Saturday, August 29, 2015

A Chandelier and a New Pup

Hello everyone, I have been so busy working the estate sales, sending my son off to college and my daughter back to school, got a new pooch (which I will show you at the end of this post) that it has been hard to blog these days. So here is a quick one, I say that but you know me! :)

I have always wanted a chandelier to hang over the dining room table, I thought it would make the room a bit more Victorian looking and not so boring.


Well a couple of weeks ago I bought one at one of our sales. It stayed on this table for a while as I had to repair a break and clean it up a bit


bought a ceiling medallion at Menard's 


and painted it


to coordinate with the one I painted for the Parlor/Living Room several years ago


Got hubby right on it


and there she hangs!


( I will need to find a fabric piece to hide the chain, any suggestions anyone?)


Dripping with crystals


and added lusters


she is a beauty! 
And oh my, what a BRIGHT beauty she is! Wow! 
Hubby says it makes him hot so I will have to change the bulbs to lower wattage bulbs.


So that is that, now for the new pup! Meet Lacey. She is 10 months old and we got her at our local Humane Society 2 weeks ago. We named her Lacey because of the little patch of white right above her front legs. She is an Affenpinscher, in German translates to Monkey Terrier, and the French called these breeds "diablotin moustachu" which translates to mustached little devil. Poor little thing, to have a name such as that!



After being spayed and a little unsure of her new home, this is where she finally fell asleep


on MY side of the bed!  :)


After some persuading, my daughter is finally letting her sleep with her every night! 
Thank goodness!

Although she is totally adorable and is quite the lovey dovey


and so curious, in a such a cute way,


she has some major separation anxiety issues and can't be away from us for even a minute, well she has actually improved a little over the week.
She has adjusted to her new home quite well but is quite the stinker when it comes to her kennel, she has chewed up a fourth of her plastic tray in just a few days!


Well that is it for now, time to climb into bed and get ready for a new day.
Thank you so much for visiting and have a great week!

Thank you Kathy over at A RETURN TO LOVELINESS for featuring my Summer Garden post.

This week I am joining the following linky parties...
AMAZE ME MONDAY with Cindy
 A RETURN TO LOVELINESS with Kathy
TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME with Maria
LET'S TALK VINTAGE with Jillian
WHAT'S IT WEDNESDAY with Paula
SHARE YOUR CUP THURSDAY with Jann
HOME AND GARDEN THURSDAY with Kathy
HOME SWEET HOME with Sherry
FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY with Courtney
SHOW AND TELL FRIDAY with Cindy

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Summer Flowers and a Few Finds

Hello everyone,

The flowers have been so pretty here, that is if you can keep the deer, the rabbits, the Japanese beatles and the purple finch from eating everything!  Because of this I have lots of different fencing, netting and tomato cages throughout the flower beds so please just ignore that.
I want to take you to my back flower garden and show you a little staging that I had some fun with


and all because I wanted to show you one of my latest finds. This cute little concrete pedestal, I got it for $2.50!


So of course I had to dress it up a bit with some pink, a tatted hanky and a Limoges teacup and saucer...


 to tie in with the Pink Surprise Lilies, or naked ladies, as some people call them...


and the pink cone flowers...


Beyond the pink the Black eyed Susan's create a welcoming splash of yellow...



And you know me, a staging just isn't a staging without some sort of ephemera...


so out came the Victorian scrapbook, with the pretty cover that fits perfectly in a garden scene with the birds, nest, flowers and even a spiderweb with the spider!


I wanted to pick something to tie in with the black eyed Susan's and found that I only had two things out of everything in that scrapbook


and the card on the left, in the left hand corner, even has a coneflower on it! How about that?


Now we'll move over to the back of the house where I wanted to show you my clematis covered trellis, last time I showed you the trellis it was new. As soon as the vine dies down I will be painting it white.


And a closer look at the daylilies, that the deer love!


Around to the side of the house are my tiger lilies and I even brought out my antique cross frame picture to photograph with it.


The print is early 1900's and is called "Blackberry Lily". I had not heard of them being called that until I bought this picture. I have had it for a while, it is a little faded so I hung it in the Laundry room. Also in the picture are white bleeding hearts and some other sort of white petaled blossoms.


Well that is it for the garden tour, thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

I am linking up to the following blog parties this week...
AMAZE ME MONDAY with Cindy
TUESDAY CUPPA TEA with Ruth
A RETURN TO LOVELINESS with Kathy
TEATIME TUESDAY with Sandi
TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME with Maria Elena
LET'S TALK VINTAGE with Jillian
WHAT'S IT WEDNESDAY with Patti
SHARE YOUR CUP THURSDAY with Jann
BERNIDEEN'S TEA TIME with Bernideen
HOME AND GARDEN THURSDAY with Kathy
HOME SWEET HOME with Sherry
FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY with Courtney
SHOW AND TELL FRIDAY with Cindy

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Seashore Vacation and Antiques!

Hello everyone,
Back in June my family and I went to Destin, Florida for a week. Below is the view from our 16th floor condo. Such a beautiful sight and beautiful sounds from our balcony!


I won't bore you too much by showing too many vacation photos but thought you might enjoy seeing our nautical decorated bedroom...


and a cute little vignette on the entertainment center in the living room...


Below is the view of the seashore from the swimming pool. We spent a lot of time there (on the beach), as you can imagine.


In between spending time at the shore, we went to Bass Pro Shop...


and had fun photographing the kids with this big ol' thing... (fake of course)


had some wonderful seafood at The Crab Trap, well actually the food made me sick, but anyway!


And of course I got to see some beautiful antiques!! The highlight of my week!
We went to two places, here are a few things from the first place that caught my eye,
a beautiful antique walnut bed...


this sweet little alabaster cherub statue...


a clam full of seashells, which I adore!


and a beautiful etched mirror.


Even more things caught my eye at this second place! It was just wonderful! It was called Antiques on Holiday. What a cute name right?


View as we came down from the second floor...


Lots of beautiful chandeliers, oil paintings,


gilt mirrors, WHITE PEACOCK feathers!!! $450 for those in that brass urn!


This pretty French piece, I forget what you call it...


and these guys caught my eye, (and a closer look at the piece from the above photo).


More wonderful gilt mirrors,


this beautiful peacock jardiniere stand...


more gilt mirrors and oil paintings,


lots and lots of Victorian glass domes, but without the contents! Shoot!! I wanted a bird dome!


And this gorgeous armoire! Believe me, I wanted it all!! But no, I did not buy anything...


but I did come home with precious memories and lots of seashells from our wonderful vacation, and that is enough for me!


See the sweet little embroidered mermaid? I wish I could say that I bought her at one of those Florida antique shops, but I did not.


Thank you so much for your visit and have a great week!

I want to thank Kathy over at HOME AND GARDEN THURSDAY for featuring my Historic River Town post.
And Jill over at LET'S TALK VINTAGE for featuring my chocolate cake on my latest finds and a blog win post.

I am joining the following parties for this week...
AMAZE ME MONDAY with Cindy
TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME with Maria Elena
LET'S TALK VINTAGE with Jill
SHARE YOUR CUP THURSDAY with Jann
HOME AND GARDEN THURSDAY  with Kathy
WHAT'S IT WEDNESDAY with Paula
FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY with Courtney
HOME SWEET HOME with Sherry