~HAPPY PINK SATURDAY~

Without our wonderful pink loving hostess Beverly we would not have this fun event each and every Saturday....Do pop over and say "Hi" to her and see the list of pink-a-licious blogs to visit today....

My Mom, bless her heart, had such talents....she was an artist.....she had her Masters from the U of Iowa and she could paint, do magnificent pottery and make a house a beautiful home. Later when we lived in California, she was an interior designer as well as Master Potter. When I was young and we were living in Omaha, NE. we had one of the first track homes and ours was no cookie cutter!!!! No way!!....our house was painted a beautiful red with white trim and shutters.....a white ranch style fence and lots of gorgeous flowers....a window box in the front made by my Dad and she painted it black with lots of, her take on Peter Hunt, flowers in pretty colors she mixed herself. She laid a brick patio, herself, under our "picture window". I remember on weekends people driving by and stopping to look at our pretty home....I was always so proud to walk up the driveway and know this is where I lived! I know that I inherited, from her, my love of decorating and painting and crafting in general.....her loving hands were always busy creating or.....playing the piano.

Anyway, this corner cupboard is from our Omaha home. Mom loved maple and we had some pretty pieces....not that clunky stuff that came out later. We had a darling Cobblers Bench, Dough Box and other wonderful pieces....She used chintz for chair covers and drapes......she was waaaaay ahead of her time in decorating. She was so gifted and had idea after idea.....I rarely saw her thumbing through magazines for inspiration....




So now it is mine and I have been painting most everything in our large dining room white, but for some reason, I haven't touched this cupboard, yet. I wish I had pictures of how she had it filled, to show, as it was much different from how I have it. She loved copper and pottery and it had a very cottage feel but more a country cottage and I think of how I have it as shabby romantic cottage. I think, the more I look at it, it will be white one day. I have found that white shows off the curves and the style so much more than the natural wood and frankly, I am tired of all the dark wood....

I could live forever, happily and peacefully, in surroundings like this!
I found this picture on Yahoo and you can follow her blog, My Shabby Streamside Studio, by clicking on her button on the left hand side of my blog...there would be no blood pressure problems living in that dreamy little cottage...that is for sure!
Now I am off to do my Pink Saturday visiting....
:-)
Jil
xo
PS I found a magical blog and I want to share it with you. I have always been enthralled with pixies, fairies and even wicked little trolls....At The Pixie Forest you will meet Tobi and you will adore her blog for she is a bit pixi-alated (sp?) I do believe, and her blog and her sparkly designs are a great treat! I love her trees and have to have one, or two or maybe three!

~FROUFROU FRIDAY FUN~

I have to give Connie, our sweetheart of a hostess, a big basket of Thank You's for starting this fun Friday event! You can click on the badge to the left to go to all the other blogs having some good ole FrouFrou Fun! See you there!

My FrouFrou for this week is a china cake plate with matching dessert plates and other pieces of rosy china and faux cupcakes by moi and dainty slices of cake from Rhondas Rose Cottage....

Happy FrouFrou-ing!
Jil

Rosie The Snow Lady

Hello Everyone,

First, I want to thank all of you that have left me comments...I am slow to get to each of you because I got felled by blood pressure medicine this week. I am a high energy gal and this stuff slows me down so much that walking upstairs is an effort. I am working to get off of it as soon as I can, believe me!!! I haven't needed it for many years, but sometimes unhappy events, events that are other peoples decisions that impact my life, weigh unhappily and heavily on my mind. I try to let them go, but that is easier said than done and I wind up brooding about things I can do nothing about, sadly. It all winds up making me sick and questioning what my life has all been about...with prayer and positive thoughts I will get myself over this big mountain!

Creating has always been a cure for me and so this week, low energy or not, I made this little Snow Lady that I named Rosie....you can see more of her at my website. With her coal eyes twinkling and her carrot nose turned pink from the cold, she turned out awfully cute, don't you think?

SOLD


Hope your day is full of sunshine!
Jil

Pretty Pink Saturday

Hello All.....I am posting early to try to get a head start. Pink Saturday has grown and grown and is still growing and I need a head start!!!

My latest Southern Belle with Ribbon Embroidery....This one is sold, but another is in the works...

Teacup Pincushion Confection at my Etsy shop.....

Hope it was a wonderful summer week for all my pink loving friends....You can see, above, a bit of what I did beside the usual weeding and housework....which I do not mind. I am one of those that enjoy these tasks.... I love being in the garden and did you know that keeping a dryer sheet in your back pocket really does ward off those pesty mosquitoes? I let some of it hang out of my pocket.... I tried it as I like to garden in the evening best and that is when they are out and about and....it works!!!

Now don't forget to go to Beverly our fabulous host that keeps this fun event going, for a list of all the pink, sweeties that are doing Pink Saturday this week.

I love glass...especially Depression glass and vintage crystals and if you do too, you will want to visit Kathy at http://www.depressionelegantglass.com/
It is a wonderful blog of so many patterns and a great place to go to find that pattern you have been wondering about....I don't know how I have missed visiting her before...

Well, now I am off to hit the trail of Pink Saturday pink and pretty blogs....thank you for paying me a visit and leaving me comments to read. I get such joy from each of them!!

Jil