New Neck Ties and What Can Be Done With Old Ones

We went shopping in Boise at Macys recently for new neck ties for hubby. Are these not exquisite?! I am very flamboyant when it comes to dressing my man. He almost always heeds my advice. He got a new suit and another sport coat. The salesclerk said I have excellent taste; I thanked him and smiled because the other people around were getting very conservative ties. One little girl picked one out for her mommy and mommy said, "No, honey, daddy likes conservative ties." I chuckled to myself. Conservative ties do not mean DULL! These are conservative, just colorful and beautiful. He wore one today and we'll see how many compliments he gets when he gets home tonight and tells me. :-) I would have bought a few more but my budget was overextended as it was.

Oh, btw, when we were there they told us if we put it on our Macys card we'd get an extra discount. Well, as luck would have it, I haven't used it in years so it expired. But if I opened a new account I got even deeper/more discounts so we opened it once again. We kept waiting and waiting and finally hubby received a call on his cell phone and handed it to me. It was LifeLock calling to tell me that someone was trying to apply for a new credit card in my name! I assured her that it was indeed me. We left to go get something to eat and while we were eating hubby received another cell phone call telling us we could go back and get deeper discounts so back we went down the mall to Macys and got all those ties and a suit for $267.00! I love Macys but I have become enthralled with LifeLock! It works.

And a good part of it is that when he's done with these ties down the road several years I can them use them to hang behind my pictures to look like the picture is hanging from the ties. These will be exquisite for this. See what you can do with hubby's old ties?







Taken with all three together. The sides are a book I propped them up on, not another tie. ;-)

Isn't this new tassel I got for hanging on our grandfather clock gorgeous?

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White and Semi-White Bedrooms

Okay, I've started the process. I want more room for my photos to show larger and not have to be clickable. I'll be messing around with it throughout the day. I don't change the graphics on my blog for one reason only: I want instant recognition. A lot of bloggers change and that confuses me. (Okay, so I'm not as smart as some of you. I'll adjust to that!) We all do what we want and this is what I want so keeping the "recognizabililty" of it this will be better I believe. Of course, any comments are very welcome. Just don't open your front door if ya hear a knock, chicks!!! LOL Seriously, please let me know if something is amiss but give me a whole day to change things up and down on my sidebar.
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Just so you know and won't be concerned or have to wonder about it. I'll be trying to change my blog template today. It might look a bit strange for a while but never fear as I'll have it up and running properly some time during the day. I hope!
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Ummmmm, you really want to see my Pink Saturday post, chick! ;-)
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White bedrooms are glamorous I believe. While I favor the color pink and a lot of colors actually, the whites still have a special place in my heart for their serenity.

White pillows with a buttery colored one for a bit of dramatic effect along with a white tea set, yellow roses and lots of lace. Yummmm!

Want a little "toile" with your wall? You have it here along with white bed linens and black iron headboard.

Although this is a sitting room off the master bedroom, I would love it for my living room. Elegant.

A very plain yet elegant bedroom in different shades of white.

White for the most part, this bedroom looks almost bright yellow from the sun dappling its rays through the window across from the bed. A beautiful high pale wood headboard—very oriental in its simplicity—on which to place one of those beautiful new victorian lamps. Lots of scrumptuous linens with vintage fringe on them. Antique stool and bedside table.

Absolutely stunning lace adorns this bed covering but with the whimsical chair rail wallpaper border it looks like what it is—a child's room. Isn't this darling with the soft canopy in shades of white and blue and the needlepoint pillow of a favorite puppy? And the chair holding flowers and a cup of tea acts as a side table. Beautiful.

Dramatic twig bed furnished with soft white Battenburg lace linens for the owner to snuggle into each night with a book, a soft feather comforter and a lacy shawl for the least of coverings on her body. Rustic but very dreamy and fashionable.

A pale golden yellow sleigh bed with a roses painting on its headboard and scrolling on the footboard. Lace curtains on the windows allowing just the right amount of light to filter through for a very romantic effect. Huge monogrammed pillows adorn this magnificent bed. Antique pictures on the wall and in the room acting as bedside tables. Pure luxury!

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I'm grateful for computers which make our lives so much simpler. I truly believe they were an inspiration from God to help us discover ways to link up the countries with each other and help us to find our ancestors and to spread the Gospel. They were founded for good even though some people have certainly found a way to use them for evil.
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For My Heroes

One of the sweetest bloggers in Blogland is having a giveaway. You really do NOT want to miss this one. Not only is she a sweetheart but she is a fantastic artist! Yesssss, can you believe all those qualities in one fantastic chick??? Well, I'm here to tell you to hop on over to ShabbyArtBoutique and meet Kerry. Go on now, really fast. Trust me, you will NOT be disappointed.
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Much has been said and sung about our heroes fighting for us but on this special day I give tribute to my hubby, my father, my son, my brother-in-law and sisters-in-law for the service they have rendered to my country. God bless this country and he does bless this family. Thank all of you who have a loved one serving or has served in our great military. Give them a hug from this ol' lady. Freedom isn't free; they fight for our freedom!

I don't usually include video or music since it will usually mess up the blog but in this world today I felt this was somewhat important to recognize "my heroes" outside of Christ.
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A Present From A Friend and A Gift to A Friend

I sometimes wonder how many photographs bloggers, or any photographer for that matter, take when trying to get photos for a blog or article. Love Bunny will sometimes take pictures but just one or maybe two for something he wants to keep. (As an aside: He once took photos of an open house for his model RR train club and not one of them came out! He was devastated because that event can never be duplicated.) But he is always telling me I take too many photos. What does it matter as they are all digital and I'd rather have more than enough than not enough. Anyway, I take several pictures for just one blog. I'm talking maybe 15 to get just 4 or 5 for that blog. I'm a very cautious person. ;-) But in saying that I want you to take a look at the last picture in this blog. That is the most "reoccurring" photo I take. About 1/5 of the time I'll be attaching the cable to the camera from my Mac and I'll inadvertently press the button on the camera that snaps a picture. My desk is the most photographed thing ever to appear on my camera!

Anyway, a friend was released from her church calling and had all these pictures left over—among another thing or two—and immediately thought of me. So she brought these over to give me. I noticed that some of them are Sonie Ames and I have a friend who loves this painter so I plan on sending those to her. I hope it perks her up after her long battle with an illness these past several months.

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I'm grateful for my small, snug, comfortable home. Even if I lived in an apartment I would be happy because I'm more fortunate than a lot of people who don't even have a roof over their heads.

I see people building lavish homes and lament that they need more space. How selfish can one be to build a home that could house a couple of families? I do not begrudge them their successes by any means. I just believe we could live comfortably in much humbler homes and maybe even be happier in them. It doesn't take a mansion to make one happy.
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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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