THANKFUL and Blessed!

Today, I really am feeling like I am truely blessed! This doesn't mean that my life is easy and not without trials...oh man have I been living in a LONG difficult stormy time. But I have an opptimistic outlook that WILL NOT let me stay down long.

Gods has granted me the love of a wonderful man and sweet daughter. I have been supported in my LOVE of creating and painting by many. Especially those who are near and dear to me.

My sweet momma has to be one of my biggest supports and fan. She LOVES getting the many handpainted and created goodies that I have been fortunately enough to give her...AND I know she has incorporated everything into her home. What makes it really special is that we don't live near each other, I live in Michigan and Mom/Dad live in Washington State. When I visit she's alway asks me to BRING my paint brushes..and I have. Her home is filled with many flourishes and roses that I have lovingly painted for her. So...when I recently shared a while back on my blog, my tassel that I had been inspired to design and create..she was first in line asking me if I could make a sweet BLUE Tassel for her Family Room. But not only that, she also loved some tags I had sent her at Christmas. So of course, ordered some of these to give to friends in her book club and wanted me to do some up in PINKS for some dear friends of hers dealing with cancer. I happily oblidged!

That's why I feel so blessed. I wanted to share with you what I did up for my sweet mom and will be sending on to her along with her early Birthday gift she already knows about and has a special spot waiting for it in her home.

Thanks for letting me share these goodies with you.

I couldn't resist adding this sweet tassel with a bunny, I just finished it yesterday. He is ready for spring...and so am I!!!! Just listed in my etsy shop.

Blessings...Lorena

PINK Saturday ~FEBRUARY 14th ~ HAPPY VALENTINES DAYS

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE!!!
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bummmmmmed! I went to take pictures and I cannot remember where my camera is! So instead of more of my Master Suite Pink posts...I decided I'd go in and find some more of the FREE clip ART pictures I have accumulated with a Valentines Days theme and most have some PINK in them. I hope you enjoy your this day with your SPECIAL SOMEONE!

Thanks Beverly, once again for organizing our PINK Saturdays! It is SO MUCH APPRECIATED! Check out her blog for more PINK participants!





The Victorians sure knew how to do Valentines days! I just love their detailed artwork! Also, take a peek at the post below this one, I have taken pictures of my VALENTINES Tree I did up in PINKs, Hearts and Fuschia balls! Be sure to check back next week with me for more PINK in my master suite and possibly a give-a-way?!!!!
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I found my Camera!!!! I wanted to post some goodies I got yesterday in the mail. This was from a Valentines Day swap my PRH group of gals from ebay did. And...I was paired up with JEN Of Jennifer's Petal Palace..and you must hurry over to see all the goodies she has...YUM!!! I am so excited to have these wonderful goodies! Don't you think they are divine?

Happy PINK everyone!
Lorena

VALENTINES Day at my Home

HAPPY VALETINES DAY!
Last Christmas season my sweet hubby bought me this darling white 4ft tree pictured below. So I decided that I was going to keep it up all year long and then decorate during this year for Valentines and Easters seasons. This tree is loacted in the window of my Living Room Parlor and I love to look at it as I walk by.

Now I haven't been known in the past to decorated for Valentines day. I am usually so busy watching my daughters basketball playing, painting and creating for the upcoming Easter season that it slips right by me. But this year I made a point to gather up anything hearts and roses. I was very surprised how much, in the way of ornaments I had. I also kept up some vintage bright fushcia colored glass balls too add to the tree. They really added a pop of color! I am very pleased with the overall affect the tree gives off...what do you think?

I was so happy to find this sweet lil felt girl. I had tucked her away in some storage boxes and had forgotten her. I remembered that my daughter had given her to me many years ago for V-day. I had to put her at the top!
A few heart shaped trinket boxes and other goodies I found! You can't see it but that green pillow says LOVE!

Do you see HEARTS?


Then I also pulled out some Victorian Cards, Post cards and vintage tins with roses on front. I decorated my sewing table, which is right next to our Valentines Day Tree. I was pleased with how this looks too.




This week my hubby and I were in Barnes and Nobles and I spied this GORGEOUS Valentines Day Card. It has rhinestones and is raise almost like a cutout..I just HAD to have it! It looks even better in person!


Last but not least, I have a small collection of heart shaped boxes, so I brought these 3 down to sit at the base of my Valentines Day Tree table!
Hope you have enjoyed visiting my home for Valentines day!
Be sure to love and hugs the ones you love....Blessings...Lorena

Vintage Valentines Day Clip Art

I must admit I love the Victorian Era! Most of all, I appreciate their wonderful art. I have found many sights that share these wonderful clip art subject. The details, colors and subject matter just can't be surpassed today. I especially love children depited along with anything roses. I thought I pull out a number Valentines Day art and share some of my favorites with you.













So.......what do you think? Aren't these just beautiful!
Thanks for stopping in...I'd love to read what you think.

PINK Saturday ~FEBRUARY 7th

Welcome to Part 2 of my PINK Saturday post. Thanks Beverly for hosting yet again our fun PINK Saturday posts!

Last week I showed you many pictures of my master bath area that I have added pinks to. So here are more pictures from that area that all include pink! I hope you enjoy your tour through my master bath! Next week, I will be showing more from my Master bedroom.

This is has drawers on front as you can see, but hidden in them are my q-tips and cotton wipes. A pretty way to hide essentionals.

I just love these Rachel Ashwells curtain I have put over our shower...also I couldn't resist showing you my PINK wrap that I put on after I dry in the morning! I get a good pink fix in the morning before I get ready!
This is a pretty display shelf above our comdode...I just can't resist pretty ways to display my things!
These towels I got quite a few years ago. They are from Martha Stewarts line that she sells at K-Mart.

Pretty PINK vanity stuff!

Oh I know, I am shameless..these are more creations I have designed and are being offered this week in my EBAY. And of course...they are PINK!!!

Thanks for sharing PINK Saturday with me!!! I LOVE to read your comments!
Happy PINK....Lorena

Tagged ~ In 4's

Well..I thought this was such a cute tag from Kim at Shabby, Pink and Pretty so I took some time to get this posted. So here's what you must do...

1. Go to the fourth folder in your picture file on your computer.
2. Post the fourth picture from that file
3. Explain the picture
4. Tag 4 more people and have them do the same.

Oh I am so glad that THIS picture came up. I have so many random pictures that I was a bit fearful of just might be in my 4th folder, 4th picture...okay with that said... This is a Heart Wreath Picture that I painted last year, probably around this time. I love hearts and painting roses and came up with this pretty soft pastel colored rose wreath.

Since I am so bad at picking others that I think might like this...if you read this and are intrigued, please copy/paste and share this with your friends.

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings...Lorena

Our Beloved Kitties

2 days ago I needed to run up into my bedroom and lo and behold I saw 2 of my sweet kitties snuggled close together. I just could not resist finding my camera to take a picture of these 2. Tiger is all sprawled out with his hind feet on Chloe our calico.

Now I know that a lot of kitties do this, but there more to the story that you must know about. You see, these were both rescue kitties that we got from our Humane Society about 7 years ago. We had sadly put a special kitty who was very sick to sleep about 9 months before. We decided we would get 2 cats, for company since we travel out of town a lot.

Tiger was picked because he bumped my dh on the head when he was looking at a kitty in a cage below him...Chloe was picked because I heard her cries from the cage she was in and fell in love with her. Tiger was 10 months and Chloe was 8 months old. They were both a bit frightened and cagey to say the least. Tiger was a bit more vocal in his need for space and Chloe would do the hissing. We let our daughter name them.

As we got to know these 2 more it became very apparent to us that Tiger must have been abused in some way. He'd flinched at our attemps to pet him or love him, he did not purr or nest as most kitties do. He was more aloof and would watch us carefully. He'd rather be by himself than in the room with us. He did Bond instantly with our daughter and would sleep mostly in her room when she was gone to school during the day.

As the years have gone by we have seen him become more affectionate, at times even asking for us to pet him in his favorite spots. He will now come and sit near us or stay in the room with us. He also sleeps on the bed most nights with hubby and I and will come up to us for love, purring and nesting. We gave him his space, he gave us his love. He will never be a lap cat, but he now knows he IS loved and all is safe.

TIger.

Chloe is my lil' momma kitty. Now when we got her, the rule is the cats have to be spayed/nuetered before they leave the HS. We had a conflict with getting this done for her so they allowed us to bring her home, promising to bring her back later. So in the few weeks we had her hubby comments to me about her belly, wondering if she was pregnant. I just po-pooed that thinking NO WAY. Then we had made an appointment with our own Vet to have our new kitties checked out...and lo and behold, CHLOE was pregnant! We were shocked and excited....but had a decision to make. Not a hard one though cause I thought is would be a great thing for our daughter to go through having a momma kitty giving birth and raising the babies. January 31, 2002 Chloe had 3 live babies and one did not make it. 1 orange tabby and 2 silky black beauties. And we had a blast with them.

I actually got in the room just as the 1st kitty came out who was the orange kitty. I felt it was a sign for us to keep him since our last kitty was also an Orange kitty. The other 2 kittes went to neighbors, who had as much fun as we did watching these babies grow.

I bonded very closely with Chloe because of this. I helped this young baby herself with her babies and I could just see it in her eyes that she trusted me fully. She was the sweetest momma! And she is the SWEETEST of our kitties. You talk with her and she purrs or rolls on the floor for you to pet her. I call it the plop, drop & roll, cause that's just what she does. She now will seek me out in the afternoons for a LOVE session as I call it. I have such a tender spot for her...she's my daytime companion for the most part.
Chloe

Punkin is Chloes son and they do love on each other. They are the most prone to cleaning and curling up together. Punkin is the biggest of our cats at almost 20lbs..but that's all he is. I call him our big OAF, cause he barely meows and really is such a huge baby. He is the cat that will try and sit on your lap, but he so huge that I can hardly let him. He's also the most laid back but will occasionally bait Tiger to play.
Punkin

All that background to really tell you that we rarely would see Tiger and Chloe this close. That's why I couldn't resist taking the picture of them together. It just does not happen often...and the fact that he was even touching her shows me how much he has changed.

Isn't this the MOST beautiful card? My sweet friend DEB of Garage Sale Gal just sent this to me. I HAD to show you it cause it has this darling kitty on front and then inside it has a vintage Valentines card. I just love them..and of course they have kitties on them which makes them so special and it means so much. Deb, I was having a down day and this came at just the right time. God's so good that what don't you think?




I hope you like my kitty story. They are just so much a part of our lives and I wanted to share their story with you.

Blessings...Lorena