Thankful Thursday

I am thankful today that my sister is here for a visit. Although we talk on the phone almost every day, I haven't seen her in a year. In this picture I am about 7 and my sister is 4. There is something special about a sister. She grows up with the same experiences and values as you do. She gets your jokes. She remembers you when you were young and energetic and optimistic about life. We have been through a lot together and I love her more than anything.

While she is here we probably won't go anywhere. We will sit around and talk and laugh, maybe go for a walk. To anyone looking on it might seem like a boring time, but it won't be to us. We will enjoy every precious minute spent together. It will be wonderful!!

Here are the others joining in on Thankful Thursday. Hope you have time to visit them. It helps me be more thankful when I hear what others are thankful for.

POSTED FROM HOME

BACKYARD NEIGHBOR

THE QUINTESSENTIAL MAGPIE

SHELTIEQUEEN

BEAUTIFUL PEAR TREE LANE

THE LAUNDRY IS NEVER FINISHED

MUSINGS OF A MOM

A COLLECTION OF DAYS

A SCRAPBOOK OF INSPIRATION

GRANDMAS HAVE FUN TOO

TESORO FINO
LIFE IN OUR PART OF THE WORLD
BLONDIES JOURNAL


Since my sister is here I won't be posting for a few days.
So I am thankful for my sister and that she has come to visit. What are you thankful for today?

Rhondi xo



If you want to join us today or I missed listing you for thankful Thursday, please let me know and I'll add you to the list right away.

Something To Brighten Your Day

Good morning

There is a blogger named Lucy who lives in England who makes beautiful afghans and other amazing things. Her blog is Attic 24 brighten your day. This collage is from her blog. Her blog is just full of color.

For those of you caught in the middle of winter and its often deary days I think just looking at the photos on her blog would cheer you up. Click here to see what I mean and tell her I sent you.

Rhondi xo

Giving and Receiving

A beautiful card from a special friend in The Netherlands.
Some goodies.

Don't you love it when you get a package in the mail? It happens so seldom at our house. So it is even more exciting when I know something is on its way. I won a giveaway from Carolien in The Netherlands and she emailed last week to tell me she had sent it. So for the last couple of days I have been watching expectantly for the mail to arrive.

Saturday it came!

Carolien is very skilled at cross stitch and quilting and she knows I love color and I am a quilter, so she made this mini pillow especially for me. It has quilt patterns in each of the 4 sections and is filled with lavender. I love it! Look at all those perfect little stitches.She also gave me these wonderful stork scissors with a fob, custom made for me with blue and white beads. How did she know I had no decent scissors for snipping threads?
There was also a package of delicious Dutch coffee candies!

That's the "receiving" part of this post. To find out about the "giving" part, click here . I'd love it if one of the bloggers I knew won it!

Rhondi xo

Pink Saturday

It's pink Saturday again! Thanks to Beverly for hosting this event each week. Once again there are a lot of participants. Hope you have time to visit some of them.

Welcome to my little Pink Saturday house. Some of you thought that I really lived here. I just make believe it's my house on Pink Saturday. The rest of the week it belongs to someone else. So those beautiful flowers and shrubs I showed you last week are just pretend too. I fooled quite a few of you didn't I?

There are 5 bedrooms in my little pink house. It doesn't look big enough for 5 bedrooms does it? But since it's only make believe I can have as many bedrooms as I like! So if you'd like to come and visit me, I have plenty of room for overnight guests. Which room would you like?

It's hard to decide isn't it because they are all so beautiful.
By the way, thanks for all your prayers for our grandson. He came home from the hospital yesterday.

Have fun visiting the other blogs. Just click here to see the list of all the participants.

I am taking part in the One World One Heart giveaway. You can read about it on my previous post.

Rhondi xo

One World One Heart Giveaway

Lisa Swifka at A Whimsical Bohemian is hosting the One World One Heart Giveaway again. Hundreds of bloggers from all over the world are participating and giving away great stuff. The winners will be announced on Feb 12.

I decided to get in on the fun too and so I made this little wallhanging to give away. It's about 9"x12" .

Here are a couple of close ups.Hope you like it! Just leave a comment on this post to win.

Click here to go to Lisa's blog and see all the blogs offering giveaways. It's a great opportunity to visit blogs you've never seen before.

Have fun!

Contest ends February 11 at 6:00 PM EST. I will announce the winner on February 12.

CONTEST IS OVER. I'LL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER TOMORROW

Rhondi xo

Thankful Thursday

Today for Thankful Thursday I am thankful for our great bathroom. Our bedroom is blue and white so this matches it so perfectly. Unfortunately our bathroom doesn't look anything like this! I think our bathroom was probably renovated in the 1970's. It just has one sink, toilet and an ordinary bathtub with a plastic shower curtain and the tile is all white. So what's to like about that?

Well, it faces out on to a woods and so we have no need for any curtains on the windows. So as I am brushing my teeth or blow-drying my hair I can look out on a beautiful scene: the woods, the birds at the feeder or the birdbath, and occasionally some deer wandering by. We have a clear plastic shower curtain, so when the sun is shining and I am having a shower the sun shines right in and it almost feels like I could be outside. I love it!

Here is a list of the other participants in Thankful Thursday. Why not spread thankfulness around and visit them if you can.

POSTED FROM HOME

BACKYARD NEIGHBOR

THE QUINTESSENTIAL MAGPIE

BLONDIES JOURNAL

SHELTIEQUEEN

TESORO FINO

GRANDMAS HAVE FUN TOO

BEAUTIFUL PEAR TREE LANE

LIFE IN OUR PART OF THE WORLD

AUNTIES WITH ADVICE


So today I am thankful for my "bathroom with a view".

Since I wrote this post last night I have something much more important to be thankful for today. Our little 2 1/2 year old grandson Christopher has been in the hospital since Sunday night,with a very serious infection. The antibiotics have finally started to work. The infection is under control and they're letting him go home today. They also discovered a serious spot on his lung, but when they did a second scan it was gone! We believe it was a miracle and we are praising God for that.
I am much more thankful that my precious grandson is well than for a silly old bathroom, but since I'd already posted, I thought I'd just leave it as is!

What are you thankful for today?
Rhondi xo

Added note: Christopher can't come home today after all, but I'm still thankful.

I Can't Help It!

When I look at some of the wonderful all white interiors on other blogs I just love the calm clean feeling they have. But when I try to do that in my own home....Well all I can say is I love color!!

Our bedroom is very peaceful, soft blues and lots of white, but the rest of the house looks like a box of crayons.



On the table in our front hall.

On a table in the living room.

In the guest bedroom

Quilts hanging in the TV room. Fabrics in my studio

These are just a few photos of a couple of rooms. I have color everywhere. I just can't help it!

Rhondi xo

Snow

It snowed last night and this is the beautiful scene this morning looking out at the woods in our backyard. It was wonderful to look at the winter wonderfand, seeing someone with a red hat walking along the path. A few deer wandered through, but I didn't get my camera quick enough to take a photo. The birds have been so busy fluttering around the birdfeeders.

The scene just outside my studio door.
Bushes at our side door.

And these dear little daffodils are wondering what is happening. They are almost ready to bloom.

The best thing about snow in North Carolina is we can enjoy the beauty of it, knowing that this time tomorrow it will be gone, no shovelling, no plowing, no slush!

Winter for one day. It's perfect!

Rhondi xo

Pink Saturday

Welcome to Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly at How Sweet The Sound.

So here is my little Pink Saturday house. Last week I showed you the pink furniture I have on the front porch. In this picture the ground is covered in snow, but when it melts the garden will be filled with pink.
A pink cherry tree shades the back yard. Pink hydrangeas near the porch.Pink coneflowers flourish near the sidewalk. Pink roses climbing up a wall. Pink peonies by the front walk.Pink camellias along the back fence. Gardens filled with pink columbineand pink daisiesand pink tulipsIn another garden there's pink astilbeand pink thrift and pink digitalisPink clematis climbs up and curls it's tendrils over the arbor. and pink roses flower everywhere! So that's what my garden will look like all dressed in pink!

Make sure you stop by and see Beverly where there is a list of all the others posting for pink Saturday. There are lots of fun blogs to visit today.

Rhondi xo