Lovely Outdoor Spaces!

I was looking on the Martha Stewart website and I found alot of wonderful outdoor space ideas and pictures. All the pictures you are looking at were found on the Martha Stewart website. Take a look!

I love this picture!! I would love to sit in those wonderful beach chairs by a lake under an umbrella-that would be so relaxing!

This little bistro table and chairs looks so inviting and relaxing!

I thought this was a clever idea of Marthas! You take huge shells and put votive candles inside. Group them all together and you have instant outdoor lighting!

I think John and I are going to purchase a firepit this Fall. I would love to have this view by one!

This would be an easy table cloth to make. Take you material and then stamp a huge leaf loaded with green paint onto the material. Just beautiful! I have seen this done with shells too!

For some reason herbs in clay pots just seem to go together! I love these clay pots because they used chalkboard paint around each rim. What a clever idea Martha!!

These huge paper flowers hanging over a table would definitely bring some color to any table outside. Just gorgeous!

This would take alot of pots and you would have to have the perfect wall for this arrangement but I love it!

I am in love with this nightime picture of this wonderful ocean view eating area! I love the green and white striped table cloth too! I could see the table cloth in blue and white too.

If you just need to add some color to your outdoor space these wonderful pillows made out of napkins are really fabulous! I think I just might have to try that.

You know how much I love porch swings-need I say more!

If you are looking for a Tuscan style outdoor eating space-this one is it!

What a wonderful way to end an evening with all these lovely votive candle holders hanging from your umbrella. How romantic!

I hope these pictures from Martha Stewart gave you some wonderful ideas you can use at your house! Enjoy!

Jenny Scare!

We had a scare with Jenny. Right before her knitting group baby shower Jenny had some vision issues, lost feeling in her right arm, tired, nagging headache, etc. I was so worried she was having a stroke, preeclampsia, Owen was in danger, etc. Thank goodness it wasn't any of those. Her Dr. thinks it was a migraine after she had some tests done. They put a monitor on Jenny for her blood pressure and to monitor Baby Owen. He is absolutely fine and Jenny is too now! She has about 5 weeks to go and they can't go fast enough for all of us!

We just thank the Lord that everything is all right and pretty soon there will be a new member in our family to love!

Some daylilies and flowers in the Garden

I walked around the garden last night and took some photos of some of my daylilies and flowers that were blooming. I thought I would share them with you!

My gardenia shrub started blooming the other day and it smells wonderful on the patio.

I planted this Bee Balm (Monarda) when we first moved in the house. The Hummingbirds really love it!

I love this little cherry rose daylily! It is one of my favorites.

These daylilies are really great bloomers!

I bought this daylily when we had the farm in NJ. I dug it up and brought it down to NC with me when we moved here 7 yrs. ago. The name of the daylily is Lake Norman Sunset. How crazy is this I bought it in NJ and moved to NC and the Lake in our area is Lake Norman and the sunsets are just gorgeous!!

I just had to show you my lemon. I have 4 of them growing right now, but this is the largest one!

Oriental Lily in a container on the patio.

This peach and maroon daylily is a beauty.

I love tuberous begonias. I bought this one around Mother's Day.

This is the same begonia but the flower is opening more and there are some buds. I can't wait until they all start blooming.

Picture of the new house inside

It has taken me some time to post more pictures of the new house. Well here they are!

This is our office off the Family Room. The Desk is a little messy, please excuse that! I have all my jewelry making supplies in there too! I have to start creating again.

This is our master bedroom viewed from the master bath.

This is my favorite beach pillow on our bed.

Large window in our master bedroom. Excuse the different color paint in between the window-John picked the wrong paint color to touch up-oopps!! We will be painting this room a very light silver gray very soon. We bought the paint we just have to paint it.

Garden Tub in master bath.

This is our kitchen from the Family Room.

This is the other side of the Kitchen.

This is my lovely view from my double window over the sink! I love looking out at the trees and my container flowers!

Butler's Pantry and other side of the Family Room.

Fireplace in the Family Room.

Mantel in the Family Room with our new painting. I just love that picture!

Guest Bath

2 French prints I hung in the Guest bath.

I repainted this lamp in our bedroom. I spray painted in Nickel from brass and replaced the shade. We have one of these lamps on each nightstand. I love the transformation!

Here is Curious George sitting in the Nursing Rocker in the Nursery just waiting for Owen!!

When I take pictures of the other rooms, I'll post them to show you too! Hope you enjoyed your little tour!

Jenny's Baby Shower on Saturday!

We had alot of fun at Jenny's Baby Shower on Saturday! She got so many beautiful gifts for Baby Owen. Megan and I began getting everything set up around 9 a.m. on Saturday and the Shower at 1:00 at Megan's house. We had 12 people at the Shower and they all brought some lovely gifts. Jenny's husband Kevin had an aunt and cousin come all the way from Buffalo, NY! Here are some pictures of our lovely afternoon!

Here is the Mom to Be!!

This is the table where we had the punch, iced tea and the diaper cake Megan and I made.

In the Dining Room we had the food table.

Jenny opening the gifts for Owen.

This cute little monster bag was a big hit at the Shower!

The cake that Megan made.

Jenny opening a gift from her co-worker, Lena.

My friend, Roxanne gave Jenny her shower gift in the really cute frog bag. She is planning on putting diapers in it in the nursery!

I love this picture of me, Jenny and Megan. Love you girls!!

The Shower at Megan's house is now over, but Tuesday night there will be another one at our knitting group. The we awaiting the arrival of Owen! He is due on July 17th but maybe he'll wait until the 23rd and be born on his Nana's birthday (that is me!!)!

Jenny's Baby Shower tomorrow!

I have not been blogging as regularly as I usually do but I have been busy planning and doing things for Jenny's Baby Shower. Her Shower is tomorrow! I will take plenty of pictures! Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I won a Rose Giveaway!!

I entered a Giveaway on Kat Warren's, Low Tide High Style blog!! I was so excited when I heard I won! I will be receiving lots of lovely things from Kat and from Hartwood Roses I will be receiving the Maggie rosebush!!! Here is a picture of the rose:

Connie, of Hartwood Roses has so many lovely roses for sale. Her website is: www.hartwoodroses.com. You should visit her site and help support wonderful farms like Connie's farm!!

Thanks Kat and Connie!!