I don't do ITALIAN...

The only ITALIAN food I know how to make.....errr....prepare,

is PIZZA...(and have NEVER made my own...buy 'em from the pizza makers..)

I just never learned to make many pasta dishes at all.

but I found these 4 really cute bowls at the ♫♪♪ thrift store (4 for $2)

and wanted to cook SOMEthing that would look cute in them....

just for YOU...

OOO, the things I do to please you..... ♥

At first, I thought these were little yellow BANANAS on this bowl..  ♥

I am assuming it might be some kind of pasta, tho...?
I have never seen anything like them before....

I didn't have spaghetti.....that would have looked fabulous in the bowl...

and since I ALWAYS have noodles, this is what you get... :)

a shame, I know, but, I didn't have any type of the red sauce, either. *sighing heavily...

These noodles just have BUTTAH...salt and pepper..."...do you hear me, Paula Deen....BUTTAH !!

I guess, because my mother didn't cook Italian...very seldom did we even have spaghetti ....I just never learned to cook it, either.

O, and we LOVE a lot of Italian foods but when we get hungry for it, we "go out to eat".....we have some fabulous Italian restaurants here in town.

Each little bowl has a different pasta featured....

OOO, I see one that I DO know...on the right...BOW TIES...right ?

Now THIS is one of my favorite breads in the whole wide entire world...

I buy it at WALMART...(they DO have good breads)...

and we love this toasted, for sandwiches...so so good.

haaahaha....while I am CERTAIN there's some awesome Italian desserts,

we do love the ITALIAN ICE....

Thanks a million for stopping by and...

if you have any great (but easy) ITALIAN recipes that I can serve in my cutie bowls,

would you kindly share ?   ♥  xoxoxo bj

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October MAGAZINE COPY CAT CHALLENGE....

TIME for that fun PARTY over at  DEBBIE DOO''S...

You know the one, right ?

MAGAZINE COPY CAT CHALLENGE   ♥

This is ONE of my favorite monthly memes...sooo fun.

When I got my newest POTTERY BARN catalog...

THIS beauty is one of the first things I saw.

I knew INSTANTLY that SHE would be my inspiration for OCTOBER COPY CAT CHALLENGE ♥♥

$139.00 from POTTERY BARN...
$6.00 from GARAGE SALE..

 HOW fun this was to do...

I hope YOU will try doing some COPYCATTING....

 

Oh, and COUNTRY LIVING has some great ideas for decorating pumpkins.....

Mr. Sweet's eyes did that ROLLING THING when I showed these to him...

HE SAID..."....when I was a kid....my mama only bought pumpkins to make pies...."

SHE SAID... "....wellllll....I am buying PUMPKINS 
to make PRETTY...."   ♥

I am also linking with
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                           ....Boooo
             HAPPY HALLOWEEN ♥♥ ♥♥

A wedding On The Bridge

Parked in the shadows of trees, waiting for a wedding to start....♥♥

A ♥ nephew got married last week and we attended the FAR OUT wedding...
I'd never been to a wedding that took place on a BRIDGE....
pretty neat, tho.

It was held on an olden, HISTORIC bridge, among trees that were SUPPOSED to be turning

beautiful colors....

however, due to the HEAT and DROUGHT, the COLOR CHANGE wasn't there.

It was still a pretty place for a casual wedding.

♥

 An olden NAIL and it's SHADOW....   ♥

A cool WEDDING IN THE SHADOWS....♥
Be happy, Steve...we love you !

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The Next Top Model....

Will you be carving pumpkins this year ?

I think we will just PAINT ours this time...

Hope Deeds will do the drawing...she is GOOD at it. ♥

I found this awesome ceramic brown pumpkin
at TJMaxx several years ago. I generally bring it out just before HALLOWEEN.....
and leave it out all fall...or at least until waaay after Thanksgiving.

This tiny orange pumpkin has a WITCHES WART right on it's side....do ya see it?

And, now for the TOP MODEL part of this HALLOWEEN posting....

                          SUPER GIRL

Sweet PEA over at PEAS CORNER has custom made my Halloween Suit now for THREE STRAIGHT YEARS...

Give her a STANDING OVATION...She has done a SUPERGIRL JOB.   ♥ heh heh....

Won't you please take notice of the trim waist, the thin but very shapely legs ..... and most of all...the amazingly SMALL feet.
With these amazing SUPERGIRL boots, I can leap building with a single bound....

I do believe I needed to "touch up the roots" in my long and flowing brown hair.....

  bj ANTOINETTE
                Oh, my.....once AGAIN, my grey roots are showing beneath my shiny, curling locks.

My dress of golden brocade, trimmed with the tiniest of petal pink roses....

the soft pink underdress is complimented by the ruffles at my elbows.

Complimenting the entire ensemble, and bringing this beautiful look into fashion magazines all over the globe, are the
stunningly magnificent PINK SLIPPERS.
           ♥♥
I really must search out a FACE DIET
as my face seems a little large for my
amazing and beautiful body..... 

"Let's go to the hop.....♫♪♪

        

 Here I am.....all ready for the SOX HOP.

POODLE SKIRT....PINK AND BLACK.....

Probably ELVIS  crooning in the background with 

BLUE SUEDE SHOES....

We used to have so much fun at the sox hops in high school. 

They were held in the gym....great deejay music, lots of giggling and drinking cokes with straws... 

I hope you enjoyed my HALLOWEEN STYLE SHOW...
you should go over to see PEA...her place is just working alive with all kinds of
HAPPY HALLOWEEN...and would you tell her bj said HEY ?

I hope everyone will have a BLESSED and FUN 

HALLOWEEN.
♥♥  ♥♥
♥ 

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AND NOW...I AM CLAIMING BRAGGING RIGHTS...

I was blessed to win the KA-U-TIS  apron from my friend,

CONNIE

A little PINK...

Some BLACK and WHITE POLKA DOTS

CUPCAKES...

Sassy little RUFFLE...

YES, MA'AM...what's not to love.
I'm pretty sure I will give PAULA DEEN a run for her money in the kitchen with this
cutie apron on...lol 

THANK YOU, CONNIE....♥

Here's hoping you ALL have a great weekend....xoxo

Red and White can KNOCK YOUR SOX OFF

OOPS...I let OCTOBER almost get by me before I could do my monthly

KNOCK MY SOX OFF

fun post.

 Ever since I've posted my RED AND WHITE POLKA DOT dishes,

I've had a lot of emails asking where I got them.

 I THINK I got this little cutie bowl at WALMART a few years back...

 The site I ordered these plates from no longer offers them.....??

The RED is very versatile.....and now that we KNOW it's OK to combine designs and colors...I've had a lot of fun with my red and white polka dots. ♥
Not only is it OK now to use dots and checks together...
IT'S AWESOME....
When I was a young thing..we didn't put checks and stripes together...nor red and pink...nor black and brown...
What WERE we thinking ...

Yep...the company I ordered my dishes from aren't carrying them any longer...
HOWEVER....♥

...take a look at THESE.

♥

♥

♥

STRIPES and PLAIDS AND DOTS....OH MY

 ♥  
Now that I am looking at the above plates, I'm not SURE they come from this company....
I'll check that, tho.

SOOO, if you have some serious RED AND WHITE POLKA DOT (or plaids) LUV..

These are all at 

THROUGH THE COUNTRY DOOR
and very reasonably priced, I think.

Yep....RED AND  ♥ WHITE pretty much just
KNOCKS MY SOX OFF.....
how 'bout you ?
XOXOXO

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