Little Needles on Your Tootsies

This past week was really, really hot.  I am not complaining, well yes I am...because it was so hot and windy that it has totally dried up all the lawns and the flower gardens are struggling and it isn't even July!!  In reading other's blogs it seems to be raining in so many places, so could you please be kind and push some to us here in the midwest?  We would certainly appreciate it and I feel sure you would like to see sunshine again where you are.  I am a barefoot girl in the summertime, but when the grass is so dry that it feels like little needles on your tootsies, it is definitely time for some rain.  Please God..., pretty please.

So to drown my sorrows of no rain, I dropped Toby off at the hair salon for his summer cut and I headed out shopping.  I shopped and shopped and shopped...what with 3 new bathrooms to fill, I had so much fun.  Money be damned....ha I will probably regret that later, but it has been a long time since I have updated anything.  And where I live there are plenty of shopping opportunities.  I dropped some cash at Home Goods, Steinmart and Pier One.  All great places for accessorizing just about anything.  Here is just a peek at a purchase or two....

Spotted this cute little metal chair and thought  it would be perfect for the bathroom upstairs to stack towels on...still have the price tag on, just in case I look at it a second time and decide it might not be the right decision.  You can also see the new wall color....a yellow, a bright yellow I might add.  When the painter began painting this on the wall I was a little surprised at how BRIGHT it was.  Oh well, everyone needs sunshine in their lives and this will bring me sunshine everyday and everynight.

This is the downstairs powder room off of the family room.  You can see the paint is still in the yellow family, but a little softer, exactly matches the wall-paper in the family room.  I found this lady at Home Goods thought she deserved a spot in the new bathroom, altho she might complain later when she realizes there is no window in that room and she will pretty much be in the dark a lot of the time.  I am using bronze, wire/metal and whites in this bath so felt she should join this group.

Today is Photo Art Friday over at Leanne's and she requested Roses this week because it is her birthday and roses happened to be her favorite.  Unfortunately I was not able to photograph any roses this week, but I do have some dried rose petals that I saved because they were such a lovely color.  So, Leanne, Happy Birthday and hope you get more than just petals for your birthday.

"No one but yourself can make your life beautiful.  No one can be pure, honorable and loving for you."  ~  J.R. Miller


Until next time...