Rusty Charm

 Hi Everyone

 Happy Thursday
♥

Now that it is time to fertilize the soil 

and get ready for fall seeds to be planted in our vegetable garden

 I decided to have some fun with these metal garden markers 

 before they go back into the ground 

Truth be told

They were just too cute to have sitting in the greenhouse

Even though they are funky and rusty 

they sure do look adorable

and you can write on them with chalk

to leave little love notes all
 around the house

These garden markers are so much  fun to play with....

  I think I may need to buy a few more

 it will be hard to take them back outside again

{Love}

re purposing funky rusty treasures

especially  from the garden
♥

linking at My Romantic Home
Vintage Inspiration Friday

romantic saying for today

"Is not a kiss the very autograph of Love"
Henry Finck

♥
Pam

Catalina Cottage

Hi Everyone

 Happy Tuesday

♥

This little cottage is only 850 square feet 

It is so tiny

We found it on one of our walks

 in Catalina when we were there for the Wedding

It is so cute

Look at the adorable details

Vintage windows and loads of charm

We ended up walking passed this tiny house everyday

{almost stalker status}

 LOL

They have to cover the hydrangeas so the deer won't eat them
the deer even go onto the beach !!!!

{Love}
the vintage screen door 

The owner saw me {again}  eyeing/stalking  her sweet cottage

and kindly asked if we wanted to see her backyard garden too

Of coarse we said 

YES !!!!!

and look what we found

the most amazing tree house 
I think the tree house is almost the same size as the main house

We could have moved in right there

 on the spot

We were so excited to get a peek at this adorable cottage and of coarse I forgot my camera ...

My handsome husband suggested I try taking a few pic's with my iphone

not the best pic's but not bad either
♥
Have you ever stalked/admired someones cottage and walked  by it everyday taking pictures?
I hope the people were as kind as this owner was....
linking for White Wednesday

romantic saying for today

Everyday I Love YOU
P.B.

♥
Pam

Vintage Pink

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday

 ♥

 Decorating with vintage pink

This adorable vintage pink stool has found it's way into the dining room

It has the prettiest vintage floral barkcloth seat

 It is very chippy, shabby and sturdy as can be

Built to last a lifetime...

We use this stool for everything from changing light bulbs

{ I wish I was taller}

to cleaning and dusting the chandeliers

{Love}

our kitty Latte likes this stool too

When I found this stool I almost did not buy it

I walked past it looked at it and walked away, but a few minutes later I was still thinking about it 

{ it started haunting me}

Has this ever happened to you?

I could picture it in the house already 

I was very Lucky it was still there 

Usually when this happens the treasure is gone

My vintage shopping tip

If you like it buy it 

before someone else does!!!!

linking for Pink Saturday

romantic saying for today

"Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee"
unknown


♥
Pam

Living a Grateful Life

Hi Everyone

 Happy Friday

♥

~Living a Grateful life~

Living grateful is to

look for the good in a situation

to see the good in others

to focus on the good that happens each day

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

We taught our children very young
 to say what they were grateful for 

 Before dinner every night 

each family member

  say's what they have to be grateful for 

 for that day
Its starts a wonderful conversation about the good
 that is happening  in each of our lives

When they were really young our children would say one word grateful' s

our sons favorite grateful was for ketchup
{still makes me smile}

♥ 

 As they  have matured their grateful' s have become more thoughtful

grateful for a good friend

grateful for a teachers kindness

grateful for health 

grateful for family

grateful to be all together

 When you are looking for the good in Life
 it's amazing how
it seems to find you
♥
linking for Feathered Nest Friday
My Romantic Home

romantic saying for today

"You are my beginning, my ending, my always"
 P.B.

♥
Pam

Vintage Shopping Test # 11

Hi Everyone

 Happy Tuesday

♥

Are you ready for another

 ~vintage shopping test~

Here are two

 different cloche/domes

One is brand new and the other one is a  real vintage treasure
The French developed the glass cloche , or bell jar, formed of a solid piece of glass shaped like a dome.
 The purpose was to protect an early garden plant from cold and frost

The first dome/cloche  has a ball top

 and a slender bell shape

The second dome/cloche has a ball top

 and a short round curved shape

 did you notice the ribbed detailing

Both of these domes/cloches

are pretty 

Do you think you know which one is the vintage treasure?

If you guessed the tall simple dome/cloche you are 

right !!!!

This cloche is a vintage European hand blown glass cloche bell jar worth

  $55 dollars

The shorter cloche/dome

 is a brand new reproduction

 and was only $7.99

How did you do
 did you guess right?

Please let me know.....

♥ 

to collect and

decorate with domes/cloches

new and vintage

romantic saying for today

"Love conquers all things"
Virgil

♥
Pam

Sweet Alyssum

Hi Everyone

 Happy Wednesday

♥

There are moments in our lives that we remember forever.....

The firsts time I kissed my now  husband 

{it was in a park on my lunch hour as we ate sandwiches holding hands}

The first time I was called by my married name after our Wedding

{boarding a plane for our honeymoon}

The first time we held the keys to our first  home

{the house had so much potential}

These tiny  white flowers are called
~Sweet  Alyssum~

and they are the first flowers we planted as newlyweds

 They came in a six pack of seedlings

so we bought ten packs

and planted them in our front yard

We watered the Alyssum everyday

having no idea how tall they would get

 or how they would not last throughout the heat of the summer monthes

Our sweet neighbor who at the time was in her late 70's came over

 and asked me if I was planning on planting anything with the allysum

I must have looked surprised because she went on to explain in detail

 that this flower is used as a border plant

 not really a main attraction flower!!!!!

♥

{Love}

to cut a few flowers and put them in a pretty vintage pitcher
 this sweet white dainty flower will always
 remain a main attraction flower in my heart
linking for White Wednesday

romantic saying for today

"There is no remedy for love but to love more"
Thoreau


♥
Pam

Catalina Island Wedding

Hi Everyone

 Happy Tuesday

♥

What a Blissful romantic week

filled with laughter and  happy tears

Family and friends

 and so much

 {Love}

The Wedding  Ceremony was at Saint Catherines Church

on Catalina Island

Remy and Beth 

Promising to Love, Honor and Obey

 In good times and bad

 In sickness and in health

 forsaking all others

 till death do they part

Their first

 ~Kiss~

 as Husband and Wife

♥

The Newlyweds going to the Reception

 in their decorated golf cart

A few pictures taken before
 going into the Reception

The flowers, the cake, the dress and most of all

The beautiful Bride and Groom
so in
{Love}
 ♥
 surrounded and supported by Family and friends
after all the planning and the excitement
 a joyful celebration

Seems like a beautiful dream
come true
there was {Love} everywhere
Grateful for such Joy
and Grace
a beautiful way to start their new life together as Husband and Wife......



romantic saying for today

"When two hearts intertwine to become one 

there lies a promise where all things are made possible"

Heather Berry

♥
Pam

Happily Ever After

     Hi Everyone

   Happy Sunday

 ♥

Just a glimpse of a Romantic weekend celebrating

{Love}

More pictures to come

Have fun Remy and Beth in Tahiti !!!!!!!!

We Love You both

♥

romantic saying for today

"I shall Love him till my dying day I am his and he is mine"

unknown

♥

Pam



Vintage Wedding Basket

Hi Everyone

 Happy Wednesday

♥

This week is filled with so much

{Love}

 Family  is all together and everyone  is in a love bubble

Watching this young couple holding hands

 and all aglow is contagious....
The Wedding is this Saturday  

brings back so many memories of our
Wedding day

 I promised I would show you 

our Wedding Cake Topper

It was a beautiful Victorian
Glass Wedding Basket filled with flowers

It looked so pretty
 on top of our cake
♥

 Every Anniversary my handsome husband
 brings me the same  roses and babies breath to put in our Wedding basket
{sigh}

I started collecting vintage Wedding baskets

 when I was in my teens
The white basket on the right is one of the
 smallest baskets that I have found

 The tall clear glass wedding basket on the left is one of the largest it stands 16 inches tall

  The women who sold me the  large basket  told me it had been in her family for 4 generations

 she was thrilled her basket would be part of a collection

Our built in china cabinet was the perfect place
 to put all the wedding baskets
 my husband laughed when I did not put them inside
 but on top

Vintage glass wedding baskets were passed down in a family
 from generation to generation

There are so many different colors and sizes but they all are a true
~romantic vintage treasure~

♥
linking for White Wednesday

romantic saying for today

"It is the true season of Love when we know that we alone can love
 that no one could ever have  loved before us 
and that no one will ever Love in the same way after us"

Goethe 

♥
Pam