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

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?

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

Guess where I'm going tomorrow!!!

Can you quess from the first 3 pictures!!!!!

NEW YORK CITY

SHOPPING AND SIGHTSEEING

Can you tell I'm excited

  Macy's - the World's largest store

Ground Zero

Rockefeller Center

Times Square

People watching

and I'd like to ride the subway

Eat somewhere special

We leave at 6:30 in the morning,

and shop till we drop

Were taking a bus, a bunch of us gals

It should be FUN, FUN

I have my camera ready,  hope to get a lot of pictures

Blessings~Cheryl

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I hope your table is filled with wonderful food, family and friends
And, many blessings for the past year and the year ahead
May we all be blessed with good health, prosperity and the ability to help others
My blessings include those that are no longer with us, but how thankful I was to have had them in my life and to have known the love we had for each other
I always bless the animals, I never forget our faithful companions
Blessings~Cheryl

Almost Thanksgiving

Are you decorating for Christmas yet?

Blessings~Cheryl

Holiday Decorating

Some Holiday inspiration~

Take a wicker basket, fill it with greens, pinecones, berries and twigs

These little baskets are adorable with candle lights inside

Head on out to the nearest field, woods or your backyard, as I do
Bring your cutters
Gather your greens and decorate you house with them
No fuss, no money to spend
Happy Sunday
Blessings~Cheryl

Bittersweet~time to pick

It' time for me to go and pick the bittersweet in my yard, and also down the street in a field

Very pretty to decorate with.

In the fall, I cut lots of it for my house inside and out

Bittersweet is very invasive, it takes over everything.

Photo "Martha Stewart"

Blessings~Cheryl

All Hallow's Eve

In old England cakes were made for the wandering souls, and people went "a' soulin'" for these "soul cakes." Halloween, a time of magic, also became a day of divination, with a host of magical beliefs: for instance, if persons hold a mirror on Halloween and walk backwards down the stairs to the basement, the face that appears in the mirror will be their next lover.

~CHERYL~