Be still my heart....

I love everything about Valentine's Day. I am a huge romantic who loves hearts, flowers and lace. Of course it doesn't hurt that my favorite colors are red, pink and purple. Since I love to craft, Valentine's Day are some of my favorite things to craft. Since I am snowed in for my fourth day and today is my day off, I ventured over to Pinterest. I am obsessed with all the wooden hearts that Dollar Tree and other craft stores are carrying.

I love all the Pinterest ideas for decorating the hearts. Oh my gosh, talk about falling down a rabbit hole. I got a headache from looking at all the possibilities. Plus some people are cutting the backsplash squares from Dollar Tree into a heart shape.

Here are some of the ones I found that I absolutely love. I especially love the ones that are lace, floral and bows.

The two on the right hand side in these are the ones made from the back splash pieces. They painted them and then wife some of the paint off to make them look vintage. 

The two on the left are unique. Top left, it looks like they cut the backsplash and glued it on the wood. That is really unique. But the boot left looks like they "poofed" it out somehow. That is definitely one I want to try to do. It would be perfect in my steampunk room.

Now just to get rid of the snow so I can go shopping for supplies. 

Welcome to my world

It is definitely winter weather this week. Snow started on Sunday night around 9:00. By Monday morning I had a couple of inches and by Tuesday morning, there was 6-7 inches of snow.

Then last night, we go more snow and during the night it got down to 3° with a wind chill of -5°. That's cold. I woke up to everything being solid ice on the road. It was slush before bedtime because cars had ran in and out yesterday. But this morning, it is ice. People have tried to get in and out and can't. At one time, there were four cars stuck in various places in the middle of the road on my little short piece of road.

I have two kittens that I got back in June. This is Goose. He's the oldest of the litter. They are 9 months old. I had them fixed and keep them in the house always. 

This is his sister Gracie. She was the only girl and was 4th in the litter of 5. She is what it called a diluted calico. The other brothers were the regular black and white, with a tad of orange calicos. But she is all pale orange and grays with just a little tiny white. Only 1 in every 1000 calico cat is this diluted breed. 

They are both so precious and love to snuggle. They love people and nothing scares them. I did have to modify some things around the house...like moving teapots into rooms in places they won't bother them. 

I have about 30 collectibles in my tea collection. I have a couple of tea sets, some tea pots, some tea for one's, some miniature tea sets and a lot of tea cups and saucers. I am running out of room but love collecting tea stuff. Funny story....I don't drink tea. I despise it, but I sure love stuff you drink or serve it in. I had a couple of tea spoons I have collected. At Christmas, my granddaughter, Alexis, brought me the tea spoon they had gotten on a cruise for me at Nassau. I am so in love with it. It has gold flip-flops. I love flip flops and where them all summer. I have almost as many flip-flops as I do tea items.

I picked this tea cup to put the spoon it. It is trimmed in gold. The tea cup is the Foley China Montrose pattern made in England. This pattern was made in 1938. It's my favorite tea cup. I paid $10 for it at a local antique store over 20 years ago. The gold trim goes great with this cup.

Now I have 3 unique tea spoons. So I have decided I am going to collect some more since I am running out of room for tea pots.

I am now going to scour local antiques stores and thrift shops to look for a spoon display. I would like to have something like this. 

Well, that's all for today. Have a happy Wednesday!

 

My new wish list for this year

I am doing some rearranging and redecorating in my kitchen. I want to expand my Pyrex collection. I want to make some dishcloths using this color theme.

I love the color scheme so much that I decided to add some of those colors into my Pyrex collection. I love how they combined solids with the friendship bowls. This is on my wish list.

I love the Horizon Blue collection. I had one bowl, but had a hard time finding the rest so I traded it for something else. I am on a mission to collect this set.

And just let me say "PINK". I don't care what pattern or what piece. I just know I want to incorporate pink.

I will probably go to some antique stores on Sunday after church and get some ideas of exactly what's available. 2024 is going to be my year to get back to blogging. Feel free to leave me a link so I can follow your blog and I hope you will follow mine.

 

Saturday Silly's

My Saturday tribute to humor. These are just a few things I have stumbled on this week that gave me a good laugh. Just thought I'd share and give you a smile.

 

Catching Up

Well, it's been about 5 months since I posted. My life has been busy. But I miss blogging. I miss following other blogs and miss hearing from my friends. Over the next few days, I'll share some things that have been happening these past few months. But today, I just wanted to share a few things. For July, I made some patriotic mini rolling pins and displayed them in one of my Pyrex Charm bowls.

I wanted to do a wreath for fall to hang up in September. But I never have good luck decorating wreaths. I had purchased the supplies at Hobby Lobby and Dollar Tree, but I couldn't find the wreath form I wanted. But a side trip to Dollar General ended up with me seeing a woodend cutting board with a loop for hanging and inspiration hit.

Always go with your gut instincts. I couldn't be more pleased with the end result. 

One of my other creations was food wise. It was just a chocolate cake with homemade chocolate frosting but it looked to good not to get a picture.

It feels good to be back blogging again. Drop me a comment to say hi.

 

March-ing into a new month

 Happy March 1st

It's been so long since I have blogged and I really miss it. Just thought I'd kick off March by starting back on my blog. I won't catch you up on everything that has happened since I last blogged back in 2022. I just thought I'd share some recent things. 

I put out a few decorations in honor of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day. For some reason I love my little door and leprechaun. 

I just felt like they were so adorable.

I also changed the curtains in the dining room. I am loving them. 

I fixed this little area in the kitchen. I am loving my basket with the burlap bow. A great Hobby Lobby find at 50% off.

I was surprised to get a package the other day from my oldest cousin. I mentioned this tablecloth in one of the other cousin's post. When Jeannie saw I said I'd love to find one like this, she sent me hers. I was blown away. She wanted me to have it. Our cousins are all close with us, but this made me just sit down and cry. I was so happy.

I shopped my house and found the blue vase and then shopped another room and found the tulips. I am beside myself with excitement.

Speaking of excitement! This Friday is the grand opening of the new Chick-fil-a just about 5 or 6 miles from my house. This is good news! But, on the other hand, as much as I love Chick-fil-a, maybe it's not such a good thing. 

That's it for today. Hope you visit again tomorrow. 

Choose One

 

One has to go forever. Hmmm. I am not giving up waffles or pancakes because they are my easy supper fixes. Eggs are at least 2 or 3 times a week. Bacon and sausage can be used so many ways. Regular, on biscuits on pizza. Just can't lose those. I do love my orange juice. Ice cold with pulp. I can handle apple juice. It's not a favorite, but if I'm served it I can drink it. Not really a coffee drinker, but if I am freezing and no hot chocolate, I could drink coffee with milk. That just leaves grits. I cannot see a need ever in my life where I would need or want grits.....unless I am out of wallpaper paste. 

Hope you have had a great weekend.