Add something small…

to make things even cozier for winter!

I got both of these sweet pillows at the thrift stores!

This heart shaped pillow is my latest find.

I love my dreamy bedroom and in the winter the sun shines in low and warms the room.

It’s been a beautiful week here in Florida!

I want to thank everyone for taking the time to comment on my post about the old quilt. I got so many great suggestions and a few warnings about how to care for old quilts, too. I will remember these. This quilt had been washed before and the stuffing had already ‘clumped’ but it’s good to have the information about the care and handling of old quilts. One thing I know, I don’t think I have the heart to cut it! But I’ll try to do something with it and post it when I do! THANKS girlfriends!!!

Are you having a sun shiny kind of day?

A Prim Quilt! Now what?

It was lumpy and bumpy…

dingy and dirty…

but it was RED! And it was only $7 at the Thrift Store!

So I brought it home and washed it twice and rinsed it several times!

But more and more of this ugly ‘stuffing’ came out of it!

I’ve never seen anything like this before! Is this raw cotton?

So I decided to take it apart and take all of the balled up stuffing out of it!

I called my neighbor next door to see if she wanted to sit with me in the courtyard while I worked. We live on a golf course so the golfers probably thought I was in my courtyard quilting! lol

It was ‘tied’ together with yarn so I snipped each little tie off and managed to get the back off.

Then I could pull the batting out. Then I washed it again and rinsed it twice! And now I am happy with it! The back of the quilt is the red polka dots!

The fabric is not strong enough to put it back together to be used as a quilt. It’s nice and clean now so I could fold it up pretty…but what are your ideas?

I’m joining....Vintage Thingie Thursday

and Time Travel Thursday

and Ivy and Elephants

and Thrifty Things Friday!

and Treasure Hunt Thursday!

and Thursday’s Favorite Things!

I’m linking to Honey’s Potpourri Party,

AND Kathy’s Home and Garden party!

I’m joining It’s a Very Cherry World

for Rednesday for the very FIRST time! ♥ 

I also want to link to the very FIRST Cozy Home Party !

I found a Dotty Hop party, too!

PLEASE HELP! I’m open to ANY suggestions!

What would you do with it?

“The Heart of the Sea” Mosaic Monday

I was so fortunate to find ‘the heart of the sea’ when we walked on Apollo Beach Christmas day.

This is the very first heart I’ve ever found…a treasure indeed.

I made this mosaic in Picassa and Picnik.

I started with this photo…

But I want to tell you about a fun and easy photo editing tool online.

I was on Living, Laughing and Loving and saw these wonderful blogging tips. HERE!

In Part 4 she mentions Pixlr 

It’s very easy to use and you save your photo…be sure to rename it so that it doesn’t overwrite your original…right onto your computer!

I used it here…

and here.

I’m joining Mary at the dear little red house

for Mosaic Monday! I hope you’ll join us, too!

I love working with photos!

PS I’ve had so many people ask….yes, I think it IS a rock but it was in the perfect shape of a heart! When I picked it up, I put it to my heart!

Have you learned a fun editing tool lately?

Are you into the ‘Details’?

I missed a lot of things over the years because I didn’t notice the details. Now I try to look at things differently.

My hubby had the idea to put a little sand in the bottom of these bottles and it was the perfect touch!

I’ve noticed when I decorate, the details make all the difference.

Don’t you agree that the candles look better if the wicks are burned?

I will have something a certain way for awhile and then realize it is all wrong.

I had this fish dish turned the other way…

and then one morning I looked at it and it looked wrong.

Do you pay attention to the details?

Do you really look and see what’s there?

I would like to mention a fun giveaway at the 2 Seasons for a $50 gift card for the Container Store!

Click HERE to enter!

Here’s a wonderful giveaway given by some of my favorite ladies…the Long Ladies at Marie Madeline Studio!

And Cat’s having a giveaway

click on… In the Light of the Moon.

Or you busy organizing and cleaning your house?

Another blog that is doing a neat series of posts is Funky Junk Interiors called A Week of Change.

I’m trying to read it every day and keep up!

I feel energized in the New year…how about you?

“A Little House of Your Own”

Today is the day to share vintage Story Books with Corey HERE

and I was inspired by Kim’s beautiful dolls houses on her blog HERE.

I know I could ‘play’ with my house more to customize it

but I do love having it in the doll room.

“The Dollhouse Magic” book is propped beside the dollhouse.

(written in 2000 by Yona Zeldis McDonough with illustrations by Diane Palmisciano)

I love the two little girls in the book, Lila and Jane.

But this is the book that you see on my coffee table in the lanai.

“A Little House of Your Own” by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers, Drawings by Irene Haas, written in 1954…a book I might have read when I was a child!

 

Don’t you love the black and white drawings in this book?

Do you have a favorite childhood book?

My ‘all time’ favorite is “Heidi” but I’ll leave that for another post!

It’s warm in the Lanai…let’s do a vintage photo shoot!

Wow! It got cold all the way down to Florida! I had to wear a coat today! It was in the 50s! lol So let’s go out to the lanai and take some pics!

I got an early birthday package from my sister and she sent me these pretty shell boxes! I had 2 squares ones and she sent me 2 round ones!

And I finally found one of the wicker bottles that I have admired at the Antique stores AND on everyone’s blogs! This one was 75 cents!

I almost teared up! heehee!

And won’t this sweet picture be cute in my doll room?

It says “YOUNG IDEAS” Original by RMI Nursery Plastics, INC. 137 East 25th St., N.Y.D. on the back!  75 cents! Oh, I LOVE it!

And I know what my hubby will say when he sees these….’what in the world are you going to do with those?’ But they were so cute…and in their little holder, too!

A splurge….$1.95 !

I’m linking to these fun parties!

I’m joining....Vintage Thingie Thursday

and Time Travel Thursday

and Ivy and Elephants

and Thrifty Things Friday!

and Treasure Hunt Thursday!

and Thursday’s Favorite Things!

I’m linking to Honey’s Potpourri Party, too!

Thanks to everyone that has written to me about my computer crash! We did not lose anything! My hubby had just done a back up on the external hard drive so he said everything has been saved. Of course it is taking a lot of time to transfer it to my new computer. It’s a challenge! Have a Happy Day!

 

Lavender Dream surprises!

The best part of having a blog is making friends.

I chose the name of my blog because I love the scent of lavender. I also love all of the shades of purple and lavender. The Dream part of my name? I remember my dreams every morning….every morning. I write some of them down but most of the time I just share them with my hubby. My Dad used to say, if you tell your dream before you eat breakfast it will come true. So…some of them I tell as soon as I wake up….a few I never repeat! Most of the time my dreams are good!

I have a Lavender Dreamer button…thanks to hubby!

Lavender Dreams soap….thanks Tracy at Screaming Sardine.

A DREAM bracelet…thanks Shanti at Sunshine Bliss.

A quilt that my sweet cousin, Cindy made last year…

and now “My Heart Beats Lavender Annie”

made for me by Maxie at Prims and Annies.

She surprised me with this gift and made me very happy! She wrote me a beautiful letter, too.

Isn’t she perfect?

Do you see that she’s included a sweet bear and some little extras for me to decorate with?

Thank you sweet Maxie…

♥

Lavender Annie is loved!