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Happy Weekend and Happy Pink Saturday! Thank you Beverly for organizing our little party. Please stop by her blog and take some time to visit everyone and leave a comment. We all love receiving comments!

This week we are taking a little trip down memory lane…to my childhood. Those of you who have been reading my PS posts might remember that my mom called me her ‘pink bunny’ when I was a little girl. Look what I found in my dresser drawer: proof.

My overalls – I couldn’t have been more than 2 years old – I think I was even younger than that.

A little robe. Hard to believe I was ever small enough to wear this…here’s a closer view.

The palest of pinks.
Truth be told, I loved being Mom’s pink bunny! I wonder if there are any children’s books with that title? Wouldn’t it be fun to have one? Have a great weekend!

Pink Saturday

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Hello to everyone on this August Pink Saturday! Please stop by How Sweet the Sound, Beverly’s blog, to see a list of everyone participating. Beverly, thank you for all the time you put in to make this event so successful.

How about a little pink and green this week? A trip to the Berkshires, it must be over 11 years ago, led to this little treasure. In a tiny little shop, I came across a hat that I loved and I needed something in which to carry it home on the plane. In another little shop I found this:

A vintage hat box. I fell in love with it. It is covered in the sweetest pink and green pattern. Aren’t those pink flowers beautiful?

This is the lid – the handle is made out of wood and painted green. This hat box sits on a bookshelf by my bed….I wonder what’s inside?

I cannot tell a lie – I forgot these were in the box! I started crocheting some squares with some beautiful Debbie Bliss yarn and promptly forgot about them. Hmmm…I see a little project that needs to be re-started.

Finally, a close-up of my spirea. I am enthralled by intricacy of this bloom. Truly beautiful.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Pink Saturday

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Hello everyone and thank you, as always, to Beverly for this wonderful celebration of pink! Please visit her blog and stop in to say hello to everyone participating.

I have a china cabinet I bought back when I first lived in San Diego. I was single then and in a tiny apartment, so I wanted something on a smaller scale in which I could display my Fiesta – that is what I collected in those days. I found this in Ocean Beach and fell in love with it. Fast forward to our move out East. I no longer had the Fiesta and we decided to put our Christmas village in the cabinet and there it stayed for much too long. (I cropped this from an old photo of the den.)

I was sick of the village, but my husband liked it. A lot. I figured if it made him happy, so be it. However, the combination of the browns of the village and the wood inside the cabinet made for a depressingly dark tableau. Imagine my surprise when I came home from my recent stint in San Diego and a casual conversation led to my husband agreeing that we should pack up the village! Yes!

I didn’t want to paint the cabinet because it has a beautiful inlaid wood pattern on it and is made of at least 3 different woods.

But I could paint the inside, couldn’t I? So I did – Pink Breeze by Valspar. Look what a difference some paint made.

Why didn’t I think of this sooner? Now for some McCoy…


Ooooh! Pretty, don’t you think? I love it.

Some pink McCoy! Sorry for the glare, I had to use the light inside the cabinet.

Now the corner is much brighter and lighter. We both love it and I love seeing some of my McCoy in the den.

Ah, some flowers. These are my purple coneflowers, but they are more of a pinkish purple. They look so pretty in the garden.

Have a great weekend!

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