We Have A Flag Winner! And Other News...

THE LUCKY WINNER OF THE BEAUTIFUL "WAVING FLAG" ORNAMENT IS:
VALERIE....of From Our Front Porch Looking In!!!
And, Val, I really hope that you enjoy this flag as much as I loved choosing it!

I wish you ALL could have won one of these gorgeous ornaments! I didn't even get myself one, I wish I would have, but I can always go back! Here's the absolutely magnificent tree it was hanging on! What a gorgeous tree! My daughter shot all the ornaments so you could see them...

This ornament was over $30!!

IN OTHER NEWS.....

Our impatiens have been enjoying the cool and cloudy weather. The grass has enjoyed it and is still green and velvety and isn't growing quite as fast as it does on ninety degree days.

This is my birthday present.
It's PURTY.
It is also a major goof on my part.

It's my birth-a-day today. I'm doing what I want ALL DAY, and then someone I love told me that we can go out for dinner and I can eat crab legs tonight! Now that's LIVING!

I am hoping today to hit a few garage sales and then come home to start a pinwheel quilt similar to this one. I have a couple of the season sets of OCTOBER ROAD to watch (remember that wonderful series that got canceled in its prime?) and I can put that in the DVD player and GO TO TOWN!

I cannot wait to see it come together and am planning to do it in primary colors or in basic crayon colors. For some reason, timeless patterns like scrappy patch quilts, scrappy nine patches, and scrappy pinwheel patterns really appeal to me; I don't think I could ever tire of them. I'm taking the plunge and trying it and hope to have it done in time for our family room re-do this fall (after the kitchen).

About that beautiful china cabinet! We saw it that day last week when Jamie and my husband and I were antiquing and I fell in love. I thought I knew the perfect spot for it. So. I came home, measured, thought it over, then Lem told me just to get it for my birthday. So then we went back and got it and brought it home, and the men put it into the spot it was bought for, and let me tell you, it's a heavy piece. I moved all the items into it, then looked at it for more than twenty-four hours and absolutely hated where it sat and how it looked in that room. So, again I had my husband and son move it, (boy were they HAPPY about that!!!) and we all hated it in the new spot!

Right now this beautiful cabinet is in LIMBO. And I have no idea what to do with it and cannot return it. I have no where to put it right now except the pole barn. Maybe if I leave it sitting in the house a few days something will dawn on me about where I can put it.

It is a very nice old piece and if any of you know anything about the name of the style of it, I'd love to know. The inside is nice, too and has some cedar built into the interior to make the whole piece smell wonderful. I plan to change out the knobs but I am completely taken with the columns and the detail in the wood on this cabinet!
(I'm considering drilling holes in the back, removing an interior shelf and turning it into a media cabinet!)

And....WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY?