So the winner is ta da...... 
Congratulations Lautrie. Thank you all so much for helping me celebrate my 300th post. I appreciate all your wonderful comments and I wish that everyone could be the winner
Four teapot napkin rings
Some blueberry tea.
Watch out! If you're sitting still you might get sprayed!
I like this color. It makes me think of robin's eggs. I covered up the black on the planter that I got last week at the yard sale. You'll see the rest of it when I get something to go in it. 
Over the years, this wicker chair has been white, dark green, adobe red and now yellow!
My original idea was to paint the wicker with the aqua, but then I decided I'd put it in our bedroom and paint it yellow. For now now it's going to sit in the kitchen. We don't have any table or chairs in our kitchen, but now if you come by you can sit here while I make us a cup of tea. But you better hurry because I might move it somewhere else very soon!
This is what's left of them :( They will bush out again but it will take a couple of years.
I got our son to stand beside the roots of the tree. He is just under 6 feet tall so you can see what a massive tree it was.
I have been serenaded by the sound of chain saws for the last 2 days while guys in tattoos, earrings and various stages of undress worked on the trees. Not a pretty sight!
It had a tiny little tray, very impractical but I loved it and still do. I put it in the kitchen and piled a few books on it. 
It has a lovely pressed design and I recall that it was very difficult to clean all the food out of the nooks and crannies. 
My baby turned 27 last week. Today our grand daughter turns 5.
buried under the limbs of a huge oak tree.
It came very close to the back of our house, the room which is my studio.
Tore off some gutter.
Look at how close it came to smashing the window!
This is the view from my studio.
It samashed up another oak tree and destroyed the railing of the deck and the BBQ.
You can see part of the trunk on the ground.
It was huge!
It smashed this other large tree to smithereens (love that word!) as it came crashing down.
It was a HUGE tree!
I'm safe and the insurance adjuster will be out later to write up a report. What a day!!
Isn't the carving on this bench pretty!
I couldn't resist these sequin shoes!
I covered the ratty looking lampshade with some fabric from my stash and scrubbed all the grime off the rooster. He found a the perfect place to roost on the buffet in our kitchen.
Then the rooster that sits atop the china cabinet in our dining room heard there was a new kid in town so he came along to welcome him .
He liked the kitchen much better than the dining room so he decided to stay.
Peonies from my garden
A rose from my garden.
I love the bright red and just had to bring a stem inside.
The plate with the lovely blue flowers was only $1 at a thrift shop.
This huge blue platter was a great find at Goodwill for $3 with a tiny chip in it.
