Just some EYE CANDY

TINA that lives at CHERRY HILL COTTAGE

was one of the first bloggers  I fell in love with.

I still love her fresh ways of decorating her sweet cottage.

Some of the following photos are of a house 

she helped decorate for a house tour...

Some of the photos are of her own beautiful rooms...

See that beautiful painted wooden porch..

Once, when I was a little girl, I was playing JAX with a cousin.

Can you imagine what happened?

A big long splinter right up under a fingernail...

I squalled for two days.

I'm getting some burlap and pretty ribbon TOMORROW !!

Wouldn't you LUV to find an olden, wicker baby bassinet

to use on your front porch, filled with flowers.

I WANT ONE......BAD
if I find two, do U want one?

This is the beautiful outside of TINA'S 

CHERRY HILL COTTAGE.

....window boxes

...those awesome awnings

...the painting on her wall

...the TEXAS FLAG

(i'm going to get one....TODAY)

THIS room of Tina's makes me 

suck in too much air and get choked

every time I see it.

SOOO swoon worthy

She says she got these adorable

red and white polka dot SHEETS at WALMART..

they just look adorable on her pretty bed.

*

It's time to change out my *winter look* for a lighter *summer look*

on my bed, too...

polka dot sheets...hmmmmm ;)

OH SO SOUTHERN.....

*

She decorates like THIS 

AND

makes things like....

CHOCOLATE COBBLER

*SIGH
I wanna be TINA when I grow up.......

xoxo bj

My Country French Farm House Table

DONNA over at FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS

is having FARM HOUSE TABLE meme this week...

and I LUV to play in her memes.

PART of this post is from the past and

part is *today*....

Here's a neat thing about todays designs...
You can call your STYLE anything you want to.
Some days, my dining room is SHABBY...
Some days, it's COUNTRY...
Some days, it's ROMANTIC PRAIRIE, which it MOSTLY is.

ONCE UPON A TIME....

there were some very BROWN dining chairs...

Since I am a "LOVE PAINTED FURNITURE" person,

these chairs were NOT my favorite thing in my dining room...

....a LITTLE natural furniture is ok...

but a large farm house table in brown oak, 

6 OAK chairs and a large OAK buffet

WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME...!

I reached for the paint can MANY times but MR. SWEET sucked air through his teeth

and his eyes rolled so far back, I was sure, ONCE AGAIN, that he might never

be able to focus them again !!

BUT, THEN.... my friend wanted to sell her almost new CREAMY WHITE dining chairs...

Although I PROMISE I never really PRAYED for creamy white dining chairs,

I TOOK THIS AS A SIGN FROM ABOVE...

and when she said...

$150.00 for ALL SIX,

I got that money to her so fast it caused me to pass a little gas !

....and, may I just say....

OH HONEY !

My farm house table came ALIVE when

the creamy white chairs came to live with it.

These chairs made my dining room

GROW UP OVERNIGHT....!!!
Yes, ma'am....they surely did.

I love to change up the table setting and I do it pretty often...
Loved these beautiful flowering branches and basket of whites.

I love my french country farmhouse chandy...I love the chunkyness of it..
It seems to "hold it's own" with the heavy, long oak table beneath it...and I really love the white glass globes. This was found at a local FLEA MARKET about 18 years ago for $45.00....
I've wondered several times if I should paint the base of it...somehow, I like the brushed brass.
I also love SHINY brass and am VERY slow to ever paint over it....
I have  been eyeing the ORB spray at Walmart, tho....

Of course, just about the time I get it sprayed bronze,
the brushed brass will start showing up in POTTERY BARN catalogs.

Some of you might know that I am a
TABLE CLOTH PERSON.....big time !
BUT...
I'm giving this nekked table a few days to see if I like it better...
**
I do love a pretty tablecloth but....
these ADORABLE CREAMY WHITE CHAIRS
are makin' this brown table look lots better....
I put some vintage shutter SWINGING DOORS
up beside my windows...
I had BLUE TRANSFERWARE plates hanging there but...
they have been there 6 or 7 years and I wanted something new...
...to match
THE CHAIRS...

 Now this table dressing REALLY takes on a
Country French feel...

At first, these shutters  looked STRANGE to me...

you know how you get used to something one way and when
you change it, it takes awhile before you know if you're
gonna like it or not...
but, so far...I like the frenchy farm house  look it adds
to my BED AND BREAKFAST dining room...
The one with the
LOVED, CREAMY WHITE CHAIRS !!
I'm tellin' ya....it's ALL ABOUT THE CHAIRS.!
This next photo is one of two benches MR. SWEET made for me.
When there's no little butts to sit on it,
I like something pretty on this one beneath my mom's quilt.

This is another way I like to decorate THE BENCH..
A little country french going on here.

I'VE been hanging out in the dining room since I am IN LOVE with it again...

and dining rooms make me hungry...

I had lemons....

and our SWEET TOOTH was wanting a.....PIE
....if I could have only ONE dessert in the world...I WOULD CHOOSE PIE !!

See the 1954 calendar plate?

It belonged to MR. SWEET'S momma...

*One of our kids or grands will get it if they want it...
I really don't think it's all that pretty but...
sentiment, ya know....

Frankly.....

I like this plain white vintage plate with a piece of

LEMON PIE
much better !
;>)

Isn't it so wonderful when you get something that you just LOVE and you spend half the day walking back in there to LOOK at it all over again ?
It STILL blows my mind that the white chairs make the
olden farm house table look so much better than the brown chairs did.
The sun is shinning bright out my window...

Hope your day is FILLED with sunshine !!

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MANY THANKS TO ALL THE LOVELIES THAT HOST THESE FUN MEMES EACH WEEK.

We had homemade monkey bread and sweet cherries
while we watch THE WEDDING...
*
Thank you for coming by Sweet Nothings..
I hope this is going to be a really good week for all of us.
xoxo bj
To all affected by the terrible storms,
my prayers.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR GIRL...4/29/1969

You have brought so much love and sunshine to our lives, little girl.

You have accomplished so much in your 42 years...

we were so proud of you as a child...

and proud  beyond measure, of the adult you grew into.

 When you met this handsome and sweet man,

it was a 

Match Made In Heaven.

What a beautiful mom and daughter....

...just one of so many fun times with your family.

You daddy and I are so in awe of the wonderful mother you are.

..watching Deeds play basketball. 2011

 ...the bluest eyes you got from your dad.
I've always been positive that you could be a model if you wanted it.

 2010

 A little 3 generation photo...all of us with the same smile..

EASTER 2011
♥♥♥
HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY, SWEETHEART...
You bring such joy and love to your dad and I.
We love you very very much.
(I know....you thought I was going to say
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very much....
like I usually do on your cards....
but.......................... I didn't.:) LOVE, MOM AND DAD

 MUCH HAPPINESS TO
KATE and WILLIAM

DANKE SCHOEN......

We don't speak GERMAN...
but....

we love WAYNE NEWTON'S beautiful and swingy song,

"DANKE SCHOEN"...
In German, "Danke schön" is equivalent to the English "thank you very much". It is similar to the English "thank you kindly." The polite response is "bitte schön," which translates roughly to "You are very welcome".

♥

and we love

GERMAN PANCAKES

(image from the net.).
i forgot to take a photo while it was still in the skillet...:(
 It is  ONE BIG PANCAKE,
cooked either in a regular, round CAKE pan
or, as I did,
in a cast iron skillet..
It rises...
then falls into
 light and delicious !

They are thin...almost like a CREPE...

and you can add just ANYthing to them to make a really special treat.

I hear MAPLE SYRUP is a really good choice...

(Mr. Sweet's favorite)

Since CHERRIES are one of my very favorite fruits,

this is what I added..

Sweet, yet tart and,

O SO DELICIOUS 

I buy the cans of TART CHERRIES (not the pie filling)

add a tiny bit of sugar, a little flour and water...

gently boil for a few minutes...they will thicken a little.

 Dishes given to us for an anniversary gift....
altho they aren't my "style", I do like them and have enjoyed them a lot.

1/4 cup butter
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
6 eggs, lightly beaten
1/8 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a medium baking dish. In a medium bowl, mix flour, milk, eggs and salt. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Bake on center rack in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until golden brown. 

OH  HONEY

Love and kisses,

bj

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 MAKS of WEISSBUN
has a wonderful post on
REAL German pancakes today, too.
She was kind enuf to let me know about it and also
gave me a shout-out on her blog.
"Thanks so much, Maks"
She tells me that apples are mostly used with German pancakes.
I will use them the next time, Maks.