Grapefruit and things

On my walk this morning, I found that a neighbor had put out a huge bin full of these gorgeous red grapefruits and they were free for the taking.  All neatly bagged for easy carrying away.  So I took a bag and brought them home.  They are washed and ready for snacking -- sweet and juicy!!

I have already eaten two of them!  Hard not to when they are so good!

Got the latest issue of Country Living today, too!  Have already looked through it!

This is one of the succulents I bought a couple of weeks ago and transplanted.  I was really worried about it because it went limp in this pot and stayed that way for several days.  However, now I see it has perked up and sprouted all these pretty pink flowers!  Saw a butterfly taking advantage of the flowers earlier today!

These are such tiny, delicate pink flowers on this plant.  And I love the silver color of the leaves.

It's Friday

Time to show more aprons. These are going to Merchant Square on Saturday. I just love them! The top row of three aprons are called "workday aprons." I think that is because housewives wore them while doing housework. The bottom row of two are "party aprons." They were usually made of voile or netting. The white one is flocked. Not useful fabrics if you are doing housework! All of these are vintage.

I have been buying Country Living magazine again. I used to subscribe but quit over a year ago because I think they have gotten away from their "roots" -- which is country living. Somehow a loft in New York City decorated in stark "country" style is not country to me. But they seem to be getting back to country lately. The September issue does have a nice article on lockets. I love lockets! I buy them when I can find them. They are a reminder of my childhood. I had a pretty locket my grandmother gave me. I don't know where it is now.
These are in my stash right now. I have been using them lately in my fabric collages for KC Willis Collage Camp.

This locket can be found on my "Ruby" collage. I noticed in the image of Ruby that she was wearing a locket.

This locket is on the most recent collage I did, Lady in Black.

Do you have a locket from your childhood? Did your mother or grandmother have one?? I think they are wonderful keepsakes. I am going to continue to look for mine. It has to be somewhere around here!

Under the weather!

Last Thursday the throat started feeling scratchy and sore. Friday worse. By Saturday I was lying on the couch all day, fully dressed and covered with two blankets -- in 88 degree weather! I was freezing!! Yesterday the nose was so plugged that mouth breathing was the only way I was going to take any breath! Cold medicine, you say? It didn't help. Just plugged my breathing passages up totally and my nose still ran! AWFUL!!

I am better today. The nose is somewhat better -- at least at times I can breathe through it! LOL!! But I have been through a lot of tissues!!I found this picture on the blog of Vintage Bliss. I was taken by the turquoise crosses covered with shells. Had to make some of my own!! So off to a "big box" store I went and found the wood cross. You can see that I already had a bag of seashells and a jar of broken pearl necklaces. A little spray paint in Robin's Egg and I was good! I plan to do more!I love the tiny pearls in the center shell. And the limpet shells were so pretty and ruffly! A little glue and I was good to go!

Lately I have been collecting crosses of all kinds. Don't know why! Also am collecting rosaries to drape on the cross and my angel. They seem to be everywhere now! Just look!In the niche in my entry way. I plan to add more as I find them. Used to be a huge floral in the niche and I never really did like it -- not really me!In the corner of the great room stands my angel with a fancy cross on the wall behind her. On the wall to the left top is my only Wallace Nutting tinted photo and two pictures of Lake Tahoe that my sister gave me.Here is a close up of the angel with the rosaries and crosses around her neck. Her crowns (on her head and at the bottom) are from Rustic Stuff in Scottsdale. The angel is from the Scottsdale Marketplace at Lincoln and Scottsdale Blvd. These two crosses are on the walls in the guest bathroom along with lots of my treasures discovered while antiquing over the years.

Got my last issue of County Home. It is not going to be published any longer and the remainder of my subscription will go to Better Homes & Gardens. Well, drat!! If I wanted that I would subscribe, which I don't! I loved Country Home!! Better than Country Living which I thought had lost its original direction long ago and I dropped my subscription. I was a Country Living devotee from the get-go! Kept them for years until my hubby told me to get rid of them because they weighed too much and the AF had a weight limit. He didn't want to pay the extra!

Also got a post card from Somerset Memories letting me know that the backlash (they didn't say that, but we all know everyone complained!) made them change their minds about publishing annually only. They will now published it semi-annually.

My head is shaking. I know what to make of all this, but I don't like it! Not one bit!