CLICK ON HEART TO GO TO MY IG PAGE

CLICK ON HEART TO GO TO MY IG PAGE
CLICK ON HEART TO GO TO MY IG PAGE

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Whew...This is HARD WORK

Good morning, everyone.

This moving and getting a new house in order can be HARD WORK.

We haven't moved in 40 years and had NO idea of the magnitude of the work involved.

Don't get me wrong...
I am not complaining.....


we know and feel the blessing every single minute of the gift our son and his family have given us.

We are loving this new space...



Part of the living area
was built to house a
magnificent POOL TABLE.

When we started to move into this pool/guest house,
son, David, moved the pool table into the big house.

No windows in this room and the wall color has made it a very dark room.

We will be painting a lighter color soon....but not adding windows...

A large mirror, right across from the large window in the tv area, reflects enuf light now
to be ALMOST as good as a window.

A lighter paint color will also lessen the darkness.

Mirrors are one of my favorite things to use for decorating...





This is a television armoire that goes with our bedroom suite.

Since we have a larger tv in the bedroom now than can fit into this space,
I am using it in the living room
to hold books and etc.


I needed a large piece of furniture for this spot and this armoire is working out really great.

Don't ya love it when you can use a loved piece, no longer serving the purpose, in another area.....?
Meee, too.






ANOTHER new pillow....

(i had NO idea I had a PILLOW FETISH.)

O, but this one is so special...
leather with those french words.

I found it on EBAY...


 This pitiful showing of HALLOWEEN  DECORATING
is all I have to offer for this holiday.



Way to much going on to even THINK of decorating......
but, I couldn't let it pass by without some salute to the fun Oct. 31th...

Booooooooooooooooo


COTTAGE STYLE PARTY 
SHOW AND SHARE
WHATS IT WED.
OUTDOOR WED.
THRIFTY THURS.
TIME TRAVEL
THURS. FAV. THINGS
OPEN HOUSE
HOME AND GARDEN
SHARE YOUR CUP
CREATE IT THURS.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Glimpses of THE SUMMER HOUSE




Some wonderful, warm neutral throws makes things look much softer,
don't you think?

Even in summertime, with air conditioning, I love a  throw within easy reach...!! :)

The reason for so many pillows....
there's 3 leather sofas in this living room for now.

One will be moved when son gets his MAN CAVE finished. 
Man Cave....


MAN CAVE
noun
    humorous
noun: man cave; plural noun: man caves
1.
....a room or other part of a home regarded as a refuge for the man or men of a household.
           
  ... a place where they can watch the FOOTBALL game without hearing..
"I was planning on watching HG TV."

.... enjoy a good cigar if they are so inclined

...have more than one beer without getting THAT LOOK.
(it doesn't hurt things if there's a comfy couch in the cave to sleep on)

...when his men friends are over, a place where they can tell the  dirtiest of jokes
without having to see the rolling of eyes from the wifey.


...a great place where they can scratch ANYwhere they want to....

...and pass a little gas





without the female members  of the family thinking the world is coming to an end.



**************************************************************


I add this little fun pillow on bright, warm, pretty days...


but I really bought it for the bed in the master.....

which 
IS A MESS right now and so I have NO photos ready for you.


 The following photo is the main reason the bedroom isn't presentable as yet....

...a little bit of building going on.


I may have already shown you some of these photos on my OLDEN BLOG....
if so, just look at 'em again.....:>)


The vintage English chest looks right at home in this new place...

 Different things displayed on it in it's new home.

This house calls for a different.....ummm.....feel...
in the olden home, more country....
this house likes things a little more....ummmm....traditional....or Old World Charm.....


It's the color of the walls here.
Gold.....terra cotta....





The black metal candle sconces that hung on the sides of the Franklin Fireplace in the olden house....


now in a tiny nook of the living area ....


again, I feel that old world charm when I look at this.


This room will be painted at some point in the Vintage Wicker paint that I've fallen totally in love with.

Not that rich paneling, tho....
I love that in it's natural color.







Mr. Sweet and I are so lovin' this huge tv...

This section of the living room is so comfy...so functional....

I'm telling you,
WE ARE GETTING SOOOO SPOILED. !!
and we are lovin' it.....:>)

I'll be bringing you more photos as we move along in this new place.
...just going to take awhile....
we move SLOW. !




Thursday, October 24, 2013

Another bj breakfast....:>)


Hello to everyone,



I am sitting here, in my new dining room,

 watching FOX NEWS and the Obamacare Website Contractors
testifying before House Committee.
It amazes me that some of the top website designers are having this much trouble with a website.

But, then again, it amazes me that a seemingly not-an-idiot, olden woman can do something stupid and lose her blog control.......*HEAVY SIGH....

OH, WELL...
moving right along....  

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” Joel Osteen 


Just in case I've forgotten to mention it...
I DO love this great kitchen...
with it's double oven, gas range...
5 burners on top.....
an awesome, really powerful microwave...






...just a plain, ole
country breakfast this morning...

it really tasted good....

but.....


nothing GREAT....


nothing SPECIAL






a little glass of orange juice...


a few really sweet grapes....

absolutely NOTHING SPECIAL....

OOO...
WAIT....
are you looking for something SPECIAL around this breakfast at SWEET NOTHINGS...???



....how 'bout THIS....

 a  SPECIAL SUNRISE

(is it just me or do those telephone poles look
just like CROSSES....???


 It  took my breath away and I thanked GOD for such a magnificent morning gift.

I thought, "THIS is my Godly gift of the day".....

but then....


when my eyes traveled to the swimming pool,
THIS is what I saw....



The reflections in the water of the pinkness of the sunrise was unbelievable...

It was so beautiful, it made me cry....in fact, just LOOKING at these photos brings tears.

(these lovely sunrise photos are right out of my camera...)

I've always lived in the city....never  in the country where I could see such beauty....

OOO.....I've seen pretty sunrises and sunsets all my life...
this one, tho, seemed extra special to me this morning.

GOD has a way of knowing when you need a little EXTRA SOMETHING
to make you sooo glad just to be alive.

I hope YOU have a beautiful sunrise morning very, very soon.

XOXO


 Linking with and supporting:

Monday, October 21, 2013

GOSH...at MY age, NEW STUFF all around me....:>)

DEAREST FAMILY, FRIENDS, READERS AND LURKER FRIENDS,

Due  to changing my email address to bjconklin2@gmail.com, my first SWEET NOTHINGS blog..(started in 2007) could not be controlled by me any longer.....CRAZY.

I take full blame as I am such an AIR HEAD, I didn't even realize that "gmail" was GOOGLE.
Believe me, if I had thought about it longer instead of FLYING BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS,
I would have realized that once GOOGLE gets control of your blog, IT ALL CHANGES and there seems to be NOTHING to do about it.

Sooo, I was FORCED into STARTING ALL OVER.....I decided to just GO WITH THE FLOW and hope for the best.

I lost all my sweet and loyal followers....over 1700.....I lost my original DASHBOARD and over 400 blogs that I followed. I lost my DESIGN page and LAYOUT so I lost over 200 drafts for future posts.
However,what I DIDN'T lose is my love for all of you and for blogging, itself.



My mama always told me not to "cry over spilled  milk"....so I started bj's SWEET NOTHINGS
all over again.
My exact blog address is now bj-sweetnothings.blogspot.com
I just moved the "bj" to the front of "sweetnothings" instead of the back.

I would very much appreciate you linking up to follow along with me again....and, as always, when you let me know you are following, I follow right back.

I will begin posting a little about what's going on in my life when I can get my head straight again.
Between the move, the service provider I was using selling out, and trouble....BIG TIME TROUBLE,
with blogging, it is going to take a little while.

Love to all, bj