TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

Today has been a busy day.  Laundry, finishing chores, taking photos for future posts.  Yep busy and why??  Tomorrow I leave on my "Road Trip" to Texas.  I am going to visit my Mother and Brother & Sis In Law and other family members in Houston.  I will be staying there several weeks so I'm trying to get it together to leave. 

 Your going where???  Who will feed me???

The "boys" will stay here (Mister and Charlie the Cat).  They have instructions to take care of each other and water my plants.   I will miss them a lot but need to go spend some time with my Mom.

One of the things I need to do in 'taking care of business' is acknowledge an award I've been given.  

I have been lucky to have two of my fellow bloggers award this to me.  First was my friend Sandie from CHATTY CRONE  I must say Sandie gave me this award several weeks ago and I've been slow to acknowledge it.  Thanks Sandie for thinking of me.  Today I was given this award again this time by Karen Sue at SUE BEE AND BUTTERFLIES  So I guess no more procrastination.  Thanks to both of you very sweet friends for thinking I deserve this.  I was asked to pass this on and here are my nominees...(whoops got a little Academy Awardish there) 

* I can't think of anyone who brings more sunshine to my day then JENNY MATLOCK  and her blog of the same name.  This gal has me in stitches most days and is a breath of sunshine! 

**TARA of the blog Tara in the ATL is a sweet young woman and has been doing a lot of couponing lately and doing a grand job of it.  Join in her adventures of being a young wife in the ATL(Atlanta).

***My friend Diann is a wonderful treasure to the blogging world.  Her wonderful blog THE THRIFTY GOOOVE is a fun place to visit.  She always has great thrifty ideas, thrift store finds and right now she is spreading lots of sunshine doing a great month of giveaways for her one year Blog Anniversary. 

I hope you will take a moment and visit all these great ladies!


Back to the road trip, I will be blogging and thrifting while I am away from home so don't worry you won't have to miss me too much.  Just a note to keep in mind, this is my 86th post and this means I will be hitting the big 100 sometime in March.  I will be having a giveaway so stay tuned!

So while spring is on it's way I will be driving through some of our beautiful country and enjoying it's many sights and sounds. 

Always,

Linda

I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS!!!

Really!!  I hate to tell you this...but well I must.  You see there is this very cool lady named Karyn and she has this very cool blog
Can Darbyy Garden 
Now Karyn is a very Green  girl and is having this giveaway.  I really hate to share this with you because by gosh I really would love to win this one myself.  BUT... I'm giving you a chance to enter also.   Karyn makes bags, purses and even Easter baskets.  She takes these...

 And turns them into this

 So go HERE  to enter her giveaway of one of her fantastic bags and some awesome canisters!  Sigh...but if you win well, well, I'll be happy for you, yes I will!!

Now TODAY was a wonderful day for Thrifting!

I hit a wonderful bounty of items at Value Village...I was so excited and I think all that yelling, screaming and jumping up and down was just in my head...but I'm not sure...I go there often and don't want to be banned from this store, so I sure hope so!

I found all this Pyrex, glass, dish, chicken, Easter love and more...

  I know I didn't get all the sizes of this Pyrex bowl set, but I feel lucky to have found two of these  bowls..pattern is Early American style of bowl is Cinderella.

This Pyrex divided dish in the (correction pattern is VERDE)

Cute salt and pepper shakers, two small little cups

Beautiful bowl, some plates

And my favorite piece of the day this ruffled edged compote

So yes I was having a great day and it only took one Andrew Jackson to get out of there with all these treasures.  Whoo Hoo!

Always,

Linda

G IS FOR GOOD...

I am joining Jenny for Alphabe-Thursday and 

Suzanne over at Colorado Lady for Vintage Thingy Thursday

 

 Today's post is brought to you by the letter  G...
I was Going to do a Green post for St Patrick's Day but thought...hmmm...might be a lot of Green today so instead I will do a G is for GOOD

Today my friend Sandie and I had a Girls Day out.  We lunched at

 

Rafferty's.  Sorry no photos of the yummy food, but I was hungry and just dug in!  I had some Great potato soup & a sandwich and Sandie had the Grilled chicken salad.

It was soooo GOOD and we Gabbed, Giggled and had a Great time.

Next was shopping!

 

So many of you have mentioned finding great Goodies at this store so this was my first visit to HomeGoods!  So much fun.

 

Great assortment of dishes and accessories

 

Some Green dishes

  

Green items for St Patrick's Day

 

A little rooster love for my friends (see the Green)

 

I am lucky to have met this Great Gal and we have become Great Girfriends!  Sandie at Chatty Crone

She has a Groovy fun blog so check it out.

 

More Rooster love!

 

These are my Goodies I bought at HomeGoods

 

Really Great Good friends also share coupons so I was able to buy these really cute Easter Goodies for under $5 at World Market.

  

Wait, what is this Gorgeous Green Gift??

 

It's an Egg cup from my Girlfriend Sandie.

Thank you for such cuteness!

 

On the way home I stopped at another Great place

Goodwill!  Look what I found.  Great bargains.

 

Gaze at these bargains from another thrift shop 

 

Including two more items for my Flamingo collection

I had a Great Day with a Good Girlfriend! 

Gee, how was your day?

Always,

Linda

 

 

 

 

I LOVE MY FRIENDS!

I love all my followers and those who stop by on occasion just to visit.

So for all of you I'm going to share about a great giveaway over at 

I REFUSE TO RECEDE 

I have been a follower of Troy's (yep it's a guy) for awhile now and I love his interesting and informative blog.  Troy covers lots of topics and one of them is gardening. 

 

So no surprise that the giveaway is for this very cool greenhouse!

Now I REALLY want to win this myself but being the wonderful friend that I am I'm letting you all know so you can have a chance to grow something amazing also.

So head over to see TROY and check out his fun blog and this great giveaway.  You will be glad you did!!

Always,

Linda 

 

TUESDAY TREASURES

Today is Tuesday and I'm joining three fun parties!!

 Troy over at I REFUSE TO RECEDE for his Tuesday Trivia.  I'm also joining in a new blog party at COASTAL CHARM  I hope you will check it out.  LINDA (isn't that a great name) will be our hostess for this party.  I'm also joining Diane at A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words For 2nd Time Around Tuesday

Saturday I went to Athens, GA to spend the day with my daughter Sara and her husband Blake.  We had a wonderful birthday lunch for Sara (great Pizza at Metropolitan Athens).  So being stuffed full of great food we decided to walk around a little bit.  We went to a great new shop called Ohh, Boy! What a cute store! They are located at 585 Barber Street, Studio E., Athens, GA.   They have vintage clothes, dishes and lots of great handmade items on consignment.  Sara got a cute pizza pin and I bought this awesome Homer Laughlin creamer. 

Homer Laughlin was a china company and had many patterns before the Fiesta Pattern was created in 1935.  The Homer Laughlin Pottery was founded in 1871 in East Liverpool, Ohio by two brothers.  They made china at first and it wasn't until the late 1920's early 1930's that they started making pottery.  The created many patterns and glazes which led to the now popular Fiesta Ware.  One of the markings on Fiesta is HLC (Homer Laughlin China).  

We then went to the Habitat for Humanity Thrift shop.  There wasn't a lot to pick from.  Seemed like the shelves were pretty empty but I did find this white pottery planter, embroidery piece (it is pretty ragged so will be made into something else) and two grass place mats.  Not bad for under $5.

I also made a stop at the Salvation Army and found a couple of things.   Some napkin rings that were very thrifty...only two of each kind but that works for me.  Can you see the price?  

 

I also found a cute blue crock, a round basket and some pink plates.

 

The plates are a pale pink with a gray trim.  A Very nice Pfaltzgraph pattern.  I got two dinner plates and two salad plates for $3 total.  These will go great with some vintage pink and gray plates I have. 

So these are my Nifty Thrifty finds and some triva about Homer Laughlin company.  Be sure to check out the other posts at Troy's, Diane's and Linda's to enjoy more Tuesday fun.

Always,

Linda