Settee For The Master Bedroom

My birthday is coming up in couple of weeks.

So I started looking for a treasure from my husband.

Remember, I am the one who finds the best gifts.

A - I know what style I like.

B - I like to shop and he does not.

C - Why not?

How could I not love it.

And I was able to get the cashier to mark it down.

Did you notice the chair in the next to the settee?

That is another chair I have waiting for time to reupholster.

It too has many of the same details.

Wonderful white fabric just waiting to be made into slipcovers.

So much to do, so little time.

Do you want to see what it will kind of look like?

The details of this chair almost match.

I have to decide, do I like it better with the wood or do I prefer the white.

I will be using the same off white linen fabric.

This weekend I was able to get about 1/4 done on removing the old fabric.

So many tacks to remove.

After spending time with the settee, I think I will go ahead and paint it.

I was also able to weed a couple of gardens in between the rain, and you?

I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

It's My Birthday

Today is my birthday.

Painting by Linsey from The Farmhouse Porch

This is one of my favorite of her paintings!

Even Google knew it was my birthday, such a neat surprise!

As much as I like to celebrate birthdays, mine is hard to enjoy.

No, not because I am getting old-er, I enjoy each year and always look forward to the next.

It is because my mom is not here to make it special.

and, as we just celebrated Mother's Day,

 this week is always hard for me.

So, today I am going to escape to the shops.

Antique, consignment and thrift, as many as I can fit in before lunch time.

Mr. M. called with a surprise, he took a half day for me.

As much as I love that he is WILLING to shop with me.

A- I need some alone time.

B- He hates to shop, I mean drag your feet like a 3 yr. old hate!

So I am going to try and meet him for lunch.

So, if you had to shop for your own birthday present, what would you buy?

Me, I'm looking for a dresser, some chairs to reupholster and maybe some ironstone.

But, I will be happy with whatever I find.

Even if it is only lunch with a special guy.

Oh yeah, and it is baseball season, so you know where I will be tonight!

A 4th Birthday

My oldest son turned 

10

on 

the 

4th 

of 

July

My little baseball player is growing up.

He played his last baseball game on Thursday.

This look says it all.

He really is a sweet kid.

They ended the celebration with sparklers.

A wonderful day for sure.

I have not been able to blog as much as would have liked to.

I feel as if I am on a speeding freight train, and I really wanted to get off, too fast for me.

Now that we are only going to be going to baseball two days a week and there are no more large events to prepare for I can start to relax and enjoy my days.

Don't worry though, I have been swimming with the kids and taking time to read a few pages of magazines here and there.  It's just that I am a stay at home, putter around the house and gardens kind of gal.  All this rush here and there is just a little too much.

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!

Party Like It's Your Birthday

As you may have guessed, I have a birthday today.

I posted a couple of days ago about a little bit of color.

Well, it seems that I am just bursting with color.

I did some shopping this past week at TJ Maxx and I found lots of COLOR!

I quick covered four ice cream chair seats.

I used this lime green outdoor table cloth.

I just love all the pretty colors on these pillow cases.

This crib will look even better when I add one of my vintage quilts.

Perfect for a summer party.

Now all I need to look for are some simple tables to set your drinks on.

These stripes are a long way from all white.

More lime green.

I just love the color green.

All of these new cushions are from my father for my birthday, THANKS POP!

Don't tell him until I do, for my family readers!

My friend June from Laughing with Angels left me a comment about my white flowers post,
she tried to plant all white but then found she needed some color.

I thought about that, and I thought I did too.

I still planted lots of white, but now my little bits of color stand out even more.

These planters are ready to be placed around the deck.

This one I still needs a couple of plants added.

I am thinking of maybe trying a couple of white Hydrangeas.

I just love the white and green.

For Mother's Day my little sister came over and helped me plant this flower bed.

It is a little sparse for my cottage garden loving ways.

I can always add a plant or two or hundred if necessary.

This is not my initial white garden, that one may have to be put on the back burner for this year.
We were more in need of a privacy board for the pool.

I did end up adding a little color purple through Lavender plants and some creeping Phlox.

So how about you, how long do you do all white before you bring in little bits of color.

It is Spring, let your colors burst.

I hope all of you mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Roses for My Birthday!

Yep, it's my BIRTHDAY today!

The kids didn't have baseball this morning because of the rain. 

 So, what better to do on my birthday, but to go flower shopping. 

 We found some beautiful pink roses.

This was where the kids sand pile WAS. 

It is going to become a new flower garden and fire pit area. 

By the time I get done with it, this will look very different. 

 I may even try to put a new arbor in this area.  Shhhh..........don't tell Mr. M. yet.

I have to do it in baby steps, first garden, then fire pit, then I ask him to build me the arbor.

Besides, he owes me, he is not here for my birthday.  Bad luck, he was scheduled to work 

 last minute for the weekend.  Now if only I can convince him to get me my Ikea sofa while he is in the area.

Now that spring is officially here, I will have lots of gardening to do.

I have a few dozen or so plants just waiting to be planted.

And just a few more.

Even though it has been raining a bit lately, it is really helping the flowers grow. 

 It also gives me some extra time to finish up some painting projects.

This is my painting project for tonight.

I am going to use some of my chalk paint, white this time, I still have not gotten used to the blue chair yet.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you are having a wonderful weekend too.



Birthday Boy

Today is Mr. M.'s birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE!

He is 39 today.

He of course would add that he is STILL younger than me, even though my birthday is not until May.

We made his favorite dirt cake and he will probably be spending the evening at home with us relaxing.

I hope you have a wonderful day too!

I can't wait to eat CAKE!

 

On With The Birthdays

Once Christmas and the New Year have past then it is time to celebrate the family birthdays.  It has been a tradition to go to my parents home for all of our birthdays for as long as I can remember.  When my mom passed away, it was a reason to get together, although celebrating our birthdays was one of the hardest celebrations without my mom.

She always made sure that we felt special on that one day, our day.

But, we decided to carry on the tradition.

Today we are celebrating my youngest sister's and one of my niece's birthday.

We have pizza and sit around chatting all day long.

Later we have cake and they open presents.

My sister called me earlier in the week, "are you going to make my cake?" she asked.

"Yes, do you want Turtle cake?" I asked.

"If you want to make it" she said.  "I will" I told her.

You may wonder what makes this cake important, it is all about what cake my mom used to make for us. We each have a certain cake that my mom would bake and we still request that cake.  Last year I was trying to diet and I did NOT make THE CAKE, or at least the one she wanted. 

This year, oh well, about the diet after Christmas.

 Damn those Christmas cookies!

The thing about this turtle cake is that it weighed 10 pounds the first time I baked it, oh, it was good, oh so good.  And I not kidding about the weight, we took it to the scale before slicing it open. 

To say that it was rich was an understatement.

This year it does not feel so heavy, but we WILL weigh it to be sure. 

My sister is happy, I made her cake!

Good thing, because I didn't get her any presents.

I asked, and received, "I don't know."

That's OK, my sister is in the process of buying her first house and I will get her something she will need when the keys become hers. 

 Until then, a wrapped box of nothing. 

 Trust me she will laugh.

My day will be filled of laughter and relaxation.
How about you?
 How are you spending this last day of the weekend?

Are you having any cake?

Birthday Boy

There is a special day coming up on Sunday, 4th of July.  It is even better in my home, it is my oldest son's birthday.  To honor both we do not insist on having only flags for his birthday theme, this year he picked Iron Man.  However we do decorate the house with flags. 

Today we are not seeing PINK but RED as Pink Saturday after all, as Beverly from How Sweet the Sound said, PINK is a derivative of RED.

Even the shed is wearing a FLAG!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHASE!

Happy 4th of July to EVERYONE!