Happy Easter precious friends!

Wishing you a wonderful day of celebrating
with friends and family or
simply by remembering how much you are loved.

Our dear Lord loved us so very much
that He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ to this earth.....
to die for our sins....
then He arose from the dead three days later
to prove He truly is the Son of God!

Living He loved me,

dying He saved me,

buried He carried my sins far away.

Rising He justified,

freely forever,

someday He's coming...

O Glorious day!

~ J. Wilbur Chapman ~

Wishing you a blessed and very Happy Easter!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Beautiful ferns ~

I just love them!

I found a few prints at the thrift and scanned them in for you ~

they're not the best scans in the world but maybe you can

use them in some way?

Click to enlarge to the largest size and save to your own computer.

They so remind me of spring!

Happy weekend angels!

hugs and love,

Dawn

What we take for granted ~

We really do take so much for granted in our lives.

It seems it's not until these gifts are in jeopardy

that we realize how important

a certain "gift" in our life is.

One of these precious gifts?

Our health.

It's been a pretty bad week over here...

my diverticulitis has reared it's ugly head and

it has been a bout to be reckoned with!

It all started Monday and has yet to be better.

I did spend the entire day Thursday at the Urgent Care center

worried that I might need surgery but thankfully,

after TONS of tests, I don't.

It seems that after I hit 50 I've just started falling apart!

That really doesn't have anything to do with it though.

I know it's totally in my hands how healthy I am.

ANYWAY...

I just wanted to let you know I'm here,

trying to feel better and that

 I miss you all....

Wishing you a beautiful weekend dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

The beginnings of something wonderful...

We've been making some major changes around this old farmhouse!

We're going through our wonderful old antiques

and listing a few in our new

1925 Farmhouse Goods Etsy shop

We are deciding what can go

and what can stay!

It's a good thing I believe ~

just to go through things and decide what

needs to go to a new home and what you just

love so much it can stay.

I admit it. I love my beautiful old things but truly

there is a time where you know it's OK to let go and for

these lovely items to grace a new home.

I had this amazing collection of clocks, new and old

that I always displayed together. Some are so pitiful

I can't even sell them but their graphics are so gorgeous!

 Some of the better ones

are now listed in our new shop too!

This particular clock was a new clock and the case

was crafted to look very old.

It didn't work anymore though.

Well...I gutted the thing!

Now I've primed the inside to brighten it up

and it will soon be a beautiful assemblage!!

Stay tuned sweet friends....

ohmygoodness...starting this piece has so thrilled my soul!

I can't wait to work on it even more

but I just had to share the beginnings with you ~

Don't forget to enter my lavender sachet giveaway

on Tracie's blog Fishtail Cottage, OK?

I hope you have a wonderful Thursday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

A little inspiration for you today ~

Sometimes, when I've not really done anything interesting around here,

I love to look through my archives and just randomly choose pics.

Stuff I think you might want to see again or

maybe you'll be seeing them for the very first time!

Because, really ~

you do not want to see photos of me vacuuming and mopping,

because that's what has been going on around here lately!

My mom and dad are coming to town today

to see sweet baby Murray for the first time ~

I made this little doll dress a few years back....and aged it as well.

Seeing this photo makes me want to make a few more!!

I wonder if they would sell in my Etsy shop?

Don't you just love beautiful old book covers?

This one was falling off of an old book I bought,

so I scanned it....click on it a couple of times to see how big it is!

 

I love, LOVE botanicals and remember tinting these

so they would be sepia toned ~

I still love them so...

The pic below is random but still thought it was good to share again ~

you all know I'm a freak for seam binding!

 How I felt after vacuuming and mopping....

One of my favorite images....EVER!

And I'll leave you with a wonderful photo

I took of the antique store I used to own ~

this was the little bitty front porch all dolled up!

Those are gauzy curtains that are hung near each post.

See the "P" on the painted door?

It is one of those vinyl sticker things...neat idea, huh?

The shop was call The Plum Tree Antiques ~

sometimes I miss it but then again, I really don't...

it was fun while it lasted though!

Thank you always for visiting me here

and especially for your precious comments!!!

Have a wonderful Thursday dear friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

One thing always leads to another...

Don't you agree?

You work on one area of the house and

it always seems to lead to another!

I finished painting the laundry room, hanging curtains and getting

everything put away or thrown away that I took out of there.

Now I want to finish painting our master bath ~

And no....I never finished it,

and this project was started before Christmas last year!!!

I hung paintable wallpaper on the bottom half of the wall,
then added molding to

the top edge and did get one coat of white paint on the wallpaper.

It looks like small ceiling tin tile...

so, we'll see, maybe I can get the bathroom finished too!!

It STILL looks like this!!
Avocado green with just a tiny bit of the new color above the wallpaper
because I couldn't stand it, I had to see the new color :)

The temps are cooler here in Georgia lately.

Which just makes me look forward to fall even more!!

Maybe that's why I'm sprucing up ~

I'm more of a Fall cleaning kinda girl rather

than Spring.

PS. I HAVE to share this wonderful giveaway with you!!
I've been drooling over this book from the moment
I saw it...well, Servies en Brocante is having a GIVEAWAY
and this book is the prize!!!
Just CLICK HERE to enter to win :)

Wishing you a great Tuesday dear friends!!!!

hugs and love,

Dawn