A Good Weekend!

It was a great weekend! We got to spend some time with Sweet Daughter AND her Handsome and Charming, Special, Someone! There was food, there was fun and of course shopping.
Sweet Daughter got new riding boots, which are to die for!

SO! I got my old boots out, oiled and readied for them for the coming boot days.

Next week it SHOULD be around 97 degrees.
Why, for us, that's practically autumnal!
(isn't that a great word?) So the end of the worst weather is near.

What puts you in the mood for Fall?

White Tea

Sometimes...

Some days....

You just have to take a break.

Pause...and enjoy the moment.

Won't you join me? I've poured a cup for you...

Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young-
Psalm 84:3


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Pure Charm!

Today I'm showing off my Grandmother's tablecloth.

I believe this is called tatting. But what ever you call it...
This table cloth is so beautiful. Every inch is covered in hand stitching and is pretty heavy. I remember one year my aunt had Christmas dinner and put this over red.
It was a stunning table!

I have had it for a long time and never used it. I started thinking that I really wanted to enjoy it. No one ever really sits at this table or sets anything on it so I thought that it would be so pretty to just have it out. If we have dinner in here I'll take it off. I just couldn't bear it if it got stained.

Isn't it incredible!? I am really enjoying it. I'm glad I got it out.
What about you? Do you save things...and then wonder why?

A quick look at the rest of the front room...

Have a great week!

Joining in for:

Show off Your Cottage Monday at House in the Roses

Table Top Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

White Wednesday at Faded Charm

Goodwill Lace

I don't know if you have noticed but the cost of lace has sky rocketed.

So I have been hitting the thrift stores and I comb the clothes for fun buttons.

And the linens for lace.

I picked this piece up for $2.99. It looks so pretty against my burlap tablecloth.

I have a couple of ideas .... hhmmmm......

If You Wanna Stay.....

Your Stayin' here!

Come on in to the blue room... make yourself comfortable!
I'm glad your here!

Some inspirational reading.... just in case you are jet lagged and can't sleep.

Yup! 2 sets of sheets. I left them wrinkled
because I think that they look more shabby that way.

A store sign from my grandfather's shoe store.

The shoe cobbler's shoe form, from my great grandfather.

I used a Quaker Lace table cloth for a layer.... I love how it looks!

I'm Joining:

House in the Roses for Show off your Cottage Monday

A Stroll through Life for Table Top Tuesday

Faded Charm for White Wednesday

Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday

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