Christmas Shopping

 Hi Everyone

 Happy Saturday

♥

Do you like to go Christmas shopping

 do you make a list and stick to it

 or are you like me

 Things that were not on the list

find their way into the shopping cart too

While you are out shopping

 on your way home somehow does your car end up stopping

 at YOUR favorite 

antique store just to take a peek

Me too!!!

I found this adorable vintage framed picture with pink cabbage roses

and the most wonderful saying

"The Lord shall be thine everlasting light"

♥

 Also not on the list was this wonderful

 Merry Christmas ribbon

{Love}

 The ribbon will be used

 for wrapping presents this year

 Sometimes the things that were

 not on the list 

 Turn out to be the ones we

{Love}

 the most

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romantic saying for today

"I still fall for you everyday"

P.B.

♥

Pam

Matildas Mouse Sale

Hi Everyone

 Happy Friday

♥

I hope you all had a wonderful

 Mother's day

We just returned home from our daughter's graduation

  at Texas Christian University last Saturday

 on Sunday the family was all together to celebrate Mother's day

{best present ever} 

 the fun continued as

beautiful daughter and I had a blast driving home
  from Texas back to California

grateful for a safe trip

We took our time and enjoyed the beauty of every minute

I am always in awe when we make this drive 

America is so beautiful !!!

We made it home just in time for 

Matilda's Mouse sale today in Valley Center

Just look at these gorgeous cabbage roses cascading over the front gate
at Matilda's
{sigh}

Matildas Mouse sale
continues this Saturday and Sunday too
If you have the time this sale is worth the drive
always fabulous vintage treasures
I have yet to come home empty handed !!!

Found this rusty, chippy repurposed holder
 perfect for the green house

 Gorgeous roses are blooming everywhere

The front entrance to the sale which is in a wonderful old barn
 looks inviting with
vintage watering cans and lot's of outdoor plants and flowers
the garden theme is perfect for this time of year

One more pic of the cabbage roses

I just could not take my eyes off of them

Hope your roses are blooming now too

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Be Inspired

Feathered Nest Friday

Simple and Sweet Fridays

  Pink Saturday

Cottage Garden Party

romantic saying for today

"The madness of Love is the greatest of heaven's blessings"

Plato

♥

Pam

How to Create a Romantic Garden

Hi Everyone

 Happy Wednesday

♥

Creating a romantic garden

 for your home 

Begins with choosing the right plants 

There are many amazing varieties to choose from I made a list of my favorites 

 that will help you set the stage for romance by

 adding amazing beauty and

 fragrance to your yard

One of my favorite plants to add to the garden is 

 ~paper white bulbs~

 they have such an intoxicating fragrance 

and every year you will be happy to see the bulbs bloom again

 {Love} 

~Lavender~
 is another plant 

that blesses us all with its amazing fragrance 

The gray colored leaves are also beautiful year round

This is a fabulous plant called 

 ~Breath of Heaven~

love the way this sways in the breeze

and its luscious fragrance
is soft and sweet

~Tulips~
 are a wonderful border
 plant in our garden
{Love}
to walk by and say tulips so romantic!!!!

Of coarse a romantic garden would not be complete
 with out beautiful
~Cabbage roses~
the quintessential flower of romance

 and last but not least
colorful
~ hydrangeas~
that look almost majestic in the garden

 Freshly cut hydrangeas
add romance and beauty
everywhere

Do you have a favorite  romantic plant or flower
that grows in your garden
that you would add to this list
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romantic saying for today

"I Love thee I Love but thee with a Love that shall never die
 Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old"
Shakespeare

♥
Pam

Round Top

Hi Everyone

 Happy Tuesday

♥

 Back home and so grateful for a

fun filled trip

so much to share with you all

~ROUND TOP~

 was massive

so many people 

so many fabulous treasures 

Everything does seem bigger in 

Texas

The luster on this vintage

 white ironstone pitcher

 caught my eye and 

 was one of the first vintage treasures

 that found a new home 

and just look at this

 extra large crystal knife rest 

the light catches on each facet 

 it almost  looks like it is glowing

This beautiful knife rest

  would have been used to rest large cutting knives on a table 

It is always such a treat to find a vintage treasure

 that is unusual and beautiful and something

 we can actually use in our home

What I miss when I travel

 is being able to just 

 go outside  into our garden.....

With my

rose clippers

and 

 Cut a few pretty roses
bringing them inside and

filling the entire home with their amazing fragrance

The garden is bursting

 with

beautiful  rose blossoms right now

 Vintage white ironstone is the perfect container

 for fresh cut roses
♥

So many fabulous vintage treasures to unpack and even more pictures to share with you

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romantic saying for today

"I would say I'll give you the world but

you are my world"

unknown

♥

Pam

Cabbage Rose

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday

♥

Pretty pink cabbage roses 

from our garden 

February roses are always such a wonderful surprise 

especially after we  pruned them back in January
 Our rose bushes 

 only a few green leaves at best

Cabbage roses are so delicate 

they have layers  upon layers of  pretty petals

There is something lacy and romantic
 about each beautiful stem

 Seeing these beautiful  roses in the middle
 of winter helps to remind us that
 Spring is not too far away.....

♥


Romantic saying for today

"One does not fall in or out of Love, one grows in Love"
Buscaglia

♥
Pam

Cabbage Roses

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday

You all are so observant

Many of you wanted to know more about the two 

vintage treasures below that were in the post about Flag day

this week

{Love}

the little hand painted blue bonnets on the German "graupen"  canister and

the beautiful pink flowers on this shabby chic 

{think of me}

cup

♥

A $5 dollar vintage treasure

Can you believe that I found both of these vintage treasures

for $5 dollars a piece

I think that this canister used to have a top but I don't miss it at all

it is

~Such a wonderful shape and size~

a Fabulous flower vase

 ♥

Love

the pink cabbage roses that are blooming

right now in the garden they have so many petals it looks like layers of ruffles

Fabulous♥ frugal♥ favorites♥

treasure hunting tip

Don't be afraid to buy a treasure just because it is missing a top
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Cottage Flora Thursday

romantic saying for today
"Love is like a bed of roses there are some thorns,The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns while enjoying the roses"
Lillian Russell

♥
Pam