A good time with a great friend.

Last Friday I visited with a friend of mine and I new that I was in for a great time. Ms. Ann is a retired artist that lives in the most precious cottage. She loves decorating, painting, gardening and have her own company hosting tea parties.

Her curtains, lamp shade, star fish and awnings are just examples of her home decor. She painted seagulls and sea birds in her master room, so so beautiful and all handmade by her.

             Just more examples of her decor. Her garden though is my favorite place to visit.

There is so much beauty there. I know she had worked hard for many years to get the garden as it stands today. She has tons of statuary and whimsical pieces of decor.

      The lady herself, isn't she photogenic? She always takes good pictures and you should see her shirt. It says "tea shirt" and have a pot that she painted. Just too cute.

Thank you Ms. Ann for welcoming into your home and for been such a  good friend to me, blessings, Marta.

My pink archives and a happy third year for Pink Saturday

I thought I go ahead and go back in memory lane. I have been a participant on and off (not by choice) for over a year. This days some of my pink stuff have given way to a more monochromatic decor in white. One thing I know for sure, I will always be a pink kind of girl and roses, I just can't think of anything prettier. Next week I will show you my master bedroom. I started to do only white, cream and brown and I decided I did not like it. So, pink won the battle, back to my roots.  

               I love her face. She is in a box somewhere in the house.

                                             Pink  Easter around the old shop last year.

                                         My favorite dishes in the whole world.

                         At one point I got a cabinet full of this kind of flowers.

                    I still have all this stuff.

                       All this pink resides in what I called the princess room. My friends bring their girls to see it since is full of the stuff a little princess would like.

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         Beautiful millinery hat and one of my favorite pin cushion doll.

                                        Daisy kingdom pretties and a Bunny By the Bay bear.

 Of course I have to include my Juju, 1 month old. He is 10 months old now.

  Pink pillows, I love a bed full of them.

This pretty slippers I bling up for the masters bedroom, I will show you more next week.

Pinketts, that is all I got. I will be linking to Ms. Beverly @http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/for her third year celebration. We are all more than appreciative of her for all this years of hosting for us. Blessings, Marta.

Cute white stuff

I spend the weekend playing in finishing my bedroom and tweaking around the house. I got this little bird at Michaels for 2.00. I glitter the crown and added the rhinestones. The little nest is a Martha Stewart  ornament shaped like a wreath. She sits perfectly in it.

I got these two arm lights by each side of the bed and I have been looking for the right shades. I went ahead and bought simple ones. I got some cheese cloth that I used to make the bow and rosette. I wrap the cloth around the top and bottom edge. I kind of liked it.

  

               I bought a garland made of balls covered with different textures. This is my favorite. I found the ribbon today at Walmart. It comes in 3 yards for 4.00. Not bad.

                         I also collect crazy looking lightbulbs. I know, odd. I bought the box from my friend Krista. It advertises lightbulbs, perfect match.

This guy, I LOVE. He is 36 inches tall and I dress him for the seasons, well, I used to. This last look I like the best so he will stay like this for a while.

 My collection of corals have grown. I really like shells and corals, before it became so popular to have around. The 3.00 dollars days are gone, this days I start at 25.00 and up.

I really like this condiment set. I pay eleven dollars for it. The tops are all mix matched and I don't care, that is part of the charm.

I love clocks. The problem is that everybody else does too. So no more cool, dirt cheap clocks for anybody.

Last, one of my girls, no bra and all. So proud, so bold and so yummy. None of my friends like them, I do and that is important since I live with them.

That is all for today. I will be linking to Faded Charm for WW. Blessings, Marta.

PD

I know so many people like to keep their blogs a happy place and I'm all for that but tonight I can't help but to cry and ache for the cities devastated by the tornadoes. It is so hard to watch and so hard to understand so much devastation. My prayers are with you, Marta.

What is wrong with blogger?

         Today I tried to change my look. Blogger keeps telling me that I have exceeded my quota and therefore I can't download or make any changes. When I tried to upload pictures for this post it will load a server rejected symbol. Then it will tell me that I can purchase space and offers a great deal for 5.oo per year. With a lot of trepidation I got my card and did the steps in order to purchase space. One step short of finishing the deal the screen will freeze  and you are left to guess. I'm tired of blogger issues. I know I'm not the only one losing, missing or having so many issues. Who do you call, what do you do? It is so frustrating.
     Most of my favorite blogs are in blogger, should I take this as a sign? I will admit that the thought of quitting blogging all together have already crossed  my mind. Maybe I'm stressed (I filled for a tax extension and I feel like I'm carrying a monkey on my back because of it) and it is just bad timing. We will see, hopefully I get over this by tomorrow. Blessings to you from a VERY FRUSTRATED BLOGGER.

Around the store

 Not much happening around here. Business have been SLOW, very slow. The shop is bursting out the seams with cool merchandise, nobody is buying. That puts a damper in my shopping expeditions. If I'm not selling I don't feel like buying. How is your business doing. Is it just me?

 Still, I keep taking care of my baby, I love having a shop and tending to it. The slow times do allow me to be more creative plus I have been frufing my home. My bedroom is coming along nicely. I just need to finish two little pillows and I will be done.

 I'm not a gardener, actually I kill plants. We noticed this bush by the shop the other day and I thought pretty nice for a weed. There are baby plants like it all over the place and I don't mind them at all. So nice to have something green in the drought we experiencing.

               It never ceased to amazed me all the beauty God have created.

                                                              Blessings, Marta.