Thankful hearts ~

Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and

His courts with praise !

Give thanks to Him; bless His name!

Psalms 100:4

Thanking God today that hubby went back to

work Thursday. So many are still out of

work including some family members so please

continue to pray ~ Wishing you a blessed Sunday

and praying that you can find many reasons

to be thankful today ~

So far today...

... my little granddaughter Keira

greeted me like this when she came

downstairs from a good nights sleep ~

We all ate breakfast and not too long after that...

complete power outage!

I thought we might have to light candles

because

hubby went out to start the generator and guess what? It was in the locked garage with no way of getting

into it until the power came back on!!

{chuckle ,chuckle}

{we lost our keys to the side door a while ago}

We were comtemplating sending out an

SOS...

no wind, no storm, just a calm day in Michigan.

Eventually son , daughter-in-law and precious GD Keira

decided to head for home.

No sooner had they gotten out the door headed to their car then the power came back on. Go figure! We had just told them all goodbye when we received a distressing phone call. Hubby's sister and family are going through a crisis. Very ugly crisis...asking you to pray for her and her family during this time.
...and how is your day going?? I hope it is a blessed one ~

Lunch with my BFF ~

My bff invited me for lunch at her lovely home

Wednesday and we had the most wonderful time ~

We used to meet at the Coffee Basket for lunch

and we were very bummed when they closed~

But not to worry...we still had the Coffee Basket experience

because bff purchased this chalkboard at their auction

and hung it in her home.

It is very large and sooooo neat !

She wrote our lunch menu on it,

just like it used to be when we walked in the

door of the Coffee Basket~

So thrilled that she purchased this chalkboard because

we can still have the Coffee Basket *experience* ~

She made delicious tortilla soup and grilled basil cheese sandwiches ~

along with

thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies

and

cranberry jumbles ~

everything was soooooo delicious!!

Thank you Peggy!!

I had to whine and coax her to let me take pictures

{with her camera} to share with you because i forgot mine.

I assured her I wouldn't take any of her. lol

This is her gorgeous potting shed ~

love this wreath that she decorated ~ Inside her shed as I looked up. She has quite a collection of watering cans. love them~

Her new fence that her hubby made for her.

I enjoyed my day soooooo much!!!

Blessings~

WW & tattered roses ~

a little update:

I have had several people ask me about purchasing

these hearts so I will be taking preorders and will

make them up as I get an order.

{I may even get some made ahead...lol}

the price will be 7.99 each.

the hearts meaure approx. 5.5 inches across the widest part}

Thank you!!

I love the *tattered roses*

that have been popping up here and there

lately in blogland and I was thrilled last week

when I found a free online tutorial ~

I whipped up several of them in no time at all... and added a few of them to some hearts that I had sewn up~

Please visit Kathleen at Faded Charm for more

beautiful White Wednesday posts~ Blessings~

It's the little things...

that make me happy...*over the moon*

Loving these goodies that I received this week from

Tracey over at French Larkspur ~

take a little peek at part of a vase in the left hand corner

of the photo...

I purchased it for ...70 cents... at tj maxx several

weeks ago with part of my giftcard~

I adore *details*

Aren't these punched out birds

so adorable...and the *B* stencil...heart shaped

doily...love it all.

Thank you Tracey!

It made my day, week...month...

blessings~

Sharing a beautiful giveaway ~

Rene' over at Miss Gracie's House is having

a gorgeous giveaway and all these photos

are what she is sharing with some lucky

winner! Click here to enter her giveaway~

She has also opened an Etsy site called

mg vintage romance

so be sure and visit there too!

She is the sweetest lady ever and will make

you feel right at home ~

Blessings~

Kinder Bueno ~

Kinder Bueno is a chocolate bar from Ferrero.

"It is a hazelnut cream filled wafer with a chocolate covering.

Kinder Bueno originally comes from Germany where it was

first released in 1990. It became available in Latin America

{Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Mexico} , Malaysia, Singapore,

Israel and Greece in the mid-1990's, in Italy and France

starting in 1999, and has been common in Canada, Australia,

and the United Kingdom since 2004. It is also common in

Croatia and Serbia.

A few stores in the United States carry it,

but because of it's rarity, it can be very expensive."

Kinder is the German word for *children* and Beuno is the

spanish word for *good*.

All I can say is YUMM...we must have been *good children*

to find this tasty treat!

When we were in Tecumseh last Saturday we visited a couple

of their wonderful stores and we purchased this candy bar for

$1.99.

I have never paid $1.99 for any candy bar , but this was

so worth it! It is a sinfully decadent little slice of heaven !

{Thankfully there were two wafers in the package so hubby

and I could both eat one. Otherwise I might have had to

wrestle him for my piece. lol}

If you ever run across this candy bar , please treat yourself to one.

I think you will love it as much as we did.

blessings~

{I am off to find some chocolate...i just know

there is some stashed in this house somewhere...}

Ice Sculpture Festival ~

We attended our first

ice sculpture festival

in Tecumseh, Michigan

on Saturday and it was

so neat to see the different pieces ~

of course this fleur -de- lis

was one of my favorites ~

this snow lady greeted us outside one of the stores ~ isn't she just grand! ice sculpture in progress ~

chess pieces...look at that horse!

we were amazed at the detail put into each sculpture ~

my darling little GD beside a train engine ~

another photo of my cutie pie ~

remember this store from a blog post last year

and we weren't able to visit because they were closed?

they were open for this event and

we stepped inside and warmed up with some

hot chocolate and mocha ~

grapes, wine and cheese sculpture ~

Annika loved the giraffe... fun family times that we cherish ~

blessings~

This little light of mine... ~

i'm gonna let it shine...

let it shine...

let it shine.

"let your light so shine before men that they

may see your good works

and glorify your father which is in heaven."

matthew 5:16

i received this beautiful candleholder

from my sister-in-law for christmas~

 love this use of candles outdoors ~

i snapped these pictures at my son and

daughter-in-laws house last week

let your light shine everyday...

inside or out...

blessings~

Picnic Basket Winner~

I have chosen a winner of the picnic basket filled with goodies

by random number generator and the winner is Nycole~

Congratulations!!

I need your name and address asap please and<P>

thank you to all who entered!