I seem to be a little more
home bound than usual these days, as I have a number of projects I am "trying"
to complete at the house. Therefore, I am afraid you are gonna see yet more pictures of my house for White Wednesday...I promise to change the venue next week by showing you pictures of
Matildas Mouse next show...Aug 22, 23, 24. We are actually having our annual "Dot" sale and Flea Market...so you can see it is double duty for me this month!
Anywhoo...The first picture is a little china cabinet I purchased years ago at the very first antique shop I rented space at. I don't know if you can see, but inside on the middle shelf is a dome. Inside the dome is my Mom and Dad's wedding cake
topper! They would have been married 66 years this year. The whole topper is a sugar based one. I am amazed that it has lasted and once more that my Mom had the foresight to place it under a dome! I call this cabinet my family cabinet, because everything inside is a family heirloom that I have been blessed to
watch over for our next generations.
The next two pictures are of my living room. It is a very open room. Bob and I spend time here in the morning drinking our Payne-Mason Coffee
http://paynemason.com/ .
Lastly, the large cloche has a Madonna and child statue (see Another, statue!!) I found her when I was doing genealogy, and of course shopping, in Kentucky a few years ago. She is cracked, chipped, broken in places, but I just love her. You probably can't see, (I am trying to perfect my photography), but next to her is a tiny relic from St.
Theresa. The crown on the Madonna's head was made by
Lenea, a very tanlented gal that helps Marla out at
Matilda's Mouse. She is a full time,
straight A, nursing student, who manages to help us ever so much!
Well, I'm done here folks, so I'm off to see all the wonderful pictures that have been posted for WHITE WEDNESDAY. For those of you who haven't checked out the wonderful inspirational
pictures posted by so many talented women go to
http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/ ! Thank you again Kathleen for hosting such a wonderful weekly blog event! One other note,... since I maybe still have your attention...
Matilda's Mouse is being featured in
Today's Vintage Living Magazine
http://todaysvintageliving/
it's a nice feature article on
http://matildasmouse/. Thanks for coming by..See Ya soon!
I have it in a wonderful primitive blue cabinet that I acquired a few years back. It makes me happy every time I walk into my kitchen. The birdhouse on top of this cabinet was a gift from my daughter about 5 years ago. It was made by a wonderful gentleman that was 95 at the time. He has since passed, but I enjoy it every day. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and now I'm off to see the wonderful treasures posted by the very creative women of White Wednesday.
I hope you all have a great White Wednesday...I'm off to look at all the inspiring pictures...then off for a good rest...I'm rather pooped after this last show...thank you so much for coming by, I really do appreciate it!
!(I took pictures of my pictures) Anyway. The very last picture is on of my husband's father, he was born on August 24, 1923. The next picture is of my mother and father...they were married on August 24 1943. And the first picture is of my son and his wife. Dave was born on August 24, 1976 (Happy birthday, son)... Wait...there's more...on October 15, 1966 my husband's father passed away, on October 15, 1996, my father passed away. And on October 15 2009 Dave and Linda's new baby is due. Today is an amazingly wonderful, yet emotional day! God's plan is in motion every signal day of our lives!
Here are some of the vignettes inside the barn and the last picture is the outside before it got crazy!! Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy!
Well, here we are for another terrific White Wednesday. Today I am showing some preview pictures of my area at Matiladas Mouse. Our sale starts this Friday and goes through Sunday...I guess I had the wrong dates..it's Aug 21, 22, 23. Anyway we are also having our annual good old fashion tag sale/flea mart. Lots and lots and lots of great buys here!! I'm off to go visit all the other gals for White Wednesday. I may not make it to all of you today, but I will in the next couple of days..things are movin' fast for me here. Have a great day!
to complete at the house. Therefore, I am afraid you are gonna see yet more pictures of my house for White Wednesday...I promise to change the venue next week by showing you pictures of Matildas Mouse next show...Aug 22, 23, 24. We are actually having our annual "Dot" sale and Flea Market...so you can see it is double duty for me this month!
it's a nice feature article on http://matildasmouse/. Thanks for coming by..See Ya soon!
I have really never loved or even enjoyed cooking. Of course when my children were home I made very balanced meals every day, but now that my kids are all grown, I get to do what I don't love..and that's not cook. Soooo, who cooks, my hubby of course! Cooking is actually very therapeutic for him...yahoo! And he's a gourmet cook at that. Now mind you we don't eat gourmet every night, because he sometimes has late or dinner meetings. So what's a girl to do..well there's always tuna fish and we do live on an avocado ranch...believe me I'm not starving....Anyway after my mother died (she had alzheimer's and lived with us)we sold our large home and decided to downsize. I loved everything about this house (newer home with antique doors and windows from England, hardwood floors, lots of charm...) BUT I didn't love love the kitchen...BUT hubby did. The cobalt blue threw me off a little (my last kitchen was white, of course) Now that we've been here about 6 1/2 years, the blue is actually fun and a nice break from all my white. I wanted to of course paint the cabinets white...then I got the "Who's kitchen is this anyway" "Back away from the kitchen!" (grin) The oil painting was another birthday gift (a number of years ago) from my husband. When we first moved back to Carlsbad, Calif. from Arizona we rented a home for about 1 year. Long enough for me to love living by the ocean. Then we purchased a home in the country and I was very sad to leave the beach, so hubby had a local artist paint the famous Carlsbad Inn as a present to me. That's it. That's my story for today...now off to do more painting and repairing for the next show at Matildas on Aug 22, 23, 24. If you get a chance you can read the wonderful article that Today's Vintage Living did on http://matildasmouse.com/ at http://todaysvintageliving.com/. Have a great day! Gosh I am so sorry..that first pic is so blurry...well whatda ya want , steady hand or steady mind...A photographer I am not...guess I still have a few things to learn HA!
