Award and the Start of Changes

Hi, dear bloggers and friends, it's getting cold here, but thankfully I'm sitting in the heated comfort of our home. I'm imagining what wonderful summer all my friends in the Northern Hemisphere must be enjoying, it's only the beginning of winter, I'm thinking of summer already! Federica at Sweet as a Candy has awarded me with this lovely award, thanks Federica. If you have not been to Federica's blog, you'll have to go and check it out. It's so chock full of inspiration better than reading magazines; she sends her readers to all sorts of beautiful places with loads of inspiration for home decor, fashion and living. I especially love the home decor section and think the styles she's chosen are simply breathtaking and dreamy. Please click on the link and go and have a look, you'll love it.I'm making a start with some changes in our living/dining area. I have been painting the hutch and buffet white and our lounge room is going to be changed into a study and music room, so some things from the lounge room have been moved out to the living room. I am looking at a wall paint colour, maybe somewhere along the light grey lines to replace the pink. Decorating and moving things around is fun. Remember the birdcage? It was dark brown and now it's been painted white. I love how it looks now.Now I'll leave you with these small bouquets of roses and daisies, have a lovely day, won't you?Roses used here : Perfumed Perfection (Mauve, Floribunda), Seduction (Cream and pink, Floribunda) and white daisies. The white roses in the large urn are artificial silk flowers.

Paintings, Roses and Awards

Riet at Quiltin' n Stitching Lady has honoured me with the two awards below. Thank you so much, sweet Riet. It's taken me a while to attend to them, so instead of passing these to other bloggers, I strongly suggest you go and visit Riet's beautiful blog and see the beautiful things she has there. Many of you have expressed to me that you'll never get tired of looking at roses, I have to echo the same. What's that next to the roses? Hubby asked me if I painted them when he first saw them. No, I didn't paint them, I got them for $8 each and I think they are a good deal, I think I'd take longer than eight dollars worth of time to paint them. They are painted on mounted wood boards. I think I bought them because of the teacups and saucers. I'll always be a teacups and teapots gal! It's been an overcast day here, so the camera doesn't pick up the roses' colours so well indoors........... Let's take them outside and see what happens.................Ahhhh! Much better colours and lighting! Don't you reckon? Roses used here: Abraham Darby, Jubilee Celebration, Anne Boelyn, St. Cecilia, Sir Edward Elgar, The Dark Lady (All David Austin or English Roses)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! What better things than to wish you Happy Valentine's Day with roses!! I hope you'll enjoy these photos. I have been blessed with these awards by two wonderful ladies in Blogland: Wendy at Pink Slippers awarded me with the following awards, thanks so much Wendy. Another award is from Texas Daisey at Glory Feathers, Star Light and Roses, thanks heaps Texas Daisey. Please don't forget to go and visit these ladies' beautiful blogs, they always have lovely things to show you, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Have a great weekend! Roses' names: Candy Cane climbing rose (pink and white streaks, cherry blossoms looking ones), Jubilee Celebration (David Austin, medium pink), Radio Times (David Austin, pink), Sir Edward Elgar (David Austin, chemise pink), St. Cecilia (David Austin, pale pink, cupped shape), Abraham Darby (David Austin, normally apricot pink, but appearing more pink at this time of year). And the scents? Superb!!!!!!

Bring Spring Indoors

I have been the proud and humble recipient of not just one, but two wonderful awards. Wendy from Ivory Spring has honoured me with these awards below, I feel very honoured and grateful indeed. Thank you heaps, Wendy. And now I would like to pass these awards on to Alison at Creative Art and Craft by Alison Gibbs, who constantly shows us creativity and beauty in her blog which I've enjoyed visiting so much. Thanks for sharing your life with us, Alison. I've also been organising my old photos and noticed some of them afresh. So I thought I'd show you some which I took last year in March and in June. As you probably have noticed, I get endless fun creating images with roses. I simply can't let their beauty pass and not record it in some way or another, that's what drove me to photogragh them in the first place, and then once I began, I realised there are so much more I could do, which is why the fun is truly "endless". So now I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do. The words in that lil book read "Hugs are the flowers of a mother's love", now that's pretty catchy! I love that book to bits, it's from my daughter. It's full of lil nuggets of treasures!
When one of my daughters saw me embellishing this photo below with text, she read "Bring Spring Indoors" and asked me if that was the slogan for my blog. Huh! Not a bad slogan in fact.
"Enduring classic" is another nice slogan!? So is "Share the Joy"!?