Around The World

 HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TO DREW

7/26/2012

We love you more than you will ever know...

and wish you all the luck in your flight schooling.

We are all so proud of the wonderful man you've become...

and you will ALWAYS be "Memaw's golden boy."

 I did so want to play in
Cuisine Kathleen's Wednesday Evening LET'S DISH LAST WEEK.
Being on vacation, 
I had it scheduled to post, somehow, the post disappeared...

it came back tonight so, altho I am A WEEK LATE FOR THE PARTY, here I am....:)

KATHLEEN, please forgive my olden mind for screwing up on a couple of posts on YOUR parties. Hopefully, when summer settles down, I can get my head straight again. :)

 

Last  week, the theme was

DESTINATIONS....

I don't have "traveling" dishes but I DO have a ........

MAGIC  CARPET  CURTAIN PANEL

that will take us many exciting places.

♥

 Climb on.....I saved a seat for YOU.

I LOVE coffee so I decided to have a COFFEE TABLE....heh heh heh....

I started with the curtain panel as a table cloth,

then layered an olden BURLAP COFFEE SACK over the cloth,

simply because it LOOKED SOOO COOL.

Some of the COOL people in Blogland use BURLAP in the most awesome ways

and I wanted to be C.O.O.L., too....:))

Really, I do love using smooth and textured together.

David and Kathy brought this coffee to me several years ago from Jamaica....

O, I drank the coffee loooong ago but held on to the adorable little burlap sack.

Since my backyard is really looking pretty right now,

I decided to set the table outside.

Our grass is so thick and green and healthy this year. Just a tiny bit more rain than last year makes a BIG difference.

I am fully and totally in love with ROSE OF SHARON.

They never fail to bloom...some tiny, sparse blooms last yr because of drought...but they didn't die.

This summer, they are beautiful.
No extra care is needed for them...just a little trimming every now and then. I like mine in more of a tree shape than a bush but both are lovely.

....a little POTTERY BARN set I found in a thrift shop...

honey.....
cream...


sugar....
sprinkle...

aren't they cute, all dressed in their white with black lower case letters.?
I love them.

The strong, rich coffee is almost ready....

let's pull up chairs and relax.

...the camel and the little palm remind me of exciting, far-away places..

I ALWAYS have a loaf of
APPLE FRITTER BREAD
in my freezer.....
just for such times as THIS.

You can find this scrumptious loaf at your local WALMART bakery section.

It is just awesome....
Just slice a bit, butter it and toast it and, served with fresh fruit,
it make a sweeeet breakfast for you and your loved ones.

I am serving mine on my mother's vintage cake stand.

I am joining Miz Helen today, even tho I don't have an actual recipe...
It's nice sometimes, to have ideas of things you don't HAVE to make...
and this bread is one of those things you will be GLAD you have in the freezer.

I'm so glad you came to my Coffee in the Back...
and, I do hope you will come again.

I love using imagination ......
I think it's the little girl in me that still loves to PLAY-LIKE....

" I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
  ~Theodore Geisel

"My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz.  It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.  You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!"

  ~Dr. Seuss

I LOVE Dr. Seuss and his wonderful imagination, don't you?

OOO, yes, it's fun to 'go round the world.....

BUT.......

XOXO, bj

again to my sweet DREW. 

and because I seem to want to get my FINGER in every piece of pie I find,
and this is CHRISTMAS IN JULY over at Kathleen's,
here's MY Christmas part....:)

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