Wedding Bouquets In the Making...

 I stopped by my niece's home this morning and she was smack dab 

in the middle of assembling a bridal bouquet order she has for tomorrow.   

What a delight! 

Her cutting flower garden is immense and immaculately kept...
(She and God together have this thing down!)

The bride is wanting purple and coral - so those were the colors of the hour...

The bride's bouquet...

...and my favorite part - her cute wooden wagon work station...

This will be a beautiful wedding.  Goodbye sweet cutting garden - 

I'll visit again...

Thrifting Finds...

It's an 'out with the old - in with the new' kind of time for me. 

Last week's impromptu thrift stop yielded some wonderful plates.  

With an awesome look and just 50 cents and 20 cents each...

they came right home with me.

 I'm not at all caring that they aren't a complete set... 

just 12 odd salad and dinner plates.  

Mixing and matching works for me. 

I've introduced these lovelies to my old cupboard and I'm 

saying good bye to some of my blue and white 'fine' china.  

(China is barely visible in the bottom shelf shown on a platter in the back.)

I feel like a new person!  Amazing what one little thrift stop will do.

Hostess Gift Idea...

We are blessed to be invited to a friend's home tonight for a light supper.   

I love to take hostess gifts... but sometimes struggle to know 

what to give when I don't know the hostess very well. 

 I scoured my 'gift drawer'... but just wasn't seeing anything 

I thought may be appreciated except possibly some sweet note paper. 

 So I'm opting for fresh flowers & grasses from my garden.

A pickle jar with the label removed makes a nice

 Mason jar look-alike vase.  

Brown craft paper and a sunflower tag wrap up that note paper.

Looking forward to a wonderful evening of getting to know 

someone better and no cooking!

Saturday Sightings....

Went past a house locally - smack in the middle of the day - 

and did a double -take...

 There were 2 special animals in the front yard. 

 (These shots are after I turned my car around - they were closer to the road before.)

 Yep - 2 fawns!  It's times like these I wish I had a better camera... 

or knew how to adjust color better in my photo editing software. 

Maybe Pic Monkey would have been easier.  Anybody have any tips?  

(I'm terrible at learning 'puter stuff.)

Local Ephemera Project...

Yesterday's impromptu thrifting stop yielded a treasure that's 

been on my 'to find' list for quite a while.  (See?  It paid to stop!)

Some years ago I found a bit of paper ephemera relating to a 

once existing railroad that went through the town of our summer cottage.  

That find was just $1 and truly a treasure.  Just look at the neat script writing...

Cornwall Lebanon Railroad - Colebrook, Mount Gretna, PA

 Now - can you see what I found yesterday that I needed for my railroad paper?  Yep - that frame -complete with glass!  The paper is an unusually long size and I just wasn't finding anything that would work.... till yesterday.

 I gave it a coat of red paint (no primer needed - super quick.)

  But it was still a bit bigger than my railroad paper.

  So I took a classified page from a 1950's newspaper

 (found in our cottage when we moved in) - ironed it to help remove creases...

 ...and used it as a matting of sorts. 

 I'm just delighted to have this piece of local memorabilia 

in our very small, but growing, collection.