A LITTLE BIT OF SUMMER

 

This picture doesn't do this arrangement justice. It is something I put together many, many years ago, when I was working in the Ben Franklin store. The boss had a lady come in and show us how to do floral arrangements and this seemed to be her favorite style of arranging. I try to display this every summer. Oh. I just remembered that I always set a large conch shell next to it! I better see if I can find it in my totally cluttered spare closet. The shell has some of the same color as the flowers in the basket.

This is the way I have it displayed for now. When my husband was still living he had a square glass coffee table and I displayed those two things on top of a straw place mat on it. Now that I don't have that table and have moved, I need to find different ways to display my old favorites.

The picture on the wall is a numbered print of a painting done by a former pastor we had. He was a commercial artist before becoming a pastor and after several years went back to commercial art and this is a print of one of his works. I really liked it because it depicts an old farmplace that resembles the home I grew up in. There are a few milk cows and 2 horses in the pasture, just like we did. There is an old John Deere tractor just like Dad's, and what I learned how to drive with. And there is an oat field, complete with straw bundles set up in shocks, which I often helped with. I think I could still set up a shock.

This console was also my husband's. He had it in the basement and it was black with black/white marbled contact paper on top and on the front of the drawers. It looked pretty sad. I do hate the electric cords being so visible. Why didn't they make things with white cords? The clock is very old and was my parent's. The cord on that is so very long for some reason. I will have to work at trying to hide them better one of these days. Any suggestions?

HOME MADE CARDS

I have a very crafty friend who enjoys making her own greeting cards. I don't know where she comes up with all the cute ideas. I know I could never come up with them.

Here is a card she made just for me after my cat, Felix, died. I am sorry the pictures aren't that great, but you get the idea.

This is the front of the card. Those three red dots are actually 'gems' that are glued on.

Inside the card is the cute tag that is also glued on. This card WILL go into my permanent collection for several reasons, among them is the artistry, because a friend made it especially for me, and in remembrance of my fur baby companion.

BOBBITY, BOBBITY, BOO

What do you think of bobble heads? I never cared much for them.

One year for Christmas my son-in-law gave me two Elvis bobble heads because he knew I was a big fan of Elvis. I thought it was a crazy gift, but opened the boxes and was blow away with them. What do you think of these?

 Jailhouse Rock

1957 Year in Gold

I still don't care much for bobble heads but I do like these. They are much better quality than I expected, and not the kind you find on car dashboards.

Right now they are on the top of my computer desk in the bedroom. Maybe I should start displaying them in the public rooms of the house. I am sure they will make good conversation pieces. And maybe add a little whimsy?

"Thankya verah much."

HOLIDAY PORCH DREAM

I can dream, can't I? I would love to make my porch look like this!

The pallet flag would be an easy thing to make. It would be quick too. I think the slowest things would first be to find a pallet, and then to let the paint dry. 

I am not sure how I would display it since the only corner I have similar to this is on the front porch, but that red swing hangs there, taking up most of the room on that small porch. But if there were room, the swing and the pallet flag would compliment each other, don't you think?

I just think this display is lovely, and maybe someday. . . . . .

I can dream, can't I?

Funnies

I have been digging for things again and ran across this wedding invitation that we actually received. I thought you might get a kick out of it. I think this was drawn by the groom's sister.

The front of the card ~

~ and inside ~

Since she did not include the year, I have no idea when this took place. Since the groom is about the same age as my son, it had to be during the 1980's.

I must be losing my mind because I have been losing things, and am very frustrated right now. I know I have a copy of my great-grandmother's will, and had my hands on it not long ago. And now it has disappeared! I have looked everywhere I think it could possibly be plus a few other places where I tend to put this type of thing. No show. So it seems I will have to take this house apart, piece by piece.

I also thought I had downloaded some plat maps showing where my great grandfather's farm was in the early 1900's, as well as the plat map showing a grandfather's farm where my dad grew up. I wanted to send the one of my great-grandfather's land to the woman in Switzerland. I checked my computer files and did not find either one, nor the link to them! What in the world is going on here? I had also misplaced a couple of letters my uncle wrote from Germany while he was stationed there during WWII. I had just found them yesterday, and today I was going to scan them and they weren't here. I did finally find those again and are scanned. whew! So now. . . . where are you will??

More Valentine Artwork

This is more of my mother's cousin's art work. It is bigger than the small postcards that she had also sent to Mom. It is done on heavy card stock, and then she must have folded it up to fit in the envelope, which caused the creases. She wrote on the back that she had trouble drawing the man. Her art work is all done in ink.

I like to do pencil drawings from time to time, but my 'talent' is nothing like this. Give me a picture of something and I will attempt to draw a copy of it. My 9 year old granddaughter is well on her way to being the artistic one in the family now.

Happy Valentine Day

I would love to be somebody's valentine. 

Will you be mine?

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is a postcard done by the artist among my relatives from years ago. I have no idea what the date was, but am guessing probably in the 1930's. It was my mother's cousin in St. Louis who did the artwork. I assume she worked at a greeting card company, doing some of the card designing. And I can only assume because I have no one to ask. She had sent several different post cards like this for different occasions. I will be posting the others here now and then, so if you like this sort of thing, be sure to check back.