Bits 'n Bobs around the Summer House

Hello Everyone...

Well...

here we are starting out with a brand new year...

2014....WOW....

I started this beautiful JANUARY day off with a cast iron skillet full of homemade biscuits.

...and, as always, I made ONE LITTLE one...

just like my mom always made for me.

2014 is going to be filled with the BEST memories of our lives...and we are all going to make a
LOT MORE MEMORIES to add to those in the past.

I'm excited ...!!!

After breakfast, I brought out my new calendar that is going to inspire me EVERY month...

"Choose joy...

it's the preferred method of travel in this universe ! "

...don't you love it..?

meee, too.

Then, I put away all the tubs of Christmas decorations,

dusted all the furniture in the living room....

vacuumed up all the glitter I kept seeing in the carpet...


Lit a few candles to get that yummy fragrance going throughout the house... 

I waxed a few pieces of furniture...

O, yes...I wanted to show you these neat bookends...

I was at Target just before Christmas and these were marked down to $7 for the pair...
They look good holding the western books that Mr. Sweet likes..

he likes those as much as I like my decorating magazines, I guess.

After taking all the Christmas decorations off the mantel,
it looks a little.....well......humdrum.

(I leave my FATHER CHRISTMAS out all year...he's waaay too good-lookin' to
hide away in a closet...)

I will ck on Pinterest and come up with something that looks smashing...
so many talented people over there

 

I tell you, I just LOVE my two cute pigs....

I smile every single time I go into the living room....

I do love things in a room that brings a smile.....

When we first moved here, I had the movers put the faux fireplace in the master bedroom...
I thought it was too country for this more modern house.

Then, at Christmas, I needed a place to hang stockings and a mantel to decorate
soooo
Mr. Sweet and I moved the fireplace into the living room.

Everyone that came in liked it so much in that room that we decided to leave it.

 We are so comfortable in this pretty house...
we love it and love being so close to family.

We still plan to paint the gold another color on the walls but not sure WHEN...
we have been in a constant RUSH since moving in November,
Thanksgiving right on top of the move...
then Christmas in December...
WHEW...
we both need time to catch our breath.

We are enjoying the new place just the way it is for now....

 and I think this black and white tile on a SINGER base table
that Mr. Sweet made for me would look good ANYwhere.
I still am totally in love with it and my black chairs.

We use it for games....eating....paying bills....drawing out more projects...
for most anything.

Changing the subject here but I wanted to share the following with you:

 

My sweet, sweet blogging friend, LV, sent me this darling birthday card...
and the CD....

I haven't been able to listen to it yet, but will do so this afternoon.

LV is such an inspiration to all her friends...80+, bloggin' to a 100,
and refusing to grow old...she is just going to "grow up".
hahhhaaa....I'm with YOU, my friend.

"Thank you so much, LV....I  am so blessed to have you for a friend."
love, bj

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