God is Great ~ Faith is everlasting

"God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. 

If God brings you to it , he will bring you through it"

Follow God's chosen path for us, and we will always be on the right path,
which will lead us to greater things, we will prosper beyond our wildest dreams

Blessings~Cheryl

Happy Saturday

End of summer flowers

I picked these in my yard

Pretty even though they are weeds,

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Enjoy your day

Blessings ~ Cheryl

Hooked on Fridays

~Colors of Linen and White that I Love~

These pictures inspire me, I have borrowed these from the

Internet~thank you for letting me show your beautiful

pictures

Have a Happy Friday

What inspires you?

Do Tell

Blessings~Cheryl

Dresser Re-done

My first posting on an old dresser that I re-finished

I know you don't know this, but I love to paint, I have been painting in one form or another since I was a little girl

This all wood dresser was a freebie that I acquired along with many other pieces,

After storing the furniture for a couple of months I decided that this piece

was going to be used in my walk-in closet to replace the broken Lowe's piece that I

originally put in the closet when we moved in the house, now the drawers don't even work

I had the paint in my house, it was never opend it is

Behr Premium Plus Cottage White

How strange was this, I had this can of paint in my basement, the painter must have

bought this paint and never used it, I never knew it was there

I didn't have a good paint brush on hand, but I had some new sponge brushes, and I was

so impatient to get this painted that I went ahead and used the sponge brushes, I don't think I would

recommend using the sponge brushes if you were going to put you piece of furniture in your room,

but I was just to impatient to wait another day to go and buy a new paint brush

I also had a 1/2 can of primer

I sanded the dresser with sand paper,

wiped it with a cloth to remove all the dust

Primed

and then painted, it took 2 coats

The next day I sprayed the dresser with a can of clear acrylic sealer that I also

had in the house

You will  notice in some of the pictures that it looks spotty, that is because the sealer was not

completely dry when I took the pictures

Sealer was still wet when I took this picture

Have a happy healthy Thursday

Blessings~Cheryl

"WHITE WEDNESDAY"

What a beautiful day in New England

Crisp, clean fall air, I am loving it!

I think this post should/might be called

"Black & White Wednesday"

These pictures are from my home

I am transforming my home from Primitive Early American, dark reds, browns and mustards

TO

White Rustic, French Chic

As I do things in my house, I will be posting pictures and telling stories

Gourd, old bread board, vintage carry all


Kitchen Counter, old tin with condiments
Window light

Old grain sack, vintage broom, old blue coverlet

all on an old weathered quilt rack

Old basket, handmade doll,

pillow from Family Heirloom Weavers sitting on a bench at my front door

Breadboards, I love old breadboard's

I have a collection ranging from very small to quite large ones

Vintage scale in white on an old very large bread board with

some of the old flour imbeded in the board,

old bread boards have such stories to tell

Old jugs, I love to collect old jugs

some have writing on them, some have numbers, letters, bird motifs, some still have the corks in them.

These are sitting in a display again on an old bread board

My next post is on a piece of furniture that I did over

I will post before and after pictures

Blessings~Cheryl

~THINGS I LOVE~

I love dogs, puppy dogs, older dogs

I love everything about dogs

I have three of my own

Everyone should have one, they make a house a home

I love cats, Kittens, older cats

I have 6 of my own

I love claw foot bathtubs

They keep your bath water nice and hot for a very long time

I love this chair style

I love brown transferwe

I love burlap chairs

actually I am loving anything burlap lately

I love the colors and textures of this chair

Linen and White

I love all things handmade

I love white farmhouse sinks

I am loving this bathroom

the colors the chippy paint

I love old sewing notions

I Love Linen

WHAT DO YOU LOVE?

WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD?

WHAT MAKES YOUR HOME FEEL BEAUTIFUL?

DO TELL~

Hooked on Fridays

I just LOVE this picture

imagine lying hear and listening to the waves

the warm sun against your skin

the smell of the salt water

It doesn't get any better than this

I found this picture on the web,

thank you for letting me borrow this picture

What a great idea!

Save the sand from the beaches you visit and label them in

old glass jars

This is not my picture, but it is quite lovely and

I wanted to share this great idea

Beautiful sunsets on the beaches of Cape Cod
After Labor Day weekend they become quite empty and somewhat lonely looking

as if the sand and the waves say where has eveyone gone

we had such fun this summer

come back next year and we'll do it all over again!

Labor Day Weekend, the official end of summer in New England,
I think I'm going to miss summer, it's been peaceful, relaxing, somewhat quite,
my kids were busy doing their own things.
School has started, my daugher is in the 11th grade, a big year for her and her friends,
she drives herself to school now, I can sleep a little bit later.
the weather is getting cooler, nights are very cool now, we don't need our air-conditioner on
maby just a low fan in the room.

Enjoy your weekend with family and friends
"Be kind to strangers, you never know when
you might be entertaining an angel"

Blessings~Cheryl