Happy Birthday Michael♥

Happy Birthday Michael, I can’t believe your 37 today, bittersweet memories run thur a mother’s mind at times like this! I had you on St. Patrick Day 1975 late at night around I think 11:00, 11:30 ish Gramma was working then and came up to the room, said you looked like Pap and she was right you do, you’re the picture of my dad although you have hung on to your hair a lot longer than he did.LOL They laid you on my stomach and I can still see you as you turned your head and looked up at me, a moment that I’ll never, ever forget…I realized too that you had brown eyes like me♥
Michael is on the right, Chris is on the left!

I’m so proud of you! A great teacher, homeowner, great girl that you will marry June 2013 and a wonderful kind heart! Miss you, have a great birthday today!
I love you Michael, my second son.

Beadboard on the Bar

 
Hi everyone!  I wanted to show you how the counter bar looks with the beadboard on and painted, I really can’t believe how it is all finally coming together! 

The trim still has to be put on but I’m still loving it! Yes, my kitchen is a mess once again, Mr K had to loosen the old counters because the new ones will be here on the 19th, so somethings had to be taken out of the bottom of the sink and the one next to the dishwasher because out in my garage is a new sink, dishwasher and three ceiling fans all waiting to be put in or put up! Don’t mind the floor, he can be messy at times

While I was watching Nicholas today…check out his bib “Lock Your Daughters Up” cracks me up! I was feeding him his cereal and fruit…..

Don’t mind the truck either it’s a 1993 Ford and it has finally bit the dust, I feel bad because we dated for a long time and I got used to riding around in a truck. lol Anyway, I came home to this, he painted these shelves for me to put….

up here,I wanted open shelves somewhere and this seems like the right place because I could just never get it right,  the clock will be moved up higher and I’ll have fun decorating them! I have a board on Pinterest called Shelf Styling so I’ll be on that getting some neat ideas for the shelves.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
I’ll be partying at these great ones:
Home Sweet Home Friday @ The Charm of Home
Show and Tell Friday @ My Romantic Home
Fridays Unfolded @ Stuff and Nonsense
Potpourri Friday @ 2805
Whimsy Wednesday @ Home Happy Home
Inspiration Friday @ The Picket Fence
Feathered Nest Friday @ The French Country Cottage
Say G’ Day Saturday @ Natasha in Oz
Power of Paint Party @ Domestically Speaking
Rondell♥

No Glue Required

Like my post title? I thought of it while I was doing my craft project for Gina’s Spring’ tacular Link Party Parade. Gina is a wonderful girl and I say girl because she is a lot younger than me and also has been so supportive , always sweet, wonderful comments on my posts…she never dissappoints!!! So today I couldn’t do that to her especially with having her first linky party. I was working on a craft but it is taking a lot longer than I expected, so it isn’t done for today, so I had to think of something real quick and link up to her party before I leave for work!
So here it is my Spring wreath for my front door, remember the green K I bought from my fav store in the whole world HOBBY LOBBY?

This is what it looked like without a wreath, looked lost.

Then I decided to put this Twig wreath that I had for a few years and cost about $20.00! Looks terrible I know and from the road you could hardly see it, so I decided to fix her up with flowers and ribbon I already had.

Now you can sure see it from the road.

Can’t wait to put my rocking chair out here!

Just pushed everything in real tight like, the pretty, pink tulips are from DT last year, the others are from two bushes I have had for a while and used wire clippers and cut them up to use!

Took me 12 minutes to do, I timed it!

Sometimes those “hurry up projects’ turn out to be pretty good don’t you think?
Joining Gina’s Craft Spring’tacular linky party today
Thrifty Thursday @ Thrifty Decorating
Open House Party @ No Minimalist Here
Wow Us Wednesdays @ Savvy Southern Style
Primp Your Stuff Wednesday @ Primp

April Before and After Party @ Thrifty Décor Chick
Rondell♥

 

Spring Mantel Love

Hi everyone and happy Tuesday to you! Nice weather we are having here in Pa. in the 70’s, and I’m so enjoying it!
I’d like to share with you my spring mantle and if you have been following me for a while you know my mantle and I have a love/hate relationship with each other! It’s a long mantel about 7ft so it’s hard sometimes to not fill it completely up with “stuff”! I am hoping that by painting the brick Cottage White it will somehow bring everything together. See the ceiling fan in the mirror? We just bought new ones to replace this one and the two out in the kitchen and other room off the kitchen, I so can’t wait to see them up! I was just going to paint them but Mr. K said let’s just buy them so I didn’t argue on that one ladies!

I took this one after I added the eggs on the book!

The blue eggs I bought a few years ago and the ones on the book are the ones I made.

The pink dogwood branch is from DT and the bottle is from Marshall’s.


The mirror behind the candle is from GW, in fact all of them are, and that’s not dirt on it, it’s the glass and it is so heavy so I’m thinking it’s an old one. The candle holder is from DT and I painted it white.T
Also in my Copy Cat Post I forgot to mention that the nailheads are silver and I bought them a Hobby Lobby!
T
Thanks for stopping by and I’m so glad it’s almost Spring and I know you are too!
I’m joining these parties today!
Spring Mantel Party @ Fox Hollow Cottage
Your Cozy Home Party @ My Cozy Home
Nifty Thrifty Tuesday @ Coastal Charm
Tuesday’s Treasures @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Winter Blue Wednesday @ DIY by Design
Spring Mantel Party @ The Lettered Cottage

 

 

 

Rondell♥

Marty’s Egg-cellent Cloche Party !

Hi all, I’m joining Marty’s party for the fabulous spring cloche party!
I have to put this up a little early because I work today and I don’t want to miss out on any fun! I used the cloche I bought at Homegoods when they had their grand opening, I looked high and low for a faux chocolate bunny but couldn’t find one anywhere, so I used a brown bunny from GW. I love the word chocolate on it but it does interfere with what I have inside so I turned it around.

Isn’t he cute, I don’t think I even paid a dollar for him! The ceramic egg I made in the early 70’s in ceramic class. Glad I kept them because they do come in handy during Easter! The milkglass cakeplate is also from GW.

The wood barrel was 25 cents about 12 years ago at the fleamarket.

I think it looks pretty neat under my subway art!

I’ve been wanting to show you this little wire crate I bought for Buster’s toys at either Marshall’s or TJMaxx, I always get those two confused.LOL

It says Dog’s Doodads on the metal tag, everything in there is torn and chewed but Buster still seems to like them!

Thanks as always for stopping by, always love having you! Don’t forget the Linky Follower at the very top of the post in the sidebar, I really don’t want to lose any of you
I’m joining A Stroll Thur Life Cloche party
Rondell♥

Spring Copy Cat Party!

Hello Peeps, it’s time once again for DebbieDoo’s Spring Cop Cat Challenge! Between these copy cat parties I’m always on the look out for a good Copy cat, I usually do that with my Pottery Barn Catalogs but this time I chose my Ballard Designs catalog to copy from, it’s on page 85 if you want to take a peek. A few months ago I had bought a .99 cent bulletin board at GW and there it sat until I could figure out what I wanted to do with it, then I saw this page and knew this was how I’d do it!

Mine measures 17x23 and I figured I made it for roughly about $3.99 , theirs however cost $49.00 for a 15x20 smaller than mine! I added my own take on it by using a black ribbon to hang it with. Also the little girl’s picture is me taken in Kindergarten

I have to get some push pins so for now I’m using straight pins, Ballards has them for $18.00 for 12 but I think I’m going to go on Etsy and look.

Took me about a half an hour to do as far as stapling the burlap to the back and I also used a yard stick to try and keep the nail heads even! I had a picture of everything before I started on it but accidently deleted it on my camera..darn!


Sort of wasn’t into this because today is my mom’s birthday and I sure was missing her.
I’m joining DebbieDoo’s Copy Cat Party
Under the Table and Dreaming Sunday Showcase Party
Rondell♥

Hobby Lobby Again and I was Featured!

Hi everyone, sorry I’ve been away for almost a week but I’ve been working and there just wasn’t anything I felt was interesting enough to post about. On days like that I mostly visit as many blogs as I can or you can find me on Pinterest wandering around.lol
I did finish this other little tray that I bought a good while ago at GW, I use it on the table in my entryway, I had it painted blue but just felt it would look better with the homemade chalk paint I had left. On the distressed parts I used clear Minwax that I added black craft paint to and I love how it turned out, I still have to do the end table hopefully sometime this coming week I’ll get that done!

I was also featured on Domestically Speaking Popp Spotllight, YEAH!!! I’m thrilled to say the least, here’s the picture MaryAnn featured! Thanks you so much MaryAnn!


I was at Hobby Lobby again, 3rd time there and I love it! We went there first this time instead of last so I got to look around more. These are the cute knobs I picked up this time, I might use them on my tv stand I’m not sure yet though.

I picked up this cute little vase for half off of $2.99, really getting into this color! Rabbit is from Target, $2.50!

Awww, tulips don’t you just love them? Somehow they just say Spring to me!

Right now I have them on my little stepladder with a black ribbon tied around the vase!

Another pic of them, the ruffled burlap tablerunner is from raggy girl vintage.

I bought this green K letter and thought it would look good on my front door but it’s to small looking and looks lost so maybe with a wreath around it?

We were ready to leave and go to Marshall’s when I spotted something for this little guy, don’t you just love his hair, his dad’s was the same way!

A turtle Easter basket sooooo cute! I’m keeping it in the guest room I’m not sure if Buster would bother with it or not but I’m not taking any chances!

After we hit Marshall’s, TJMaxx, Homegoods and Kirklands, I’ll save what I got at these places for my next post. In the mean time here is a tease of one thing!

Thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog, so glad to have you!
Have a great Saturday and I’ll be joining these party’s:
Spotlight Saturday at Classy Clutter
Showoff Saturday at Nutmeg Place
Restyled Sundays at Thrifting and Restyling
Sunday Blog Love at Cherished Treasures

Simply Klassic Sundays at Simply Klassic Home
Sat Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors
Rondell♥