Peeling Idaho Potatoes

Let me assure you right here and now that the very best potatoes in the world come from the southeastern part of Idaho. I've eaten them! They are so sweet you'll eat more of them so be very careful when you get to taste them. But how to peel a potato the easy way? Well, I'm gonna tell ya, chicks. Watch Dawn Wells, an Idaho girl, peel potatoes. Fascinating!

Beautiful Images For You #3

Here are some more vintage images for your pleasure.

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Little Decorated Perfume Bottles for Pink Saturday

Beverly of HowSweetTheSound is hosting another Pink Saturday. Please visit with her to see all the "pinkness" you've ever seen in one place.
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These little bottles were emptied long ago of their fragrant perfumes that I've loved. One was Michael Kors and one was a name I've forgotten it's been so long. Throwing them away wasn't an option because I knew I could do something beautiful with them. So recently during a long winter night I set about froufrou-ing them up after painting one top pink of course. Little snippets of left over lace too small to do anything with but something like this went on them. Buttons, ribbon, paper roses, pearls and flowers I printed off some images I've had for years are attached also. They will go somewhere in this house; I just can't say where at the moment.

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Visit to Seattle

While over visiting our granddaughter recently before the birth of our great granddaughter in May, we of course had to go to Paneras. I don't think they are all over the country but are definitely in the northwest. Anyway, we had soup and salad and then one of these beauties: cinnamon crunch bagel. Talk about gooooood!!! These huge bagels are fantastic. Of course, we had to have cream cheese with chives on it also. If you ever have a chance to eat one I'm warning you: they can be habit forming so be sure and buy some to take home. They are the best things to pass my lips in quite a long time. Yuuuuummmmm...


It was rainy and foggy, which is pretty much the norm in that part of the country, but it is still beautiful. I absolutely love Washington in the western part of the state. The eastern part is simply desert, but that is beautiful, too; I just prefer the coastal areas. This is outside her breakfast area.

This is the pond to the left of the patio dining area. They have grass in winter but not summer. The people let it die out in the summer. Weird. Just the opposite of us here in Idaho.

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Images From My Favorite Artist

A friend recently sent me a book that came as a huge surprise to me. This is one of her paintings below. I absolutely adore just about anything this woman paints.

In her book she has lots of images to share for scrapbooking and gives permission to be copied for our own projects so here are a few of her things to use for scrapbooking or to just sit and look at actually.

These little images could be cut out in the middle to put a favorite photo of a loved one inside.

This was the paper it came wrapped in. I squeeeeeeeealed when I saw it and knew I couldn't throw it away. Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but I'll find something to do with it. Maybe just frame it and put it on the wall. It isn't as though I didn't have a plethora of frames in which to mount it. :-)

Her roses look so simple to paint and they're beautiful. I may try painting like this one and see what I can turn out.

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