All grown up

Last month was my daughter's birthday. Her 28th. Christina Danielle. Amazing how fast these years have flown by. This post is for her. This was the first picture ever taken of us together. She was only a few hours old. One of the happiest days of my life.Here we are still in the hospital. She was 1 day old. I was almost 17.

Here she is with her daddy. We were both so young. He was 18.

First day at home with my beautiful daughter. She was 3 days old.

One of our Christmases at her grandparent's house. I remember it like yesterday.

My sweet little girl. Here she was at 2 years old.

Here she is at 3 years old.

I loved this outfit on her. All dressed for pre-school with her baby doll.

'Licking the bowl' at MaMaw's house. That's what we always called it.

Beautiful little girl.

Another Christmas...

So talented. She always loved to draw and color.

Christy and her little kitty. She always loved animals and still does.

One of her birthday parties that I had for her at McDonald's. I told her that she could only invite a few kids from school....and she invited about 30 or 40! She didn't want to leave anyone out.

Another birthday that we celebrated at home. She turned 9 that year.

She loved her barbies!

Here as a pre-teen with her same little friend.

Here as a teenager.

Growing up so fast.

One of our fun times together. We were at a casino in the restroom. We thought it was so pretty that we had a lady take our picture in there.

So glad that we were always close and continue to get closer everyday.

Christy and her friends after trying out for the talent show at the fair.

Here she is with her little brothers.

Sweet Teenager.

She has always been such a loving daughter.

My sweet little girl in her Senior portrait.

She fell in love....

With a good man....


Married him....

Started a family.... Her mother-in-law and me with her at one of her baby showers.

My sweet daughter and my extra sweet grandson. She is the best little mommy. I am so proud of her.

We met for lunch on her birthday because I had to work. I gave her gifts to her at a restaurant in the mall.

She loved her "Daughter" bracelet.

Me and my little girl....all grown up.

I have so enjoyed our life together. My only little girl.

Thank you for being such a blessing to my life. I love you so much. Thank you for always being there for me. I'll always be here for you too. Pinky-promise.

Getting things done around my cottage

I can hardly believe that it's been over a month since I've posted on here. December and January have been so busy for me. Things are starting to slow down a little and I am able to get a few things done around my little cottage. I've been working on my bedroom and master bathroom...still not finished with the bathroom. Doing it a little at a time and paying for it as I go. This picture is of a Tiffany lamp that I've had for about 16 years. I recently turned it into a table lamp to use on my dresser. It was a hanging lamp that I used in my dining room before I moved into my cottage. I found the base for it at a thrift shop for $12:00. I like it better this way.

Just a few of my favorite things on my dresser.

I love perfume. Looks like I have a collection of it. I used a crystal dish to keep it all together. I think it looks pretty like this.

These are some prints that I bought years ago at market. They are signed and numbered from the artist Vicki Thomas. I framed them years ago when I had more of a formal decor. They were in storage and I ran across them the other day and decided to use them in my bedroom. They each have little children/fairies in them among the roses.

I realize now that I added this one sideways. Oh well...Isn't it pretty?

I love this one.

Here is one of them hanging on my wall. My daughter bought me the candle a couple of months ago as a 'happy'. It's scent is Mulberry. One of my favorites.

They all look so pretty grouped together.

I finally got around to painting my chest of drawers. I used a color called "Heirloom Lace" from Lowe's. I used it on all of my bedroom furniture. I love French Provincial furniture. Whenever I see it at thrift shops....my heart skips a beat. I try to figure out a place I can put just one more piece. My little cottage is getting full. :)

The piece on top was made for me for Christmas from a friend of mine and his step-dad. It was made for my t.v. and my DVD player. It even has a little place for my remotes. I actually painted it right where it sits because that old t.v. is so heavy and me being short I couldn't reach it anyway to move it. :)

This is a sweet little chair that I bought at a garage sale a while back. It was peach polished cotton. Remember when that was the style? I had it re-covered in a pretty soft ivory micro-fiber and cotton rose fabric that I bought at Walmart. I love it. My perfect reading spot.

This is one of my Christmas presents...an electric fireplace. My ex-husband bought it for me. My room didn't have heat except for a small electric heater that took forever to warm up. I put my rose screen behind it. I think it looks pretty like this. Of course, after the 'new' wears off, I will probably paint it too.

The 'thing' between my chest of drawers and fireplace is not a ghost. lol I put a tablecloth over my cable box and modem to hide them. lol I don't like seeing them or their wires. This is only temporary. I'm working on a little project today just for them. I'll post after I get it finished.

I hope you enjoyed my pictures of what I've been busy doing. I promise to not take so long between posts. My goal is to do one or two projects a week. I've visited several of your blogs and have been so inspired to get busy. Thank you so much.

I'm linking to "Primitive & Proper" and "Domestically Speaking". Please go by there and see all of the other participants.

Decorating 'Cabin Style'

It's been a while since I've been on here. This happens to me every year. I work in retail and this is our busiest time of year. Seems like I leave work and turn around a couple of hours later and go right back. I thought I would share some pictures of Stevie's home with you. I helped him decorate it for Christmas last week. He is having his family Christmas party at his house this year so we thought it needed some Christmas touches. His home is decorated rustic...he loves 'old' things and he hunts and fishes a lot, so he has lots of his trophy animals everywhere. I had to work around that. LOL He has deer heads, fish, big cats, squirrels, etc. all over the place. He even has a huge turkey....which got moved to his bedroom because I had to have somewhere to put the tree. lol I bought these carved wooden letters from T.J. Maxx a few weeks ago. I thought they would look perfect for his den. We just put some pine garland around it and it looks so "Homey".

This Santa ornament is one that I bought for him. He is holding a shot-gun. All dressed in camo.

He already had his mantle decorated with some of his favorite things. I just added the red candle holders to make it 'Christmasy'. Those little cowboy boots are his from when he was a little boy. Aren't they just precious?

This is an old mountain village train set that I have had for years and years. My little boy helped Stevie with the train set. He even hung a squirrel ornament above one of the houses. He wanted it to look like it was sitting on the roof. lol I told him that if a squirrel that big ever got on top of our roof, we were gonna hide! Garrett thought that was hilarious! He laughed and laughed and still does when I mention it.

I made a tree topper out of glittered eucalyptus. The ribbon is kind of like burlap with little painted trees on it. Next I'm gonna make him some burlap curtains for his windows and use antlers for curtain rod holders. He has tons of them!

This is an old cabin picture that I've had for years. I bought it when I use to work at "The Mole Hole' many years ago. It thought it would look perfect in here.

One of his many deer heads.

This is a print that Stevie has had for a long time. His step-dad made the frame for it. I bought him the lamp at a junk store one day.







Little lantern ornament and wooden signs.

Feather bird and flocked mercury ball.

Pine cone squirrel.

Yes...We still believe. Always will.

This is a little vignette that we came up with. His old scales and his old bank that his mom gave him when he was around 6 years old. We filled the twig basket with hickory sticks and tweed balls and leftover garland. I looked around my house and found these birds and willow tree couple to add to it. It looks so pretty.

I even found this little heart pillow in one of my Christmas boxes. Haven't seen it in years. It was like Christmas to me finding all of this old stuff that I haven't seen for years. So much fun!

The other side of his mantle. I love that 'Terry Reddlin' print.

We even hung stockings for him and his little girl and me and my little boy. They almost spell out the word 'sleigh'.

Garrett putting together the train tracks.

He was having a ball. He couldn't stop laughing.

Hard to believe that my baby is 9 years old.

Stevie adding a few more touches.

This is an old cabinet that my step-dad made years ago. I've used it for my display in my booth several times. It looks perfect here.

Stevie's den looks like a cozy cabin.

He called me at work the next day to tell me that he and his daughter Hailey had made a few more ornaments for his tree. :) He hot-glued red ribbon to some small antlers. I had to smile when I saw them. Oh no! Now he knows how to use a glue gun! lol

Hailey did the same thing with this pine cone. They had fun doing this together.

Me enjoying a cup of hot chocolate after we finished. It was so cold outside. It was all warm and cozy inside.

Stevie doing the same.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. We had so much fun decorating. I think it all looks so festive for his family's party. He has 24 people coming.

Hope you all have a very
Merry Christmas!