Rebecca, gave birth to my first grandson, Caleb Jonathan, and I couldn't be prouder! And like any other grandmother I have a few pictures to share of my new grandson still at the birthing center just 19 hours old. What a Blessing .  Thank You Lord for answering our prayers. Now you have your little boy. Congratulations to all of you. Pretty cute for

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I love pink and those that know me know how much! My sister Kate, knows how much I love pink flowers so she gave me this pink  amaryllis for Thanksgiving assuring me that it would bloom for Christmas. And it did! Happy Pink Saturday to you.Be sure to get to Beverly's to get the list for all the other pink girl posting this last Saturday in 2009! Here it is on December 20th. Here it is on

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 Super Vintage Find I purchased 150 Vintage postcards at auction and I probably paid too much for them but I had a little Christmas money so I treated myself. The ones that have postmarks are from 1906- 1914. They are all from the same collector and it is quite fun to read them because her friends and family seem to be adding to her collection with each trying to send her one she didn't yet

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Enjoying the Season Since moving to Vermont 10 years ago, some new traditions have developed for the holidays. First I must say that Thanksgiving is our family's major holiday.The kids and grandkids begin to arrive on Wednesday and the last ones leave on Sunday afternoon.  Everyone's favorite holiday!!! But when Christmas comes along we seem to have different traditions.My husband is a Pastor

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Here is another one of the great cards my mom has been hanging on to all these years. I am not sure why she never showed them to me but maybe it is because she thought I would want them which I did, of course!!! I just love all these cards and somehow knowing that they were sent by my own relatives makes them sooo special.    Merry Christmas Friends xoxoxoxo Meg

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Welcome to our Home I visited my Mom this past weekend and low and behold she showed me all these wonderful  postcards she has been saving from my great aunt. This one was sent in 1906 and still has the glitter intact! I will be back with my door after lunch. Hope you have a great day! Addendum.......... Today is a rainy day so my door pictures did not come out to well but I will take new

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Warmest Holiday Greetings!   There are only 13 days till Christmas Eve! YIKES!!! I am making a centerpiece from some things I purchased at my favorite thrift! The swan is just gorgeous and she cost a whole $3! She is made of ceramic and has peeling paint in black, white and a great sorta bronze color. The guy who runs the store was glad to get rid of her which I can't understand because I

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I finally have my NEW PRINTER up and running so I am doing last week's post first. I am so excited about it ! Hubby said I could get it as my early Christmas Present.  What fun to scan, print, copy, and edit in the comfort of my own home.  This picture is a blast from the past.  Every year, right before Christmas, my dad would come home and take all eight of us kids out Christmas Caroling. 

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 Greetings,  I finally am able to post my pics with my new scanner copier photo printer!!!!! I am sharing some memories from Christmas Past. Here we are on Christmas Morning. My Dad and my seven siblings and of course the family dog Mandy. This picture is the same every year with all of us looking longingly at all the presents under the tree but we couldn't touch them till we had this picture

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It snowed last night! It seems only natural to get a dusting of snow to begin December . As much as I loathe snow in April, I love it in December. Puts you in the mood  for the most blessed time of year, when we remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am beginning to get into the holiday spirit, which is a good thing for me as this time of year is a very difficult one. Memories flood

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I have been working on my pink post for two days and I keep making mistakes and loosing everything,  so I am posting this picture of the recent starfish project with my latest card of pink vintage buttons. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with the people you love and may God bless you all with a deeper revelation of Himself. And remember to go back to Beverly's and see all the other pink happenings

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 Welcome Friends   Welcome to my house where we are thankful for Jesus as our Savior !!!!!!! Here is my first attempt at creating a door decorated for Thanksgiving. I really enjoyed doing this project but I do wish I had given myself more time. Anyway if you want to see all the other doors, and they are magnificent. You can go to Karen's Some Days are Diamonds as she is the sponsor for this

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Greeting to you all on this wonderful day in November. Today it is raining in Vermont and I am glad it isn't snowing yet. Last year we had snow by now so I am enjoying still seeing the green grass.Today for pink Saturday I am showing this little hand painted metal basket. It is so shabby vintage and I plan to put it in the shop or sell it online. I just had to get a picture of it before it went.

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I wish I could have been in Dallas today as this handsome son of mine got off the plane. Thank you people for always meeting the planes and letting these guys know they are appreciated by their fellow Americans. He's on his way back to WA so I probably won't see him until February but we are overjoyed to have him in the states. What a blessing that his wife was in Texas staying with her mother

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This is my son, Seth. He is a Captain in the United States Army. He is finishing up a deployment in Iraq and we can't wait to have him on American soil again. Notice the wedding band, he was married 5 months before his deployment. The sacrifices the military must make to keep us free are amazing and their willingness to do so is honorable to say the least. You are all our Heroes! I am so

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Greetings to all! For the first time in my life I don't work on Saturday. Of course I have my grand-girls just about every weekend but one could hardly call that work! Today I have some very pretty pink pine cone ornaments that I purchased at auction. I am not sure that they are vintage but they were too pretty to resist. Be sure to visit Beverly's Blog How Sweet the Sound to see what

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  Although today is Halloween the Christmas cactus is blooming in the kitchen which is nice for me since flowers are one of my passions and all the flowers except these pansies are dead in the yard.  If you want to see all the other great pinks on this the orange and black holiday you should stop by Bev's at How Sweet the Sound and then visit the new blog I visited this week, Ann at Anne

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Greetings Friends I am so glad to be back on line. My wonderful husband took my computer out and had it fixed while I was away on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. What a great trip I had! God did such awesome things and I met so many wonderful people.  I was truly blessed even though it was also a very difficult week for me, being the first anniversary of the loss of my precious son

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Dear Friends,     I will not be able to post again for awhile. My computer has crashed and will not accept an internet connection. I am using my husband's computer to write this but that won't work for the long hall. Just when I was getting used to traveling the world wide web it is gone! Hopefully we will get me up and running before too long as I already miss seeing what you are all doing. I

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I think the leaves were pink today as I rode down the road so I stopped to take a picture. Maybe you can't see how pink they were in the picture but it sure is spectacular here this time of year. The colors are just beginning here so stay posted for more changes as the season unravels. What I really wanted to show you all is my new pink mirror which I purchased at auction and will sell at my

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Here we are at the beginning of fall. I see by most of the decorating posts that this is a big season for decorating. Usually I am too busy to do too much but I've decided to do my front-door this year, here are a few pictures from this week. Notice how the colors are beginning to change. Below is the before of my front door, which I hope will be done by this weekend.  As you can see I

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Today for pink Saturday I am showing you the last pink flower to bloom in my garden actually the last two pink  flowers to bloom. The first is my hot pink phlox which I wait patiently for [well actually anxiously] because it really doesn't bloom till the last week of August and then it is such a hot pink that you would think it would be a heat lover of July. Above is  what it looks like in the

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Today is probably one of the top ten days of the year! 85degrees, no humidity, the sky is clear and the most perfect of blue and the greens are still the darkest and most lush of the season. Hubby and I have a few days that are not over-planned every once in awhile and today is one of them. So I think to myself, how do I bless the greatest guy I've ever known? Julia Childs would know the answer

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I'm so sorry to be posting so late but some how I got one of those little stomach bugs but now I am better. Today for PS I am sharing a set of vintage linens.They were carefully wrapped in tissue paper all these years and never used.I think they must have been a treasured wedding gift because all the other linens that I bought at this estate sale were definitely  used.  This is the dish towel

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Yesterday as I was traveling I was thinking about Pink Saturday and I decided to see how much pink I noticed along my journey. Now some of you know I live in a very rural area and things do happen different around here. So these are the pinks on my way to church [16 miles each way] and a couple of pinks when you get there! Sometimes pink is universal and not as romantic as we

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Here is our beanpole on July 17, considering that we usually get a frost the end of August first week of September these plants know they have to be fast growing.This picture was taken on August 17, we are beginning to pick beans and the neighbors are sneaking in the yard to see what we are growing!!! Hah Hah!!I can see now why the story of Jack and the Beanstalk was almost believable. My

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For pink Saturday I am sharing some of my pink depression glass.A few of the pieces were given to me by my Mom but most of them I have purchased on the vintage/ auction/ flea market circuit.I especially like the pitcher with the green handle. Both of my favorite colors on the same piece. I had wanted to share more but my computer was having a bad day and would not upload the pictures. [Back to

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I am so late getting my post up but since I still visit posts for pink Saturday till Wednesday I will just post late.My son left for the Middle East on Thursday and I had 5 visiting grand-daughters that I took to Maine this week to see my parents. We had a blast even though one of them picked up a terrible stomach flu and didn't get out of bed for two days. When I returned home the stargazer

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These plates were a gift from my older sister when she discovered how much I loved flowers and pink. It seems that she received them from our paternal grandmother, an avid flower gardener, and was using them for trays under her plants!!!! I have three of them and the flowers are just lovely. I wish I had been there when they cleaned out my grandmothers stuff, we were truly kindred spirits and I

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This is my favorite daylily. It is called the Catherine Woodbury. It is truly a gorgeous ballet pink with lime-yellow throats. The only drawback to this stately beauty is the fact that she is a daylily and hence each blossom only lasts one day. Enjoy! Make sure you visit all the other Pink Ladies exhibiting today,this the last Saturday in July, hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.

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Hello friends,I can't believe a month has gone since I last posted. We hosted my son's wedding reception in our yard last weekend and it was fabulous! When he and his wife left on Tuesday it was a dark day. He is a captain in the army and will be going overseas for a year in just a couple of weeks so it was a very sad Goodbye!! Because he is stationed in WA, and we are in VT we will not get

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Greetings from VermontThe day for our wedding reception finally came and I must admit I could have used about another month to get ready for it. It has rained everyday for three weeks at least so we were not to surprised when it poured during the later hours of our party but not to worry everyone had a great time and our tent held up beautifully.

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