What's GREAT about Blogging!!!

I think that one, and I say, one, of the great things about blogging is being able to share pictures of our lives with each other.
These are some pictures I took this summer while relaxing at our cabin.

I always pick up frames at the thrift store and I painted this one white.  I usually play it pretty safe with colors and paint almost everything either black or white.  I am determined to try a robin's egg blue and a teal green sometime before too soon!!!!

The little chicken wire flower holder is something I made one day when I was busy stapling chicken wire to a bunch of old frames.  I will post some chicken wire projects another day.

Again, thank you to all of you who take the time to look at my blog.  I enjoy your comments, as well as visiting each of your blogs.  Isn't blogging just the greatest!!??!!  What do you like best about it??

xojanis

Back to School Shopping!!??!!

Well, despite having a long list of painting projects I wanted to start today, we spent the day SHOPPING!!  Shopping for back to school uniforms, shopping for back to school shoes, shopping for back to school supplies, and shopping for back to school lunch food for our three boys.  Well, I couldn't resist shopping for a back to school something for myself, and this lovely bouquet of flowers caught my eye!!!  Here you see pictures of the flowers in a old wooden box I picked up at the flea market (man, was I sweating that day, as it was heavier carrying around than I thought it would be), the bicycle in the pictures was a lovely curbside find, and the old quilt is over 100 years old.

Here's a little sneak peak at some Chinese Lanterns from my garden.  I look forward to lots of fall decorating using them.

Hope you enjoyed this little back to school/fall is coming bouquet.  I am so excited to have so many new followers looking at my blog and want to tell you all how much it means to me that you take the time to look, enjoy and leave your comments!!!!
xojanis

Vintage Apron Collection

Hello my dear blogging friends. Here is a fun little apron photo shoot for you all.

I found this collection of vintage aprons in a box of treasures from one of my grandmothers.
I fell in love with the adorable rick rack trim and hand-stitched embroidery on this apron.
My mom remembers her and her mother sewing these up one year and got such a kick out of this photo shoot that my sister and I decided to do one hot day at the lake.


I've always loved gingham and my mom remembers lots of fun embroidery stitches that were made just for gingham (I'm busy looking through all her old magazines looking for the patterns!!?!!).
Don't you just love all the trim details!!




Hope you all enjoyed my little apron collection. A big thank you to my sister, Lisa, who so patiently posed while I took all these pictures!!!!!

Happy junking and crafting.

xojanis

White Wednesday

Welcome to one of my most favorite days of the week..........white Wednesday!!!! I'm beginning to think that I am a little obsessed with the color white, but if you take a trip over to Kathleen's blog at www.fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com you'll see that I'm not the only one that IS!!!!! (Ha, ha, ha....lots of laughs!!!).

More garden treats this week. This is a fountain I have in the backyard that has fallen over so many times after being hit with soccer and footballs that I'm always amazed it keeps working!!!! My white phlox looks so pretty in the water.

I have forgotten the name of this flower, but I love it as it blooms through most of the summer. I also have one with purple flowers. You can just make out the wheel of my little garden tricycle in the background of this picture.
Another little silver piece that gets filled with seed for the birds. It is hidden between the white phlox.
This was an ugly old brass light fixture I found at the thrift store. I gave it a couple coats of good old WHITE spray paint added some crystals and glass tea light holders and hung it from a tree.
This is a centerpiece I created using an old cooking mold I found at the thrift store. Here it is filled with white phlox. I did another post this summer that shows a before and after picture of this mold (Thrifty Summer Table Settings--July 2009).
Welcome to our home.........this bird bath sits on our front sidewalk. I like to place flowers in it to welcome guests.
Hope you are all finding some time to relax on these last days of summer. Pour yourself a glass of pink lemonade, add a skewer loaded with fresh blueberries.......sit back in a chippy, WHITE, weathered chair and rest your back on a cushion made with a piece of WHITE vintage eyelet.........that's what I'm up to today!!!!