DECORATING ON THE PRAIRIE: Frills

Hello.  
Thanx for stopping by.
Smiles.  Hope your week-end was pleasant.  

I couldn't help but notice there's some trees along the interstate with 
Autumn Yellow colored leaves.
Yellow ALREADY.  

Last week the neighbor's yellow leaves made me blink twice…was I  seeing correctly?  Sign of an early Fall in JULY.

Last week's cooler temps were so welcomed and appreciated, Hubby cleaned on the Garage.  Temps this week were HOT at 104.  Short snap of super HOT temps?  I'd be alright with that as the morning temps were in the 50's last week.  Sweater weather!

The new decorative picture purchased at the THRIFT Shoppe is hanging above the piano.  My antique mirror fell and broke awhile back.  I almost cried.  ALMOST.  Finding this find to replace the mirror made a nice addition to the PARLOUR.  Hubby took care of the details and she is on the wall.

GUEST ROOM update.

She needs painted a soft ivory white.  

Soon…very soon.

Next we bought pull down shades for the Guest room.  
Hunny installed them.  The ones that had been here when we bought the house over 7 years ago were still hanging and not very well at that. 

Washed the Priscilla curtains and put them up this week-end.  

I love 'em.  

Thrilled to have frills.   

Hung some more pictures in the small Guest room.  The room has beaded board walls and pictures hang nicely on this type of wall inside our OLD STONE HOUSE.

I hated to start a paint job with the KITCHEN being torn up.  One big mess at a time.  Then I will gear up and prime and paint the Guest room.  Oh HAPPY day on the Prairie.   


I chopped off my hair really, really, really, really, really short….it looks like a PRIMITIVE HAIRCUT


….in other words homemade drama that comes from trauma when someone gets ahold of a pair of scissors anxiously cutting off the mop top.  Presto change-o…hair gone.  

Had to have Daughter touch it up in the back.  A cool haircut for Summer.  I figure in six weeks, it will be at a length that looks better.  grins.  I was tempted to dye it BLUE, YELLOW, RED, GREEN or PURPLE.  My Husband would have a fit.  A FIT.  I don't think I need this right now.  Do you?  

HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES are more like it.  Daughter baked me some to cheer me up.  Chocolate seems to help.  Look at that cute yellow dish.

I have high hopes to have the house tidied before my Sister comes for a SUMMER VISIT.  I am making a grocery list and a list of places that we might go see.  Better get my M & M's.  Umm…aren't these colors like what I considered dying my hair?  Oh dear….yes they are.  Just hand me a tambourine and I'll stay out of your hair.  I have NEVER been overly adventuresome with my hair.  NEVER.  Is it time?


Hung some Family pics in the stair well.  Finally getting to it.  Will hang more as I come across them as we go through our treasures.  

Still gathering Garage Sale stuff.  Just about cracked and took all the stuff to Goodwill.  Had to talk myself out of doing this.  Think that I can find a whole lot more to turn loose of.  Centralizing the items seems to be a problem in our small cottage.  Where to go with the stuff before the sale.  The Dining room is still in an uproar due to holding the Kitchen overflow as we wait.


As we go through our old movies, we watched the 1992 PATRIOT GAMES starring Harrison Ford and Anne Archer.  I don't remember it very well.  Like watching a new movie.  Action Packed and a  t h r i l l e r.  Once again Harrison Ford is the hero and he does a SUPER HERO JOB.  Too much of a thriller for me.  Makes me nervous don 'cha know.  Awful gory.  FOR ADULTS ONLY.  

Little children should watch BARBIE VIDEOS.  I like the decorating in these.  So much PINK.  ha.  ALSO Strawberry Shortcake films.

The precious thing about going through our old videos is that we came across a 1998 video that we took of our dear friends Pat and Neil Elwell in their Victorian HOME when we were visiting about SPIRITUAL MATTERS.  It is priceless to me to be able to see them and hear their voices with laughter as we chatted.  I so miss them.  I did cry on this one.  Pat was such an encourager and a "Have you considered?" type of person.  When I entered into their HOME, time vanished.  Hours would pass and it was as if the clock stopped.  I think God so BLESSED me when Pat and I became good friends.  She asked me once what I liked best about her house.  I said to her as I was leaving, "That you are in it."  She just smiled.        

ONTO CLEANING.
Cleaning out my HOT PADs and TEA TOWELs from one of the drawers and replaced them with the BLUE WILLOW ones I got for my JULY Birthday.  I washed the old ones I had and put them in the garage sale STASH.
 
Packed up 79 pieces of my white milk glass dishes that were in the Family room Corner Cabinet.

Put BLUE WILLOW dishes in there and ran out of room for the cups and saucers. 

Ouch.  

So Daughter and I emptied the Blue Willow and switched the dishes out of the Dining room China Cabinet putting them into the Family room Corner Hutch and refilled the Dining room China Cabinet with BLUE WILLOW.  Happy campers at last.  

Company is coming for a visit and I have much to do, but my hip caused awful PAIN today and I don't know why.  I had to sit for hours and pray.  My HUSBAND took good care of me.  Took some Ibuprofen and started to feel better.  Went from not being able to lift my left knee without intense pain to being able to walk again, but my hip is stiff.  I so hope it is better on Monday.  Please.  Hobbling is doable, but not desirable.

I tell ya…there's always something to do besides DUST.  I have the Kansas Dust.  Would you like some?  I'll mail you some ASAP.  Will even gift wrap it.

May the Good Lord Bless and Keep you,
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