Pearls and Lace Thursday #80 and a Beautiful Gift

Pearls and Lace Thursday Party!!
Well, it was my birthday last week, and my wonderful husband gave me some very lovely presents.

He took me to dinner at my favorite restaurant, and he had invited some dear friends to meet us there and surprise me!  They even brought a birthday cake!

AND, my friend 'L' brought me a gift she made with her own hands.

I fell in love with it instantly.

She knows me sooooo well!!!

I was so surprised!  It was wrapped up in a gorgeous box with a gold bow.

The lady at the table next to me said, "I'm sooo glad you opened that while you were still here...I was DYING to see what it was!!!"

I blinged it up a bit with some pretty blue bobbles, and it will receive a place of honor in my home.

This little picture is of me when I was just a babe.

Full of mischief!

Some of the first gifts I ever received as a baby.

Do you see the little face on the quilt under the stork picture??  My grandmother made that quilt for me.

I prize things that were so lovingly made just for me, or given to me in love.  Don't you?

Color plays an important part in my life.  When I was small, I was given a choice to 'pick' my favorite color.  Most of my clothes and decorating were picked from that favorite color.  Can you guess what is was???

It was RED.  Back then, red was IT.  EVERYTHING was red.  My cup, my clothes, the frame around my plaster of paris handprint.

Now????  I have a lot of favorites. 

I particulary love pastels.  But I love the way the primary colors look together too....

Well, I'm making something red right now which I will share with you next week.

Maybe I'll just go back to my childhood and pull out the red stuff.

Or not.

It's time for Pearls and Lace Thursday!!!!

Because of the blogger problem and not being able to get to other blogs, (I tried and gave up....), let me tell each of you here right now how MUCH I appreciate your efforts to share your posts with me for Pearls and Lace Thursday!  I will catch up with you all as soon as possible, but for now, please go ahead and join up with me again for this week's party.

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Blessings,

Doni 

Pearls and Lace Thursday #2

First Graces and First Prayers

These are books by Tasha Tudor, the famed and loved author and illustrator

of lovely childrens books. The pictures inside are wonderful. Full of colors that delight the eye.

I remember them always being a part of my life from childhood.

The inscription in the front is more lovely handwriting: these books are

from my beloved godparents who treated us like we were their grandchildren.

The simplicity of the artwork, the tenderness of the drawings,

the depiction of childhood and love. Prayers and Graces.
Makes me think of a little child's head bowed as he kneels at the bedside,

saying his nightly prayers:

"Deah Woahd"

(that's what it sounded like when my own little son prayed)

Thank you for joining me for Pearls and Lace Thursday #2!

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Blessings to you!

Doni