Pearls and Lace Thursday # 72 Music and More Lace!

I don't know if y'all are aware, but I'm a musician.  I play the violin (see my violin post here), therefore music has always had a very large part in who I am.  As I've matured over the years, I've been able to collect different types of vintage pieces of music.  I've loved using them in my displays, and especially loved that it has become appreciated by artists for use in collages and backgrounds.  I've seen some wonderfully talented uses for old stained music and always seem to be enthralled by what y'all come up with for using it.

As I look through piles of old piano music, I wonder who it was that played the pieces.  A name might be written on a piece...pencilled in directions here and there...was she young or matronly?  Did she play for a crowd or to please herself?  Was her piano in a small home or a stately mansion?

In last week's post for Pearls and Lace Thursday, I shared some of my most beautiful piano music.

As I look at the exquisite drawings decorating the front cover of these pieces, I am totally lost in the artwork.  It's not just a piece of music, but a work of art!  How lovely to be able to enjoy the lovely florals and scrolls and fonts without even hearing the music.

This week, I'm using the beauty of the inside of the music as a background for some more laces I'd like to share with you.  I hope you enjoy!!

I guess you can say I got carried away, but setting up this group of laces and music and buttons was SO MUCH FUN!!  I mean really....getting to play with the pretties!  They are my toys you know!

a bit of pink...

With Thanksgiving here, I want to take this time to thank each of you who take the time to visit my blog, those of you who join me for Pearls and Lace Thursday, those who follow, and each of you who leave kind comments.  You are some lovely people that I am very grateful for!  I pray you are each blessed this Thanksgiving.

I'm going to be joining in a few fabulous parties! Please see the Parties I Love list on my sidebar and check out the awesome blog parties...you might even want to join them yourself!  AND...

Now...if you'd like to join me this week for Pearls and Lace Thursday, then it's time!  Please add your url code for your post to the link below, and share something beautiful and lovely with us!  There were over 20 participants last week!!!!  Y'all are the best!!

Warm hellos to my newest followers too!  

Blessings to you all,

Doni

A Lacy Mosaic

I just put together some of my favorite photos from my Pearls and Lace Thursday Party post.

Have you had a chance to join me yet?

Feel free to if you'd like.  Just scroll down to the previous post!

And many thanks to you all who have participated.  I am Thankful for each of you as well as the newest followers!  Your visits to my little blog excite me and make me want to make it a place of beauty to share with you.

Next week's party will be on Friday (late Thursday post), so be sure and come back.  I have already got the pictures ready and if you liked this week, you'll like next week's as well!

As we work this next week to prepare for Thanksgiving, let's not forget those who don't have a table to sit at, or a meal to eat.  Is there someone you can invite to your own table?  Is there a meal you can take to someone who doesn't have family?  I can think of many around me who would be blessed. 

I think I need to add some plates that will be easy to carry to my grocery list.

Blessings to you all!

Pearls and Lace Thursday #71 Hymns and Lace!

I just love Lace....You know I do...

If you've ever visited my blog before, you know that I love Lace.

OLD LACE!

And the older the better.

Therefore, I'm going to be taking the next few weeks to share with you all my lace collection.

It actually has been shared bit by bit throughout my blog posts, but I'm going to be using many of my pieces for the next few Link Parties for Pearls and Lace Thursdays.

I'm also going to be using some of my favorites including Pearl Buttons, and Music.

All together, the look is incredible.

 I recently bought this sweet little box (below) from Joan's Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/toby11

and just today for this photo shoot I opened it up.  Imagine my amazement when I opened up the baggie included inside and found a beautiful gold perfume bottle...

Thank you so much Joan.  It's just gorgeous!!

Well, I guess I got carried away with taking pictures!  I just couldn't stop!

Do you ever do that....find so many ways to photograph something that you can't quit?

And there's more too!  But not for today.  I have it all laid out ready for taking pictures tomorrow.

I'll be putting the LINK below for the Pearls and Lace Thursday party, so be sure and join me with your own post of something pretty you'd like to share!!  I love having you come by!

I'll be sharing this post with some neat parties out there, so be sure and check out the Parties I Love list on my sidebar.  The loveliest of blogs are hosting, and I'm so enchanted by all of your posts!

Next week on Thursday I will be eating Thanksgiving Dinner, and before that I will be COOKING (if you can call it that!)....SO next week Pearls and Lace Thursday will be on FRIDAY!!!

Looking forward to a wonderful week, and be sure and join my link party!!

Blessings to you all!

Doni



Hymns and Lace for White Wednesday

This post is just a teaser...because I'm LOVING my laces right now and I need more than one post to share them!!  These shots are just a few from my Pearls and Lace Thursday post going up this week.

Please come back and join me late Wednesday for the Party!

Here's what I'll be sharing:

Just Whites!  Well, I can't honestly say 'Just' because there are a very few other colors in there!

Please come back and see all my vintage laces in the upcoming weeks as I share with y'all the pretties I've been collecting.  Also, on Thursdays you are invited to share your own pretties with my Link Party,

Pearls and Lace Thursday.  I hope you love these photos as much as I loved playing with my collection!

Lots of different patterns and types of lace, pearl buttons, and vintage music.

Seriously, what combination could be better??

Well, I think some pink added to it would be great....

But hey...this is White Wednesday!!

Be SURE and join our host today at Faded Charm for some LOVELY whites!

The link is below.

http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/

Blessings to you all!

Doni



Thanksgiving Preparations - Part One

I suppose it was bound to happen one day.  I would decide I had to host Thanksgiving!

But you see, I have a secret.  I can't cook.  At least not the kind of COOKING that you talented ladies can do.  All those years ago I tried and made so many mistakes.  The Pumpkin pie never did set, and who knew that they stuffed the turkey for you before you cooked it?  (Who-knows-what in a bag?  How gross!!)

The can of cranberry sauce wouldn't let the stuff slide out, so I had to spoon it out like jello...

The rolls were too brown, hard in fact. 

But we ate.

And now I'm going to try it again.

I'll begin with a beautiful table...that's the trick right??  If it LOOKS pretty, it will TASTE WONDERFUL!

At least that's my story and stickin' to it!

SO...here's the beginning of the Thanksgiving Preparations.

A stack of dusty dishes, glasses, serving tray and my new tablecloth.

The dishes were a garage sale find that my husband brought me earlier this summer.  Can you believe his wonderful taste?  There are actually two different sets in these stacks, but the colors and patterns are so similar, they go very well together and are hardly noticeable.

These glasses were also a garage sale find, mine, and they are something I've never seen before.  The etchings are of tulips and surround the glass.  The shape is just gorgeous!

SO...with a lovely set of china, gorgeous glasses, and a pretty tablecloth, what could go wrong???

Right????

Blessings to you all!

Doni

Pearls and Lace Thursday #70 Lace Wrapped Bobbins

I've been late for two weeks in a row!  I'm so sorry. 

But now, let's do some catching up!  It's so fun to think about what I'll be sharing with you all, but then all of a sudden life takes an unexpected turn and we're going out of town!!

At least I've had the time to think about what I'm going to do when I finally have the time!

Here's the latest.

The bobbins are some recent finds from etsy, and the laces are some I've had for a while and some I've found recently.  I love the look of laces wrapped around old wooden bobbins.

And it just wouldn't be right if I hosted a party called Pearls and Lace and didn't have any pearls, right??

So here they are.  BUT...the pearls are not vintage...just store bought from the jewelry makings dept.

But a new necklace looms in the future made of the three colors.  PINK being a favorite!! But I LOVE those darker colored pearls too....hmmmm.....

The plates they are on ARE vintage, and I must say, the colors and textures on them are so perfect!

They are chippy, crazed, and lovely. (if I do say so myself!).

I love the different colors included on each spray of flowers....they're just lovely together.

I just can't get over how many of you visit my little ol' blog during the week!  I've so enjoyed visiting you, and you have such beautiful things to share each week.  I know that without a doubt a spend HOURS of every week looking around blogland, and seriously, there's not a day that I'm not on this computer looking at your posts.  The fun to the serious, I'm loving it all.  You ladies (and some gents I know), are such talented people.  Your photography skills amaze me, and I hope someday I'll be as good as y'all!!!

I'll be joining some parties in the upcoming days, so please take a look at the list I have on my sidebar of parties I love....they seriously are a lot of fun, and there's ALWAYS something gorgeous being shared.

I'm also hosting my weekly (though sometimes tardy) party, Pearls and Lace Thursday today, so if you'd like to join me, please add the url code of your post to the link below!  I'm looking forward to getting next week's party thought out and READY before I'm late!!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and may I take this moment to thank ALL of our country's VETERANS as we think about your sacrifices for our freedom.  You indeed are hero's and need to know it!!!

And it's not just you that we need to honor, but your families as well, because they too served by their service to you. 

I know...I have a Veteran for a husband, and he's my hero.

Blessings to you all!

Doni

Pearls and Lace Thursday #69 and The Pink Door

It was a bright and sunny day.  Cars were everywhere.  I pulled over into a dirt path and parked the car.  Entering the old warehouse was difficult.  Cobwebs abounded, dust was everywhere.  It was the perfect place.  I could feel it in my bones.  I was going to go home with a treasure that was just what I wanted.

I looked quickly up one shelf and down another, making my way to the dark back corner of a huge room, only lit by dim bulbs and one open door.  The building had stood for decades, was loaded with boxes on every shelf, some open, some closed.

It was the Hiway 80 sale.  We had been on the road for a few hours, and finally we came to this building.

I turned a corner, wiped away some sweat, And there it was....

A door with windows, chippy and painted, but was it pink?

On the first side it was white.  But when I turned it over.....

PINK!!!

I asked my husband if he thought we could fit it in our little car.

"No, there's no way".  I had to find a way.

There had to be a way, and I was going to find one.

So, I waited.  Until he was in another part of the dusty building looking around.

Then I grabbed the door and carried it outside.

Oh I had to have this door!

As I approached the tented area where the girls were waiting to take payments, I asked them,

"May I check and see if I can fit this in my car?"

"Sure you can!  We'll help!"

And help they DID!!!  I didn't know the backseat of my car would lay down flat....into the trunk!!

THEY KNEW!!

They all of them went headfirst into my car, moved some things around, laid that seat back and hefted my new door into the car, strapped it in, and even repacked the car!!!!

"MARVELOUS!!!"

I was now in possession....9/10ths of the law you know!

As I handed them the money for the door, I asked, 'all sales are final, RIGHT??" You know the look and the nod I gave them.... ; )

When my husband finally exited the building with a few find of his own, he couldn't believe that our car was right there...in front of the building with a PINK door sticking out of it!

"Well, I didn't know that back seat would do that!!"

He was actually excited for me!

The girls were so great!  Thanks you dears....I'm forever in your debt.  And if you need help any time...well I'm sure I'd be delighted to help you out!

Hope you all had a wonderful week!

I just had to share the adventures of finding this awesome door with y'all.  It's time for Pearls and Lace Thursday, so join the party!!  Link up your post's url code to the link below and show us your pretties!

Anything pretty that you'd like to share!

We had 12 links last week!!  Thanks to all of you who have joined me for the party, and many hugs to you newest followers too!  I'm so delighted you decided to join me!

I will be joining a few parties as well this week, so be sure and check out the parties I love links on the right in the sidebar!!!  There is always so much inspiriation out there, and it's like looking at a wonderful magazine each time I spend time at your lovely blogs.

Thanks for all you do.

Have a lovely weekend!!

Blessings, Doni