Pink Saturday and Your Vote

Linking late to Beverly and all the pink lovers but I need y'all opinion please. I'm participating in a brooch swap and although I love the pink brooch, my swap partner lives where it's winter now. Should I send the green or the beige? Thanks!

I want to thank Beverly again for her wonderful gifts from her blog birthday. Though her picture is better than mine, here is the awesome display! I've already put the Jasmine reed oil, the cup and saucer, the Believe plaque and the leaf dish in my bathroom which I'm redoing slowly. I'm saving the goodies to share so I don't eat them all by myself!! Thanks again Beverly!

Y'all please let me know about the brooch! Have a great week!!

Giveaway Winner(s)

Finally picked the winner for my cuff giveaway from last week. I emailed my daughter katie to choose a number between 1 and 25 since it's her birthday today and she chose 25 because that's old she Used to be!!
Congratulations number 25 whose name is kt too! Totally weird. I chose another number out of a hat and that winner is Chicken Julie. I'll email y'all both to get your home addresses. Thanks to all of you for the sweet comments about my chair. I'm enjoying it and I hope I inspired some of you too!

I always like to post a photo with my words so I'm sharing a watercolor painting that my husband's cousin did for me. Every year we have a wonderful Mardi Gras party and she took a snapshot of my mom and me on my front porch from a couple of years ago. I'll treasure it always because it brings back so many sweet memories for me. My mom was such a good sport and loved sitting on the porch to watch the people more than the parade passing by. Thanks so much Bobbie!

Guest Posting/Pink Saturday

So honored to be featured Here today!! Thank you Madame Samm! Remember to leave a comment to win my giveaway.

For all my Pink Saturday friends: So sorry I missed the big birthday celebration at Beverly's with y'all. I couldn't get my posting to work for some reason last weekend. Hope you all had fun at the party. Here's a little pink (or actually a lot) for this weekend.

I repainted the inside of a food armoire from my mom to put in my studio. I absolutely love it! More storage space and such a happy color!!

The outside:

This piece of furniture was in my mom's house forever and I think she got it from her mom. It was in the dining room and she stored her Christmas green dishes and other holiday dishes in here. Her mom probably used it for it's original purpose which was to store food. A "garde manger" in French or literally a guarder of eats. It really does not translate well!

Hope y'all have a wonderful week! 

suesue

Pink Saturday

A couple of shots from our local fair at the beginning of the month. This is a view from the ferris wheel which was amazing! All that bright color beckoning everyone to come out and have fun!!

Which is what this girl really did! Look at that face---pure enjoyment. And of course, she chose a Pink chair........

Joining all my Pink bloggers today with Beverly to show our love of this wonderful color!!

Leaving a link to Lynn at Adorn, a blogger whose work I found last week and loved. 

Still Spring

Another glorious weather morning here! Unusually cool for May. I love this weather although it makes me a little nostalgic. I want to go to my Mom's and sit on the porch and visit. We could sit for hours there and discuss everything in the world! I miss her so much.

I also love this time of year for all the fresh veggies available. I've been picking eggplant and tomatoes already and enjoying their deliciousness!! I bought some green beans today from a friend whose grandkids make a garden with her and her husband. They call it their Making Memories Garden. How sweet is that? I think I'll just stir fry my beans to keep that crispness that I like. We'll have that with some pasta and shrimp etouffe' for supper!

Since I don't have a picture of tonight's supper, I'll post one from a few weeks ago. I roasted my first whole chicken ever. Researched some recipes online and brined it for a couple of hours. Then I stuffed it with lemon, onion and garlic. I chopped some of my fresh cilantro, green onions and parsley and mixed that with butter which I pushed under the chicken skin. It was soooooo good!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Pink Saturday

Silly me!! Last weekend I meant to link my last post to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound and I completely neglected to do just that. Our community fair happened and since I'm the treasurer of the group, I stayed pretty busy all weekend and this past week. I usually don't finish for a least a month because I have to wait on the utility bills and such. Unfortunately, we didn't do as well as usual because we moved it to Mother's Day and the people just didn't come out. Fair and festivals are a big part of South Louisiana and ours celebrates the food of the people or "Fete du Monde".

Meanwhile I did receive a perfectly PINK package in the mail from Jess at Kids Napping? I'm
Scrapping! Jess does the most beautiful tags, swaps and ATC's. I had participated in a Red, White and Blue Book Tag swap a couple of summers ago and love my Patriotic Book! She had a blog birthday and did a pink giveaway and my comment won!! A beautiful Mother's Day surprise. Just look at all these goodies. I can't tell you my favorite but that little bird pin is adorable! I'll have so much fun just looking at all these things!! Isn't her packaging darling too?

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day and has another beautiful weekend. We finally got some rain (and of course, are expecting record rising waters for the next few weeks) and I think summer weather is here. See y'all!

p.s. Please check out my previous post~I'm pretty proud of my chair.

New Chair cover

I've been wanting to cover my sewing machine chair for some time now. It was nasty and full of holes from years of use and abuse. (I think I bought it in 1987, the same year I got my sewing machine).

I love bloggers!! From them I got the idea to make my own fabric using selvedges. So much fun and so much color! I used a piece of muslin to trace the back and seat and filled up the area with selvedges and a few pieces of polka dot fabrics. I couldn't undo the seat part so I pushed the piece in with a screwdriver. The back came off and I wrapped that piece around and hot glued it before I put it back together. Now I have a comfy, beautiful chair!

Don't you just love it? Zoom in for a closer look!

Linking to (or trying) Kootoyou, Sew Much Ado and How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.

I'm so excited! Karen is featuring my chair on Selvage Blog. If you love inspiration, you'll love her posts!!