THIS and THAT

September 22...
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY to LACEY JEAN CONKLIN...
You are such a blessing to us and to everyone that knows you.
We love you to the moon and back.
LOVE FOREVER AND EVER, Memaw and Granddad
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I'm all over the page with this post

.....just a few things I like...

some, I LOVE..

I'm not thinking that it's wrong to love "things"...

GOD gave us so many kinds of LOVE and HE knows, I hope,

that when we say "Oh, I just love my new car." it is

not anywhere CLOSE to the kind of love we have for HIM...

or our families..friends..

It is more a "saying" than anything else...don't you think?
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I like these cardboard boxes a LOT...

THIS AND THAT...

I don't have a single solitary thing in them...

They are around just for pure CUTENESS...

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I had several friends that wanted a set but the store I bought them from

is now out of business...and not a one of the friends would take MINE...I would

gladly give them.

Think I'll just google and see if I might find some...

Wouldn't that be an awesome gift for one that had been wanting some!!!

Google it is !!
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I saw this adorable

"LOST SOCKS GATHER HERE"

and had to have it...
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It is the cauuutest thing you've ever seen...

Looks adorable on my laundry closet shelf...

Go HERE if you might want to order one...great gift idea, too.
I love mine...
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but now that I think on it....

I could have used that money elsewhere...

Maybe "paid it forward" and paid for someones meal at

a local resturant..

I do this a lot...do you?

I mean I buy something and then think....I SHOULD have done 'this' or 'that' with the money.

*sigh
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...these are my favorite fallish colors..

russet reds...dark golds...khaki ...

Not much on orange but I do use it a little...

especially at HALLOWEEN...

THEN, Orange is FUN !

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....lovin' hot buttered breads..
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...and love love love POTTERY BARN knockoffs...
$199.00 PLUS shipping....
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It's just fun to "get the look" without the price..

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I ADORE beautiful skies...

whether it be bright and shiny...

or clouds galore, promising rains...
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I can't remember if these are from POTTERY BARN or ANTHROPOLOGE

or maybe .....CRATE and BARELL...one of the ADORABLE stores, anyway...

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I sure do like them....A LOT !!

YIPEE for the person that invented
beautiful BLACK VINYL NUMBERS...

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AND, OH BOY...I do love THESE..

Crunchy TAQUITOES...

only with FLOUR TORTILLAS...

O HONEY !
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I am loving my mantel but now it's time to change it up

some for FALL..

WHITE PUMPKINS...

All of mine will be white this year, I am thinking...

Possibly ONE little tiny PUMPKIN colored pumpkin to sit in my tiny blue chair...

I'll show ya later...
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I love the texture of the vintage shuttered SWINGING DOORS

with the quilt my mother made so many years ago....

....these are in my dining room and I have so many things there that

either belonged to my mother or she had given to me.

Sometimes, when all is quite and I am at the dining table...

I can honestly FEEL her there, right beside me...I can just almost see her...

Am I losing it ???

Do you still want to be my friend...:)
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I've been cleaning closets and such today..

no time for baking so I reached back in the PAST for this

luscious LEMON PIE...

YOU can have it...

I've already eaten MY slice....

:>)