BLUE MONDAY

Hello and welcome to Blue Monday hosted by Sally of Smiling Sally. Thank you Sally for hosting this fun event.

The above pic is at our friends house in NJ were we spent the 4th of July. What a nice day we had with lifelong friends that day!

Next I have a few more vacation pics, also if you scroll down to my previous post you can see some more vacation pics and some Antique Mall finds.
Barnegat Lighthouse.


A little waterfront town in NJ named Weirtown. We used to dock out boat here when we lived in NJ.

That little boardwalk is part of a restaurant, you can set out there and eat overlooking the waterfront. Such a sweet little community!

The next few pics are in my husbands home town, Burlington. I love this old brick house now a conference center.

This town has the cutest quilt shop and a gift shop called Tin & Berries. I'll show you what I got in them next week.

A house that I love!

When I travel I do needlework, the tractor trailors scare me to death! LOL Below are my traveling project from this trip.

The redwork embroidery I thought would be pretty made into a pillow using vintage white dotted swiss fabric. I have my eye on a little girls vintage dress on ebay that I will cut up to use for fabric. I'll be sure to show you the finished result.

Some cross stitch done on premade pillow forms.

The next two pieces were very old Creative Circle kits, they came with plastic frames which I am not going to use. I might make them into little teacup coasters. I'm going to add some pretty little crystal beads to glam them up a bit.

Yummy pasteries from the bakery right down the road from my husbands Uncle where we stay when we go to NJ. My camera had a smuge on the lense, that's why the fuzzy look.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I'll be back on saturday with a post for Pink Saturday, try to stop back. If you have time scroll down to my past few posts and see othere vacation pics. Have a great week!

Bless you, Shirl

Shirls Rose Cottage

Pink Saturday, Vacation & My Birthday

Hello and Welcome to Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.
I'm also including in this post some vacation pics and birthday pics.
This is the gorgeous view we had every morning from our deck. Hubby and I were out there every morning to watch the sun come up. Oh my do we miss this place! This is the beautiful cottage that we rented, it was new this season and was a very nice place! It had a reversed living plan, the top floor was kitchen, living and dining room.

Hubby teaching my best friends daughter Devon to drive the boat. It was a beautiful day to be out in the boat. Joan is in the front with her granddaughter Abby. Joan and I have been friends since we were eight years old.

My handsome son Bob!

My birthday was Sept. 14 th. The day after we got home from vacation.

A pretty Birthday card from Victorian Trading Company.

Once a year our church has a mass & a picnic at the old chruch in the country. This year it happened to fall on my birthday. It was a nice day and I did not have to cook.

Beautiful interior!

Next I've posted pics of my gifts. I told hubby I wanted a new stove for my birthday. (strange gift I know) Mine has been on self destruct for a year and I got tired of playing games with it. LOL. I love my new stove and it's self cleaning, that's the best! Also can be programed to turn itself on and off.

The other thing that I asked for was a big table to lay my quilts out on. I make alot of quilts for charity. If you haven't seen my charity blog "Stitches of Love" click here and you can read what it's all about.

My daughter Jen of Jen's Petal Palace gave me this vintage embroidered quilt. I just love it sooooo much!

A few close ups of the embroidery.

My PRH Sister Bertie of Aunt May's Cottage gave me this beautiful night light.

Also from Bertie, a pretty lace vintage apron and -------------------

And a tea cozy, and------------------

A cute little banner, thank you Bertie!

My PRH Sister Katie of Rose Breeze Boutique gave me these beautiful tea roses and a Ghos-Tea. Thank you Katie!

Also from my PRH sister Karen of Second Hand Rose sent me this pretty card, stickers and made me this beauitful tag. Thank you Karen!

From my best life long friend Joan, (the girl in the boat) pretty cardnial dish towels.

Last but not least a cute fall wreath from my son Bob.

Now finally on to some pinkness!

This is all the pretty things I brought home from vacation for my daughter Jen.

Some pretty Southern Belle Plates that I found in an antique store while on vacation.

Beautiful pink vintage linens that I bought in a quilt/antique shop.

I love baskets, so this really called me!

Another embroidered basket.

I love this and thought it had a soft shabby chic look.

This is not pink but wanted to share it with you because alot of you like my jadeite. This is really a different piece. I think it probably hung over the stovepipe hole in the summer. I'm going to change the ribbon to pink. Of Course!

This cupcake ornament was made my Gooseberry Patch, one of my favorite places to shop!

A pretty tea time frame and a sea shell ornament. I thought I would but some pink ribbon roses on the top of the ornament.

I got these Christopher Radko ornaments for 90% off. I was so excited, it's the only way I could afford one of his ornaments!

Thank you so much for stopping by. I have a few more vacation posts to put up so please stop back. Next I will do a post on a new movie with Richard Gere, don't miss it!

Blessings, Shirl

TEA PARTY

Hello and welcome to my Tea Party hosted by Jan & Tom's Place. Please feel free to click on the
pictures to get a close up. If you have time scroll down and look at my vacation post at Gettysburg, Pa. I'm sure you will enjoy!

I made an apple cake with maple frosting, doesn't it look yummy!

I also made some dark chocolate cupcakes with a touch of green frosting and dusted

with light green sugar.

I thought we would use my mini teasets this time since you have not seen them

before.

My sister sent me the prevous teaset and this blue one. She used to own a wonderful

Victorian gift shop before she retired.

Another pretty pink set.

This is my favorite teapot, my first grandson bought me this for me for Christmas when he was five years old. He picked it out himself at his school Christmas Shopping Store. He will be 18 in November, a senior this year, then off to collage. It's hard to believe, I can still remember the first time I held him!

Look how sweet these little tree ornament tea sets are. I found them where we vacation in the Outer Banks of NC.

Well I hope you enjoyed my little tea party, be sure to stop by Jan & Tom's to get a list of the others that are having a party today! If you have time scroll down and take a look at my vacation post.

Blessings, Shirl