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These are a few of my favorite things...

  • Old quilts
  • Antique Linen
  • Coin silver
  • Peonies & Hydrangeas
  • Vintage tablecloths & napkins
  • Vacations at the beach
  • Picnics
  • Brown transferware
  • Ironstone
  • Baskets...especially from England
  • Baking bread...& cakes!
  • Vintage matelasse & eiderdown
  • Nursery rhymes
  • Church camps
  • Old black & white photos
  • Old ticking pillows
  • Hymns

Green Thumb

June 19, 2008

Bedside Bouquet

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The other day, I decked out the bedside table with some white roses from my two Sombreuil bushes.  The Sombreuil roses I have are tea climbers with the most beautiful white blooms with tons and tons of petals, and they smell fabulous!  Thankfully, there are blooms throughout the summer, and it is very easy to grow.  I use organic methods of pest control on my flowers (or nothing at all!), and these have done just fine!  The blooms look incredible as a bouquet or all alone...like this one sitting in a tiny glass salt shaker in the master bath...

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Right now, these two bushes are in the front flower bed, but this fall I am going to move them so that they will be growing on a fence and arbor on the side yard.  I can't wait to see them in all their climbing glory next spring!

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June 13, 2008

Happy Daisies

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These are some of the Becky daisies that are growing right off the front porch.  Don't daisies just look so happy?  I love my Becky daisies...they are so tall, and blooms are always in abundance throughout the summer into the fall.  Even though they aren't fragrant, they still look pretty to me.

I found this glass bowl and frog at an antique store in Kentucky.  I have seen a blue million of these floral frogs but have never seen one of these little bowls with them.  Have y'all?

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Into the yellow guest bathroom they have gone...

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Happy weekend, y'all!!

April 30, 2008

Um, Excuse Me...

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What pray tell are you doing, Mr. Worm, to my would-be, should-be rosebuds??

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You are apparently enjoying your feast...

April 27, 2008

Sweet Anticipation

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Ooohhh, I'm getting excited!