Lovely Things

Look for a lovely thing
and you will find it. Sara Teasdale

I love landscape oil paintings. It's what I'm always looking for when wandering through antique stores. I actually majored in Music and Art in college. I never did become an artist or a musician though. Instead, I began a career path in historic and environmental preservation, which to me is kind of the same thing. Like the arts, it's a passion for beauty in its most soulful, natural and creative forms.

I found this landscape painting a few weeks ago. It was exactly what I was looking for. Something lovely. I love those pink blue skies.

My little painting cost only $20. It comes without a frame and there are a few scratches here and there. But for me, the heart of whomever created this painting is very much still in tact. And that's what makes it so lovely.

The Picket Fence

We are hoping to finish our picket fence this weekend. Building this picket fence has been more time consuming than we realized - like everything else. This is hubby cutting some spacers so that the pickets line up evenly.



Hubby is building us a beautiful fence ; ) Hopefully we'll have pictures by the end of the weekend!

AND THE WINNER IS ....................

' JACQUELINE '
Oh my goodness .................... I've won .........

.........I'm going to have to negotiate that staircase ..................

............... in my Alexander McQueen heels .............. I need some Dutch courage .........

............. if only I'd worn my bottle opener shoes , I could have had a quick slurp.... purely for medicinal reasons !!!!

............... and why did I wear this dress with the ghostly veil......... I can't see a thing.......

............ thank goodness , I've made it.........

....... GEORGE GIVES ME THE OSCAR ........

" Thank you so much George " ( Air kiss George's cheeks both sides a la Francais stylee )......

.........." I would like to thank ( sob sob ) my husband and children for supporting me and( sob sob ) to be in the company of such talented people who were up for this award, is so amazing
( sob sob sob )" .......................

Jackie wakes up................ Oh, it was all a dream, but when Jackie looks at her favourite blogs , she finds that one of her favourite blogging compatriots, Julie at Being Ruby , has given her a Blog Award !!!! Julies posts are some of the funniest and most enjoyable to read in blogland and she is one great blogger. Her photographs are inspiring and beautiful. Thank you so much , Julie , for my award, and for being a great, supportive friend.
Now, because I have been given an award , it falls upon me to bestow awards on others, so here goes :

JULIE at beingruby

SIMONE at thebottomoftheironingbasket

JANET at frenchblue

MILLIE at thelaurelhedge

CAROLE at maynardgreenhouse

LAURA at 52flea

ALICIA at delightfulanddelovelyDEB at dumbwittellher

RENEE at reneefinberg.blogspot.com
MIMI at designmyway
ViCKI at frenchessence

and last but definitely not least

MELISSA at reverie

Thanks so much, all of you for being so supportive through my blogging journey. I feel as if I have made so many new friends and look forward to reading all of your posts in the future. There are quite a few more of you that I would like to have given an award to, but I think that I have probably gone way over my quota of how many I'm meant to give awards to , but , I think that you all know who you are and I want to thank you all for your comments and hope you will continue to come over to HOME and visit often.( even though you didn't get an award !!!! )

......and finally....

................ this is a bit of a boasting Mother thing but, this is my son who works for the BBC and won a SONY RADIO ACADEMY AWARD , which is the Academy awards for Radio and very prestigious. The presentation dinner was held at The Grosvenor Hotel in Grosvenor Square , London, and he received his award from Chris Evans ( who won two awards himself ) Some of you might not have heard of him , but he is very famous here in the U.K. ....so well done Daniel....we are all very proud of you. ( he will hate me for putting this photograph on my blog. I think that a few bottles of beer and red wine had been consumed by the time he went up to collect his award, so he is looking a little worse for wear !!!! ) X

Jackie