SUNDAYS AT TIFFANYS

This is what I'm reading right now... Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet, whom I found out is a children's book author. It's the sweetest love story! The cover art is beautiful and it's in Tiffany blue, of course! The cover says it all ---"What if your imaginary friend from childhood was your one true love?" Who would think of that for a story? Quite different from any book I've ever read. Really sweet! It starts out with a little girl who needs an imaginary friend because her Mom, a broadway producer, is too busy to pay much attention to her. Every Sunday afternoon, they go to the St. Regis Hotel for desert, where the Mom sits at one table with a friend and the little girl sits at her own table with her imaginary friend, and then they always stop at Tiffany's to look at the jewelry. I don't want to say anything else in case you decide to read it.

I thought James Patterson only wrote suspense-type and detective series books. I learned something new!

The Color Blue

I love old bottles. I don't remember where I found this cobalt blue one---I've had it for years. It's only 1-1/2 inches tall!!! Such a cutie!!!

Check out French Garden House for LOTS of blue eye candy!

And click here for even more blue:

SPRING CHANDELIER & MORE...

I'm back.......I took a bit of a break from blogging but really missed everyone and am having a blast catching up reading everyone's blogs!

When I read Tina at Cherry Hill Cottage's 2/9/09 post about wrapping a smilax vine around her chandelier, it reminded me that last year I had bought a vine with silk little yellow flowers when I was at Canton, to do the very same thing. I had seen one of the vendors in the Arbors there do it to one of their chandeliers at their booth. I'm tired of this cold weather (it froze last night, and that's here in Texas!!!) and ready for Spring, so pulled out that vine and wrapped it around my dining room chandy....

BEFORE:


Ooops!---I didn't realize one of the bulbs was out when I took this photo. Actually, it ended up only being loose. It came back on when I tightened it up.

AFTER:

Definitely adds a touch of Spring!

Want to be an artist - "Jackson Pollock"-style? Go to this website...... It's fun!!!

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Here's a couple of pieces I did for Valentine's Day.....

I want to give a shout-out to Brenda in Tyler---it was her birthday on the 19th. Be sure to stop by her blog, View from the Pines, and wish her a Happy Birthday, if you haven't already. She has the most lovely blog, with gorgeous photos of her peaceful garden! If you're not already a regular visitor to her blog, you will want to be. After a stressful day, it calms me down taking a virtual stroll through her lovely plants and flowers! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRENDA!

I cooked pizza this weekend with ground chuck, sliced jalepenos, diced onions, garlic, green bell pepper, pasta sauce and cheese. I tried to find the Boboli pizza crust when I was grocery shopping at Walmart but they said they had never heard of it (I usually get it at HEB Food Stores), so instead, I used canned Pillsbury's Pizza Crust from the refrigerated section. It was actually pretty delicious!

I hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day! Cindy at My Romantic Home hosted a February Centerpiece Party. I know I'm a little late getting my Valentine's centerpiece posted but here it is....

I adore pansies..... I had bought these at Lowe's a while back. I drove through their parking lot this weekend and noticed they had lots of pots of beautiful pansies , but it was so chilly, I didn't feel like walking around in their garden center---I'm going to wait till it warms up a little before looking around for more plants or flowers.

Here's the metal wall pocket I got at the last Canton trade-days to hang on my courtyard gate. I love it! I saw it outside a booth as we came up the hill towards the Arbors, and it turned out the vendor was my old friend, Cathy, whom I used to work with at Elk! She made the arrangement herself.

Hope everyone has a great week! Patti

FOR THANKSGIVING...MORE FALL DRIVE-BY'S

I absolutely love driving by looking at all the Fall decorations! I posted some a while back, but couldn't resist snapping some more photos, and thought I'd share them with you!.....
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Hope everyone has a great weekend! Patti

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.....

Well, this week I finally got out the scarecrows who had made it through last season intact! They still looked brand new! Better late than never. Hey, it's not Thanksgiving yet!

Got out the front door wreath, too. Don was on the roof putting up the Christmas lights, while I'm putting out scarecrows!

Hope everyone's having a great weekend!

ANNOUNCING WINNER, GOBBLE GOBBLE GIVEAWAY!

Thanks to everyone who entered my Gobble Gobble Giveaway! It was fun seeing what everyone is thankful for!

My Dad did the honor of drawing the name of the winner of Mr. Skinny Turkey! (He is a non-blogger and, therefore, totally impartial. My Dad---not Mr. Turkey----although Mr. Turkey probably doesn't do much blogging, either!)

Drumroll, please..........

And the winner is............Madame Zelda's Present, Past and Future! Congratulations, Angie, I'm so happy for you! Please email me with your mailing address and I will get Mr. Turkey shipped out to you immediately!

I told him where he will be going and he was so excited and said he is looking forward to meeting all your cute monkey friends! (If you have not yet visited Madame Zelda's blog, you have got to see her adorable sock monkey creations! They will put a smile on your face!)

LAST GERANIUM BLOSSOM & ALAMO-NORTH'S GIVEAWAY

Don't forget to sign up for my Gobble Gobble Giveaway!-----------------------------------------------

I can't believe it's already November and I still have a geranium bloom! It's in a pot & usually by this time, everything in my flower pots have passed on & I start looking for pansies & ornamental kale to replace them. A couple of weeks ago or so, when they said we were going to get a freeze that night, Don brought all our flower pots inside (up to that point, the geraniums had not bloomed in several weeks----I really thought it was the end for them, as far as blooming), but I got busy & forgot to take them back outside again for 3 days. I don't know if having them inside in a dark place (they were in my laundry room) might have "forced" them to bloom, like you do with bulb flowers? But anyway, all of a sudden, they had buds & the day I brought them back out into the sunlight, they bloomed! How cool is that!----------------------------------------------------

Have you got your name in for Nola's 100th post giveaway at the Alamo-North blog? With each post, she is adding something to her giveaway until she reaches her 100th post! What fun! Also check out her photos of the newest addition to her family---little Chili dog! He's adorable!