They Filled Their Space With Lace

A Beautiful Space Graced with Lace is the start of my post today.  

For decades lace has held a special place in so many facets of our lives.  If you think about it, more than likely it is an everyday part of yours as you slipped from your nightgown this morning and slipped into your clothes.  Did the soft stream of sunlight greet you today through beautiful lace panels?  As you made up your bed did your pillowcases drip with lace trimmed edges? And if your answer is no, then I would challenge you just to see if you can go a week without lace making it appearance at least a few times everywhere you go 

It's presence can be found in the loveliest of displays from flea markets to fabulous wedding and specialty boutiques.  There simply is a lure for lace with women and women my friend are everywhere.  

Most of us will have plans sometime this year to attend a wedding and just try to count all the places that lace will grace that day. If you are a bride to be or a mother of the bride chances are you are in search for this lovely embellishment to either wear or decorate with.

Vintage themed wedding are so popular now and with Pinterest boards displaying so many wonderful ideas for lace could we run the risk of a vintage lace shortage?  May this never be!

Can you imagine a world without lace?  Gasp!!!!

The thought makes me feel faint.  Good thing I could faint here on this beautiful lace covered fainting couch. 

Or sit here among the lace trimmed pillows in this tent created by such a Vintage Soul.

No matter where I go my camera and I stop for lace and if I am a really, really good girl,

Lace comes home with me!

Fancy Flea Spring 2014

The Fancy Flea is going on today and tomorrow in Plant City FL at the Fairgrounds.

 I will just let the pictures do the talking because words would fail me on describing these amazing booths accurately.

A little Sassytrash fabulous!

I hope you enjoyed your trek around the fairgrounds with me.  It's my hubby's birthday today so it's time to make some cake.

Have a beautiful weekend!

Going through some changes....

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach 

Bench Bliss

  Hubby's farm table business slowed a bit last month so I asked him to build a potting bench that I had seen pinned on Pinterest.  It turned out wonderful but was too large for our breezeway so in to the shop it went after much debate as to how I needed a work bench in my garage that would inspire me to go to work each day.  

He had built this pretty bench a few years ago and I wrote about it here.  We used lots of pieces that had been laying around the garage but again off to the shop it went to thrill somebody else.

Do you hear a little whine in my words?  Poor pitiful me right?  Well, when he finally pried my fingers and body loose from the first potting bench as he was loading it on the truck to take it to the shop he promised me he would build me another and that it would be far better than any he had ever done before.  I trusted him and turned loose.

And here she is and she is going nowhere!  I am chaining my leg around her.  She is mine! 

Linking to these wonderful parties today.

Elizabeth and Co Be Inspired 
Coastal Charm Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
A Stroll Thru Life Inspire Me Tuesday
A Delightsomelife Return to Loveliness
Between Naps on the Porch Met Monday
Savy Southern Style Wow us Wednesday

Calling all Garden Fairies

The weather has been glorious here for the past several weeks so hubby and  I have been busy getting the flowerbeds and garden ready.   It's time to put down fresh mulch which always makes things look so fresh and clean.  I would love to plant an abundance of flowers and vegetables but have held back as my daughter will soon be having her baby and she wants her momma there and if she had her way I would be there for a year.  lol Hubby has a full work schedule to keep him busy enough so I won't trouble him with a gazillion pots to water in my absence.  I am counting on the roses and hydrangeas and azaleas and iris and a nice sprinkle of fairy dust to keep everything thriving and in bloom.  

Just some inspiration for spring time past.

I hope you are having a beautiful weekend.

Hugs

Becky

Art

 It started as a little game on facebook.  My friend had placed a picture of an artist on her page and by liking it you were then given an artist to look up and post their work on your page.   The idea was to fill up facebook with art instead of selfies and food pictures.

I decided to join in and to my delight as I found myself looking for artists to assign those friends of mine that joined in, I found such amazing artists and such beautiful art.

I found this artist,  Vicente Romero Redondo.

They are lovely paintings aren't they?

They make you want to step right in to his work.  So step right in my friends and I think you too will discover what Twyla Tharp said  best.....

Baby's first trip to the beach

My daughter flew in from TN this past week for her baby shower and thankfully we have warmed up a bit here in FL so that we could take some beach shots. 

In addition to everything that was special about having her home for a few day was how her husband surprised her by flying two of her best friends in for the shower.

 I love her friends as much as she does.  

What a fun time we had.

Do you know what you get when you fly people from freezing Indiana in to Florida ?

 Cartwheels on the beach and whole lot of

Happy, Happy, Happy.