Happy Second Annniversary Pink Saturday

It's time for a big celebration. Our wonderful hostess Beverley has been hosting Pink Saturday for 2 years!!!  And she was also featured in The Artful Blogger magazine!! Congratulations Beverly.  You are the hostess with the mostess.

We love you Beverly and we celebrate you today.

So blow up the balloons

Get out your party hats

Put on your best pink party dress

 We'll need lots of cupcakes

And of course lots of beautiful pink flowers, especially for Beverly

Bring your pets to the party

There'll be tea and  dancing

and champagne...

and lots of cake...

Word got arund that this was the party of the year and so a few special people got all dressed up in pink and surprised us

So let's all raise our glass and drink a toast.  Here's to you to Beverly.  You're the best.  Thanks for 2 delightful years of Pink  Saturdays!! Click here to visit Beverly and congratulate her too.

Don't forget about my porch party on June 21. You can read more details about it in the previous post.

Happy Pink Saturday
Rhondi xo

Painted The Deck

We have a large 2 level deck at the back of our house.  It sits in the trees and when we sit out there, it is easy to forget that we live just 15 minutes from the city.

It was stained brown when we moved here and we continued to stain it.  Then last year I got the idea to paint it, grey on the floor and white on the railing. 

It took us a year to finally get around to it but this spring our son painted it for us.

What a difference!

It turned out so much better than I had envisoned and I just love the look.

I haven't put any plants out there or decorated it at all and until I do we'll just enjoy it the way it is.

I am going to host my 3rd annual summer porch party again this year on June 21, the first day of summer.  That gives you lots of time to get ready for it.  Hope you'll join the party!  I have posted this button on my sidebar, so copy it and spread the word. If you don't have a porch, a patio or deck would be welcome too!
For any of you who are new, I'll have my post up the night before and you just come and sign up with the Mr Linky then.



Maybe I'll have my party on our freshly painted deck.....

I hope you're having a restful weekend.  That's what I am trying to do.

Rhondi xo

Missing My Puttering Time

Hello dear friends

I have been very busy getting my real estate business up and running again.  There has been no time for the fun of puttering around he house, but we did manage to go to Boston last weekend to visit our youngest grandson. He will be 6 months old on Friday. He is such a happy baby and so good.  Did I mention how cute he is too?

There's not much time for puttering but I did pick some flowers from the garden.

And put one of my unfinished quilts as a table cloth in the living room. Nothing else in the house has been changed which is very unusual for me!

Friday is our sweet daughter's birthday.  She will be 28. Tomorrow is also Thankful Thursday and I am thankful for having such a wonderful daughter!  She is a joy to my heart.

Rhondi xo

I Miss You!

Hi

I have missed you!  Since I started working again, there has been no time to post or visit you.  So this afternoon I am taking a short break.

I've made some tea and taken it out to the front porch and I am going to relax for a little while.  So what have you been doing the last 2 weeks?  It's hard to believe I've only been back in real estate for 2 weeks and I'm so excited because I got my first listing on the weekend!  I am really enjoying connecting with past clients, looking at houses and talking about houses.

Just a minute, while I go and  get another cup and I hope you can visit for awhile.  Help yourself to a chocolate covered digestive cookie.  They are delicious.

Now, did you know that  if you are going to sell your home or buy another one, even though I don't do real estate where you live, I can refer you to a great realtor there and I will get a referral fee from the firm that you use?  It doesn't cost you anything, but benefits both me and the realtor I refer you to.  So if you or anyone you know needs a realtor and doesn't know of a good one, please contact me and I will connect you.  Or if you've heard of a good one but never personally done business with them, you can tell me who it is.  I call their firm and tell them I have a client for them.  It's very simple. 

I've hardly looked at my house, no fluffing, puttering or re-arranging going on right now, so these are photos from a previous post.  Hope you don't mind.

So my dear friends, I miss you!

Rhondi xo

Thankful Thursday

Good morning friends.
 I miss chatting with you and visiting with you.  As soon as I get my real estate business up and running again, I am definitely going to make time for blogging, so just bear with me for awhile and I'll be back at it but I couldn't miss Thankful Thursday .

Today I am thankful for
beautiful spring weather
a woods to walk  each morning and the good health to be able to walk
my friend who is helping me as I start up my real estate business again
happy sound of the birds outside my window
all the amazing colors of the azaleas which seem especially spectacular this year.

What are you thankful for today?
Rhondi xo

Selling Houses

Spring in North Carolina means azaleas and dogwood. The dogwood are too high for me to cut branches , but I always have a big vase of azaleas inside as long as they are in bloom.  The colors are amazing!

I went to a couple of garage sales on Saturday and found this rooster for $2.  Just couldn't pass it up at that price!  So I thought he'd look good on the dining room table beside the azaleas and he can be a friend for my other roosters.

I'm sorry that I haven't been able to visit most of you this week.  I've gone back to work as a realtor again.  You must be thinking, "Is she crazy in this market?"  Maybe I am!    I love houses, as many of you do,so real estate is the perfect job for me, but that means I won't be posting as often and I can't host any tea parties for awhile.

I love writing my blog and I love visiting all of you dear friends, so as soon as I get my work established  and get my work routine organized I hope to be able to post more often again, but for awhile it may be very hit and miss.

I'll still be visiting you when I can.

It is a beautiful weekend here.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend too.

Rhondi xo

Thankful Thursday

There are so many things to be thankful for and I like writing them down because it helps me to me more thankful more often.  Today I am thankful for:

beautiful spring weather
being healthy enough to go for a long walk every morning
a husband to walk with
a woods to walk in
seeing the first hummingbird yesterday
spending the week with our grandchildren in Texas last week
azaleas blooming in profusion
dogwood in the woods
chirping of the birds just before it starts to get light
my friend Susan who is helping me get back in to real estate again
my sister who is my best friend
a week today we'll get to see our 5 month old grandson who we haven't seen since Thanksgiving

What are you thankful for today?

Rhondi xo

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