I MUST TAKE A FEW DAY'S OFF, BUT NOT FOR LONG.............:}

Good Evening to all; I  hope you all had a wonderful weekend; I wish I could say that I did, I had to miss all the fun fire works and family cook outs.  I am down sick with another bad head cold and chest cough...  :{  So with getting ready to start packing up to move to our new home is not going to very fun....  But we have to do what we have to do,,,, right    I thought I would show you all  a map of N.C. our new home... I am really not looking forward to being away from my sweet  Hubby for  4 weeks, but that is how it is... So the packing is all up to me, and  I am just doing one day at a time that is all I can do...  we are looking at Gastonia  for our new home.  I can't wait to be able to see it all in person, some of the photos I have seen on the inter net , the town looks very nice and has a lot going on with lots of  activities.  But we will see, the Lord my have other plans for us...

You know the closer I get the more I am getting a little sad and nervous,  to be so far from my family, is the hardest part, but they will be fine, in my head I know this  but then in my heart it is not so...  But I must follow the Lord, and trust he will take care of them for me, and they do need to grow up and mot lean on us so much but lean on the Lord more.... I pray for that each day..

So I just wanted to let you know that I have to take a couple of days off to get some things ready for my Sweet Honey Bunny when he leaves  on Sat...  but I won't be gone long, I so love all the comfort and support you give me during this trying time.....

I will be doing some visiting when I can, that way you won't forget me...........................  lol    

  I am sending this beautiful Pink Rose with a beautiful verse to all of  my wonderful  best blog friends a girl could every ask for. I will be taking to you later in the week, I just might take some photos of all my packing..... he hehe   how fun would that be...

So until next time take care and God bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

BETTER LATE PINK THEN NEVER;;;;;

Good afternoon and Happy Pink Saturday and  Fourth of July; I am so very sorry for being so late in posting today for Pink Saturday.....  My mind is really getting bad, I forgot that I told our wonderful  Hostess  Beverly of  How Sweet The Sound  that I was participating, and did a  July 4th post......  oops! 

OKeedookey;;;;;;   Since I forgot I really do not have anything new planed to show you all,  I am going to dig in my files and find some Pink that I have showed in the past and I am hoping that some of you forgot I already showed it..... hahahahaha  or there are some new ones to this wonderful Pink day that have not even seen them......   I hope  I did not  offend any one about the forgetful remark......  :}      So hand on I am off to find some old Pink pretties............................................................

   Look I found something,,, lol  these are my Mums, I call Aprils Mums our daughter, whom we lost about 8yrs ago, she loved this color..  ok off for more Pink hold on  don't leave yet......

OH this is a new one never seen before,,,,,,  this is my little Munchkin  Liberty when she was about a year old, she is not going to be 7,  where did the time go..  ok hang on I am still on the hunt for some more Pink........   are you all still with me,,,, hope so...........................   lol

I am back and look at what I found,,,,  ooooahhhh   I bought this tea cup and saucer at a craft fair,,,,,  I just fell in love with it. I know I have shown this one before,,,,,,  but just this one time can you all  just pretend that it is the first time you have seen it...... hehe....  I am sorry  I am not feeling to well today either, getting a bad head cold again.. hope I don't get that cough again that cracked my ribs a few months ago.....   So dear forgiving blog friends  thanks for stopping by for a visit.  I hope you enjoyed my old Pink Saturday Posts....   don't forget to pop on over to see Beverly's blog, she has lots more for you to visit....  to brighten your day....  So until next time,  Happy Pink Saturday and Happy 4th of July,,,,  be safe and have fun..... God bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

HAPPY 4th OF JULY TO ONE AND ALL

Hello dear friends.  I love the fourth of July, all the beautiful fire works and lots of great food... lol    But for  the most part is for our Brave Men and Women who lay down their lives for our Freedom, past and present.  Too few have been forgotten and that is a shame. So on this  one day year we give thanks to each and every one of them for their service.. 

To me is not just about family cook outs and all the beautiful fire works, but about the  all the lives lost so very long ago so we can enjoy the Freedoms we have today.  So tomorrow when you all are having some lovely family times together, remember too how we  fought for our July 4th, and pray for our Troops....

So I hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow and eat lots and have fun with family and friends....  Until next time ;

God Bless America.

Hugs;

Alaura

THIS WILL BE MY LIFE IN A FEW WEEKS

Hello there to all my dear friends who have given me many well wishes with our move...  My honey bunny leaves next Saturday to start his new job on Monday, I will have to stay here to get things packed and rent a storage space to put it all in, and  keep and eye on my two grand kids until they are with their Mom again, she is doing  a lot better now and  DCS. said she could have them back by the end of this Month... I will be very worried about them but DCS  said they are still going to be keeping a very close eye on her, so that made me feel better... So please keep my babies in your prayers for safe keeping while I am gone....    I had to tell my oldest Daughter Heather, whom I call my "baby girl"   that Dad did get the job, she was so up set, I did not know what to say to her, she and I are so very close, so it is going to very hard on the both of us when I do leave... 

This is about two yrs old but I wanted to show you my Baby Girl... Heather is the one in pink and I am next to her and my great niece Brittany at her grad. and my sweet Honey Bunny...  Our other Daughter Chas is not very happy either  but they all understand why we had to move. Our son Dustin is trying to save as much money as he can so he can find a place to live... I keep praying that the Lord will bring him the right place with the right rent....the Lord is just so amazing how this move is going so smooth and quick,,  wow when he finds the path he wants us on you had put on your running shoes...... lol;

I am so going to miss all my pretty garden plants, and my home wish I could take them with me,,  just move the house.... there....  ok now I know I am getting carried away.  At least it is only a 10 hr trip, well it is long but it could have been 2000 mil. so I am grateful for that...  I have been searching on line about N.C and the country is just beautiful.    Ok I will not bore you any more about our move,,,,  but if you don't hear from me for a while, don't worry I am just packing and cleaning,, I will get on to do my visits so please don't forget me  OK........... :o}   keep stopping by too see if I did a new post, I will try my best to keep you all updated.. 

Thank you again for you kind comments and making time to visit me and by blog... until next time; God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura 

OK LADIES; I HAVE GOOD NEW'S AND SAD NEW'S

Good evening; to all my sweet and dear friends, all the ones I have know for over a year and too all the new one's I have just met.....  I love you all...   I just received a letter from my very Sweet and new Pen Pal,  Nancy she lives is in Canada. 

Most of you who follow my posts know that my life has not been a very smooth one..  with out going over it all again,, I will not put that upon you....  do I hear a thank you out there..... lol

Well  as you know my sweet honey bunny has  been out of work for some time now. There is just no work any where around where we live,  so we prayed and lifted it up to the Lord to lead him to the job  meant just for him.  Well  Our Faithful Lord has done just that,,,,,,,,, ok now for the Sad news,,,  it is in North Carolina , in Charlotte.  So in the next few weeks we are going to be packing and boxing up our things for storage, until we can get it all out to us... We have been looking on the web sites  for apartments, it will be a while before we can buy a home...  now that is the bad news, I am so going to miss my  lovely yard and all the plants that I have planted, and to leave my family. But it is only a 10 hr trip which we have driven so much farther, we can make it back for weekends and they can come out for vacation. 

I am very excited about this move, starting over in a new place and hope to meet new wonderful friends.  Now if any of you know anything about Charlotte N.C please feel free to share it with me.  The more I know the better it will be.  The area we are looking at  is very close to where honey bunny will work,  Gastonia  from what we have seen it is a lovely town.  My hubby has to be out there by  July 13, I will still be here with my two grandbabies until the DCS lets  their Mommy have them back, which will be around the 17th if she behaves... I was so very scared that they would find a foster home for them but he said that would not happen,,,, so Praise the Lord for that, I feel so much better about that....

Now all this packing is just going to be a long mess, I hope to be able to keep posting, so please bare with me, as these  few weeks are going to be a messy one.....  that is the only thing about moving,,,, you have to pack up you life and then move it then unpack you life. And try to make you new place a home.... So I will be looking to all of you for some decorating advice... lol  Sorry this is so long with a Photo to boot..... lol    So I will let you all off the hook and just say thank you all for staying until the end of this long post...... he he   God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

I'M SO GLAD MY GARAGE SALE IS OVER

Good evening  ever one, I hope you all have a very wonderful weekend, and a Blessed Sunday with the Lord...  I am so happy to have my sale over with, I did do great but, I would rather go to the sale's then have them... So so many things to drag out, and drag back for the night, then up early to start all over again.

My very very Sweet MIL  helped so much, she did way more then she should have, but that is her way with just about any one.  We had her things plus my daughter's and mine,,, my garage and driveway was very crowded...  The days were very hot and we did have some very slow times, I think every one was either at the lake or in their homes staying cool... but we all made some money which made it all worth it......

I have some  photos to share with you all, they are of the Vintage Jewelry my MIL had, it was from her Mother, wow  so many gorgeous pieces, I was drooling all over them... lol

  Sorry about the scissors in the photo, but look at all that eye candy, I was just going nuts looking at it all... you can click on the photo to make it larger to get a better look.

  Her Mother just loved jewelry, don't you think....  I tried on every thing.. They were all clip on earring's and a few were the screw on kind, which I have not seen for a long time..  wait till you see then one I am showing next.... ooooooooooooooo la la

Now this beautiful set has matching earrings , pin, and necklace. I just love the ice blue stones,  but she did not sell any of them. They were priced very good, for jewelry from the 40's and 50's. So she is setting up and Esty account to sell them on there... So if any of you are into this kind of  jewelry I will do a post on what the name of her shop will be.....  She did give me a beautiful ring before she left, and one for my two daughters, some thing to have of their Great Grandma... how sweet of her....

I am so sorry that I could not make many visits to Pink Saturday Posts,  but the weekend was just so busy, but I will be making some visits even though I will be late in doing so. I love to look at everyone's Pink beauties.....  I hope you enjoyed my post and the photos,  and I thank you so much for stopping by for a visit and the comment's.  I Pray that you all have a wonderful week.  So until next time; God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

PINK SATURDAY; ENJOY

Good evening;  Wow it was a very long and very hot day today for our garage sale, but we did pretty good, so that was a plus. Last day is tomorrow, I can't wait I love to go to them but really really don't like to have them........ lol   Tomorrow it is going to be 94  so I hope it does not keep them from surfing for some sales...  I think that maybe next weekend I will do it one more time than all goes to the Good Will. It is the  4th of July so I hope we have more traffic... if not  well it was not meant to be....  My dear sweet MIL  came up to give me a helping hand, she was up way before me, bless her loving heart, and had so much set up. I told her she should have woke me up, and she said she wanted to let me sleep a little more,,, now how lucky am I to have her in my life.......

Ok enough of my garage sale an on to  our very Fun and exciting Pink Saturday,  which is hosted by our  own Sweet Beverly of 

How Sweet The Sound  So when you are done with my post, which I sure hope some of you do stop by,,, hehe  pop on over to her site and she will have a  very long list of other Lovely Ladies who will be showing their Pink Pretties.

So for my Pinkness, I am showing my Pink Hydrangea, I was so excited to see them blooming, this is the first year I have planted two of them, and they are growing and blooming....  So I grabbed my camera and took some photos. To share with you all for this wonderful day....

Now I know that they are not grown up yet they are still babies, but they did bloom, and I have more today going to give birth,,, yippy!!!!   I love the  beautiful Pink,  don't you think so?????

This is on the other Plant, can you see the other blooms just waiting to pop out and show off all the Pink goodness......  I can't wait till they grow up and then I can pick them for the house and dry some....  ooooo ahhhhhh   

Ok this next photo is sort of a tease , I am working on a mosaic for my daughter and just had to show you a bit of what it will look like.  When I get more done I will be showing off more, so I hope all of your pro's in the Mosaic world  give me some advise on how I am doing.....

I just love doing Mosaic's I have so many broken China pieces that I can play with.... lol    I buy them a garage sales and the thrift stores, for really great buys ....  I went last weekend to buy me a new pair of nippers, the ones with the wheels, they work so much better, I really love them. I can get to a spot that I want with out breaking the whole plate... is that not cool or what.... I found too that I can do just the center of the plate that has a pretty pattern. so needless to say I am having a blast with them...  woohooo.  I hope you enjoyed my few Pretty Pink beauties for you . And don't forget to stop by Beverly's for more Pink goodness.......

I thank each and ever one of you for all you wonderful comment which I so love to read, you are the best  friends any one could ask for......  Oh and I have some news on Honey Bunny's job search, which you will have to wait on for my next post..... he he it is a great one too I might add....  So until next time. God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura