Friends are the flowers in the garden of life ~

I am constantly amazed at the pure sweetness of the wonderful friends that I've made here through my blog ~ and today was no exception!! A package arrived today from Andreea in Texas and it was filled to the brim with gifts for baby Clara and for the baby shower!

Oh. my. goodness.....do you see those precious, tiny pink booties??? They are so beautiful ~ and Andreea sent a cozy velour outfit for Clara to stay warm in!! Handmade charms, delicious cookies (yummmm, they were so good!) and tea, beautiful flowers and to top it all off handmade loofa favors to go with our soap favors!!!! How sweet of you dear Andreea!

Thank you so, so much for each and every gift ~ I am so touched by your kindness!

My dear friend Tammy (we've known one another almost thirty years now!) dropped by the house this evening on her way home to bring me a big bucket of gorgeous flowers for me to arrange in the old baby planters that I had.

Well, she was so wonderful and insisted that she sit down and put them together for me!!! She's said, "Oh, it'll only take me about 15 minutes!" She's a professional floral designer. So she started and I made her a dinner plate and assisted by throwing away her trimmings.....what an artist she is!!!

We laughed and talked and enjoyed her visit so much and all the while she was turning these little planters into showpieces ~ Now, they're all sitting in our extra refrigerator waiting for the shower!

I hope you have an amazing Friday sweet friends!!

xxoo, Dawn

You just never know when you'll use that snippet of inspiration!

Seems like years ago I clipped the page below from a magazine, I can't even remember which one it came from! I looked but didn't see a name.... I loved this idea of using these precious baby planters for decorating a baby shower! Isn't it funny that then I didn't have a clue that I would be using this sweet idea for our very own grandchild's shower!!

I love lambs and being in the antiquing business, I would run across these adorable planters. I saved these as they were my favorites. I've always used them to decorate my artroom as I love to collect vintage baby items. Well, now I can actually use them for what they were originally intended.

Don't you love it when things work out like that?

A sweetie for you ~

Wishing you a very happy, warm and cozy Wednesday dear friends ~

It's getting cold down here in the south!

xxoo, Dawn