A Quick Tour of the China Cabinet

It's Monday night, and the football game just started.  I don't know who and I don't care who!

SO...computer, here I come!

How about a quick tour of the China Cabinet?

I seem to have a distinct liking for Blues and Pinks!!!

Good grief!  As I was picking the order for these pictures to post I realized that my faves are the blues and pinks, and that most of my cabinet is those colors!  Not all, but the majority!

Oh well.  I like it, and it's always fun to play with them!

I tried my first cup of Earl Grey tea over Thanksgiving.  No sweetener, no cream, no lemon.

Just plain ole' tea. 

Hmmmm.....

Maybe it's an acquired taste??

I made another pot last week and tried it.  Not quite liking it yet, but I'm not going to give up.  I MUST learn to like even LOVE hot tea.  That's my New Year's resolution.  And loose weight.

Maybe I'll be able to drink tea.....

I will be linking up with the AWESOME TEA PARTIES listed on the sidebar!  Be sure and click on them to take you over to some lovely blogs and check out the gorgeous tea things they share each week.

Many thanks to you lovely ladies for hosting!

Hope you all have a lovely week!

Blessings, Doni



Pearls and Lace Thursday #70 Lace Wrapped Bobbins

I've been late for two weeks in a row!  I'm so sorry. 

But now, let's do some catching up!  It's so fun to think about what I'll be sharing with you all, but then all of a sudden life takes an unexpected turn and we're going out of town!!

At least I've had the time to think about what I'm going to do when I finally have the time!

Here's the latest.

The bobbins are some recent finds from etsy, and the laces are some I've had for a while and some I've found recently.  I love the look of laces wrapped around old wooden bobbins.

And it just wouldn't be right if I hosted a party called Pearls and Lace and didn't have any pearls, right??

So here they are.  BUT...the pearls are not vintage...just store bought from the jewelry makings dept.

But a new necklace looms in the future made of the three colors.  PINK being a favorite!! But I LOVE those darker colored pearls too....hmmmm.....

The plates they are on ARE vintage, and I must say, the colors and textures on them are so perfect!

They are chippy, crazed, and lovely. (if I do say so myself!).

I love the different colors included on each spray of flowers....they're just lovely together.

I just can't get over how many of you visit my little ol' blog during the week!  I've so enjoyed visiting you, and you have such beautiful things to share each week.  I know that without a doubt a spend HOURS of every week looking around blogland, and seriously, there's not a day that I'm not on this computer looking at your posts.  The fun to the serious, I'm loving it all.  You ladies (and some gents I know), are such talented people.  Your photography skills amaze me, and I hope someday I'll be as good as y'all!!!

I'll be joining some parties in the upcoming days, so please take a look at the list I have on my sidebar of parties I love....they seriously are a lot of fun, and there's ALWAYS something gorgeous being shared.

I'm also hosting my weekly (though sometimes tardy) party, Pearls and Lace Thursday today, so if you'd like to join me, please add the url code of your post to the link below!  I'm looking forward to getting next week's party thought out and READY before I'm late!!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and may I take this moment to thank ALL of our country's VETERANS as we think about your sacrifices for our freedom.  You indeed are hero's and need to know it!!!

And it's not just you that we need to honor, but your families as well, because they too served by their service to you. 

I know...I have a Veteran for a husband, and he's my hero.

Blessings to you all!

Doni

Rural Blue Beauties

These just have to be my new favorites!  My husband and I went to our very first auction, and these were the prize!  So gorgeous, and the lovely rural scenes are just so perfect.  I live in a small, rural, east Texas town and though the scenes are English and from times long ago, many of them could be similar right here.

The plate above is one of my favorite scenes.  The mother with her children stepping across a creek, the cows grazing close by, and the sweet church spire in the background.

Here on the teacup is a sweet scene...the ferrier working on a horse as the barnyard was the place where much work occured.

Have you ever wondered about God this way?  That He is the One who draws us to Him, not that we muster up faith to believe in Him.  He gives us faith as a gift and draws us!  We can't do a thing!  Isn't He Wonderful?!!  We are so blessed.  I have to remember over and over, expecially when 'things' or 'life' don't seem to be just what I'd like, that it is a blessing from God.  He is working all things together for good, and for His glory, not mine.  When it's hot, when it's not comfortable, when it's tedious, when it's downright painful, I try to keep in my mind that it is for God's glory.

A change of perspective does me good.  When I look at things from HIS perspective, I can begin to see that.

I will be joining a number of lovely parties (listed in my sidebar to the right) this week.  Please go by and visit them.  There are so many wonderful things to see and places to visit.  Have y'all been able to see new places in the world just because of blogging?  I have!  I'm so excited to find new places!!

May you each have a blessed week,

Doni



Pearls and Lace #21

It's all Red!

I pulled a bit of red from all over the house and had so much fun doing it!  From the buttons to the old printer's shelf, old bobbins to glassware, red is one of my favorite colors with which to decorate.  The dark reds are my favorites.  Now don't think my whole house is done is red...it's not.  I love lots of colors, and there are some that I don't care for at all.  But, as a favorite...this is one of the top.

The red candy dish belonged to my Grossmutter.  I remember as a little girl going to her house (she lived only 3 houses away from us!) and dusting the furniture.  This candy jar as well as a milk glass one resided on the half-wall located just inside her foyer by her telephone table.  I would carefully dust each crevice of the glass in hopes that I wouldn't miss a spot or break it.  So far, I haven't broken it!

I'm also a lover of old tins. This one has a foreign word on the top and has been in my collection for many years.  Others I've only had for a few months!

Old buttons just seem to find their way now into my blog posts.  I've seen how talented many of you are with laces and buttons and have had an itch to try something with them.  Perhaps I'll get all my stuff together and start!! 

These are the only two pieces of the red transferware that I have, but I'm hoping to find some more!  These have the English castles on them and I'm in love with them.

These little perfume bottles are my latest finds.  I found them this last weekend at a yard sale and think they're sooooo sweet! I love the red cord on the one on the right, and the delicate and graceful lines of the one on the left make it one of my favorites.

Please join me this week for Pearls and Lace Thursday!  Add your post's url link to the Linky below and show off your beauties!!

Hope you all have a blessed Thursday!

Doni

I'm joining with some parties at the blogs below!  Come by and join in the fun!

Show and Tell Friday

http://romantichome.blogspot.com/

It's a Hodgepodge Friday

http://itsahodgepodgelife.blogspot.com/

Vignette Fridays

http://niagaranovice.blogspot.com/



White Bottoms!

So do the BOTTOMS of the dishes count as whites???

I think so!

Some of the lovely marks from the bottoms of the teacups and dishes I have.

I guess each company or manufacturer tries to make theirs unique and memorable.

Sometimes the name says it all!

Be sure and join with me tomorrow for Pearls and Lace Thursday.  I have a red themed post ready to share with you of all kinds of pretties from around the house!

I'll have it up and ready by Wednesday evening (as long as the computer cooperates!), so get your pretties ready and come back to join the party!

Hope you all have a lovely Wednesday!

Blessings, Doni

I'm joining in the White Wednesday Party at

http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/

It's so much fun! Be sure and come by to see all the lovely white posts and join in too!!

More Cooling Blues Around the House

I just must thank Laura from Ontario (her blog is Laura's Rose Garden) for sending us here in Texas her cooling weather!!! It has been only in the 90's this last week and we even saw some lows reach down to the 60's!!! WOOOHOOO! (can't you picture me running around outside waving my cowboy hat and smackin' the horse?) (Actually, it's a whole lot more likely you'd see me waddle around and smack a mosquito!!)

We've really enjoyed the 'cool spell' and look forward even more to Fall!!

I was hoping to have a lovely table all set with my newest white china that I bought off of ebay, but after a whole month of waiting, IT"S STILL NOT HERE!!!

Yes, I called, I nicely pestered, and she had all types of reasons as to why my china has not arrived, but as long I remain nice and she does to, well I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. 

I can't wait to see what it will look like put together.  I am not the type to set the table for dinner, but I love love love what I see on so many of your blogs.  Tables set with gorgeous china, flatware, glassware, real flowers, lovely centerpieces, etc.  Maybe I will take some lessons from y'all and see where it takes me!!

Hope you are all having cool breezes and may you have a lovely week!

Be sure and check out Pearls and Lace Thursday #17 here and see my beautiful hand painted bowl I recently acquired.  It's worth the click!!!

Join me here on Thursday as well for Pearls and Lace Thursday!!!

Blessings!!

Doni

I'm joining these parties for a delightful blogging Monday!!

Be sure and check them out and join us!!

Mosiac Monday at

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Today's Thrifty Treasures at

http://southernhospitalityblog.com/

Blue Monday at

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Show Off Your Cottage Monday at

http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/