The White Squirrel

This beautiful white squirrel visits my husband's childhood home in South Georgia frequently to gather seeds and nuts from around the bird feeder. This color is quite rare - Hope you enjoy the pics!

I believe these were taken with hubby's camera phone, so they may be kind of blurry - but I thought I would share them anyway. How many of you have seen a white squirrel before? It is quite a site!! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful Sunday!!

Becky in Venice

Oh to be a 25 year old single woman living in Europe! The next best thing to being that is having a daughter who is doing it! Becky vacationed in Italy last week and shared with me these wonderful pictures and I want to share them with you! Hope you enjoy them...

It took me a while, it was hard to pare it down from the 87 pics she sent me!

Etsy Front Page - CSSTeam

This morning I woke up way too early and put the "bold" coffee in the filter and pressed "bold" on the pot display and opened up etsy. To my surprise, I recognized an item on the front page, and then another. I rubbed my eyes and tried to focus on the shop names and then said....OMG it is the CSSTeam on the front page. I was so excited, I did not even notice my vintage barkcloth pincushion on the bottom row until I got my first cup. Thanks to Bramble and Vine for creating this wonderful treasury and all the commenters and clickers out there in etsy land!!! Craft Cult has this neat way to get the screenshot of etsy front page treasuries. And, last but not least, thanks to The Seasonal Cottage for helping me to get it published!

Shabby Chic Vintage China

I was out of town this past weekend, so I missed the Dixie Highway Yardsale - over 100 miles of yard sales. I was just itchin' to go "junkin" and I did manage to find a smaller version of it in South Georgia - from Pavo to Boston. Tiny little towns with no McDonalds, mostly just country, cows and fresh veggies for sale. I did score this vintage china in the Hostess Pattern by Gold Castle. I believe it is from the 1940s. This set has a wonderful "shabby chic" look to it, nicely worn. Too bad the teacups were chippy, but I just love the rose pattern, the gold trim and the pink and yellow...

4 Salad/Dessert Plates

2 Dinner Plates

1 Perfect Sugar Bowl

4 Saucers

These are for sale in my shop - I will combine the shipping! Thanks for stopping by!

A Nest Full...

...of baby Eastern Phoebes. Count them, if you can. There are five of them nesting in a mudded nest on top of one of our porch columns. They are the first of the flycatchers to nest in Spring mudding their nests to the wall and tops of columns, especially under bridges. They have two nest fulls every Spring, guess that is because they start so early. Our first nest full of five just up and died, it was weird, but all these little babies seem to be healthy and will soon be leaving the nest. Mom and dad work tirelessly sitting on tree branches catching bugs as they fly by and they take turns flying to the nest to feed the little birds. Needless to say, they have made a huge mess on my porch, but I can clean it up when they are gone. Happy Sunday to you All!!

Vintage Coverlet - Crocheted Roses

I worked at the cottage some today, taking pics of things, trying to list items in my shop. Really, the housekeepers are coming tomorrow, so I was trying to get all my stuff stuffed into closets so they could have a path for the vacuum - LOL. I ran across this vintage coverlet that I purchased a while back and I just got so excited about it, how it looked, with all those crocheted roses - 220 of them. And how it looked on the bed. It has this wonderful 8" crocheted trim around three of the edges and the other edge just tucks under your pillows. I believe it to be completely handmade - Can you imagine the time it would take to do that?? The edges just looked so pretty hanging over the side of the bed. Just had to share with you gals...

Thanks for stopping by!

Pillow Talk...

...Ok, yall know I am a vintage textile junkie, I fall in love with fabrics all the time until my new favorite comes along. I sound fickle, don't I?? Well, I am in love with this mid-century botanical barkcloth that I snagged off etsy a couple weeks ago. Only a small piece, but I was able to make this one for my reading chair and a couple small ones for my shop. I put a feather/down insert in this one and slip stitched it shut - I cannot wait to sit in the chair and read! Maybe after I get done cleaning up my sewing mess :-)!!