Mother's Day Gifts

As some of you may know I've been down in California since last week visiting with kids and grandkids. I prescheduled posts so I could have a break but I wanted to tell you about my mother's day gift. Now, as I've said before, there are some things in my life I've wanted to do for some time. Oh, not terribly exciting things like skydiving or bungee jumping...screeeeeeam...my heart couldn't do that...but just something I thought would be fun.

We went to San Diego saturday to check out our grandson's college—UCSD—and while there we went to MCRD, which is Marine Corps Recruit Depot. We lived there in the early 60s while Jack was on the drill field there, so it had been a long time since we'd seen it. We actually lived across the street and up a hill a bit from it. WOW!!! Has it changed! But my son and daughter-in-law bought me a bottle of Juicy Couture Perfume at the PX there and that stuff is NOT cheap, trust me, even there. Then when we got home my daughter-in-law told me about their WM having a spa. Well, without further chatter, let me show you the pix.



That's right. Eyelashes. Not false ones but extensions that are glued on. My DIL took me to WM and in about 1/2 hour I had eyelash extensions. And, yes, I photoshopped the photos because I had absolutely no makeup on at the time and I looked horrid. I wanted a clean face to begin with. I did only my skin. The eyes are real and not photoshopped.

Son and his wife in wedding photo. The boys are now 21 and almost 14.
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Winner of Gift Certificate

I apologize profusely for not posting friday night for the gift certificate for CSN stores but we have been on the go since 7 am on thursday. I mean we've eaten...uhhhhhh, I mean driven through 4 states since then and as most of you know California is a very, very long state to drive through. So without further ado, the winner is:

Stephanie of Angelic Accents

Congratulations, my sweet friend!!!

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Mother's Day Tea Party

Welcome to the tea party hosted by Cielo at The House In The Roses. Visit her to see all the participants.

I've set the table for you and we can chat for awhile. Put your feet up and relax by my bay window.

As dusk settles in we can light a candle to set our intimate mood. Cake with strawberries is awaiting on the shelf in the background.

Only beautiful roses china for my best friends.

My petite teapot looks like the roses in my garden.

Would you care for these exquisite little sugar cubes in your tea?

Next time we'll have to have our tea in the garden.

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The Perfect Purse on Pink Saturday 5/8/10

Another Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly at How Sweet The Sound. Go visit her to see all the participants this week. For new chicks I've visited last week: Suzanne at The Shabby Tiara and Chloe Patricia at MaMercerie. Both cute blogs.
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Let me tell you about my purse experience recently.

Hubby and I were at Macys and I saw a little purse I thought I'd buy. I generally don't buy too much leather anymore because it's so heavy when loaded with all we women need. But it was a Fossil and it was cute. Need I say more? The sales woman told me it was going to be on sale soon but I had to take my chances that it would be there when it went on sale so I bought it. She also said I probably wouldn't get the sale price if I returned it the day of the sale. What??!! Well, just a few days later it was on sale but I hadn't used it so I bought a second one at the sale price to make sure I'd have it. These purses go fast! So I had 2 of the same purse. I was going to return the original one and get my full purchase price money back.

But after trying to fit my essentials into it there wasn't enough room. So now I had 2 purses to take back. I did get my money back, but still trying to find a purse that would suit me. It had to have a strap to go over my head and shoulder because I like to shop hands-free. I didn't particularly want another leather purse as I have sooooo many packed away. I used to splurge on purses when we lived in California.

Then I saw a purse that looked like it could be THE ONE. I looked at it over and over and lo and behold, it had every single thing I wanted in a purse—even the color was fuchsia pink!! Can we squeeeeeeeeal here?

First, it's pink and not too large with a long strap that can be tied short or left long for over my neck. Hands free shopping!! Yessssss. Pocket on front for quick items like tissues. And, this is essential to me, it had a zippered top. That way nothing will fall out. I'm very, very picky about the purses I carry. I don't want to lose anything in it!

Zippered back for car keys if necessary, but I keep them in my pocket most of the time because, having been robbed twice while living in California, I don't want my keys in the purse so they would have access to my house if perchance they did get my purse.

Pocket for cell phone and my glasses. I usually have 3 pairs with me—sunglasses of course, regular distance and reading since I can't read a label without them.

Inside back zippered pocket for a tin of excedrin and ibuprofen and lipstick. I'm a pit bull in lipstick, I tell ya. ;-) Plus you just never know when you or someone needs a headache pill.

Plus it's attractive from the front. Yes, it's leather and I'm so used to nylon bags that are sooooo lightweight that they hardly weight a few ounces, but I'll get used to the weight and it is evenly distributed over the neck.

But I did want to finish this little purse I've tried making lately. I just love its femininity and froufrou-y fabrics. It's adorable and it took me a long time to come up with this design. Well, at least to perfect it. I may just carry this one when I'm feeling very girly-girly! It's small at only 7" wide. Cute, huh?

And this scrap of fabric made a great flower pin for a jacket or dress. These take about 5 minutes to make! Rip and Glue! Easy, fun and decorative. It can even put them on a lamp shade!
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Seeing Red!

I'm going to take a break for a few days so I'll leave you with these posts. I say that, but can I really stay away for a few days? We'll see.
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But don't forget that I'm having a Cottage Charm Giveaway, which you'll see on my sidebar and also on my 5/1 blog post. You just may want to go there and leave a comment to win some of these gorgeous faux roses. Your choice. ;-)
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Red! Let's talk a different color for a while. While I love pink, and it's my favorite color, I'm also very partial to red. Can anyone resist an old red barn-type house? I doubt I could.

Or this darling little shed with roses growing around it? Ooooooh, squeeeeeeal!!

A whole village of red.

I found this little painting of a red craftsman-style house fetching. Reminds me of some of the houses in Berkeley, California.

This is a house somewhere in Europe. Looks a bit Norwegian to me.
One of my favorite living room settings.

Sorry these are so small but I didn't take the pictures. But I just love what these people did with their old water pump on their back patio. They painted it PINK!

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