Gilded and Hand Painted

Gilding and Hand Painted Treasures!

The combination speaks for itself.

There are a number of lovely parties I enjoy joining for Teas on Tuesday, as well as wonderful Parties to share our finds!  Please see the list to the right of my Parties list!  I keep them handy for easy referral and always make numerous 'trips' to the parties for fun and inspiration!  Be sure and click on them to find some awesome blogs to visit!

AND...be sure and come back this Thursday for Pearls and Lace Thursday!  It's a time to share your lovelies...not just pearls and lace!

Hope you all have a blessed week!

Doni



Pearls and Lace Thursday, Spring Giveaway Continues!!!

The Spring Giveaway Continues!! Don't forget to join me and enter for all of the chances to win!

I am still adding new items, and this week I will add a rope of pearls! (faux of course...)

Link up with this Party as one way of joining the Giveaway, and read HERE for the original post to see all the other ways to enter.  Giveaway ends May 10th.  Still lots of time!

OK...Pearls and Lace.  It's a Linky party, but it's become the time of the week for me when I really take the time to get the best pictures I can take of some of my favorite things.

When I begin, I usually have some idea what type of vignette I will be working on, at least a few items I want to share, and where I will be setting up.

But for this one: Well, let's just say, the sun was shining through the kitchen window and I was running around the house 'gathering' items that I wanted to share.

Here are the results!

My FAVORITE hand-painted bowl, full of pearls.  LOTS of pearls!

Some of my collection of hand-painted buttons, which I am so excited about.  I just wish my photography was better so that I could do them justice.

I grabbed my newest books, each of them covered with different flowers in a chintz like pattern, and with the beautiful gold embossing, they worked well with the bowl's gilding.

I don't know about you, but if I took pictures of my everyday home, you know, the couch with the walls of pictures above it, or the side tables next to the chairs with our various 'must have's' on them, it would be dull and not exciting in the least.  Some of you have beautiful homes and can walk into any room of your house and snap pictures of beauty, but not me.  My home is LIVED IN!  The carpeting is not new nor beautiful, the place is dark, and the preference of my husband is to NOT have lace curtains in the windows...

So I revert to the vignette.  And yes, I do decorate my home with these lovelies, but they look better like this!

Below is a picture of the items I started out with for the Giveaway, and more items have been added.  Be sure and check out the original Pearls and Lace Party here for the rules, and then join me with your lovelies for chances to win.

May you each know the love of God first, the love of family, and the love of friends...

Sometimes we seem to forget that it's all about LOVE!!

Blessings,

Doni

I think I'll be joining a few linky parties!!

Have a look and join too!

Vintage Thingy Thursday

http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/

Treasure hunt Thursday

http://www.blucreekhome.com/

Home Sweet Home

http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/

Feathered Nest Friday

http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/

Show and Tell Friday

http://romantichome.blogspot.com/

Vintage Inspiration Friday

http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday

http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/



Pearls and Lace Thursday #33 and Giveaway Winner Announced!

The Best of 2010

Pearls and Lace Thursdays of the Past

As I've been blogging for the last year, I've realized a few things about myself.  I find that I love pearls and lace (of course) more and more.  I seek the laces and pearls wherever I go shopping.
But I have also found some new favorites.  Hand Painted items have become a HUGE love for me!  Even today I received a new object (to be shared later), and I'm on the hunt for more.

My mother's stichery, and dried roses are also some of my favorite subjects. 

I have a camera now that I'm trying to get used to, and as the new year progresses, I hope to capture new subject material in much better light and with much more appeal.

I've also found out that I love old books, especially pastel colored children's books!  I seem to use them all the time!

The hand painted bowl below has become my favorite piece ever.  It sits in a place of honor in my home.  I've only once seen a piece that compares, and now I own a piece to be proud of.

And along with the pearls and lace theme, I have begun making pillow recently.  I have opened an Etsy shop, and hopefully I'll be adding more and more items to it during the year.

The pillow below is the Giveaway item chosen by the winner of my Giveaway!

Purple and black are the main colors, with pearl and rhineston button accents.

A vintage embroidered doily was used to make a pocket, and the roses were crocheted by me.

Congratulations to Sherry at Blessings From Our Nest!  Be sure and click on her Blog name and visit her.  She has a wonderful family and lifestyle, and her blog is a joy to follow!

Now.  Tell me what your favorite Pearls and Lace Post was last year, and join me this week for Pearls and Lace Thursday.  Either share a past favorite with us, or share a new one, but please only add the url link to your single blog post, not for your whole blog, and please also include a link back to this site.

I hope the new year will be full of Pearls and Laces for you all!

Blessings, Doni



More Cooling Blues Around the House

I just must thank Laura from Ontario (her blog is Laura's Rose Garden) for sending us here in Texas her cooling weather!!! It has been only in the 90's this last week and we even saw some lows reach down to the 60's!!! WOOOHOOO! (can't you picture me running around outside waving my cowboy hat and smackin' the horse?) (Actually, it's a whole lot more likely you'd see me waddle around and smack a mosquito!!)

We've really enjoyed the 'cool spell' and look forward even more to Fall!!

I was hoping to have a lovely table all set with my newest white china that I bought off of ebay, but after a whole month of waiting, IT"S STILL NOT HERE!!!

Yes, I called, I nicely pestered, and she had all types of reasons as to why my china has not arrived, but as long I remain nice and she does to, well I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. 

I can't wait to see what it will look like put together.  I am not the type to set the table for dinner, but I love love love what I see on so many of your blogs.  Tables set with gorgeous china, flatware, glassware, real flowers, lovely centerpieces, etc.  Maybe I will take some lessons from y'all and see where it takes me!!

Hope you are all having cool breezes and may you have a lovely week!

Be sure and check out Pearls and Lace Thursday #17 here and see my beautiful hand painted bowl I recently acquired.  It's worth the click!!!

Join me here on Thursday as well for Pearls and Lace Thursday!!!

Blessings!!

Doni

I'm joining these parties for a delightful blogging Monday!!

Be sure and check them out and join us!!

Mosiac Monday at

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Today's Thrifty Treasures at

http://southernhospitalityblog.com/

Blue Monday at

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Show Off Your Cottage Monday at

http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/

Pearls and Lace Thursday #17

I've died and gone to Heaven, and the Table was set with THIS!!

Actually, it will be BETTER than this when we get to Heaven!!!  But here on earth, this is the closest I've ever even DREAMED of!!!

Hand Painted Lovliness, done by a lady who used to write for a hand painted china magazine in the early 1900's.  She was very possibly one of the best china painters of her time.

It's my turn to take care of it now, and I'd like to share its beauty with you.

No, not a Limoges piece, but does it REALLY matter???

Not to me!!!

Please join me this week for Pearls and Lace Thursday and show off something lovely from your collection.  Whether it be a piece of lace, a piece of jewelry, or anything lovely, we'd love to see it!!

Add your post's URL code to the Linky box below, and share about the party by taking the button located on the right side of the blog.

May you all be blessed with beauty!!

Doni

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