Happy Mother’s Day

I hope you are having a wonderful one, in a short while we will be going to my daughter’s for dinner. Next Sunday we are celebrating Mother’s Day at a Pirate Game in Pittsburgh, we will be in a box so if the weather is chilly like it is today, it won’t be to bad. My brother and sister-in-law will be there plus the kids and grandchildren so it should be a happy time for us!


Happy Mother’s Day to all you bloggers that stop by my blog, as I’ve said before I always appreciate it If your mom is still with you give her a hug, mines been gone for almost 12 years, but I still remember everything about her and think of her everyday!

Summer Items for the Front Porch

Hi everyone, how are you today? I hope your enjoying the wonderful weather this spring has brought us.
Recently on a trip to Target I found some items for the front of the door and the rocker that sits on the porch every summer. A welcome mat and a pillow, the mat was on clearance…love when I get a deal like that!

I haven’t filled the window boxes yet because I think I need new ones and DH said he would build them for me but I have to get rid of the couch that is still sitting in the garage first.


I did get some flowers/hanging baskets at a nursery.

The one basket I may just keep on the plant stand by the door. I just hope that they don’t die on me. Do any of you use a fertilizer on your flowers? If you do what brand and how do you apply it to the plants?
This is the mat, love the colors blue and green!


Isn’t this one pretty? Two combinations of flowers, wish I knew what kind there wasn’t any imfo on the hanging baskets which irked me!


I know this one has a red geranium in it I don’t think I’ll hang it though.


I love Gerber Daisies and picked up two pots at a roadside stand  and planted them in the green Dollar General pot. The little heart stake is from Annapolis made out of pottery.

I love all the green, so happy to see it finally




I’d like to say a thank you to my newest followers and also to the ones who have been for a while, I love having you stop by for a visit!

I’ll be sharing here with these great linky parties:
The Inspiration Gallery @ Craftberry Bush
Be Inspired @ Common Ground
Feathered Nest Friday @ The French Country Cottage
Home Sweet Home @ The Charm of Home

Flaunt it Friday @ Chic on a Shoe String Decorating

Inspire Me Please @ Liz Marie Blog

Show and Tell Friday @ My Romantic Home

Samantha’s Day

^{It has taken me since Friday to do this post!}
Do you find your days getting busier and busier since the weather is getting warmer and I must say prettier? Mine are… every weekend is either shopping (for a dress for the wedding, wish I would find one already, I found shoes that are dressy but comfortable which is really rare so now I have to find a dress to match the shoes!!!) or parties for communions or graduations or wedding showers! This weekend is shopping and a communion party for my great nephew! Really crazy! Last weekend was Samantha’s first Holy Communion…plus her 8th birthday but we celebrated her birthday the week before…see how crazy!



Uncle Nick is her god father!

Looks like a little angel but you should see her compete in games and studies she is a little go-getter for sure.

Nicholas had just woke up…so cute! I can’t believe he will be 2 years old on August 31st!


Two cousins together ages 9& 8.

Sam’s cake.

I have been shopping too! I found this grainsack frame at Homegoods!

Also changed my table runner and laid the white tulips in this old wooden box!

I’m also thinking of doing this to my kitchen backsplash…smile!
I’ve even bought the chalkboard paint to do it with!

Just need the guts to do it.

I’ll be sharing at:

Wow Us Wednesday

Hydrangeas on a Black Door

Hello everyone!
While shopping a few weeks back I found the hydrangeas in a tin pail at Kirklands. Loved the sage green satin ribbon tied to hold the pail flat against the door. I needed something new(you know how that is) and had bought a spring wreath but it just didn’t show up on the black door to my surprise! Maybe because I only had the wreath out as my start of spring decorating on the porch.


Now the white rocker is out and a pillow placed on it, see the green pot by the rocker? I found that at Dollar General  a month or so ago and should have bought two…

For the past couple years I’ve been buying pansies at the beginning of the spring season, my mom loved them and had told me that her maternal grandparents had raised them and sold them. Here is a picture of my grandmother, Rondell and the pansies that her parents grew, I’m thinking this is about 1915/16.



Planted in a $2.00 yardsale container, thank goodness they have started up again.

Speaking of yardsales, I found this pail at at one for .25, painted a chalkboard square on it and my fav number 7.


Wrought iron stand from Lowe’s!



Here’s the wreath I bought, very springy but just doesn’t show up on the black door!
This is on the inside of the door, maybe some ribbon? lol

I’ll be joining these parties:

Wow Us Wednesday @ Savvy Southern Style
Primp Your Stuff Wednesday @ Primp
Centerpiece Wednesday @ The Style Sister’s
Show and Tell @ My Romantic Home
Open House Party @ No Minimalist Here

Furgal Friday @ The Shabby Nest

Be Inspired Friday @ Common Ground

Feathered Nest Friday @ The French Country Cottage 

Home Sweet Home @ The Charm of Home

 Grace at Home @ Imparting Grace

Inspire Me Please @ Love of Family and Home

An Eclectic Look

I found this galvanized container at TJMaxx for $3.99 and couldn’t pass it up and “Paris” on the burlap made it even sweeter!




Philodendron … the only plant I can’t kill.lol
With chalk I wrote a quote about exercising , which I’ve been doing a lot of lately, my son is getting married in June and trying on dresses should be a happy time right?
Really liking this look below…I also put an old grain scoop on top of the books to hide the heat/air return.


I read this everyday, it sure helps!

I’ve brought out things that I love…


such as this picture I bought in Jamaica 2 years ago.

I only paid $5.00 for it, I bring it out in the spring because it reminds me of warmer weather. Nate says to have things out that you love and it will work, so I’m giving it a try.

We will see how it goes and if he’s right.lol
I’ll be joining these parties:
Feathered Nest Friday @ French Country Cottage
Inspire Me Please @ Love of Family and Home

An Eclectic Look

 

I found this galvanized container at TJMaxx for $3.99 and couldn’t pass it up and “Paris” on the burlap made it even sweeter!

 

 

Philodendron … the only plant I can’t kill.lol

With chalk I wrote a quote about exercising , which I’ve been doing a lot of lately, my son is getting married in June and trying on dresses should be a happy time right?

Really liking this look below…I also put an old grain scoop on top of the books to hide the heat/air return.

 

I read this everyday, it sure helps!

I’ve brought out things that I love…

 

such as this picture I bought in Jamaica 2 years ago.

I only paid $5.00 for it, I bring it out in the spring because it reminds me of warmer weather. Nate says to have things out that you love and it will work, so I’m giving it a try.

We will see how it goes and if he’s right.lol

I’ll be joining these parties:

Feathered Nest Friday @ French Country Cottage

Inspire Me Please @ Love of Family and Home

Spotlight Saturday @ Classy Clutter

 

 

Loven McCoy/USA Pottery @ Goodwill

Sometimes I go to Goodwill and find so much that I can’t buy it all and then there are those days when I come out of there empty handed. On only a couple days has this happened to me, coming out with something that I was hoping to find, well, this past Wednesday was one of those days where I found exactly what I was looking/hoping to find!!! I’ve always loved McCoy/USA pottery, it always reminds me of my mom and our back patio…
This isn’t a McCoy but the bottom is marked USA 455.

So I’ve decided to start collecting it, I’m missing those days of the hunt and I’ve decided to get back into it. I’m missing the flea markets and yardsales so I’m really looking forward to some Sundays for the flea markets and the weekends for yardsales! The route 40 two day yardsale will be soon can’t wait for that one too!
My blog will be getting a change here and maybe having a name change in the up coming weeks, I have to figure out some things yet…that’s why I took a blog break so that I could sit back and figure out what I wanted to do with my blog. I have some ideas so hopefully it will all work out and it might not happen until fall because it is finally spring here, yeah! and I so want to enjoy the warmer weather and the upcoming summer. I just wanted to let you know because I love having you come here to visit and read my ramblings.
_{I’ll keep you posted, pinky promise!}
I haven’t really thought of what I’ll buy as far as shape and color of the pottery because I really do love the different colors of them, I read where one woman only collects the white… making the hunt for them harder to find. I know when I was in North Carolina in the antique shop they weren’t cheap, so I hope in my wanderings I’ll get some good prices on them. This one was $2.99 just sitting on the shelf waiting for me! It’s a pretty raspberry shade, cute and delicate!
I have found two blogs who have a love for McCoy Pottery, Mary @ http://www.athomeonthebay.com/ and Liz @ http://mabelshouse.blogspot.com/ great blogs, I know you will love them too, so check them out! Plus if you know other blogs with this collection please let me know okay? I’d love to stop by!
I’ve missed each and everyone of you during my bloggy break, I never thought of quitting my blog but knew I was unhappy with it sooooo…I’ll be changing some things in the near future or maybe not till the end of summer!

I’ll be joining these great parties today!Nifty Thrifty Tuesday @ Coastal Charm
Make it Pretty Monday @ The Dedicated House
Monday Funday @ Creatively Living
Tuesday’s Treasures @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Inspire Me Tuesday @ At a Stroll Thur Life
The Scoop @ The Farmhouse Porch
Budget Decorating Party @ Creative Cain Cabin
Tuesday’s at Our Home @ Our S t

Wow Us Wednesday @ Savvy Southern Style