Don't get me started

This picture makes me smile!

After the week I have had I need more smiles!!!

:-) These 3 are always into mischief :-)

I have been really wanting to post more often...and I did do good a week ago but this week is another story! Our daughter and her family ~whom have been staying with us since february

are moving into their new home this week

{they decided to rent for a year before they build or buy to make sure they like country living}

It is or will be a cute home once we get past the dirt n filth!

I am just so amazed at how some people live....

We have been scrapeing and scrubbing for a week now and are not near being finished!

The windows look like they have not been cleaned in years...

cobwebs in every corner,

the stove and fridge have not been cleaned behind in ages,

the floor tiles are black....

the sink was rusty brown...

I scrubbed so much I think I scrubbed the finish off of it because now it is white!

Hubby says it does'nt surprise him how dirty and distroyed the house is "because it is a rental!"

GRRRR...... I want to scream

Ok people I don't care who you are..

what or where you came from

there is no excuse for living like a pig!

It does not take money to keep your house clean!

SOAP AND WATER IS FREE!!!!!!

It does'nt matter that you do not own this house..

it is your home, where you live, and raise your children....

It is a reflection of who you are!

I hate when people say "it is just a rental".... bah humbug!

It is the place that you call home...

love and respect it and it will show!

I have rented in my younger days and have always treated the house as if it were my own....

I painted, wallpapered, installed carpet and planted flowers, kept the windows cleaned and the lawn perfect!

There is just no excuse for the mess we are haveing to clean up!

I am sorry for going off like this....

This really ticks me off!

Lets move onto better things...

hubby took this picture of our precious grandbaby and our 2 furbabies

this afternoon.

Miss Emma and her companions are always into something!

Notice the screen door is ajar... like they are all trying to escape!

Maybe trying to get away from a crabby gramma! :-)

I want to thank Heather for the pretty package I received today!

Oh la la girl you have my mind whirling with ideas!

Thank Debbie for the beautiful tea cup filled with roses!

Thank you to Kathy for the sweet petite rose tea cup and yummy tea!

And lastly a big thank you to Suzy for the awesome halloween swap goodies!

{pictures coming soon}

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Hugz, Dolly

Blessed

I want to thank each and everyone one of you for your

warm thoughts and sweet comments!

And great home remedies!
I feel so blessed to have yous in my life!

You make my heart happy!

I am sending you lots of hugzzzzz...

(((from my cherry heart to you)))

YES... I am feeling much better now!

I have eatten enough chicken soup to feed and army...

I have gargled and gagged on vinegar and warm salty water...
mmmmmm....
But I did have a wonderful nurse {my sweet hubby}
he took good care of me,

even pampered me when I was whiney and crabby!
Gotta love him!

Thank you huney buns!!!!

I pampered myself alittle too!
I made this sweet cherry clothespin bag for me me meeeee!
I have been wanting one for awhile now!

I am so happy with the way it turned out!

I bought this one from the amish store for my mum,

and made mine from looking at that one!
I tweeked it alil... to make it Dolly-style! :-)

Rosemary sent me the cute cherry buttons...

thank you Rosemary!

Tomorrow is laundry day...

I can't wait to use my cherry sweet clothespin bag!
Hugz, Dolly

Fall is in the air....

The nights are colder and the leaves are changing colors!

I am not ready for fall and then winter

but I guess mother nature says ~~ready or not here they come!

Above is one of my favorite fall-ish pictures!

Our baby girl amongst the sunflowers!

She loves sunflowers,

One day she & friends were out for a drive and they spyed this huge field of sunflowers.

They spent a few hours just taking pictures and running thru the field!

I love this picture of her!

I have been loafing around with an ear ache since friday

and now swollen tonsils!

My friend suggested one of his home remedies for an earache!

I tried it and it worked for me!

You put a lil bit of pepper in a cotton ball...roll it up and stuff it in your ear!

I kept it in over night and this morning my ear feels much better!

Now what to do for swollen tonsils?

Any home remedies??????

Hugz, Dolly

Cotton & Candy

Cotton & Candy swap goodies from Shannon

Look at all the wonderful goodies Shannon sent to me!

The yummy lavender strawberry

was resting snug inside the pink cherry tussie mussie!

Don't you love the cherry glittery Dolly sign?

And the minty green tea towels are perfect in my kitchen!

{my favorite color} I am so lovin these cuter then cute faux candies!

Shannon these are the BEST!!!!!

I screamed when I opened them! :-)

Are'nt they the cutest????

I bet you are jealous? ;-)Candy... you betcha I loooove real candy too!

Take a look at all these yummy treats!

Chocolates, cherry gummys, mints, caramels, french cherry candies,and the cutest cherry cuppycake papers!

I love everything Shannon....

You are the best!!!

Thank you so so so very much!!!

I loved bein your partner!

Shannon has'nt received her goodies yet

so this is all I can show you of what I sent her,

the box is crammed full of ....you guessed it Cotton & Candy!!!!!!

You will have to excuse me now...

I am off to indulge in some of these yummy chocolates!

Hugz, Dolly

{ok I have come to accept that my blog has a mind of its own...

it wants gaps between my sentences so I give up...

blog do your thing!}

Grrrrrrr.......

PINK Punkin

My PRH sisters had our very first swap!

The theme was pumkins

My partner was Miss Amy

Miss Amy lives in Bunny Rose Cottage with her 5 baby bunnies and her honey bunny!

Momma Bunny loves PINK....

Above is what I sent Miss Amy...
Take a look at this sweet chenille bunny dressed in her sunday best,

sprinkled with a bit of fairy dust,

she has her sweet lil BOO tiara

and her pretty lil patchwork punkin!

she is all ready to greet halloween at Bunny Rose Cottage!

Here is a close up of her sweet BOO tiara!

Adorned with rhinestones and glitter!

Even Bunny princess' needs a tiara don't you agree! I forgot to take a picture before I wrapped this!

I found a Little golden book at an antique shop..

the title is "Five Lil Bunnys"

How perfect is that for Momma Bunny and her 5 lil bunnys?This is the sweet box Miss Amy sent to me....

Can you see the cherries?

Inside the cherry box was this PINK yes PINK cherry punkin!

How awesome is this I ask you!!!!!

Miss Amy made it along with the fun cherry & heart tag!!!!

And that pretty pink rose is handmade too!

I love it all sweetpea! Here are all the other FUN goodies.....

Everyone is invited over to make cuppycakes! :-)
Thank you with all my cherry heart Miss Amy,

This was a fun swap!
Hugz, Dolly
P.S.Any idea why my sentences are spaced out like that???
Help....they did that all by themselves!

Lets Play Tag

My sweet friends Heather and Rosemary and Angelina nominated me to play

the Name Game.....
So here goes....

"The Rules"....
you must state the rules before you state the facts. :-)
The facts are to name one thing relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name.
If you do not have a middle name then you choose the middle name that you wish you had.
Then you tag one person for each letter of your middle name and let them know they have been tagged.

M= Mom and grandMomma
A= Artsy Fartsy
R= Rich in blessings
I= I Love Cherries {te-hee}
E= Easy going

I am sure most of you have already been tagged by now!
If you have'nt been tagged consider yourself tagged!
TAG..... YOU'RE IT
Hugz, Dolly

Give away

Sara over at Girl land is haveing a fun give away!
Who does'nt like a give away?
I know I do!
I am not very lucky but its fun trying!
Go check out her blog....
say hello and sign up for her give away!

Hurry.... the 12th is the last day to sign up!

Good Luck!!!!
Hugz, Dolly

Remembering 911

My thoughts and prayers go out to those

whom have lost loved ones that horrible day 6 years ago!

><> GOD BLESS AMERICA <><

Hugz, Dolly

Babies, Birthdays and Shopping

Yummy Yummy Ice Cream....
We took the grandbabies out for ice cream..
Our princess had to have PINK ice cream
and Lil guy wanted Chokit.....
Whats your favorite...

PINK or CHOKIT????

:-)

They won't pose like they used to...
camera shy or just plain tired of gramma taking their picture?

The gangs all here... waiting patiently to surprise the birthday girl!
Yep mom was surprised!
It was a 70th birthday to remember!

I think the kids enjoyed the balloons more then the birthday cake!

We even had time to visit the church sale...

Look at these goodies......
Some newer and vintage books...
a silver tray in need of some tlc...
a cuppycake that will get a make-over...
oh and look at that pretty vintage collar!!
Oh La La!!!

All these vintage sewing goodies... I could'nt pass them by!
Don't you just love that cup cake pan?
I can't wait to use it!
Oh yes there were cherry treasures waiting for me!
I have been wanting a sun tea jar but could'nt find a glass one

{I don't do plastic}
imagine how excited I was to find a new glass one strutting cheery red cherries!
Dear hubby gets to use my red thermos when he goes deer hunting! {if he's lucky}
The 2 glass towel bars will go in the kitchen to hold my cherry towels...

The 25cent {yup can you believe it a whole quarter!!} ceiling medallion will go in the hall!

Oh yes yes yes..... I scooped up some PINK treasures too!
Love love love the cotton candy pink cake tin!

Too sweet!
And that lil PEPTO PINK dustpan?
Can you see alil girl helping her momma clean the floor?
I am loving the tye dye ribbon and pink sewing trims...
plus I got 3 boxs of PINK PINK PINK christmas ornies!

And a childs poem book.... with a PINK cover!!!!
Yeah.... it was so much fun shopping!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend too!

Hugz, Dolly

Ta Ta

Hubby and I are outta here for a few days!

We are haveing a surprise 70th birthday party for his mum!

Plus we have to see the dr for his after surgury check up!

Annnnnd we will be spending lots of time with our grandbabies!

Enjoy your week!

Hugz, Dolly

Super Duper Swapper

Mica @ Garb-oodles Soup hosted a Vintage Kitchen swap...
I was lucky enough to be her partner!
{doin the happy dance}
Whooo-hoooo...
I was excited but alil nervous too!
We are talkin mega talented Miss Mica here!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We both have red Kitchens so it was pretty fun!
I made her some really cool stuff that I hope {fingers crossed} she likes!
Can't show pictures just yet as I don't want to ruin the surprise!

Ok Okkkk I will give you alil peek at one of the goodies I made.....

A soldiered charm to commemorate her swap! {with cherries of course}

~~ OH LA LA ~~

I am excited.... now I will show you all the fun stuff she sent me......

Oh my I felt like it was my birthday...

I opened one pretty thing after another... each one as exciteing as the last one!

Mica darlin you spoiled me girl!

Take a look at all these wonderful goodies ladies!

The most awesomest cherries plate {luv luv luv that}

Cherry towels,

and a really cool cherry bandana,

and the sweetest green cuppy cake tin!

A vintage berry basket {luv that}

Cherry red metal bowl {I hate plastic}

Jelly jar filled with sour CHERRIES {I love cherries}

Cherry creamware,

a cherry red rolling pin,

wood spoon {to beat my hubby with} {lol}

cherry red coasters,

a rooster hanky,

and the bestest handmade apron with CHERRIES!!!!

Mica you are very sweet and jenerous

I thank you with all my CHERRY heart!

It was such a pleasure swapping with you!

Hugz, Dolly

Gone in a flash

Where did last week go?
Boy I missed a few..... ok more like 5 days last week...
they came and went before I knew it!
I have to tell you, I was a busy lil bee!
So much to do... so far behind....
There never seems to be enough time in a day lately!
What did I do you ask....
Hmmm where to start......

The rain stopped for awhile on saturday

so I got the tractor out and got the lawn cut...

I had not cut it in months...

it was basically dead from no rain!

We have 10 acres of grass so that was an all day job!

I had so many peaches... they were comin out my ears...

With all those peaches I made Peach butter.. oh no not just any Peach Butter,

this was Amaretto Peach butter!

Peach butter with a twist of sweet cherry!

~~~ ohhh sooooo YUMMY~~~

I also made a peach cobbler... sorry no pictures we gobbled that up real quick!

Today I think I will make a peach pie!

I also got some swap stuff finished and mailed out!

Above are my 2 creations for the Art Doll swap....
Maria said she was into mermaids and fairies so I created one of each for her!
These were very fun to make!

This is the Tussie Mussie I made for Jeanne.
I had so much fun with this swap!
Jeanne and I have the same tastes so it was easy to create for her!
The cone is made from analglypta wallpaper that I painted PINK and trimmed in vintage lace, crepe paper, buttons, silk ribbon, vintage rick rack and the sweetetst lil girl with a floppy bonnet on! I have been making these cute lil dress cards for awhile now
so I knew I had to make some for Ele for our Christmas card & Tags swap!
These are sooo darn cute... if I say so myself! ;-)

I hope Ele likes them too!
Nope these are not your traditional christmas tags...
these were created just for Ele!
She loves vintage ~shabby~ beachy~ chic...
no red and white jolly old cartoony santa here!
Don't you love them!

I still have to finish up and take pictures of the vintage kitchen goodies I made for Mica and the cotton n candy goodies I made for Shannon!

Oh and a sweet friend of mine is haveing a birthday so I made her alil something to make her smile... I will share those with you soon!

Happy Birthday Miss Connie!

Take care,

Hugz & Blessings, Dolly

Soups on... Comeon over

Brrr.... It's cold and rainy here again today!

I am not complaining though...

the rain is a blessing!

It's been so dry here

What's the best way to chase away the rainy day blues?

A big pot of soup simmering on the stove!
I had zucchini and summer squash begging to be used
so I whipped up a pot of zucchini soup!

Juicy tomatoes, sweet corn, zucchini, yellow squash, and onions.
5 Simple ingrediants, topped with velvetta cheese!
Sooooo Yummy...
can you smell it?

Stay warm and Enjoy your day!
Hugz, Dolly

Warm HUGZ....

Thank you all for your warm wishes and prayers for hubby!

The surgury went well.

We will know exactly how well in a few weeks!

Prayers are still needed for a speedy recovery!

We are back home and he is resting peacefully!

I truely apreciate all of you for taking the time to write and to pray for us!

I am so blessed to have such wonderful people around me each day!

Warm hugz to Becky, Sharon, Ele, Genevieve, Vickie, Kasse, Miss Rhea, Bertie, Sharon, Heather, Karen, Mandy, Jeanne, Jessi, Suzy, Del, Shannon, Kathy, Lallee, Rosemary, Amy, all of my PRH gal pals and all of you!

Thank you with all our hearts!

Hugz, Dolly

Many hands make lite work...

Yesterday my girlfriends and I got together to can sweet corn!

We shucked and shucked till we could'nt shuck any more!

Here's a batch ready to be put in the jars....

Look at all them kernals

Mmm... is your mouth watering?????

Dora and Ida are hard at work filling jars......

Yes we even put the guys to work...

Dave and hubby emptied the pressure cookers while Kay supervised!

All total we canned 120 pints of corn and 20 pints of dill pickels!

It was a very productive day!

I am outta here for a day or two...

Hubby is haveing surgury tomorrow!

Keep him in your prayers!

Blessings, Dolly

My Partner

I'd like you to meet INK

This precious lil angel is my partner in crime!

She is on the desk or on my lap when I am blogging....

she also loves to bat at my fingers when I am typing...

or walk across the keyboard!

Often times she will fell asleep on the mouse cord,

thats when I know its time to get up and do something else :-)

Ink wants to know where all the other kitty blogettes are!

Do you have a kitty blogette in training?

Enjoy your weekend,

Hugz & Blessings, Dolly

NICE really does MATTER.....

My sweet friend Steph nominated me for the "Nice Matters" award!

Awww thank you sweetpea!

{blushing}

I am not sure I deserve it but I will take it and run!

Genevieve started this award with the intent that.....

" This award will be given to those that are just nice people , good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration!

Those that care about others that are there to lend support or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world!"

Thank you Genevieve and Steph,you are both that and much more!!

I would like to dedicate this award to all the people in my life, especially all of my PRH sisters, and to all of you whom read my blog faithfully and leave wonderful comments, and to those of you whom read and don't leave comments!

I love you all!

Now I am supposed to nominate 7 bloggers who I feel deserve this award too!

Gosh this is hard.... I think everyone deserves this award...

I am sure this award will circle the blog world and everyone will be nominated eventually!

Here are my nominees.......

Natasha @ Artistic creations by Natasha Burns

Heather @ Pretty Petals Boutique

Mica @ Garboodles soup

Holly @ Holly Doodle designs

Tina @ Cherry Hill Cottage

Kasse @ Miss Duffys

Kathy @ Kathys Cottage

Warm Hugz, Dolly :-)

Thank you Bertie for nominating me too!

Thank you for all the kind words sweetpea!

Ladies I invite you to pop over to meet Bertie..

and see her sweet lil cottage and her beautiful home!

she is my PRH sister with a victorian heart!

I have grown to know her and love her with each passing day!

She is a kindered spirit and a big heart!!!!

Aunt Mays Cottage

It's been a loooong week!

My mum and all of our guests have gone home!

It's time for me to relax...

if anyone needs me I will be in the hammock......

Xo, Dolly

Makeing Memories

Hello all my bloggy gal pals...
I have not disappeared...
I have not run away...
I have not abandoned ship....
I am here.....
Missing you all!

What's been keeping me you ask??????
My mum has come to stay with us for a week...

YAAAAAAAAY...

Although she lives only 3 hours away we don't get to see each other very often.

I love when she comes to visit.... She always brings goodies too...
a few loaves of her yummy homemade zucchinni bread, and she brings all the ingredients to make a few batches of grammas rice pudding!
Mmm... warm from the oven... its the best!
Although mum has no idea what shabby chic means,
her favorite color is NOT PINK,and she is not into scrap booking, blogging, antique shopping, hunting resale shops or Etsy......
We will be spending the week... sipping tea, shopping,
chatting, shareing stories and looking at old photos,
sight seeing and visiting old friends!
I hope to teach her a new craft or two while she is here!
I will spend my week Making Memories...
What will you be doing?

P.S. anyone waiting on swaps goodies from me...
please forgive me for being late...
God has blessed me with this time with my mum
and I plan to make the best of it!
~Thank you for understanding~
Hugz, Dolly

Another FUN swap

Who does'nt loooove vintage kitchen goodies!

Aprons. potholders, utensils, cook books,tablecloths, etc....

If you missed Jennys vintage kitchen swap

or if you had fun and want to do it again...

then run over to Garboodles

and sign up for Micas' Vintage Kitchen swap...

I hope to see you there

Hurry... sign up ends sunday!