A day in Carmel, California and Food Galore! - Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  I'm breaking my own rules this week and not sharing something from my home and garden. Rules are meant to be broken so if you feel the need to break my rule, please feel free to do so!  



I'm hardly home these days but I am out enjoying life!  When I started my blog I was a single mom and I spent most of my time at home. Now that my youngest is going to

Garden Blooms - Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!






Spring has sprung here in Northern California and I'm enjoying all my garden blooms!  This weekend it's supposed to be in the 80s so I think we are going straight to summer!






I bought this wood box years ago and stenciled the word "Flowers" on the front of it.  It's been sitting in my backyard for the last couple years and now has a very faded and

My Eden Roses are blooming! - Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! 






I love this time of year...when my Eden rose bush blooms again after its winter break!  I sure look forward to having these beautiful bouquets in my home again!  This bouquet will be the first of many! It blooms continuously from now until December! 





I put these roses that I picked this morning in a little vintage cherub dish I have in my

Spring Shells - Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  






Last weekend I received an unexpected package in the mail!  









I was so surprised when I opened it and found these beautiful glittered shells!  They are from a fellow blogger ~ "M" at OC Cottage!  She had sent me some of these years ago and I display them in my tiered dish every Christmas.  After a couple years they weren't looking so

Keeping Cool in Hawaii

Aloha from Hawaii!

Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this to the world but I'm experiencing hot flashes more than any other woman I know! This horrible symptom of menopause has been going on for over two years for me! When will it end?

If you haven't had a hot flash let me explain how it feels. It's different that just feeling hot from warm weather. It's more like an internal heat. It

Show and Tell will be delayed this week!

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }


Spring has Sprung!, originally uploaded by Romantic Home.

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that my Show and Tell Friday post won't be posted on Thursday evening like it usually is. I committed to doing an ad/product