Sweets and Treats

I had a really fun day last week meeting some other Texas bloggers. Laura of Decor To Adore put together a lunch for us to meet. We each brought a valentine or little treat.

Here are the goodies I brought home. I felt like a little kid in school bring home my treasures from these creative ladies.

Here's the Valentines I was working on last week to give to each gal.

We had lunch at a wonderful place in McKinney, Texas. Such a cute historic square with lots of shops, restaurants. and a historic courthouse.

Here are the great gals I got to hang with. Most of us had never met before, but we all left as friends with plans in the works for another get together in the spring.

Here's the links to each persons blogs. You should definitely check them out. The list starts at the left and goes around the table.

Kitty ~ http://www.kittyskozykitchen.com/ 

Stacey ~ http://www.poofingthepillows.com/

Eilis ~  http://my-heart-lives-here.blogspot.com/

Carol ~ http://blueskykitchen.net/

Laura's cute daughter

Laura ~ http://www.decortoadore.net/

                                               Lisa ~ http://hospitablepursuits.blogspot.com/

                                                Sharon ~ http://www.prettypracticalhome.com/
                                                                         Yours Truly
                                              Celeste ~ http://www.celestinamariedesign.com/
Lots of creative ideas, recipes, and eye candy! Thank you for such a fun day.

We took out youngest son to a pie place in Dallas, called Emporium Pies. They make all their pies from scratch. Here are a few in the case. The shop is in an old historic house-so cute.

It was so crowded that day, we had our pie 'to go' which was just fine, because it was in the 70's that day. We took our pie outside and ate at a picnic table. Look how cute they package their to go slices. It was delicious!

Lastly, Hubs and I shared some chocolate covered strawberries on Valentines Day.

All in all it was a very sweet week. I hope you had one too!
Leslie

New Camera, New Friend and Newly Decorated Hutch

I met a fellow blogger that lives in my town. It was Celeste from Celestina MarieDesign and her blog is Southern Day Dreams. It's a beautiful blog and Celeste is soooo creative and such a sweet person. We met and had a wonderful lunch and got to know each other. It felt like we were old friends with many common interests. Of course my camera was still on the fritz, but I finally got a picture of the pretty pumpkin she made for me.

 It went perfectly with my fall decor. So cute. Here's the post she did about our fun meeting, since she was a good blogger and took many pic's that day. Thanks Celeste and hope to see you soon so we can go junkin' together!

 I finally got a new camera. Now I need to figure out how to use it, but I managed to get some shots of my Christmas kitchen hutch.

 I decided to do jadite and red for a fun vintage look.

 I found the green teapot at the thrift store and it matches the Jadite perfectly.

 I've been Christmas decorating and finishing up the craftroom mini re-do. I'll put some pic's up real soon.

 I have some new listings in my Etsy shop. Use the coupon code Santa1 and you'll get 15% off your Etsy purchases. Sale will go through Dec. 7, 2015.

We had a fun but rainy Thanksgiving. Very relaxing. Now the rush begins. I hope you all had a great break. Let the merrymaking begin!

Leslie