Saturday!

I love Saturday's. Today is going to be an exciting one. My Thirty-One meeting is today and I baked lemon cookies with creamy lemon frosting. I hope everyone likes them. I wanted to sprinkle lemon zest on the icing, but I use it in the cookie and in the icing so I didn't have enough to sprinkle on. 

All of our meeting are fun because it's a great group of women who know how to enjoy life. But today will be especially a blast because it is the premier of the new summer catalog and we will get to see the new line of products and patterns. We got a sneak peak of some of them for the April special.

They always allow us opportunities to earn new products and to purchase a few new items to add to our kit. I have already ordered my add on kit, but won't learn until today what is in it. We also have an opportunity to earn free products with as little as $300 in sales over the next two weeks. We will find out what those products are today.

It is going to be a great day!

A wonderful trade....

There is an awesome group on Facebook called Pyrex 4 Trade. I have gotten a lot of good trades in there and all it cost is the shipping to send the trade out from my end. I recently traded this piece of Pyrex that I know longer needed.

My trade arrived yesterday. Since I have traded several things lately, I couldn't remember what I traded this for. I ripped into it and was pleased to see how well it was packed. 

I dug through all the peanuts and found tons of bubble wrap protecting whatever goody was in store for me. 

I slowly unpeeled the bubble wrap with delight as I realized what it held.

My two new milk glass vases. I love them. I am putting plants in them for my new office. I am beyond thrilled. I didn't realize the big one would be so big. I love it. My philodendron is going in it. Not sure what I will put in the other one yet. I just know I am very happy with the trade.

I celebrated later last night with a big bowl of vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate syrup and peanuts. 

It was an awesome way to end a Thursday

Just some things....

Hubby was watching American Pickers when they found a Lincoln Drape milk glass vase by Aladdin. This was produced for one year from 1940-1941 before they discontinued making it due to the war. I fell in love with it. Isn't it gorgeous?

I saw a pic on one site of Pyrex for sale. Of the things on this table I like...I already have. Must mean my collection is coming along nicely.

This summer I am going to look for a vintage Formica table. I want it for my craft room. I just love these old tables. 

I have seen this picture at many antique stores and thrift stores. Now that I think I'd like to have it for my home office, I probably won't ever find it again. 

This is a local estate sale this weekend. Check out the green dessert dishes in the lower right hand corner. I would love to have a set of those in the blue/green carnival glass pattern. 

Loving the milk glass collection. 

I have a very dear friend who is forever making things for me. I just love my new Easter dishtowel. Thank you Georgeanna!

Windows of Gold

There is a legend that has often been told

Of the boy who searched for the Windows of Gold.

The beautiful windows he saw far away

When he looked in the valley at sunrise each day.

And he yearned to go down to the valley below

But lived on a mountain covered with snow,

And he knew it would be a difficult trek,

But that was a journey he wanted to make.

So he planned by day and he dreamed by night

Of how he could reach The Great Shining Light.

And one golden morning when dawn broke through

And the valley sparkled with diamond of dew.

He started to climb down the mountainside

With the Windows of Gold as his goal and his guide.

He traveled all day and, weary and worn,

With bleeding feet and clothes that were torn.

He entered the peaceful valley town

Just as the Golden Sun went down.

But he seemed to have lost his "Guiding Light,"

The windows were dark that had once been bright.

And hungry and tired and lonely and cold

He cried, "Won't You Show Me The Windows of Gold?"

And a kind hand touched him and said, "Behold!

High On The Mountain Are The Windows of Gold."

For the sun going down in a great golden ball

Had burnished the windows of his cabin so small,

And the Kingdom of God with its Great Shining light,

Like the Golden Windows that shone so bright.

Is not a far distant place, somewhere,

It's as close to you as a silent prayer,

And your search for God will end and begin

When you look for Him and find Him within.

Author: Helen Steiner Rice

It's April!

April showers.....well, you know the rest. And I for one have had enough dreary weather so I would be just fine without a lot of April showers this year.

I am so happy that April is here. I have officially declared today National Break Out the Capri Pants and Flip Flops day. I don't care if it is only 47° right now. It is supposed to get up to 77° today so I am wearing them. 

Anyone that knows me knows how much I adore my flip flops. I wait all winter to put them on again and I moan and groan when it is time to put them away. I saw this on Etsy and I just have got to order it.

I also found this cute bracelet....but then I saw the price was $99.00 and decided to admire it from afar.

I have decided to be nice this year and not play any April Fool's jokes on anyone. But that didn't stop me from looking up a few. I love this one. 

This one really cracked me up. 

And this would be the ultimate joke for me to pull on someone since I take goodies to work all the time. Wish I had seen this before now because I would have done this for sure.

Hope everyone enjoys the first day of April.

Oh my, we moved our office!

Moving day finally arrived. We moved our office this past Friday. We packed up that morning and by 4:00 we were in our new spaces. Of course, we just had a short move and we had new furniture already in the new office so it didn't take long. I have lots of room. I have my regular desk which in itself is so much room.

I have a file cabinet/work station part to the desk as well. Plenty of room to spread out my projects to work on. 

And there was a lovely matching credenza with even more filing space. No more ugly metal file cabinets right in my office. 

The finished product. I still need a couple more plants and we are getting some things to hang on the wall, but other than that I am ready to get started working in my new area. 

I did some spring cleaning over the weekend. I am going to cover the cushions of my porch swing since the bottom seats are starting to show some wear. Until I can buy some material, I just took a piece of what I had that was big enough to tug in around the bottom cushion. Not perfect, but a lot better than what it was. I had to set on it and enjoy the sunshine so I messed it up a little, but I plan to cover them with some springy this weekend. 

I bought a couple of wind socks to hang from the porch roof. You can't tell in this picture, but there is a cute little bumble bee on one of the flowers. Of course, I had to have that. 

I couldn't get a good shot of the bunny rabbit one because the wind kept blowing it. 

I finally found a little flag stand at the Dollar Tree. I got this little flag at a yard sale for a quarter last year and haven't been able to hang it. Of course, there is a bee.

Just one of the random items I hang out every spring. 

I fixed my table for Easter finally. 

And I finally changed my bakers rack to my spring Pyrex and decor.

I even had enough to do two shelves. I love it. 

A perfect place to drape my spring dishtowel made by Stevie Marie's. 

And my little tulip creamer I found at an antique store for five bucks.

I found these little tulips in a thrift store and couldn't wait to use them. 

I also got me a new English Ivy plant for my milk glass vase for the new office. I love how it turned out. 

I took myself to Golden Corral after church yesterday so I could run up to Home Depot to check their plants. I treated myself to a sampling of several desserts. It was really good. In my defense, I did have a regular meal before I hit the dessert bar. 

I even found time during the busy weekend to change the desktop background on my computer to Easter. I am finally in a spring mood.

Have a great Monday.

Sunday Songs