PINK SATURDAY

Good Morning and A Happy Pink Saturday..... Last week my girls where out of school for a few days... We had a lot of fun stuff planned...One day we just played around the house, had a little fun cooking with some girl talk... Then Friday we went to eat down Town Charleston, at a place called Jim and Nicks... GREAT FOOD.... Right across the street from Jim and Nicks is one of my favorite places to shop...Williams-Sonoma...So I am with some of my favorite girls, at one of my favorite shops , and what do I see... The most adorable apron... It is a child's apron... IS this not the cutest thing you have ever seen...Maybe they will still have a few aprons left when they go on sale, and I can go back and buy a couple of them for those special little cooks ....That I just LOVE-LOVE-LOVE...
Pink Saturday, is graciously hosted by Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound. Be sure to visit Beverly's beautiful blog to see a complete list of all the participants in today's Pink Saturday.Thanks so much for stopping by...... As always it has been my Pleasure...Come Back When you can Play Longer...
Happy Pink New Year
xoxo
Julie

FOODIE FRIDAY-COOKING HAS COME FULL CIRCLE

School was out here today for a teacher work day....SOOO, I had all the little girlie's home...So this post is more of a cooking story ,than A recipe... I do hope you don"t mind... I do hope sweet Michael will forgive me....
Where did you learn to cook ? If you read my blog, you know I speak of my Dear Sweet Grandmother often... My Grandmother started me off cooking at the ripe old age of around five... As a matter of fact, I don't remember a time that I would spend the weekend at her home that we would not bake something... My Grandmother was a wonderful cook...So at the home of my Grandparents I would stand on a chair to reach the top of the counter and my Grandmother lovingly taught me how to measure and stir up the most wonderful treats....I still to this day love to bake...

Yes this is some of my girls ...After lunch, (I was so excited to have most of them home ) We turned the country Music up real loud ( their idea!!!) and the fun began... My Sweet sixteen year old (with spoon in hand) using it to stir some ...and then as a microphone some (we just went with the mood) Her best friend...holding my sweet granddaughter Babycakes... and my 9 year old granddaughter... They where singing and stirring and just having so much fun...They made blueberry muffins...

If the truth be told, I had the most fun...You see I do so love these sweet, wonderful young women in the making... They, not the music make my heart sing... I just love spending time with each of them... We sang, and laughed till I cried...

My sweet daughter and granddaughter....I think they are beautiful...inside and out.


Oh yea she did just drop the blueberries in the bowl....But don't worry they turned out great...Later as we sat and ate our blueberry muffins, I told them stories of all the fun I had learning to cook at the side of my grandmother...(Not the first time I have told the stories, but as I said, such great women in the making, they sit and listen as if it was the first time the stories where ever told) But maybe just maybe, they like to hear the stories as much as I like to remember them... I just told some of these stories around Christmas time,and the stories came with home made chocolate chip cookies-HUM?...
I just hope that someday, my children and grandchildren will pass on this fun, love and laughter... And I hope, one day , they are lucky enough to sit in the middle of their own circle , remembering where they came from...as they make new memories with the ones that fill their life with love. I love you Granny, I love you my sweet little girls...
LAUGHTER EVER AFTER
XOXO
Julie
Thank You for allowing me to bend the rules a little this week....Please join our host,the sweet Michael over at Designs by Gollum for a virtual feast and a lot of inspiration!

PINK SATURDAY

Good Morning, do come in and sit awhile... A few weeks back Beverly ask us to do something special for a Pink Christmas post... She ask us to share a childhood memory about a special Christmas holiday.... So I told you about my Grand Parents.... Most of my memories from child hood center around time spent with my Grandparents...





My Grandparents loved to entertain... I do remember so many parties at my Grandparents home.... Lots of people, food music, and yes drinking... It would be a Family friendly party ,as far as I remember , children were at all the parties that took place at their home...

This is a great shaker from the 50's, to mix drinks in... I also have six drink glasses... When my Grandmother passed, This is one of the things that she left to me...

Is this just to fun... Pink Elephants and Stars....

Pink Saturday, is graciously hosted by Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound. Be sure to visit Beverly's beautiful blog to see a complete list of all the participants in today's Pink Saturday.Thanks so much for stopping by...... As always it has been my Pleasure...Come Back When you can Play Longer...

Happy Pink New Year

xoxo

Julie

PINK SATURDAY

Beverly ask us to do something special for the next two Pink Saturdays leading up to Christmas. Each Saturday we will have a theme, and she would like us to share our response to the theme. Saturday, December 12 - Show us one of your favorite holiday decorations, and tell us why it is special to you....

No, this is not one of my favorite holiday decorations.... But, boy is this Pink wearing girl Cute Cute Cute... This is my special decorating helper Babycakes....

This is one of the special decorations around my home... ( Please excuse all dog and cat hair) As they like to help out also...

This is our tree skirt... I made this 31 years ago.... When I was pregnant with Baby Cakes Mommy...

Each little piece of felt had to be cut out...Then stitched to the skirt...

This tree skirt took me 684 hours to complete... I thought about retiring it this year....But my 15 year old would not hear of it... It has been under our tree now for 31 years....It has seen better days ...But my children love it....

Yes you know Miss Lucy, my other Pink wearing Christmas Decorating helper.... This is where all that hair comes from....But when you are this cute...You can get away with it...

GWENDOLYN , over at A Charming Home is having a Give-A-Way... you can Win these three great Vintage Pink Ornaments... So IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WINNING THEM, PLEASE go on over to her blog and LEAVE A COMMENT ..... Good Luck...

Pink Saturday, is graciously hosted by Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound. Be sure to visit Beverly's beautiful blog to see a complete list of all the participants in today's Pink Saturday.Thanks so much for stopping by...... As always it has been my Pleasure...Come Back When you can Play Longer...
Merry Pink Christmas
xoxo

Julie

TABLESCAPES THURSDAY

FROM MY HOME TO YOURS
MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hi Y'all do come in... This morning, I began playing with my Christmas dishes, in planning for upcoming holiday get-togethers. I really like red and white as a holiday theme...

I think that they are very pretty together......

So I thought I would start with my Red Fiesta....

The desert plates with the red holly berries, I bought so many years ago that I will not even try to remember where I got them... Sorry...

Silver Plate salad server set... Good Will 1.50...

Thank you for taking the time to stop by...hope you all have enjoyed your visit this week...

Hi it's Tablescape Thursday , and I am I so happy to be here. Please visit Susan over at betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com.Make sure to visit all the great Tablescapes while y'all are there. I also would like to thank all of you that have stopped by to see my table, left comments, and joined my blog, y'all sure have made me feel so welcomed!! Thank you all! And a great big Thank You to Susan ,for being such a great hostess,we all have such a good time at your place.

Merry Christmas

xoxo

Julie

PINK SATURDAY

Beverly ask us to do something special for the next three Pink Saturdays leading up to Christmas. Each Saturday we will have a theme, and she would like us to share our response to the theme. Saturday, December 5 Theme - Tell us one of your childhood memories about a special holiday...

My Grandmother was so in Vogue....She kept a wonderful home.....Growing up my grandparents lived in many homes... My Grandmother would sit and draw up house plans and then my Grandfather would build her the house.... They would live in them a few years and then they would build a new one.... the story that I would like to share was when I was about 5....My Grandparents loved to throw parties at Christmas..... The house would be all decked out ....we would all be dressed in our finest Christmas go to church ...... Lots of people, food music,at some point my Uncle would come into the room dressed as Santa...( I think I was six before I figured this out) Oh it was such a Magical time for a small child.... Most of my Grandparents homes where on the water....The home they lived in when I was five was just such a house....It was a big brick home, my grandmother built all of her homes with great big windows... In the middle of the home was a sunken Living room, you could stand in the front yard and look into the Big window, that was about the size of double sliding glass doors...but it was just one big piece of glass... You could see straight to the back of the house where there was two sets of sliding glass doors that opened on to the water .... You could see the dock ....And the boat that was kept in a boat house..... Oh and at Christmas all the lights at night would just take my breath away... Now in the front of this house...each year my grandparents would put up a Big Plastic Santa......

It was about 5 foot tall....Looked just like the one here (this one is much smaller) It would sit on the flag stone porch just in front of the Big Glass window....Just inside the Big glass window my Grandmother would have her tree... I would go outside at night....It would be so cold....But some how the Santa and the way the lights reflected all around... I would forget how cold it was.... I am not sure to this day WHY, but as a small child it was one of my Favorite things to do...Stand in the cold outside in the dark by that Great big Santa and Look into the house..at all of the wonderful decorations...

So when I found this Santa at Good Will a few years back....I knew that he would have to live at my home.... Each time I walk past him....He sits on a table in the entry way of my home....It takes me back to my Grandparents home and all the good memories that I have of that time...
Now this Santa here is no Spring Chicken the date on the back is 1968...So he was made just a few years after the one that my Grandparents owned... My Grandparents have been gone for many years now....But it feels just like yesterday that I was out on the porch in the cold...

Vintage Santa and Mrs.Santa candle decorations....I think they look great sitting on top of a pair of candle stick holders...


Just a few vintage Christmas decorations that belonged to my wonderful Grandparents.....

Pink Saturday, is graciously hosted by Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound. Be sure to visit Beverly's beautiful blog to see a complete list of all the participants in today's Pink Saturday.Thanks so much for stopping by...... As always it has been my Pleasure...Come Back When you can Play Longer...

Merry Pink Christmas

xoxo

Julie

Holiday Cloche Party

Hello Y'all Stroll on over for a Cloche Party hosted by our Dear Sweet Marty at A Stroll Through Life. This is a Thanksgiving/Christmas Cloche Party... Make sure you visit Marty to see all of the wonderful participants...

Thank you all for coming by ... Please go by and see all the wonderful Christmas and Thanksgiving cloche's over at Martys place .....Thank you again Marty for a wonderful time....Thanks so much for stopping by...... As always it has been my Pleasure...Come Back When you can Play Longer...

Merry Christmas...

xoxo

Julie