My Make-Do Chair

I just finished making this make-do chair

this one is for my mother in law for mother's day

I'll see her tomorrow to bring it to her

I hope she likes it !!!!!!!

Blessings

Happy Mother's Day

There is no love, like a mother's love,

no stronger bond on earth...

like the precious bond that comes from God,

to a mother, when she gives birth.

A mother's love is forever strong,

never changing for all time...

and when her children need her most,

a mother's love will shine.

Bless these special mothers,

God bless them every one...

for all the tears and heartache,

and for the special work they've done.

When her days on earth are over,

a mother's love lives on...

through many generations,

with blessings on each one.

Be thankful for our mothers,

for they love with a higher love...

from the power God has given,

and the strength from up above.

by Jill Lemming

Happy Mother's day to my mom, in heaven my guardian angel and my hero

to my mother- in-law

and to myself, for I am so blessed that God gave me 3 wonderful children

to Love and to Cherish, always and forever

Can you smell the Flowers

I think I smell the flowers, Oh I want to believe that so much

It is muddy and gross in New England this time of year. 

 It is brown, everywhere, believe me there is NO green anywhere, maybe in the Pine trees and even that is not very pretty right now.

So I am  going to enjoy these beautiful tulip pictures and dream of Spring, getting outside

watching the first buds appear and the grass starting to turn green

I can't wait, it's been a long cold, snowy, icy winter

All at once now, lets think SPRING
Blessings~Cheryl

Valentine Day Flowers

My beautiful yellow tulips from my family

They smell so nice........

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

"Love the one your with"

~Oh, I love this little cuttie pututie-bless his little heart~

Blessings~Cheryl

Antique German Flour Sack Bags

It snowed last night, we have some heavy wet snow to move, so I sent the men outside to do that

I'm sitting at my computer surfing the web

I found this

I love,<3 these bags

The price is a little too much for me,

but I still love them

I could see myself carrying one of these

Yes, I could

Antique German Flour Sack Bags

What a neat idea!

Blessings~Cheryl

Help the People of Haiti

Please do what you can to help the Haitians. At a minimum, please text the word “Haiti” to 90-999 to donate $10 dollars to the American Red CrPowerful words.

You can click on this link, it will bring you to the Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0/?vgnextoid=1782005e7cb26210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

I sent a text message, and donated my $10.00, and my husband donated $10.00
Now it's your turn, it only takes a few minutes, we can surely afford to donate $10.00
If everyone does it, imagine all the help these people will get

Blessings~Cheryl

If you don't like the weather just wait a few minutes

In New England we have a saying:

"If you don't like the weather just wait a few minutes"

Right now ~ it is soooooo cold here, and it is snowing lightly right now, but that could change in the blink of an eye!

We shovel, we salt, we have snoblowers, we have plows on our trucks, we have snow tires, and snow brushes in all our cars, we keep blankets, gloves and scarfs in our trunks and some keep shovels in their trunks.  We have remote starters to get our cars warm before we have to head off into the wintery blizzards. 

All of us who live in cold, snowy climates know what I'm talking about, those we don't, your lucky, in my opinion.  I don't like the cold long winters.  After Christmas I look forward to Spring, and I can't wait for the beautiful Spring weather.

Lots of homes in New England have fireplaces, we have two.  

They bring such comfort and warmth to a room.  We make our fireplaces a focal part of the room, we decorate them and show them off, after-all they do take care of us, keeping us toasty warm

A beautiful green color on the woodwork is the focal point of this fireplace

Thie one is Ochre Yellow, I love the woodwork around this fireplace
I wonder what is behind those doors

A log cabin, love the bench in front of the fireplace,

beautiful stone

A cooking fireplace, with a crane for making soup,

and a beautiful farm table

Lovely in White

This room is full of beautiful things that focus around the fireplace

Beautiful Stone fireplace and mantal,

love this chaise, I could sit here, read a book, and take a nap

This fireplace looks like it might belong in a very old, old home, oh such character

Again,, they have made the fireplace the focal point of this room,

Nice place to sit with the family

I love the blue woodwork on the fireplace and all the whites

All Photos courtesy of "Country Living"

Stay warm and bundle up next to the roaring fire

Blessings~Cheryl

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE

Put your Party hat on and have a wonderful New Years Eve

My mom always had a New Years reminder, don't enter you home after midnight

without someting in your hand.

It signifies that you will have health, happiness and prosperity in the coming new year

So make sure you bring home one of those party favors in your hand

Tomorrow, I'll let you know what my New Years Resolutions will be for 2010

What will yours be?

Blessings~Cheryl

Santa Claus is coming to Town

Countdown to Christmas

 Is all your shopping done?

Have yourself a very merry White Christmas

So busy, these day, I haven't had much time to post,

I have been playing with a photo edit program, but I can't get
all of them to load on my blog at the same time.  I'm working on it,
I'll leave you with this one that I did accomplish to upload.

Colonial Early American Christmas

I have a love of White & Linen, but I also

love the Colonial Early American look

Rich in History and Charm

Olde Homes, Olde Souls,

The patina of on olde house

When I acquire an old piece, I can't help

but wonder, who owned it, how they used it, how

they acquired it.

If it was part of their family history

I always feel that the piece doesn't truly

belong to me,

it is on loan to me, unil it is passed

on to the next olde soul

Doorways decorated as they were in eary times

Using only items found in the woods

A table setting with fruits and fresh pine

and a Pineapple

Look at the clay pot filled with pine and a little bird

Steal this idea ~ Love it

Adding fresh pine and pinecones, some packages wrapped in

brown kraft paper, tied with ribbon, more pine

around an antique picture and you have

yourself some instant Christmas Cheer

Add some homemade ginerbread men

Smaller pine tree on top of an old table

Old baskets filled with Christmas packages

Long Johns hung on a cupboard with winter stockings,

and some pine and another great decorating idea

Homemade Pine & Pincone swag over the door

Love the old shutters

Spell Merry Christmas using

round tags bought at an office supply store

Age them first, stamp them with small stamps

punch a hole in them, swag them

Love it

Christmas by the Hearth

Quince slices dried and hung on a window

Tree decorated with red and white garland and little silver stars

A beautiful bedroom sparsly decorated

for Christmas

Wishing you happy decorating

I hope your home at the holidays

 is everything you dream it could be

Pictures belong to the Internet

thank you

Blessings ~ Cheryl