Please visit Cielo's SOYCM for all the participants in this lovely event. I think you'll enjoy it.
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First, a few words about showing off my "cottage."
I don't have an elegant home. It's a humble adobe for me and Love Bunny in our later years. Not much upkeep, not very big to clean and not much yard work to tax us in the summer. So what I show you is quite simply a space to be lived in and, of course, for me to use as a palette to decorate. Not for any kind of show. Not to brag about. Not to be puffed up about. Not "showy" in the sense of ever being featured in magazines. Not at all. Simply a well loved and lived in home. Now, on with it...
The pillows I take off my bed each night and put back on in the morning when I make my bed. I love pillows on my bed. Actually, I love pillows all around my house and there are many!
The computer room/office is where most of my time is spent on any given day. You'll notice I made a pink cover for the stand. Also, my handy back scratcher is always there. I have 5 spread around the house.
For 2 years I've been wanting to do a pumpkin for our porch that wasn't orange. I bought one after halloween 2 years ago and just this past halloween got around to painting it! I'm not into halloween or the colors at all so I did my own variation on it. I set this out and will probably keep it on the porch for the fall and winter. I'll think on what to do for the spring and summer the beginning of the new year. Can you believe we are almost into 2010?!?! Where did the time go?
Anyway, I think the moms and dads liked the pumpkin much more than the little munchkins!! LOL Just my style: roses, pink ribbons and fabric print a friend gave me. :-)
~*~First, a few words about showing off my "cottage."
I don't have an elegant home. It's a humble adobe for me and Love Bunny in our later years. Not much upkeep, not very big to clean and not much yard work to tax us in the summer. So what I show you is quite simply a space to be lived in and, of course, for me to use as a palette to decorate. Not for any kind of show. Not to brag about. Not to be puffed up about. Not "showy" in the sense of ever being featured in magazines. Not at all. Simply a well loved and lived in home. Now, on with it...
The pillows I take off my bed each night and put back on in the morning when I make my bed. I love pillows on my bed. Actually, I love pillows all around my house and there are many!
The computer room/office is where most of my time is spent on any given day. You'll notice I made a pink cover for the stand. Also, my handy back scratcher is always there. I have 5 spread around the house.
For 2 years I've been wanting to do a pumpkin for our porch that wasn't orange. I bought one after halloween 2 years ago and just this past halloween got around to painting it! I'm not into halloween or the colors at all so I did my own variation on it. I set this out and will probably keep it on the porch for the fall and winter. I'll think on what to do for the spring and summer the beginning of the new year. Can you believe we are almost into 2010?!?! Where did the time go?
Anyway, I think the moms and dads liked the pumpkin much more than the little munchkins!! LOL Just my style: roses, pink ribbons and fabric print a friend gave me. :-)
~*~Random Thought:
And this is scary, chicks. Do you realize that most of the young women today cannot "rat" or "tease" their hair? If you're under 45, you probably don't know how.
Recently in the beauty shop while getting my hair cut, the hairdresser next to us was showing a 20something how to do it, and I almost dropped my jaw when I realized they don't know how. But I can "rat" and "tease" with the best of them! Oooooooh my.......
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I'm grateful for friends who love me enough to help me by sweetly and kindly showing me the areas I need to work on in my life to keep me on the straight and narrow path to perfection. I know most of my imperfections but sometimes I need a nudge for those I've missed.
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I am great at rat/teasing my hair too...although I don't do it much these days.but back in the 80's my hair was big...:)
ReplyDeleteI am slowly sneaking in the bedroom and grabs as many beautiful rosey pillows as one can have and runnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!! and hide.. hehehe.. hehehehe..
ReplyDeleteyou did awesome with the frilly rosey pillows.. lovely! same goes with the pumpkin..
have a good day
xo
fitty
We called it backcombing way back in the 60s, and I had very long hair then, so you can imagine the hours it took!
ReplyDeleteI can rat my hair with the best of them! I always love seeing photos of your cottage, Connie. Warmth, coziness - those are the things I aim for in our cottage, too. I love your pumpkin (beautiful) and all your pillows.
ReplyDeleteFiled under why didn't I think of that: a backscratcher! Of course, my husband would say that is the job he gets stuck with every day!
Have a great Monday!
Love all thoe pillows! (And yes, I can tease wit the best of them...and I'm under 45)
ReplyDeleteMorning Connie,All your pillows are so pretty.I love pillows also.I think your home could be in a magazine.Its warm welcoming and very cozy.Glad your trick or treaterse enjoyed your pumpkin.Hugs,Jen
ReplyDeleteLOL on the rat teasing.... my daughter is a new hairdresser (she is 23 years old) and taught we how to tease recently. I LOVE big hair. your pink pumpkin is too cute!
ReplyDeleteI love pillows and yours looks beautiful. I really need to make more for my home in fact. I use to tease my hair too, but now I don't have much to tease thanks to menopause.
ReplyDeleteWillow
Miss Connie, I have not been here in awhile so I played catch up and read all the posts I have missed!
ReplyDeleteI must tell you I am so impressed....you have taken your home from plain jane to magazine quality beautiful!
I love it....so warm and cozy, beautiful my dear just beautiful!
Thank you for shareing your wonderful home with us.... I am inspired!
Luvs ya bunches,
Miss Emma and Dolly too
P.S. my 22 year old rats her hair occasionally!
ReplyDeleteyour bed is gorgeous, i love all those beautiful pillows!!!!
ReplyDeleteI can tell you are a "pink" and "romantic" style girl (chick). I love your pillows and the desk skirt and the pumpkin.
ReplyDeleteI can tease hair, but haven't in years. I guess teased hair has gone the way of the rotary dial phones. Kids nowadays don't know how they work.
Hello, Connie,
ReplyDeleteOooh! I LOVE all those pillows. You know I say: A girl can NEVER have too many pillows!! Your pumpkin is cute as it can be. I can rat my hair, too, not a problem! I thought everyone could! It might be an age thing but I'm not saying. Blessings to you, sweet friend! Vicki
Hello Connie, your pillows are so beautiful, smooth and confortables.
ReplyDeleteLove them all.
Hugs
Charo
Hi. Just checking in. I didn't blog much while pregnant, so I was wondering how your son was doing, and if they ever caught the thugs? Like your pretty pumpkin.
ReplyDeleteHi Connie,
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, I am in love with your pumpkin! I want a pretty pumpkin too!
and your letters,WASH & IRON I want pretty letters for my wash room too,loving them.
All your pillows on your bed are my style also, I have pillows all over my home, sometimes people have to move them to sit down. LOL.
I have enjoyed my visit with you very much.
Until next time,
Elizabeth
Hi Connie,
ReplyDeleteI LOVE PILLOWS TOO! And I don't mind removing them every night from my bed and putting them back each morning. I love it! Oh! And I just got a tiny glimps of your bedboard...It gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a wonderful day.
Smiles,
♥Ana
they all want big poufy hair but don't know how to tease....imagine that!! Connie, the kids absolutely adored the bird houses. They called me before they opened them so I could "be there" when they opened the box. I heard a collective gasp on the phone. And the pillow...oh my! Kristen love it!
ReplyDeleteAll your pillows are so pretty.Love your pumpkin also.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn
I think that pumpkin is so cute! Now that's the kind of Halloween decor that would look great here.
ReplyDeleteThe pillows on your bed are scrumptous! I love beds piled high with pillows. Did you make some of these? They are just lovely. So tell me, does love bunny like the pillows or does he think they are a bother. My husband is at a loss on where to put them when he goes to bed. I tell him to just put them on the floor...it's clean, but he can't bring himself to do it. Men are strange creatures sometimes.
Hugs,
June
Connie your home is very beautiful - you sure do a wonderful job of decorating and inspiring me. The pillows are so pretty. Thanks for stopping by - have a great week.
ReplyDeleteHow funny that you mentioned the pillows on your bed! Hubby and I just had the same discussion the other night... he asked why we needed all the pillows .. .Now mind you, I only have our head pillows, four pillows in shams and a little decorative pillow in the middle... I know that you won't think that's too many, will you, Connie... So will you come talk to hubby next time he gives me a hard time? I LOVE all your pillows - and that pretty pumpkin you made! I'm a product of the 50's and grew up in the 60's with straight bangs and the crown of my head teased high! So yes, I'm a teaser!!... Donna
ReplyDeleteHow funny that you mentioned the pillows on your bed! Hubby and I just had the same discussion the other night... he asked why we needed all the pillows .. .Now mind you, I only have our head pillows, four pillows in shams and a little decorative pillow in the middle... I know that you won't think that's too many, will you, Connie... So will you come talk to hubby next time he gives me a hard time? I LOVE all your pillows - and that pretty pumpkin you made! I'm a product of the 50's and grew up in the 60's with straight bangs and the crown of my head teased high! So yes, I'm a teaser!!... Donna
ReplyDeleteOh Connie, these are ones of the pretties vignettes and pics I've seen of your home... I love all your pillows... did you make them? I'm always looking for pillows as pretty as those, but I guess I'd need to make them, as I can never seem to find pretties like those.... and your working place is very pretty and cozy as well.... you'd done a lovely job.... and thanks for participating in our "SOYCM".... we're having a wonderful giveaway on Wednesday... so come back!
ReplyDeletecielo
Just love all the pillows on the bed - so inviting and cosy looking. Hhmm... I don't suppose you actually want visitors jumping on the bed [giggle].
ReplyDeleteI'm having a giveaway this week Connie so make sure you pop on over.
Hugs ~ Kerryanne