Bye-bye for a few days

I'm off today to spend a week with my daughter in Virginia.

I thought I would leave you with photos of some new furniture in my living room. This is the first flowery furniture for my livingroom and I love it! I consider this my space to read, watch tv in and relax in when hubby is watching tv in the other room. The fru-fru sofa, chair, round ottoman and hooked area rug are new.

Let me know what you all think!


The beautifully scented teacup candle sits beside one of my favorite chairs - it's from FRANCIE'S SCENTED COTTAGE.






If you enlarge the photo above, you will see my bird nest filled with eggs from KARI AND KIJSA...on the white cherub pedestal.

~"Time for a Giveaway"~ & ~a Pay it Forward~

I took this photo of these amazing hydrangeas when we visited Crook, County Durham, England three years ago.

MARY at ACROSS THE POND is having a giveaway in honor of her first year as a blogger.

Lovely gifts they are. You will see when you visit her and leave a comment on her giveaway post. Good luck to all! Even if you don't win the giveaway, you will enjoy her words and talent as a blogger, decorator and storyteller.

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I have decided to take part in ALICE'S
Pay it Forward.
Any blogger is invited to participate.
If you would like to Pay it Forward - The first three people to leave a comment on this post saying they'd like to participate will receive a gift from me (Deborah) in the next 365 days. The only condition is that those people will have to do the same on their blogs. Pay it Forward! Don't forget to specifically mention in your comment that you want to do this too.

ALICE RECEIVED HER BOOK!

ALICE at Tea In My Cup wrote a post today about receiving what she won here on my blog. It was The Baker's Dozen, Volume II poetry book.

Alice, you lifted my spirits and made me blush with
your gracious and kind post. Thank you so very much!

~WAITING FOR SPRING~

I know it's coming!


Keeping watch into the evening...



Camouflaged...we don't want to frighten it away!



Maybe it's coming from the east!



Some just keep working...


Some fall asleep on their watch...

~YOUNG LOVE~

Set a kiss 'pon this maiden's cheek
I beg, place it there e'er meek

Peruse my tender girlish heart
There find a place you cannot part

Innocence I gift to thee
With merriment and with glee

Oft your boyish kiss I bespeak
To rest gently 'pon my maiden cheek
Deborah
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~YOU ARE MY SUNRISE~

February, being the month of love, calls for a little poetry, as did a couple of visitors here on my blog.

This one is not published, but I hope you will enjoy reading this short one.




YOU ARE MY SUNRISE…
light that opens my weary eyes
wakening my spirit’s morning
causing my stilled voice to sing
force that unwraps my sleeping cover
my companion, my impassioned lover

~Deborah~
September 16, 2007

Put your reading glasses on ALICE!

ALICE at Tea In My Cup...you are the winner of THE BAKER'S DOZEN, VOLUME II!


I do hope you enjoy all writings in this book!

If you love tea parties, you will LOVE Alice's ideas, menus and recipes!

Thank you all for stopping by for a visit and to enter the giveaway.