Porches #2

We have even more porches to drool over. (This was up the entire day before I noted a typo! Aaaack!!! Sorry.)

Most of these look like east coast locations because of the architecture and the ocean. The Pacific coast looks a bit different from the Atlantic, but both are beautiful. Tall columns, a brick pathway, lush trees forming an allee of sorts.

Northern Atlantic looks like to me. Stark coastline and cedar siding architecture.

A gorgeous and colorful home looking like it is in the south somewhere.

Porches and balconies like this remind me of cottages somewhere in the upper part of the northeast. Pink and comfy! Notice the "eyebrow" over the steps up to the porch and the private balcony with the french doors and fan chairs. Darling!

This definitely has a southwest feel to it.

White house, black shutters are a perfect combination for me, but I want a red door. I'll have it in the next couple of years, too. I love the look of this porch and cottage. Just very inviting for the neighbors.

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My Peonies

Our first peony of the year. Just starting to bloom.

Day 2

Day 5
Okay, question for you gardeners out there because I am NOT a gardener and Love Bunny doesn't have all the answers. Do we just let the peony plant droop like that or tie it up? The flowers drag on the ground.

Isn't it magnificent?!

Day 6 and a new one opening up.

And another one.

And yet another one! We are truly blessed to have this much beauty in our back yard.

The dew was still on it this morning when I captured this picture. Glorious creation of our God.

And finally, after 4 years and 9 clematis plants and only 1 plant surviving, we have a flower off of the last one. Love Bunny brought it in here to my office last night and I truly couldn't believe it after all these years.


Wait a minute. He took me outside and showed me the plant from which it came. You're not going to believe this. The longest one below is one we kept in a bucket for a year and during last winter we stored it in the garage. He just today put it into the ground.

But there are 2 plants. We didn't realize one was still alive and growing.

It looks like it's almost dead but some leaves came up and yes, it is the smallest one where I've put an arrow. This clematis really wants to live! It's growing, although it looks dead and only has that tiny little branch growing. I think it's going to survive.
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Pink Saturday 6/5/10

Once again, welcome to Pink Saturday. Be brave and go visit the participants at Beverly of How Sweet The Sound. Happy pink saturday, everyone!

This past week I visited with Janelle at Sweetbeecottage and Roselle at Seaside Rose Creations and Lisa at Fern Creek Cottage. Give them a visit and welcome them!
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Just another tease of what's to come soon..... Squeeeeeeeeal... :-)

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Romantic Country Rooms #1

Romantic country and shabby chic have a great deal in common in my opinion. Both styles are comfortable, use shabby elements along with romantic elements. Both express a desire for a very liveable style along with things that would be considered unfashionable before the 90s.

I consider this a handsome room. But it is very feminine and masculine both.

This is my type of room—comfy, white sofa with a plethora of pillows.

Ohmystars, what can I saaaaaay???? Loooove it!!! Everything.

Country. Shabby. Elegant.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't even look at such a room, but this one won my heart. Don't know why, just comfy and elegant.

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No!No!

Okay, another experiment, chicks.

Yes! Yes!
Recently, I purchased this No!No!. Have you ever heard of it? Nooooo... Well, I'm here to tell ya. It's supposed to be the best thing since nose jobs. I kid you not. Now, since we alllll know I'm an old lady with lip and chin hairs and have tried the electrolysis bit—and let me tell you right here that to get a treatment from Daisy Lee (which is what we'll call his lady) wasn't so much a treatment but an experience!

Once when daughter was visiting I asked her if she'd go with me to Daisy Lee's for the treatment. She agreed and since she was in the room and my daughter and Daisy Lee both love cats they got carried away with the conversation and nearly bar-b-qued my chin and lips! I am not joking. Daughter could tell I was in distress, which is a polite phrase for a near panic attack with my eyes bugged out. She quickly shut up and Daisy Lee looked at me and said, "Ooooops." I gave that up posthaste. Then since I'm so fair the laser treatments won't work. They're designed for dark hair and if mine isn't light it's gray—face, not head hair, which looks frosted because of so much gray. ;-)

So, lo and behold, I hear about this latest technology called thermicon, which burns the hair. Yessssss, it burns it but it truly doesn't hurt. I only smell like a singed cat for a day or so. Well worth it.

Join me in unwrapping the box.

You knew I'd pick the pink over the black one, right?

Cord and bag to keep it in.

Yes, you must buff the singed hair off.

The super duper blades. They don't call them "Hot Blades" for nothing. Oh, and pictures will follow later. Sigh...

After the self-treatment on my face, I had to go do something in the craft room to forget the experience for a while. ;-) I'll do the legs tomorrow. Can you guess what this is being froufrou-ed up?

Okay, here is the leg right after "shaving" a week earlier. Please remember the age of these legs and also that it is very drying to have them zapped and then using a buffer on them, but I wanted to show you that it takes the hair off wonderfully. And truly there was absolutely no pain in doing it. Just once in a while I'd feel a very quick "burn".

If YOU photographed your legs up this close they probably wouldn't look much better! ;-) So I'm giving it a high rating and recommending it if you want less hair and finer hair at a fraction of the cost of laser treatments.

See what I go through to show you gals so that you won't have to waste money if something doesn't work. :-)
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