ANOTHER GOODIE BOX FOR ME!!!!

 

Good afternoon all. See the photo??????  this is my back yard if we don't get some rain soon... it looks like rain but I don't think it is going to happen, so I guess I am going to have to find our weather person and give the am smack........  You know they never get it right any way.  Well this is not what I was going to post about any way. Sorry I got off the track.

Now about my Goodie Box, my Sweet and Dear Blog Friend Vanessa sent me such wonderful thoughtful gifts in the mail. It is like Christmas. She is such a dear and I love reading her posts,  Vanilla Lavender; if you have not been to visit her please stop by you won't be sorry.

I took some great photos to share what great taste she has. So hang on, oh by the way It was a Pay it Forward which I might add is a wonderful way to say Thank You and Appreciate them. Jan for Jan and Toms Place she started it and I joined in and so did Vanessa, so I hope more of you out there will do the same, not need to it up big , just a little  somein somein in the mail.

So here is the photos. you will be amazed.  

Is this not the prettiest pink netting you have ever seen.......

I am going to have to find some really neat way to use it hummm.

The card she sent too was so sweet she is such a doll. 

How cute are these flip flops she sewed on the floral yoyo with pearl button.

Just had to try them on, not don't look at my tootsies they need redone. ha ha  just love them......... squealllllll

Have you ever seen such wonderful pretties things.

 

 

This a very pretty and cute tea caddy and sweet wallet see the little yo yo with a button, love it.

Love the salt and pepper shakers I am so sorry to say that one got broken, but don't worry Vanessa I can glue them back together, they are in huge pieces So please don't be up set they are not very careful with boxes. I want you to know that when I saw this I went straight back and told then and then gave each and every one I saw a smack on the cheek . lol

 

Love the glass creamer, don't you love the  cut glass.

The is a very sweet sugar bowl you can't see it but it has etched grapes on it.

I put it all right here, this is my coffee and tea station, sorry about my can opener. It really does not go with the look so I am going to take it down, I don't like using it any way. The three drawer chest I found at a craft show.

I put my creamer in the sugar bowl the spoon fits just right in it, this is the baby spoon I used for my first born Heather, so it is 32 yrs old. Don't tell her I told you how old she is..... shhhhhh

 

Just had to get the sweet card in, oh and the green kitchen towel is also from her, it all goes so well with my kitchen.

Vanessa my friend; I want to Thank You so much for all the beautiful things you picked out for me.You have such wonderful taste in decorating. It means so much to me, I am having trouble putting them in to words.  Can you believe that.......  ha ha

And a thank you to all the lovely friends who left me such sweet comments. I think every one of you are the bestest in the world. I truly am Bless. I know I say that a lot but it is so true.

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

ALL THE HUB BUB IS GONE

Hello everyone! Hope every one had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I wish I could say I did, but my dear friends, I was not able to go out and enjoy all the fun. I did make it to one Antique show though. It has been very hot here on rain or shade. So I woke up on Saturday and was in some pain and spent the day on my sofa with my pain pills, so could not to to the auction park for the flea market and the  all the antique cars, so no photos. Then the same thing on Sunday so I had to miss the Craft show with my two sweet Daughter's. they went with each other and they each a friend with them. They did have a wonderful time. So again I did not take any photos of the craft show. So I feel so bad I could not share our ACD weekend.  Auburn had lots of people here spending money on old cars, LOTS OF MONEY...... 

I did sneak some photos of the antique show I did make it to, I had to be very careful so no one would see me, they get very nervous about such things, I don't know way are they afraid I am going to sell them to the evil antique dealers, or another country, what is the big secret. I don't get it.... I will post them tomorrow I had to use my phone so no one would see. lol;  I know My Bad..

Still know rain we are supposed to get some tonight and maybe tomorrow  I will believe it when I see it. Next week is supposed to be cooler, now if our weather woman is wrong I might have to and my them a visit. grrrrrrrrr..    My poor plants are not looking so well  I water them every night but the heat and sun is just to harsh.  I am thinking of putting up some umbrellas on them I still have some digging to do for my mums and cant' do that until the days are cooler. Well I guess this is all for now, I hope every one has a wonderful week.

I want to Thank every one for you sweet and kind comments you left, I so look forward to reading each and every one. Like the movie  You've Got Mail, only the feeling is different. lol  My prayers are still with everyone in the path of  Gustauv.

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

HAPPY HAPPY FALL EVERYONE

Good evening to all my dear friends. Boy what a day I had, I was on the move most of the day. Wheeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!! I am wore out.  My daughter Heather had the day of work and we went out for lunch, then shopping. Well I went shopping first I have been hearing and seeing some real cute pumpkins and fall decorations on some blogs. And they were from the Dollar Tree, so off I went this morning. They did not have a whole lot left, they were setting up Christmas already can you believe it. I don't care for it much when they push all the Holidays up so fast, just does not seem right.  Any way I did find some very pretty and cute fall things. On a blog not sure which one it was, they had a pretty center piece with a small cake stand and dome under the dome was a pumpkin some fall leaves and around the bottom of the stand I think they had some white ones. It was so pretty I just had to find a way to make one like it. After I found lots of goodies at the dollar tree I ran over to the Good Will store. love that place.  I found some great buys, hey do you like all my fall font colors???? or am I drive you nuts. he he he   Now back to the store, most of the goodies I bought are going to be redone for my niece Brandee's office at work, she is sort of my boss too. And I am trying to make her office a nice place to be in, she is so excited about it. I took some things in the other day, I will have to take pictures and do a post on it when I am done.

So back to my center piece for my table, at the dollar tree I found a wonderful fall color bowl then I found a chunky deep mustard candle holder I glued the bowl to the holder it was great looks so nice together too. And at the Good Will I spotted a glass cheese platter with a glass dome, I grab that thing so fast I would have made you head spin. lol  So here is my fall center piece.

 

 

I am sorry that it is not a good one I really need to get a new camera. I also found the place mats there too, but they only had three so I bought then any way love the color, I put my deep burgundy table cloth on and my white lace table topper, so not too bad huh....... 

 

In the corner of my dinning room I have a round table, I put my green table cloth on with a white linen one on top, a yellow and brown bowl inside is my boyds bear scarecrow  my other one who by the way is a pumpkin, they are so cute, I all so put in the bowl a fabric pumpkin. I still have more to do but did not have time. I set out some other pretties too.

This cute pumpkin candy dish, I just love this little fellow, I am going to put some candy corn in it, Yummmmmmyyyyy!!   :+}

It is in my family room.

I love my three tier plate stand I found these ceramic pumpkins and had to have them too at the dollar store and the leave garland my fall napkins as well. looks pretty good if I do say so myself.

 

And this is on the top of my bread box, the little pumpkin Heather made in grade school he is so cute I have him set out all the time. The candle light puts of the greatest sent a pumpkin spice sent. I bought it last year at the craft fair we have each labor day on Sunday. It was a great by only ten dollars everything.  I have lots of other fall stuff I bought but have not set up yet. I am going to try my hand at making a scarecrow to set out front. I think he or she will look so cute out there.  Well dear friends I hope you enjoyed my fall decorations I made. I won't be posting again until Tuesday night. I am going to be so busy with every thing I won't have time. I am going to try to visit every one. I have lots to do places to see thing to buy......  ha ha  On Monday we are have a huge cook out with all the family and it is going to very hot so there will be lots of swimming too. 

I hope and Pray that every one has a very wonderful and safe Labor Day weekend.  I will make sure I take lots of photos of all the cars and the flea market which by the way I am going to tomorrow, yippyyyyy  and craft show.  So keep and eye out for my posting on them which will be in two or three posts.

And as always I thank each and every one of you for your kind comments and the visit.  God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

TOMATO'S AND PEAR'S OH MY

 

Tomato's any one???????  Oh come on  PLEASEEEEEEE some one take some of these....  I guess I am going to have to read about how to can these little red wonders...  darn it..... lol;    I love tomato's but this is going a bit too far, my plants went nuts this year, but it was my first veggie garden. So I should not be too up set. The only problem I had was with my pepper plants. The tomato plants got so big they chocked my peppers. So I know better now for next year.    { ha ha yea right}  

This is the other bag I have three filled full with them.. Wait till you see my pears, oh my goodness......  I might get runs if I keep eating all this stuff. lol;  Sorry about that word.......  

Now for my pears, I am going to learn how to can these babies, if it kills me ....   or someone else.   These are the sweetest pears I have ever tasted just love them.

Hey look some more pears. how about that.   I still have lots on the tree too, I have been giving these to any one I can find, if some one walks by I will run up to them give them a bag of pears. Now I realize that is not a good thing to do, some people don't take kindly to that I guess. Not sure why so I stopped when I was about to take a ride in a cop car, and they did not want any pears either. I guess they just like the Donuts.  lol  So I am stuck with them, ,,,,,,,,,   I could mail some of them to any one who wants them!!!!!!!  Do you think they will last????????    Naaaaaaa your probably right they would rot and smell then get all mushy.

Now that is not a great way to make friends, I took a break from writing this post, to take by sweet neighbor Sharon and Don some pears, I was so happy when she said she would love to have some. I did a little dance all the way to pack them up.. yeeeeeehhhhaaaaa...    I also met our new neighbor across the street and her daughter and their new puppy Peatree. What a cute little puppy. Sharon had her doggy out her name is Peaches and I had Isobella, they had such a great time getting to know one another. I kept getting all tangled up with Peaches and Peatree's leaches. It was much fun watching our girls play.  I should have went and got my camera, shame on me her first play date and I did not get a Kodak moment. :{ 

Well our cooler day is gone now, it is hot again and it is going to be hot all weekend too.  So I will be wearing my sun hat when I go out to see all goings on. And I will make sure I have my camera with me. he he 

Oh I have one more photo to show you all, what I will be working on, it will take some time but in the end it will be worth it.  I hope.

  

This is my fire place mantel we found about ten years ago at an antique mall. I just love it, the detail is so great, but he fake marbling is not very pretty and the inside is not much to look at either. So I am going to paint it an off white and then antique it, and do a mosaic for the surround and paint the inside black or gray and find a great looking stencil to put in the middle. Not sure what kind of stencil yet, so if any one has any suggestion's please pass them on I would love any ideas from you because every one of you are such great decorator's. Am I luck or what,,,,, to have such friends to turn to for great advise and ideas. I have always wanted to paint it but never seem to have the time, so I have decided to stop putting it off and jump in and go for it.  I  also have a  china cabinet that is the same color and I am going to paint that too, along with my deacons bench it has a padded seat and I am going to redo it with some shabby fabric. I am doing my dinning room in shabby chic look. I need a new dinning room table and chair set, but that is going to have to wait. So I will be taking photos along the way and do a post once in a while. Well gals I guess that is about it for now.  I want to thank every one for all your lovely comments you have made me feel so welcome in to you world, I love each and every one of you even the ones I have yet to meet. It is getting harder to visit everyone in one night, but I do try, and the one's I miss I visit the next day. So far it seems to work, so if you have not heard from me it is not because I don't visit because I would Never.... do that to any of my Sweet Friends.  I hope every one has a wonderful Friday.

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

NOT MUCH TO TALK ABOUT DAY

 

This is my lovely family, left to right. Son and law Paul daughter Heather, son Dustin his wife, son in law Ron and daughter Chas.

Now this is a great place to keep your men, then you always know where they are. Am I right ladies..........  wink,,,  This was taken at Cedar Point a couple of yrs ago, Hubby and I took all of them for Hubby's birthday. We had a wonderful time. Hubby said it was the best birthday ever.

So have you ever had a day with nothing to post about... I mean that is so silly when you think about it, with all of the things that go on in our lives you would think we would never run dry. Then you worry that what you do write about no one will read it find it dull or not making any sense. I worry sometimes about that, I read so many wonderful inspiring posts, exciting story's and great how to's. 

So I have been thinking,,,,,,  I know I could hurt my self but I will be careful.  Sooooooooooo any way remember when you had a secrete sister, and on special days would send her something like a card of small gift, I had one at my old church and where I used to work, it was so much fun I loved it..  What I am getting at I think you all know is starting our own Secrete Sister, I know it would be different because we all live so far apart, but I am sure we can figure it out. So I am putting this suggestion out to all of my dear friends let me know what you think. 

I would love to be able to do this but if know one is wanting to it will be fine also.  I can keep a record of all the names and who will be with who, so I would not be in the club, which is fine also, just being able to keep track and watch all the exciting fun going on everyone wondering  who has who.  Well I guess that is about it, I hope every one has a wonderful Thursday. I will be waiting for some comments good or bad  I can take it......   I think. he he

I want to Thank all of the wonderful and kind comments you all have left me.  I so appreciate each and every one.   God Bless.

 

Hugs;

Alaura   

FINALLY A BREAK FROM THE HEAT

I am so happy that we are finally having some cooler weather. The nights are really great, I am going to sit out on my patio and light a fire and sip some wine. Love this time of year, I am trying to get a area dug up for my mums, so with the days cooler I will be able to get it done faster.  I am putting them around my patio area with my Clematis. I love all the colors of the mums so I will be buying them all. Leaves are starting to fall off our trees so now I have to get my rake out. Which is great exercise for my flabby arms.  lol!!!!  My pear tree is so loaded with pears this year we lost some branches because it was to heavy  kind of like my bottom, some days I have to pick it up and tuck it in. OOPS off track, sorry. I do that a lot more now I move so fast from one subject to the next poor honey can't keep up.  So where was I any one remember????   OHHHHHHHHHHHHH yea my pear tree.

Well today after work we lost another one, I have been picking them trying to keep up, we have so many I am going to have to learn how to can them now. So this should be fun. I sure hope I don't kill us all when we can eat them. So any help I can use so

H E L P!   My tomato's are all over the place too, I can't seem to give enough away. I love tomato's but I can eat so many. I will have to learn to can these also. Boy if it is not one thing it's another. At least we don't have to mow yet, no rain so no growing grass, now that is fine with me. My legs are looking kind of thin these days.  Sorry I leaned to the left again, I will try to keep in the middle. lol    I will take some photos of my pears and the spot where I will plant my mums and asters, do a post on them.   Like any of you want to look at my dirt, and buckets of pears......... So how about it want to see them??????   Ok I will show them to you, you twisted my arm.  Hey I need to find a photo to put on here, I feel like I am necked with out a photo on my post.  Now that is a horrible vision, sorry again....  :} he he

 

 

Now if I were not an honest person I would tell every one that this is my back yard, but I am so it is not. But I would love for it to be mine.  I feel better now that I have a photo for all to see.  I have the day off tomorrow again so I will be digging up a storm.  Well I will let you all off the hook now and you don't have to read any more.   lol;   I have lots of you to go and visit, I try to make time for all of you, but I always run out of time I have so many friends. I am so lucky to have all of you as friends who are getting more and more like family.  I could break out in song,,,,,,  relax I am not going to sing....  :{ 

I want to Thank You Friends for you sweet comments you all left me, I a so blessed. I am always keeping all of you in my prayers for the Lord to keep you safe and on the right path. Have a great week ya'll.  God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura

MONDAY ANOTHER NEW WEEK

 

Good Evening dear ones. I hope every one had a wonderful weekend. Ours was not too bad, I am feeling better today so thank you all for your well wishes, they seem to have worked.  :]

On Saturday we went to our second oldest daughter's house for dinner, and so hubby could fix her computer. I did not know how well she can cook, not I thought I could cook, but she takes the cake. She had a huge port roast wrapped with bacon and stuffed with dressing, and seasoned just right. She them roasted some fresh green beans and asparagus. It was the best dinner I ever ate. I feel like a complete boob next to her cooking. I really need to refresh my cooking skills. For desert she made huge chocolate brownies. I am still full from dinner. ha ha  It was so nice to just sit and let someone else do the cooking and cleaning. I did not know what to do with my self. So I played with my three grand daughters, My munchkin my peanut, and my monkey. Libby, Hayley, and Regan.  I have nick names for all  11 of my grand babies. It is so hard to get the right name with the right kid, sometimes it drives me nuts. So the nick names seem to work well not sure why,  hmmmmm.   When we left to come home my little peanut was so upset that she could not go with mamaw and papaw, I had to hurry and leave or I would cry, she was that upset. I felt so bad we had to say no, so this coming weekend which is her Birthday, she is staying the night with us and her big sister, on Sunday afternoon we are taking her out for her B-Day to Toys R Us. she will love it. Then to dinner, we have so many babies that it is easier to do it this way, then we can spend more one on one time with them. It makes them feel special. I like at, every one should feel special at one time or another.

Today was my day off work, but I still had to work, now why is that ladies when we get a day off work we still have to work. Clean house laundry dishes some gardening. well I don't call the last one work I do like that.  So it really did not seem like a day off to me, shopping for food doing some weeding washing my bedding and making the bed, dishes then I had to clean up the mess I made in my craft studio. Then it was time for supper. And tomorrow I have to go to work.  Now I don't mean this in a bad way, but when my hubby comes home from work he is in his chair with his feet up while I serve his supper, the take his plate, all the while he is sitting in his chair. I do love him to death, and he is a good man, but hey;;;;;;;; come on now, a little help would not kill him know what I mean.........   ok enough of my venting...  ha ha

I really do love taking care of my home and husband, and kids and grandkids and my doggie. Oh speaking of our doggie's we only have one now, Sissybell is no longer with us. My Sister changed her mind and wanted her back, it broke my hubbys heart he really fell in love with her, and poor Isobella  she is so lonely with out her, I feel so bad for her when I have to go to work. She sometimes gets depressed, I worry about her. I am kind of upset with my Sister she said she would never change her mind, and then out of the blue she called me at work and wanted to take her back, she did not even wait so we could say good bye, came and picked up my house keys and went and got her. So we are so missing our sissybell so much. 

 

  

So my sweet Sissy bell you will always have a place in our hearts.

Well this is turning out to be a very long post, so I will say good bye to all my sweet dear friends.  I also want to thank every one who left such great comments. I so love to read what you have to say about my  blabbing,  so I thank you.

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura