"FOR MOTHER"

I have not been very good at blogging these days, so while I'm sitting here at the computer getting ready for another newsletter and preparing to upload hundreds of vintage items on my new Etsy site, I'd thought I would share my newest wreath.

With all Moms in mind, over the past six months I've collected just the right treasures for this wreath and finally got it all pulled together yesterday. It will be for sale on Elegance and Whimsy by week's end.

Enjoy the view and leave a comment if you'd like.
I've been missing all of you so much.

Hi Everyone &
Welcome to PINK SATURDAY


Happy Pink Saturday!
I decided to take some pictures of my favorite pink things around the house.
I hope you enjoy the view.

Remember to visit our gracious host, Beverly at Howsweetthesound and to visit all participants on this day.

What a week!

You know how you start one thing and the next thing you know you have done 10 other things and never finished the first one you started? I made that HUGE mistake this week and boy did it cost me.

I was reading someone's blog and they asked what three favorite movies I loved. One thing lead to another (I HAVE NO IDEA HOW BECAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER) and I was watching "Love Actually" movie clips on YouTube. This is where the problem begins.

One of the songs in this movie (which is one of my all time favorites) is by Dido. It's called "Here With Me". I just had to download this song from iTunes and listen to it. Well I went to iTunes to download and I received an error message that I needed to upgrade my software. So I click o.k. and go watch t.v. until it's time to go to bed. I came back to the computer and everything on my desktop is frozen. No matter what I do, nothing works. I go to bed and hope DH and I can figure it out in the morning.

Not a chance. Both of us are stumped and frustrated. I call up the Apple store and make an appointment for 2:30 pm. DH and I unplug the computer from it's one hundred cords and take it in for a 2 hour "fix". Everything looks o.k. We bring it back home and hook the 3 hundred cords back into the 2 hundred connections.

Yesterday, I tried to print something ~ NO PRINTER connection. I took photos for today's blog. When I opened iPhoto every photograph I've ever taken WAS GONE! The camera wouldn't connect and therefore, no photos ANYWHERE. Now my anxiety level is off the charts. Three days of computer stress is not good for my heart at my age.

I reinstalled the printer software and got it to work. Yeah. I went and took some photos of pretties then tried to download them. NOTHING HAPPENED. iPhoto doesn't respond in anyway to the camera. Now panicking again, I opened iPhoto and there are NO PHOTOS there. I immediately opened my backup system to find that none of my iPhotos were there either. Don't know how or when I lost all of them but I am hoping by some miracle DH comes home today and can figure out where they are floating around in the Universe. Otherwise, three years worth of photography is now history. My head hurts, my tummy hurts and I'm completely disoriented?

I thought I would post some old photos I had sitting on my desktop. They look so summery as we wait for Thanksgiving to arrive.

How is your day going my friend? lol

WELCOME TO PINK SATURDAY


Happy Pink Saturday!
I decided to take some pictures of my favorite pink things around the house.
I hope you enjoy the view.

Remember to visit our gracious host, Beverly at Howsweetthesound and to visit all participants on this day.

"Pretties"

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ROMANTIC HOMES MAGAZINE

"SITES WE ARE LOVING"

I have been bursting at the seems waiting to get my hands on a copy of Romantic Homes Magazine. It finally arrived today and I am thrilled to bits. Right there on Page 12 is two of my original designs.
"Corine" and "Going Shopping" have been featured in the
"Sites We Are Loving" section. OMG!

These lovely ladies are available along with many, many other scrumptious delights to give or get for the holidays (or after)! Corine is located in the "Beau Petit Enfants" boutique ~ and ~ "Going Shopping" is located in the "Joyeux Noel" boutique at Elegance and Whimsy.

This is where the excitement begins:

LOOK FOR OUR AD ON PAGE 17

Cupcake Fairy Cottages

I'm getting in the holiday spirit. Can't you tell? Just look at these adorable "Fairy Cupcake Cottages. Each one is decorated completely different. So cute and sweet. It really puts me in the holiday mood digging out and creating goodies for everyone to enjoy in their own home. I hope you enjoy these, one-of-a-kind, Cupcake Fairy Cottages.

Tears in My Eyes

I just received this email via my Treasured Heirlooms website and am so moved by it that I needed to share it with all of you.

This is why I "do what I do"!
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I believe...'UREKA' is the word I would use to describe my elation as I browsed your website. For years, all of my creative impulses, love of antiques and heirlooms, and passion for creating little vignettes all around my home for as long as I can remember.

I've been searching for a way to satisfy and take advantage of this passion and gift I have for doing this type of work...and Your Cottage and Website, have given me the 'lightbulb' in my head. This is what I want to do!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to have/create/develop found heirlooms and special things, into wonderful pieces to gift and collect.

Sounds really silly, but I actually have tears in my eyes as I am writing this to you. Yes, I'm 50 and I'm certain the hormones are on escalators...but I'm also a woman who raised three kids on her own, and haven't had any formal education beyond high school. Options are limited for people with my lack of professionalism to be able to succeed financially and in many other factors of 'success', whatever that definition may be.

Now with my goals in sight, I can begin to develop my talent and passion and pursue my lifelong love of heirlooms, and use the creativity that God has given me.

Thank you, for what you do, and for speaking to me today, via the internet:)

Denise

New Wreaths

I have been blessed to have my, one-of-a-kind, "Themed Wreaths" featured in "Romantic Country", "Romantic Homes" & "Country Victorian" magazines. Here are a few of my latest creations just in time for the holidays. I am also taking orders for the "High Tea in the Rose Garden Wreath"

"Santa's Silver Sleigh"

"Believe"

"High Tea in the Rose Garden"

"Lilac Love"

Haunted Halloween Party - Part 3

A "Haunted Halloween Party"
at the Magic Kingdom
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

During our vacation in Disney we attended their famous "Haunted Halloween" party.

For the month of October all of the Magic Kingdom is dressed in it Halloween finery. Certain nights of the month they close the park early and only "Trick or Treaters" (people who pay the extra $$ to get in, lol) are allowed to come in and enjoy the Halloween Festivities. Two electric light Halloween Parades and an amazing firework displays are just the beginning. Mike and I had tickets for Tuesday night, October 6th.

Everywhere you looked people were dressed up in amazing costumes. Moms, Dads, kids, tweens and babies had lavish outfits which they obviously brought from home for the event. Many of them have been coming to the Halloween Party for years, so they were well prepared.

I wanted to dress up in a costume so badly, but I never had the chance to find one I liked before we left! So I decided that I would buy myself a Crystal Tiara and consider myself the "Queen of Everything" for the evening.
It worked.

We entered the Magic Kingdom, received our Trick or Treat bags, took pictures of adorable children (didn't know them, but couldn't resist) and began our quest for free candy. Following the map and looking for the special "Goofy" sign throughout the park we began to fill our bags with all kinds of my favorite penny candy.

Two "Tinks" and Robin Hood

Tootsie Rolls/Pops, Smarties, taffy, lollipops, Raisins(?), Mary Janes, hard candy, Now & Later's and everything else a kid with a sweet tooth would want ~ and every Adult with a sweet tooth.

I had to buy one of these awesome balloons. I gave it away to a little boy named "Charlie" from the UK before we left our hotel for the airport. He was in awe of the giant gift and hadn't been to the Magic Kingdom yet. I'm sure I made his day as the smile on his face was priceless. Made me feel great.

It didn't take more than 1/2 an hour and I was feeling sick, not from the candy, but I wasn't quite sure what was wrong. I found a place to sit down and began to shake and sweat was pouring down like water from my entire body. Of course, it was 95 outside and the humidity was deadly. At this point I figured out I was completely dehydrated. My DH ran and got me cold water which I frantically drank. Luckily it worked and within moments I felt so much better. Just in time for the Haunted Halloween Fireworks display which was amazing. I only took a handful of photos, but it was a busy night as you can imagine. Candy first, pictures later.

Here are more fun pictures of "Fairy" collectibles available at the Magic Kingdom.

The End...