Always Believe

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Rain Lots of Rain

 Today it is raining and it rained yesterday it's positively wonderful!  We need the rain the flowers and weed love it.  Here are photos looking out my front door.

 I love to sit on the back patio and listen to the rain on the metal awnings.  It really is a great relief from all the hot, humid, hazy weather we have had. 

With the cooler weather I decided to make something special for dinner (needs to bake in oven) and made this recipe from my pinterest recipe board Tortellini Bake.

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Believe me it is delicious!  My husband liked it and it is even better the next day.  Just like cell phones how did we ever live without pinterest?

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My Favorite "Pins" #4

These glass plate flowers are on my list to make

they look so lovely in the garden!

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I'd like to sit here and read or have

a romantic dinner with hubby

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It would have to be heaven to have beautiful roses like this!

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How about a walk in the woods

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I agree "Friends are the sunshine of life"

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Please join me this week and share your favorite "Pins"

....link up below and please

put a link in you post back here. 

Linking to:
Sunlit Sunday
Pinterest Monday


Warm hugs,

Playing In The Dirt!

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was such a beautiful day with the sun shining bright and warm! 

So I spent the day playing in the dirt!

See how bright the sun was ... here is my shadow!

These are some photos of my garden it is looking a little sad.

I did do a lot of clean up

A few daffodils are blooming!

This is in the front of my house

I do have alot of wild onions and I do hate them

they are so hard to get rid of

Found a box of daffodil bulbs I didn't plant last fall

put them in this planter...hope they bloom

then I'll plant them in the garden

Bought this cement planter at a garage sale last summer

More of that darn wild onion

They are hard to see but there are hundreds of

Rose of Sharon start ups

To me Rose of Sharon is like a bad weed!

I've even trim the bushes so they don't bloom but of course

they still do...then drop their seeds and all

these little starter pop up everywhere!

This is the very shady side of the house there is a bleeding heart

and ferns here - I'll be sure and show it to you

when they bloom!

I really only have a very small yard but it sure takes a lot of time

to keep up with all the garden stuff !

Found these on the Better Homes and Garden web site
they are Sombrero coneflowers WOW they are really beautiful!

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These will really brighten up a garden!

Linking To:
Tuesday Garden Party
Thursday Favorite Things

This or That Thursday
Rural Thursday

Fertilizer Friday
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Warm hugs,

Share Your Favorite Pins Sunday #2

A big "Thanks You" goes out to:

Bargain Hunting Treasure Seeker

and

J Briggs Little Pieces

for linking up last week!

This week I've found some wonderful ideas for making Mason Jars chandeliers

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There is a tutorial here on making one

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I think the last photo on a smaller scale would look great in my breakfast room or how about this:

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So many ideas...how did we ever get along without Pinterst?  Join the party this week and show us your Pins.

1. Publish your post sharing your favoite "PIN" for the week.
2. Paste the button above on your sidebar or in your post making sure it links back to this post.
3. Come back here and add your link below.
4. It sure would be nice if you became a follower and I'll follow you back.
5. Please visit other particpants and and leave comments about their "PINS"


Warm hugs,

Share Your Pins Sunday #1

There are a few pin that are special this week.  First this one from Vintage Garden Gal and shows a herb garden in wine barrels. Very clever idea!

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These lupines are beautiful! I imagine this to be in England with a fire in the fireplace and tea and scones set on the little table in front and I'm waiting for a friend to enjoy!

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I'm having so much fun Pinning things on Pinterest that I thought I'd do a blog party every Sunday and we can all share our favorite pins!

1.  Publish your post sharing your favoite "PIN" for the week.
2.  Paste the button above on your sidebar or in your post making sure it links back to:
                                   http://shabbycottagecollectibles.blogspot.com
3. Come back here and add your link below.
4.  It sure would be nice if you became a follower and I'll follow you back.
5.  Please visit other particpants and and leave comments about their "PINS"

Thanks so much for joining in.

Warm hugs,

This Weeks Favorite "PIN" Find!

I'm fairly new to Pinterest only been doing "PINS" for a couple weeks but there is some really amazing stuff out there in blog land!  Pinterest is really addictive... it pulls you right in and before you know it you have spent hours going from pin to pin.  My favorite "PIN" this week is from ... Suzy Homefaker  she has some interesting recycled planter ideas.

There are lot more ideas on her blog!

Linking to this great blog party:

Ferilizer Friday/Flaunt Your Flowers

Whatever Wednesday

Warm hugs,