A Chirpy Tablescape

July Blessings to you from HomeHaven. Appreciate you visiting me today. It's raining again. Your presence has cheered me up! Hi there.


Even though it's a rainy week here on the Kansas Prairies using soft colors for my Tablescape was a pleasant task. I've liked birds since I was a little girl. I use to like to draw stick birds...made me smile. These days when the birds are chirping outside the familyroom window, it relaxes my soul.





An old quilt with soft colors, several kinds of birds perched, plus Humming Birds etched on the glass plates and stemware with birdhouses nested on the table. Bright spring green napkins and plates found their way to the table. Topeka's own Marion Lane Candles burns for a sweet scent of KANSAS RAIN. (http://www.marionlanecandles.com/)





And if you can imagine...there's a CD playing of birds chirping along with classical music. How 'tweet' the sound! Music to my ears.





Chilled Cranberry Pomegranate Juice to quinch your thirst.






Revived by Pepper Jack and mild Colby Cheese Slices on miniature Cheese and Chicken Flavored Snack Crackers, Broccoli, Baby Carrots, Grapes and Crushed Pineapple.

Nothing heavy.

Green Olives for a salty punch and sweetened Bread 'n Butter Pickles for crunch.

The pineapple came as a surprise...thought the container had apple sauce in it, but when I dipped a chicken flavored snack cracker into it and tasted a sweet cracker... it was a nice accident. I'd do it again.

This Tablescape will be participating on Tablescape Thursday found on www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com that's Hosted by Susan! Susan you're a sweetie for doing this...so many neat ideas.

May you have a pleasant day. Are you enjoying making your very own living space a Home? Hows about a HAVEN? Home makes my heart grow fonder.

Home...a Earthly Home...a Church Home...and then last put not least...a Heavenly Home...where there are no tears. Joy unspeakable.

God richly bless you,

~Deanna~

Treasured Tuesday

Any Bird Watchers out there? Greetings to you that do and to you that don't watch birds.

My feature for Treasured Tuesday are these two oval frames with bird prints.

I had such fun at our local City Wide Garage Sale when I came across these two little tweetie pictures that just chirped right out at me. What a delight for somebody that likes birds. For a dollar, I bought the pair of song birds. No bird seed needed.

I must be going through a Green Stage...it seems that the color green is calling my name. I have no need to be green with envy, so these green frames will stay green for the time being. Like them just the way they are.

Have a treasured day, because you are a treasure!
TWEET TWEET,
~Deanna~

Isaiah 31:5
As birds flying,
so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it;
and passing over he will preserve it.

Hug The One You're With

Hi there!
We're one day closer to Spring and I'm ready.
Even with this cold weather, at times I can hear birds chirping in the top of the trees.  This reminds me of Spring.  Apparently they didn't go south to winter.  Very pleasant sound in the dead of winter.

I just got done cleaning the powder room toilet and sink.  Boy did they need it!

A few years ago, I had to make the decision to not keep getting EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED with the toilet.  Just clean it and be done with it. Sounds kind of petty to dread so badly cleaning such an object to the point that it put a frown on my face and I procrastinated cleaning it.  Much happier now that I quickly clean the porcelain princess with a smile on my face and utter not a word.

Way back when, there was a popular song that played on the radio about LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH by Stephen Stills.  If you like, Google the lyrics.  3o DITS later, I remember I liked the beat. Not so impressed with the subject matter now.  Not really about love, but self-gratification of the lust kind.  It would be better to be emotionally involved with a toilet than to follow this guys advice. Just cause a song has a catchy tune doesn't mean you should do what the song is saying to do.

With Love The One You're With...it made me think about what I have seen so much of on the internet.  Let me back track a little here.  When I was a Senior in High School back in 1972-73, there was talk about the computer over at the Junior College (another name for Community College) in town.  Better go see it.  So I did.

ONE computer filled a large room.  I didn't think it was that important.  Just a bunch of flashing lights and wizz bang noise. What could it possibly do, but spit out punch cards that meant nothing to me.  What a waste of paper.

As time has past, was I ever enlightened.  The computers continued to get smaller in size until we now have notebook size computers that will morph into a different creature as we speak.

About two years ago on a small sized computer, I got acquainted with Myspace.  As I investigated a friend's friend's friend and so on, it took me by surprise how many pictures there were of young women that had smiles on their faces as they held alcoholic beverages and had no fronts to their clothing.  Call me ignorant, but I had trouble believing that there were so many of them all doing the same thing...smiling while holding a drink, exposing flesh and HUGGING THE ONE THEY'RE WITH.  Quite a few pictures of miss so and so sticking her tongue out.  Picture after picture after picture, etc.  Sloppy drunk and hanging onto whoever. So much of it.  Diseased.

Now, I have begun to Blog.

So I praise the Christian Bloggers with scripture on their sites, clean conversations, decent pictures of family, friends, animals, flowers, sunsets, craft items, recipes, all together lovely.

I praise the Christian Women, Christian Wives, Christian Mommas and Christian Singles that desire to live a life pleasing to God and are.

Back to Love the One You're With and Hugging Whoever.  You'd be better off being emotionally attached to your toilet.  They have alot in common.  Dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit...



May your Home be a Haven full of God's Love that ministers to all that enter in.

Don't forget to pray.
This is Deanna from the Kansas Flint Hills