Show Your Cottage Monday 11/9/09

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. :-)

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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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Romantic Bedrooms

I love hopping into bed when the sheets are fresh and crisp and seem to "talk" to me in "crinkles." And that bright dappled morning light on a summer day or that ethereal light from the snowy morning when I awaken to a white wonderland is breathtaking. The scent of the wind in the sheets from line drying as I turn my nose into the pillow. Ummm umph! Love it.

A beautiful little stool with a wisp of a covering so it can show its lovely vintage form.

The airing out of pillows, quilts or comforters in the fresh outdoors air.

A magnificent vignette at the foot of the bed. But the gorgeous shapely iron bed seems to beckon to its owner to come in and enjoy me.

Or the faintly Early American bed with its curtains waiting to be drawn to keep out the winter chills that you can envision our ancestors enjoying from the rigors of their daily chores.

Are you one of the fortunate ones to have a little sitting room off from our bedroom to relax and read or chat with your spouse? Aaaaaah, luxury.

A small dressing table to sit at is another luxury few can afford due to the smaller bedrooms in today's homes but they are wonderful if you can fit one in.

Or a small side or lamp table next to your bed with fresh roses and pictures of loved ones to remember as the first vestige of morpheus descends upon us.

The fabulous wonders of luxurious sumptuous linens upon which to lay our heads.

"To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub."
Shakespeare
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I'm grateful for my country—The United States of America. I love this country and the freedoms it brings and nothing or no one will ever take them away. It was founded by men of God with the help of God. Christopher Columbus was divinely directed to this country over 600 years ago to pave the way for religious freedom because he knew it would be founded here. We welcome people here to revel in these great states of ours and partake of the many opportunities it offers. We are a freedom loving country. May God continue to bless this country and we acknowledge how great it is.
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