A little TUT for PINK Saturday

Happy PINK Saturday everyone!

First, I want to say THANK YOU for your comments on Thursday's post and my loss of my beloved Chipper. Your thoughts and prayers touched my heart and though I cried sobbed as I read each of your comments, they meant the world to me!

Today I am guest hosting at Aimee Asher and have written a little TUT. I'll give you a little hint: it's PINK, so sweet and involves little peat pots and vintage images! Actually, there are three projects included in the TUT.

Please feel free to leave comments here or at Aimee Asher. 

And don't forget to stop by and say HI to Beverly 
at How Sweet The Sound, our host for PINK Saturday each week!

My heart is breaking, Prayers, again! Update...

My heart is breaking! My old boy Chipper has taken a turn for the worse and I will be taking him in this morning to have him put to sleep. I know it is the right thing to do, I don't want him to suffer but it is just so darn hard. If you could say a little prayer for our family. My girls grew up with him and he was hubby's companion on all of his long walks. He has been the best dog EVER! He's lived a good, long life 16+ years. I will write more about him next week but I just can't bring myself to do it right now. Here's a picture of him from this past Christmas, holding one of his gifts. 

Well done my faithful companion, well done. 

Update: Well it is done. We took him this morning. Hubby could not stay in the room while they put him to sleep but I felt it was something I needed to do. I made the right decision as I know he passed peacefully, painlessly and quickly. Before the vet began, Chipper lifted his head and gave my nose a little lick, I swear it was his good bye kiss. I stroked his head, he closed his eyes, the Vet said to him "Chipper, you've been a good boy and I know you are tired buddy and ready to go to heaven." And with that he drew his last breath and was gone in seconds. I'm going to miss him so much and all of his antics.

Happy Easter!

 Alleluia!
The Lord is risen!

He is risen indeed,

Alleluia!
Peace and Blessings this JOYous Easter Day!

Please visit Charlotte and Ginger at Spiritual Sundays for more inspiring posts!

Easter Tag Swap!

Hi everyone, Happy Easter!

I participated in the Easter Tag Swap 
Hosted by Sandy at 521 Lake Street. 

It was a lot of fun and I met a new bloggy sister too! My swap partner was Ros, from Ros Wistful. Would you look at all the wonderful treats she sent my way!

The tag she made is absolutely gorgeous.

Look at the layers and layers of detail! 

 Then there was this tag wrapped with lots of extra scrumptious trim and these sweet ME cupcake wrappers.

 Ros also sent a stack of really cool vintage ephemera! Love these old pages!

Thank you Ros for everything, it's been fun getting to know you and thank you Sandy for hosting this fun swap! I'd say you did pretty darn good for your first time! 

I also wanted to share a picture of this sweet creation!

I was blessed to be the winner of Viv's give-away and she sent me this precious little chick!

Isn't she a cutie! Can you believe she makes these!

And a few more pics to share! First, let me say a HUGE thank you to everyone who said a prayer for Little Hippy. She is recuperating amazingly fast and today I took her to have her stitches removed and finally remove the Cone of Shame (a little "UP" humor, har, har). Here's a pic of her when I brought her home from her surgery.

She has to stay on her leash when we go for walks for a few more days and we will be finished with all of her Meds by then too. We are still waiting on the pathology reports but saying my prayers for good news soon. Oh, one little unexpected side effect, she is having another false pregnancy, hopefully her last! Here she is getting ready to nurse one of her pups. 

It's a rubber chicken but don't try and tell her that!, LOL! 

 I wish each of you a happy, safe Easter filled with more blessings than your home can hold! xxoo Nan

Scripture in Pictures Sunday

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then right click and save.

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Urgent Prayer Request! UPDATE!!!!

 Two weeks ago I took Little Hippy our Jack Russell into the Vet because she was acting funny. They determined she had a bad urinary tract infection and put her on an antibiotic. After 2 days on the Rx she was almost back to normal and by the time she finished it, she was doing great. Well Monday morning she was acting strange again so DH took her in this morning and they discovered a mass in her abdomen. He called me and told me they were taking her in for emergency surgery. I drove to the Vet so I could see her before they take her in. They are thinking it is one of two things, an infection in her uterus or cancer. If it's cancer and bad, she probably won't come out of the surgery. I am so scared and heartbroken.  She is the sweetest little thing. If you could say a little prayer for her (and us). 

UPDATE! Little Hippy just came out of surgery and is doing really well. They removed her uterus which was full of infection but NO Cancer!!!!! However, they also removed one of her mammary glands and are sending it off to pathology. It will take 3-5 days to get the results back. Thank you for all your prayers! They will keep her overnight and I can bring her home sometime tomorrow. In case you are wondering why she was never spayed, well... she has a really good blood line and we were going to breed her. Before we could find a suitable male, she was injured chasing a squirrel and was paralyzed. She had surgery on her spine and 6 months later she was walking again but we realized we could never breed her. We wanted to give her time to recover and heal before we put her under the knife again and we just kept putting it off.

Summer Cottage LOVE!

Happy REDnesday everyone!

I am in LOVE with this new publication, Summer Cottage!

 Have you seen it on your newsstands yet? The only place I have been able to find it so far, is Publix's grocery stores. It is published by Hoffman Media, the same people who publish Southern Lady. It was a little pricey at $10.99 but I can see it is one magazine I will keep and devour every little detail over and over. 

 Look at that sweet little RED table and 

the gorgeous RED vase on the shelf above!

It's so nice to see a magazine show rooms filled with color instead of the usual "All White Parisian" cottage look. Don't get me wrong, I swoon over those rooms too but they are not for me. First, I don't know how anyone keeps white furniture, white rugs etc. etc clean! And second, I just have to have color. I love my Reds, Yellows, Turquoises and Pinks too much. 

Oh be still my heart! Would you look at those punches of RED and all those luscious colors!

Another shot of the same house.

Look at this sweet cottage. 

Who wouldn't want to come home to this, so sweet! And notice the orange box in the corner, the magazine is filled with lots of 
"Style Ideas" just like this! 

Love this Blue and Yellow kitchen! 

This might be my favorite house in the magazine.

Cabin + Cottage = Love at first sight!

If you love pretty cottage decorating this magazine is a must have!

Please visit Sue at It's a Very Cherry World for more great RED inspiration! 

XXOO Nan