Our Grandson's 2nd Birthday...

http://www.thenelkes.blogspot.com/2012/02/birthday-boy.html
Video of the cake moments at our kid's blog.

Please help this little Puppy dog if you can...

http://www.indiegogo.com/To-Whom-it-May-Concern-1

This is my cousin and his experience today, saving a dog and nearly losing his life too.
Help out if you can with the vet bills for little "Milo".

Thanks, Linda

Vintage Jewelry...Show & Tell Friday

Time for Show & Tell Friday thanks to Cindy at

www.romantichome.blogspot.com be sure

and check out her wonderful blog and see who else

is showing and telling this week.

A couple weeks ago we had to head over the mountains of our state

for my husband's grandmother's funeral.

While there I had a chance to check in on my folks and while there my mother gave me some

treasures.

She still has a bunch of my great aunt's things and so she sent some home

with me. 

Mostly vintage and antique jewelry or "bling".

There was this amazing rhinestone belt found a new home for now.

It actually looks cool worn as a necklace too.

Then a bunch of vintage rhinestone jewelry sets. Some gorgeous but unmarked and also

some vintage Phillip Trafari pieces.

This yellow gold rhinestone set is just amazing.

These necklaces are like choker length though, so I am going to try

and get extenders for them so I can actually wear them more comfortably.

And she gave me this antique gold ring with jet black face and a little

diamond in it.

It fit my right ring finger perfectly!

What girl doesn't like jewelry?!

And there is much much more to still be gone through, I am going

to help her liquidate and sell alot of her collection soon.

Show & Tell Friday...Tres Bon Print for the Master!

Well hopefully with the New Year I can get in some new blogging, just been really busy busy with

our shop space, holidays , grandson and family coming for Christmas etc.

So thought I would join in on Show & Tell Friday with a very brand new find, in fact I found

it when out today, just hours ago.

This gorgeous framed mid century French print!

I found it at a great place, Poppyseeds in Stanwood WA.

The more I looked at it the more it called my name and I new the spot

for it too.

So home it came and above our master bed, where I had a mirror previously.

My photos don't do it justice either!

Looks better and bigger in here in person.

I am still looking at it up too before I decide whether I should paint the frame antique white

like our bedroom furniture in the room. I think it might update it nicely but

make the print stand out more.

Thanks to Cindy at www.romantichome.blogspot.com for hosting

this fun post on Fridays! 

Grandson Rockin' in the New Year