tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22443126411358255562024-03-14T14:49:32.252-04:00Rose Colored GlassesRhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.comBlogger646125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-30437072313970670542015-12-04T06:56:00.000-05:002017-10-04T07:47:47.735-04:00Christmas House Tour 2015 Christmas in The Bedroom<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Welcome to my </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/christmas/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christmas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> house tour 2015: Christmas in the Bedroom. Today I want to show you our bedroom. It all started when I went to Magpie’s Vintage Treasures, a little shop in Matthews, near where I live, that only opens for a weekend, seasonally. This cute little toile bear jumped into my arms as I was browsing in the store.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She insisted that I decorate our bedroom for Christmas, and let her be the star. So…</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here she is making herself quite comfortable on our bed. I switched the blue and white quilt for this all white bedspread, and added a couple of red and white stripe pillowcases.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some greens from our yard in white ironstone, classic and simple. It looks so good with the brass lamp behind it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Got a pair of brass lamps for $2 each recently and Hobby Lobby had lampshades 50% off the same day, so I the lamps only cost me $17 each!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some more greenery: cedar, nandina berries and holly on the other side of the bed with something I printed and framed last year. There were hardly any berries on our holly this year. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Not sure why.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last year my feather tree had a button garland and these little cloth blue and white hearts. At the insistence of my little bear, red balls and a red bead garland were added.</span><br />
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Thanks little bear. I like how it turned out! I’m thinking about painting the walls, dark blue. What do you think? Actually you may not be able to respond because yesterday the comments weren’t working and I couldn’t figure out how to fix them. If you’ve ever had that problem I’d love you to email me and tell me how to fix it!!</div>
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Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-34855762018629467722015-09-22T07:39:00.000-04:002017-10-04T07:40:37.983-04:00Happy Fall Y'all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Happy fall y’all! Fall officially starts Sept 23 4:21 am The weather felt like fall today so it was a perfect day to do a little fall decorating. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">First thing I did was pick some flowers in the woods down the street.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">It looks pretty with the candlelight.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The glow of the candle reflects off the brass lamp which gives light to the pumpkins I painted</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Hi What have you been up to lately? I’ve been busy painting DIY chairs and finding fabric bargains to cover them. The latest one is the two chairs at the ends of our dining room table. Several years ago I covered them in a check pattern I made with shirts from Goodwill. They were beginning to get a little worn looking. So when I found some red and blue toile regular $13 a yard for $4 a yard I couldn’t resist buying it. I unscrewed the seats.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here they are finished. But they didn’t look right in the dining room anymore, so I wandered around the house looking for where I could put them and they ended up here in our front entry. I really like them there, so what if you trip over them when you come in the front door? Just a minor inconvenience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I got this fabric on sale too, reg. $29 a yard for $12, and I only needed 3/4 yard. I am always picking up odd chairs here and there. This was an orphan chair that I picked up by the side of the road. I always seem to be doing DIY chairs projects. Maybe I should be “the chair whisperer”. Anyhow, there were 2 like this and one with arms. Chalk paint from Walmart , staple the fabric to the seat, and another project is done. Color is “Nautical”. (I should have taken a close up photo so you can see the distressing. I’ll do that another day).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Remember I showed you these chairs that I painted with the Walmart chalk paint? I decided they looked better at either end of the table than the blue ones I had before. The blue orphans are in the middle.</span><br />
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Here is how the dining rom looks now. Did I already tell you about the brass chandelier I got for only $15? Out came the red spray paint and we have a new chandelier. My new red color scheme is falling into place. To be continued…</div>
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Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-34887155983840839012015-08-31T11:34:00.000-04:002017-10-04T11:35:41.197-04:00Chalk Paint Chair DIY<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">So I am continuing to add some red to our living and dining rooms. Here is the next addition to the new red color story going on in our house. I bought a pair of these chairs about 15 years ago when we lived in Philadelphia. They have just been collecting dust in our basement for the last few years. They used to be black.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">What a beautiful sight greeted me this morning as I sat in our sunroom with a second cup of tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There were rays of sunlight beaming through the trees.</span><br />
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Until it was one big spotlight flooding through the entire woods.<br />
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Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-50167822042250300252015-08-19T12:10:00.000-04:002017-10-04T12:23:21.177-04:00I Missed You<div style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1.538em; padding: 0px;">
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I have missed you! I miss hearing from you. I miss visiting you in your homes/blogs. I miss sharing with you when I have done something new. So I am posting something today. Don’t know if I will be posting a lot or not, just have to wait and see!</div>
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You remember my blue and white living room?</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Steal a lamp and some books from another room. (Shop the house)</span><br />
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Still have a bit more to do, but I was excited to show it to you now.</div>
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Awhile back I said that I wanted to have my home be more calm. That’s when I painted the living room walls white. Then awhile ago I started thinking about a red check fabric that I’d seen on Tina’s blog, <a href="http://cherryhillcottage.typepad.com/cherryhill_cottage/2011/09/blue-windmill.html"><span style="color: #4d81fa;">Cherry Hill Cottage</span> </a>, ( oh my goodness, that was in 2011!) and I decided just to go for it.</div>
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I’m working on the dining room next. It used to have red walls, but when we decided to sell our house a few years ago, I painted it in the pale yellow so it was more neutral color. So glad we decided not to move after all.</div>
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Imagine how great it is going to look at Christmas!</div>
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Hope you are having a very good day and the sun is shining on you. Rhondi xo</div>
Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-26563065153620011422015-01-22T12:26:00.000-05:002017-10-04T12:28:03.619-04:00Time To Call It a Day<div style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1.538em; padding: 0px;">
Dear <a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/friends/" style="color: #4d81fa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">friends</a></div>
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It’s time to call it a day. For the last couple of years I have been very inconsistent in posting. Seems that I just can’t find the time to do it anymore. I am busy with other things: my quilting, art journaling, a bit of painting and real estate and so I have decided the time has come for me to close the door on Rose Colored Glasses.</div>
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I have enjoyed it so much and have enjoyed getting to know so many of you. I have made so many wonderful friends through blogging and I’ll still keep in touch, but just wont be blogging anymore.</div>
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I am going to miss you.</div>
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<a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/thank-you-2/" style="color: #4d81fa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thank you</a> for your friendship over the years.</div>
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Do you have time for one last cup of tea with me?</div>
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You can still find me on Instagram, Facebook and occasionally on Twitter: rhondimullins</div>
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Rhondi xo</div>
Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-29111853304559826372014-12-09T14:40:00.000-05:002017-10-04T14:41:41.759-04:00Christmas Open House 2014 part 2<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Welcome to my </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/christmas/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christmas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> open house part 2. Today I’m inviting you into my kitchen. No smells of christmas baking here and not a homemade cookie in sight!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Bright red apple swags over the sink and wall oven. I just leave the nails there from year to year which makes it easy to hang next year.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I have a few Christmas dishes and some red ones too which I put on the shelves in the china cabinet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">My snowman teapot and mug add some cheer above the stove.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Every room has to have candles. Ikea has the best candles. These ones came from there. The cardinals remind me of the ones we have at our birdfeeder and birdbath this time of year.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">In the corner of the kitchen counter I always have things ready for tea. This past year I was lucky enough to find these Christmas cups and saucers and teapot. Have you read The Christmas Cup of Tea? I know you would enjoy it. It’s a delightful little book.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">I invited a few neighbors in for tea this morning. The table is set, just need to brew the tea. Would love to have you join us if you could.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The star of the show is our tree all decked out in some of my blue and white china. I’ll show you more photos of it another day.</span><br />
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<br />Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-10765637316403412732014-11-24T12:27:00.000-05:002017-10-11T12:28:08.600-04:00First Post<div style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1.538em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Good morning friends</span><br />
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It was seven years ago in November, that I wrote <a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/kids-have-gone" style="color: #4d81fa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">my first post</a> and clicked “publish”. I had been following a few blogs and wanted to be able to leave comments and so Rose Colored Glasses was born. I have always loved visiting other bloggers and having people come and comment on what I had written. I have seldom had anything profound to say but always hoped that my posts provided a friendly place for you to visit. It has been fun to share my home with you and have lots of cups of tea and many of you have become dear friends.</div>
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Blogging sure has changed since then. Lots of people are making a good income from their blogs. And there are so many more bloggers!!</div>
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Because I went back to work full time I stopped being consistent with writing posts for awhile, but I missed my friends in blogland. It has been a long time since that first post, but I am still here, posting about insignificant things , but things that make me happy.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Things like making little hearts from </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/cozy-quilt" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">recycled men’s shirts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Collecting old buttons and stringing them together to make a garland for my little feather tree.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Cutting out mini paper snowflakes.</span><br />
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Another photo, not much better! (I need a good camera.) The tree was a present from my husband, last year.</div>
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It is exactly one month to <a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/christmas/" style="color: #4d81fa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christmas</a>, so let the decorating begin!!</div>
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Rhondi xo</div>
Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-79649390906893403402014-11-12T12:33:00.000-05:002017-10-11T12:37:14.155-04:00Doodling <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Good morning. I have been having fun “doodling”. I’ve been doodling </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/words/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">words</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, sayings and favorite scriptures. Just thought I’d share a few of the ones I’ve done lately.</span><br />
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Doodling makes me happy and it is relaxing. You should try it. Maybe it will make you happy or relaxed too!</div>
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I also brought a pink geranium inside. I don’t know if I have enough sunlight to get it to bloom, but figure it’s worth a try.</div>
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Do you any of your plants like to come inside for the winter?</div>
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Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-19426864363772211672014-10-29T17:36:00.000-04:002017-10-11T17:46:15.211-04:0031 days of Beauty and Quotes Days 29-31<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Welcome to </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/31-days-of-beauty-and-quotes/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">31 days of beauty and quotes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> day 29. I know I’ve missed a couple of days. I have been having fun lately, </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/doodling/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">doodling</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="http://www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/words/" style="color: #4d81fa; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">words</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and scriptures, so today’s post features a few of them. You should try doodling sometime. It is very relaxing..</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">GRACE, what a beautiful word.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I feel joyful just looking at this photo.</span><br />
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I am in a ladies’ bible study and we are studying a great book called <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"> Calm My Anxious Heart</span> by Linda Dillow. This morning as I was thinking about the lesson for this week, I began to doodle and this is what I ended up with.</div>
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I am going to count each of these photos as one day in my 31 days of beauty and quotes, so that means I’m done !! Phew!!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> These 2 little children sit right under the lamp beside my chaise lounge and greet me every morning.</span>Rhondihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684060974095411313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244312641135825556.post-51540001499464230652014-10-22T18:02:00.000-04:002017-10-11T18:02:45.290-04:0031 Days of Beauty and Quotes Day 22<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Welcome to 31 days of beauty and quotes day 22</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">These two prints were in my parent’s bedroom when I was growing up and I always loved them. Now they are in our bedroom. They aren’t valuable, and most of the time I hardly notice them. But as I was getting dressed today my eye glanced up and I saw their beauty. What do you have in your home that you forget to notice its beauty?</span></div>
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When I saw this saying I knew it was true. I grew up in a tea drinking household. Whenever there was a problem, my mother always put the kettle on for a cup of tea and it always seemed to make us feel better. Many years ago, my dad died suddenly at the age of 59. We were all in shock and someone put on the kettle to make some tea. I can remember one of us saying, “This is the first time a cup of tea has not helped.”</div>
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Do you like tea? There are several tea parties hosted on Tuesday so I’m joining a few today:</div>
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I love this photo and this bible verse.</div>
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What happened to days 18 and 19 you ask? Well let me tell you. I am 3 days behind with my 31 day challenge <img alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" height="13" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.rhondisrosecoloredglasses.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/frownie.png" style="background-image: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-height: 1em; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" width="13" /></div>
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When it comes to discipline, I am very bad so this 31 day challenge has been quite a challenge for me.</div>
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But on top of that I decided to have a shopping fast for the month of October, buying only food or anything absolutely necessary for the whole month. If that weren’t enough discipline for one month, my friend and I decided we needed to lose some weight and are holding each other accountable. My goal is no snacking between meals and eating more healthy. Goodbye nice comforting bowl of cereal before I go to bed!</div>
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What was I thinking trying all these at the same time!? Yikes! So the shopping is going great and the eating is going well, but I am two days behind on my blog so I’ll just do a couple days in a row here to catch up.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 18 This is the first photo which isn’t my own. I borrowed this from Pinterest.</span></div>
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Hope this is a great week for you.</div>
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Our little granddaughter Sophie at our daughter’s beach wedding. So precious to watch her playing in the sand in her flower girl dress.</div>
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A beautiful leaf from one of our trees.</div>
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This is Christopher, one of our grandsons, sitting in a field of bluebonnets in Texas, when he was just a little guy.</div>
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These flowers were growing in my neighbor’s garden. Aren’t they beautiful? I think they are called angel trumpet.</div>
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