~~~Dreaming of SPRING!!!~~~

Oh I am so happy to be back and ABLE to post, and I have to say a VERY special THANK YOU to my good friend, Yvonne who figured out my problem with the pictures!!!! Thank you SO much, Yvonne. BTW, if you have never been to her GORGEOUS blog, please go over and tell her I sent you. I forgot to give you the link!!!! it ios: http://www.stonegable.blogspot.com/   You will not be sorry!!!! I set a little place for breakfast this morning where I could browse my newest Southern Living and dream of Spring! It really IS coming!!!! The birds will be building their nests any day now!

I used a very organic looking placemat that also goes so well with my little bunny.

I made myself a wonderful yogurt PARFAIT, in one of my Grandmother's glasses. I only have 2 of these but they are a treasure to me.

I put some blueberries on the bottom, some peach yogurt and then some sliced strawberries. YUUUUMMM!!!!

As you can see I also had a blueberry muffin. I did NOT eat all of this, it is too calorie laden, but a bite or 2 is fabulous!

~~~ SPRING FEVER hit me HARD!!!~~~

I STILL am not able to get pictures to show?????????????????????

~~~QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~

Is anyone else having trouble uploading pictures to your blog?????????? After I upload and then TRY to do "add selected" it won't connect???? I have no clue what is wrong???????????

~~~ My Trip to Naples.....Florida, that is!!!!~~~

I wanted to share some pictures from my trip. It was WONDERFUL, I had a great time with my girlfriends! This is the view from my girlfriends deck off the condo.

 She cut some hibiscus several days to have in the condo. I love them!

 AHHHHHH.....the BEACH! Look at the color of that water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can click on pics to enlarge.

 We didn't know what kind of bird this was???? Does anyone know? They were very neat!

 See their long pink beak?

 This is looking out the kitchen window. What a wonderful sight to wake up to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Palm trees, green grass and impatiens in March!!!!!!!!!! Be still my heart!

 We walked down to the beach one night to watch the sunset. That is my friend, Janet "holding up the sun".

This is one of the LARGE homes on the way to the beach.

I sure would love to be able to "winter in Fl." as they say! Thanks, Lois for a wonderful week!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~A Casual Monday Dinner with Friends~~~

Joe's cousin lost his best friend last week and they always had gone to dinner together on Monday night. So, I decided he shouldn't spend this first Mon. alone. I made a pan of ziti, had Italian bread and for dessert we had vanilla ice cream with strawberries and blueberries. We all had a good time. I am sorry I forgot to take pictures of the FOOD!!!! It was good though!!!!

 I used one of my favorite tablecloths with palm trees on it. Then a woven placemat and green dinner dish. The napkins coordinate but don't exactly match the tablecloth. They have palm leaves on them. I folded them accordian style, folded them in half and slipped inot the napkin ring. THen you jst fan them out and fluff a little!

 Green water glasses. I did add wine glasses before we ate cause we had a bottle of Chianti.

 Bamboo handled flatware.

 Detail of the tablecloth.

 Took this in the afternoon. When we ate dinner all the candle WERE lit!!!!!!!!

~~~The Office Reveal!!!~~~

I thought I would start at the beginning. I am so sorry I didn't get pictures of when it was the office before Joe took out all the OLD, horrible furniture. Anyway, here is when we started, after spakling he started putting some paint on the spackled places. Then cutting in started. I am HORRIBLE at cutting in so he does that.

 Here the walls are painted and I showed you how different it looks in diffeerent light.

 See the corner of the brown desk? That used to sit in the middle of the room. We took it oput of the room to really open up the room since he now has more desk top space.

 Stuff all over the house...............I YI YI:)

 New furniture still in boxes in the foyer.

 Lovely..............

 Laptops on the dining room table.

 Here we go: pictures are just propped to see where he wants to hang them.... This old plastic GREEN trash can got replaced today, thank goodness:)

Some of his sports memorabilia on top of the hutch.

 Joe and Tracy dancing at her wedding. The frame says, "love forever, happiness always.

 The tall lamp is carved wood and from India.

 One of his trains.........we have a "train room" that I will show you one day.

 This picture was done by Joe's Aunt.
 Trains over the closet door.

 These pieces are going to get stained an ebony stain....when the weather gets warmer!!!!

 I got him these 2 new lamps (at the $ store) cause he needed more light.

 That laptop is now on a shelf that he got today.

 It is above the other laptop now, much better!

 Old leather helmet that he painted with his school colors and out his number on the back!