One of my favorite Shabby Cabinets

I hope everyone enjoyed a glorious Sunday! Our tornado weather has passed ~ although I swear I saw Dorothy and Toto fly by :-) Today was sunny but too mushy to work in my Garden of Weeden so I thought I'd share with you a photo of my favorite vintage hutch. It's an antique radio cabinet and I have a couple of them but this is by far the biggest and sweetest with some wonderful carved details.

This one fits nicely on a small wall between our kitchen and family room. They are not really that hard to find and it's well worth the effort to remove all the old radio components and give a shabby make-over too. The front doors slide open side to side and probably housed a record player but this one was empty . . . yay! The radio fit snuggly in the nifty arched top and is now the perfect place for collectibles and the speakers were in the long tall doors on each side.

I have some teacup stackers on the shelf now but who knows what will be there later ;-)
Lynn
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Spin the Bottle & A GiveAway Coming Soon!

Happy Saturday to anyone reading my blog today! Please check in again SOON as
I'll be announcing my very first Blog GiVe-A-WaY!!
And all you have to do is add your name to my list of FRIENDLY FOLLOWERS to
get a chance to win something Very VERY Sweet!

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On another subject ~ my current passion is creating pretty embellished bottles!
The pic below shows some that are awaiting their photos to be taken :-)

I offered some last year and they are now happily living in some of my favorite
ebay ladies gorgeous homes!!

The pretty labels are created from my collection of vintage images and graphics and
then made extra special with vintage and new millinery flowers, rhinestones, lockets,
charms, keys, lace and ribbons! They look terrific sparkling in the sunshine!
Speaking of sunshine, our warm sunny day has quickly turned dark and gloomy
with gusty winds AND I just heard on the radio that we have . . .
GULP . . . tornado warnings! It's time to gather up the lanterns and get the safe room in
the basement ready if the need arises!
Thank you for visiting me today and I wish you a wonderful weekend!

Lynn

Pretty Chintz for TEACUP TUESDAY

Welcome to TEACUP TUESDAY and please give a big round of applause for MARTHA and TERRI for hosting it! Be sure to take a peek at all the other terrific teacups shared!
My selection this week is a charming vintage Chintz pattern made in England by James Kent LTD and called ROSALYNDS.

I found this set of 4 orphan teacups in a local thrift shop about 10 years ago and hope to run into the saucers one day :-) The transfer pattern is the sweetest with pink and yellow cabbage roses and blue forget me nots with the perfect touch of age crazing.

The only other Chintz in my collection of china are 2 lonely saucers . . . perhaps I'll find their cups when I find the Rosalynds saucers :-))
The pattern on the left is called JUNE and I think the one on the right is ROSINA

Thank you for your visit and I'm off now to see the pretties you've selected to share this week!!

Lynn

Paul de Longpre PINK ROSES for you

Monday Greetings!
Our weekend of thunderboomers and showers have cleared and made it a perfect day to easily pluck up those pesky garden weeds from the moist soil . . . if I was so inclined to do so that is :-)
With anticipation of my summer rose blooms I thought you would enjoy this gorgeous rose image to do with as you please! (click image to copy and paste) One of my very favorite artists is Paul de Longpre who was a genius at capturing flowers with the paintbrush as you can see in this 1898 painting of pink roses . . . notice the bumblebee also!

Here's wishing you a happy monday hopefully filled with
sunshine and roses!

Lynn

It's TEACUP TUESDAY Again!

It is time again for TEACUP TUESDAY and thank you to Martha and Terri for
hosting the teaparty!
I love the sweet cottagey charm of vintage 1930-40's Homer Laughlin China and I am
again this week sharing another of their patterns. This one is called GEORGIAN . . . it came
in soft pastels and this is the pink. Very simple in design with bands of solid pink, 24K gold
trim and floral transfer featuring pink roses and forget-me-not flowers.

I would LOVE an entire service of this but to date only have 2 cups and 3 saucers.

How cute displayed with an embellished strawberry sachet :-)

I don't have a cup and saucer in the blue but do have the creamer and sugar!

Thank you so much for visiting me and sharing your Teacup Tuesday!!

Lynn

Pretty New Things Made Just for You!

Happy Saturday to all my new blogger buddies!
I have been a busy bee working on so many projects and thought you just might like
a peek at what I've been up to!
It's been a couple months since I've offered a fancy schmancy embellished bottle
and I have 6 new ones made to list!
I found some really neat heart shaped glass bottles to work with and for the
ROMANTIC ROSES BOTTLE
seen below I created a pink rose wreath label featuring my favorite Southern Belle image
in the center . . . if you've ever been to my auctions you have surely seen
LOTS of her - hehe
This one will be on eBay Sunday and just may be my fav - - - if I was FORCED to choose
that is :-) I hope its a keeper for someone!

Also new is another PinCushion Confection (#172) and features
MISS SARAH TEDDIES TEAPARTY
She is a sweet fuzzy wuzzy teddy who would love to share a cup of tea with you!
Be sure to see my eBay auctions Sunday and perhaps
she will come to your home!

Wishing everyone a SPLENDID SATURDAY filled with things you love to do!

"What a splendid day! I pity people who aren't yet born for
missing it.
They may have good days, of course, BUT they will never have
THIS one."
-- Anne Shirley --

Lynn