More Beautiful Flowers!!!!

Last Saturday we were invited to a 50th anniversary party for dear friends and forner neighbors. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful party. The centerpieces on the table were exquisite! They decided that a fair way to give them to people was to see who had been married the longest at each table! Well, we WON!!! I was thrilled, they are so beautiful and are happily on the dining room table right now. Hope you enjoy seeing them!

 A very pale astromeria, pink carnations, deep pink roses and purple filler. What a beautiful combination. I ADORE the square vase too!

 IF I can find time I will do a simple table. Hopefully. Thanks for your visit. XO, Pinky

~~~Hydrangeas in new vase!!!~~~

Good afternoo! We had a shwing at the old house today so had to go over, turn all the lights on, blow the driveway and decks etc. I brought some clippers over so I could cut some hydrangeas. There are 10 bushes so lts of flowers are JUST starting to bllom. I will be cutting them as they progress too. Hope you enjoy.

 I got this rattan wrapped vase last year but hadn't used it yet. I made a little vignette on the counter, but will probably move the flowers later. Things move around sometimes:) The little clay gardening girl has been around for MANY years. She makes me smile.

 I love the saying on this piece.

 And, I do believe in tomorrow.

 These flowers will be a beautiful blue soon.

 Joe cut a rose off of our Mr. Lincoln rose bush. The color is so pretty and it smells as good as it looks! Added bonus.

 It has POURED rain around here all day so you can see the rain drops on the rose.

 

 

Just a short little post to share some pretty with you:) XO, Pinky

~~~A Beautiful Housewarming Gift!!!~~~~

Hi everyone! I know I have been MIA, but we had houseguests all last week and kept VERY busy. Joe's sister and BIL came up from Fl. to visit us and see the house and see some other relatives too. They brought us some wonderful housewarming gifts and this is what I got!!!!! I REALLY love it. It is actually a bird feeder but I decided that it is way too pretty to put outside and maybe get ruined.

 So, I thought it would be a beautiful WELCOME to anyone who comes here, used as a lantern! The little hole in the back is perfect to place a tea light inside and it is all cut out so the light shines through so beautifully! I thought I would look for some kind of stand with a hook on it to hang the lantern.

 While at Lowes today, I spied this!!!! I thought it would be PERFECT, and it is! It fits in this corner by the front door just right.

 There is a shelf below the hook for a plant too so I placed one of by blue and white pots there with some ivy.

 I just love this and want to say a big THANK YOU to Jane and Bud!!!

 Here it is lit up. I wish you could all come over and it could welcome YOU! Have a great week everyone. We will be busy getting ready for vacation! XO, Pinky

 

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~~~Dinner with Family and Friends!!!~~~

Hi my friends! I know I have been MIA but we have house guests. Joe's sister and Bil are here from Fl. for the week and we are keeping BUSY! Last night our daughter and SIL came here from work and Joe's cousin, Bonnie came over and my best friend, Wenda. It was a full house. We had a very simple dinner: grilled chicken, potato salad, fruit salad, greek salad with greek dressing and deviled eggs and baked beans! It was all yummy but the best part is spending time with loved ones. I set a pretty simple table and thought I would share. I started with a plain white tablecloth and layered on my green and white placemats.

 My embossed white dinner plates then a black and white salad were layered on top. No big stack of dishes last night:) A black and white napkin was simply placed between the plates.

 I used my Napolean Bee flatware, I love it for summer dining.

 The centerpiece is a wicker rickshaw that I painted black and filled with greens. It usually sits on the server but I wanted a small centerpiece.

 I just love these creamy white candlesticks and they have a greens candle ring and a black and white pillar.

 Her's the food.....

 I am sorry I didn't get a picture of the chicken or beans. They came to the table last and we all sat and I forgot.

 We all sat and talked til 9PM and had a great time! Today we are having severe weather, it was like a hurricane this morning, but right now it is calm. It is supposed to get bad again tonight:(  Have a good day where you are. Thanks so much for your visit! I so appreciate your support!!!! XO, Pinky

 

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~~~The Landscaping Is (Almost) Done!!!~~~

Hi everyone! I have to say that my dear hubby has been LITERALLY working his butt off. And I mean that: his pants can fall off all on their own!!!! But, the result is wonderful. The builder just does a basic package of a few plants in the front of the house. Joe has done all the way around the rest of the house!!! The only place that isn't planted is where the deck and patio are going to be. Oh, and we had a guy come Thursday to give us an estimate so that could be soon too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to have a deck so I can go out and have my breakfast outside. I used to do that all the time at the old house.So, I will show you around. The builders planted a few bushes in this area, but it gets no sun o very little sun so we have switched out some of the things. The front of the area gets afternoon sun so can have some partial sun bushes. I also added some red and white begonias at the very front. This is the feeder that the bluebirds come to.

 We brought the stepping stones over from the old house. They had been around the pond but we sit here on the bench at the end of the day so didn't want to walk through the mulch. I also brought the cranes out from the basement. I love them.

 It was supposed to rain when I took these so I had taken the cushions inside.

 The left side of the sidewalk was not planted, we did that. I really wanted to do that. After the driveway is done we may do both sides of the driveway too....

 This is the right side of the house. The grass just came up to the house so Joe outlined the beds, sprayed the grass to kill it, turned it all over, then planted all the bushes. Most we bought but some came from the other house.

 The doubl hook now has a hanging plant and a lantern.

 The tallest plant is a magnolia! We have never had one!

While we were building, these 2 large rocks were on the property. The builder said we can have them and they will move them for us. Still waiting on that but it will happen soon, I hope! We have plans for them:)

 This frog used to be on the front porch. He is content no mater where he is:) I planted a red, pink and salmon geranium around him. Soon they will be lush and full.

 The lilies we got at Lowes during the winter as bulbs. We planted them inside, in a plastic container. Then in the Spring we brought them outside! They are doing GREAT!!!!! Another rock that Joe dug up:)

 LOVE the deep, rich color.

 This is a bed at the back right corner. We plan to put maybe a forsythia or some other flowering bush here, along with some other things too. The rock, Joe dug up while making the beds.

 This is the back of the house. The droopy thing to the left of the rock is a transplanted peony. It will perk up soon, it is in shock right now:)

 Along the back (south facing) we have all rose bushes!!!!!

 This is the gardenia topiary that Joe gave me for Mother's Day.  It is sitting here til the deck is built then will be ON the deck!

 It is full of buds right now!!!!! Can you see them?

 This is the east side and just gets morning sun. Hydrangeas live here along with some hostas and other things.

 We feellike we have made  good start. There are people who have been here a year or 2 who don't have as much planted so we are happy with what we have accomplished so far. But then we do enjoy it.

 The hay is where they came back and reseeded cause we had a bare spot.

 I have  several sets of cushions for the bench that I will share too, I promise.

 I also made a Faux flowering hanging basket for the porch since the fushia died. It just got beat to death with the wind and also NO sun. So I decided to go Faux and i think it looks pretty good. That will be in another post.

 We had a real pretty sunset the other night so I thought I would include these shots too.

 

Thanks so much for your visit. Hope you enjoyed the tour. I will be more focused on sharing INSIDE now that we have most of the landscaping done. Have a beautiful week my friends. XO, Pinky

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