Happy Mothers Day

I thought I would share with you one of my favorite family photos
showing 4 generations of Moms!
Well, technically I am only a Mom to 4-legged furbabies but that counts :-)
So not in photographic order the pic shows me, my mom, my moms mom,
and my moms moms mom!
My brother Bobby is there also but you can't see him ~
he was born a couple months later :-)

A mother's love is like a circle.
It has no beginning and no ending.
It keeps going around and around ever expanding,
touching everyone who comes in contact with it.
Engulfing them like the morning's mist
warming them like the noontime sun
and covering them like a blanket of evening stars.
A mother's love is like a circle.
It has no beginning and no ending.

Wishing you all a Blessed Day

Lynn

It's a Cottage Charm Giveaway!

I am so happy to have such wonderful ladies following my new blog and as a great big
THANK YOU I am participating in my very first COTTAGE CHARM GIVE-AWAY!!!
You may already know how much I LOVE to make embellished bottles and I created this one just for you! To be eligible to win her all you need to do is add your name to my list of FOLLOWERS along the right side of the BLOG and you are entered! If you are already on the list then you are all set. All names go in the hat and the winner will be chosen and announced on May 29th.
So on to the GIVE-AWAY :-)

The vintage image label features one of my favorite Maud Humphrey Victorian girlies with her sweet little smile and hat covered in pink cabbage roses. Including the removable topper the bottle measures 6" high and is embellished with the prettiest pink roses, millinery posies, vintage laces and ribbons, a silvertone heart charm and dazzling rhinestone and pearl sparklie! The bottle is empty but looks so sweet filled with little buttons, pearls, bath salts, etc on your dresser, vanity table or a shabby cottage shelf mixed in with your other lovely collectibles.
I hope this is something you'd like to have and I look forward to meeting you!!

Lynn

WHITE WEDNESDAY ~ Bridal Veil Spiraea & other White Blooms

A big THANK YOU goes to Kathleen of ~ FADEDCHARM ~ for hosting weekly
WHITE WEDNESDAY!

I love spring blooming bushes and have added many to our landscape since moving here 15 years ago! First to arrive is the pussywillows with their fuzzy stems of "flowers", then forsythia, flowering plum, Eastern Redbud, Serviceberry (yummy berries soon if I can get some before the birds do!), Rhododendrons, pink Viburnum, and antique lilacs running the border of our property . . . BooHoo, they are just now fading :-(

I still have Korean Spice Viburnum (YUMMY scent), Flowering Quince and later spring blooming Miss Kim Lilacs to look forward to!
Two days ago the White Bridal Veil Spiraea burst in bloom!! It is quite a dull bush except for the 1-1/2 week of abundant sprawling white mini bouquets. Some people prune them into tidy shapes but I like mine wild with their long long arching stems. The "nekked" bush to the left is a forsythia which put on a grand show last month.

Now this photo is WHITE! And could quite possibly have been taken on a Wednesday :-) Dave says hi! It shows my natural wildflower shade garden across the driveway out the kitchen window during winter. When we moved in this area was nothing but a mud pit. Its now a secret hidden hide-a-way during the growing season.

Another favorite white bloomer is called Sweet Woodruff which I planted years ago and it has spread nicely and grows as a wild groundcover ~ the smell is just heavenly. I love that it blooms the same time as the pink Bleeding Heart! The above photo shows the back wall of the secret shade garden with a comfy swing

The frog prince lives there also ~ among hosta and white shasta daisies.

Thank you for visiting and I'll share more pics of my Garden of Weed-en with you soon!

Lynn

P.S Be sure to sign on as a Friendly Follower to be eligible for my
GIVE-A-WAY announcing friday!

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
P.S. Be sure to read my previous post and sign on to be eligible for my first Give A Way! Details coming this week!!

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