HYACINTHS FOR THE SOUL

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Time to Spring Forward

pocket watches

~Silver Tray of Vintage Pocket Watches ~

Round Top Antique Market, 2010

Just a little reminder that

Sunday, March 13, 2011

is the date to "Spring Forward"

to set clocks ahead one hour.

It's also Silver Sunday @ Gypsy Fish Journal.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Pink & Green ~ Springtime Favorites

A Few of My Favorite Things

Tuesday, March 15th

Third Annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl

@ Cuisine Kathleen

In honor of St. Patrick's Day

Kathleen is offering a $60 CSN gift card

for followers who leave a comment that day.

In addition, during the past week this thoughtful

lady has also given away three different sets of

gorgeous napkins, just in time for spring tables.

Pinks & Greens

Springtime Favorites

And I was one of the lucky winners.

Look at these beautiful pink and green Waverley towels

Don't they make beautiful napkins?

Pinks and greens were also the color choice for my first quilt project. When I retired in 1998, one of the first things on my "Retirement Bucket List" was to learn to quilt. I signed up to take a beginning class at a local quilt shop. Six weeks later, I had completed a quilt top pieced with pink and green fabrics that I'd had collected over several years.

Unfortunately the course didn't include lessons in the actual quilting of the top. Each individual could decide to hand quilt or machine quilt. If you read the "signature" above, you'll note that I did neither. After years of procrastinating, my sister-in-law graciously agreed to hand quilt it for me in 2006.

Can you see those perfect little stitches? Each one was lovingly stitched by my sister-in-law, Glenda. Thus I named this quilt, Heartfelt. It's a lap quilt perfect for curling up under on a cool spring evening.

The quilt above is named The Sister-In-Law Quilt.

Do you notice the same pink and green fabrics of Heartfelt? My frugal and talented sister-in-law took the unused fabric squares from my project and created her own special pink and green quilt. She pieced and hand quilted this one in the fall of 2007. Not only is she a talented quilter, she obviously isn't a procrastinator like me.

This is the back of Glenda's guilt. I so admire her creative spirit. Don't you just love the unique design? And take a look at that remarkable hand stitched pattern of the quilting.

Thanks for stopping by today for a little of my

Springtime Favorites

in Pink and Green.

Click below to join others for

Pink Saturday @ How Sweet the Sound

A Few of My Favorite Things @

Bargain Hunting & Shopping w/ Laurie

Seasonal Sundays @ The Tablescaper

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Will She?

Hermes China

A Table For Two Set

With the Color of Love

Delicate Linens

of White Embroidery

Champagne Chilling

Stems of Crystal

Ready for a Toast

Balcon du Guadalquivir

By Hermes

Exquisite Layers

All Set the Mood

As He

Pops the Question

Will She?

Photos Taken @ The Menagerie, Austin, TX

Click the links below to see what others have to share this week at:

REDnesday @ It's a Very Cherry World

Wow Us Wednesday @ Savvy Southern Style

Tablescape Thursday @ BNOTP

Sunday, March 6, 2011

No Friend Like a Sister

Blue Monday

THERE IS NO FRIEND LIKE A SISTER

by Mary Engelbreit

Available here on Amazon.

Poster of the book cover available here at

Mary Engelbreit's online shop.

This is another of the little Mary Engelbreit gift books published by Andrews & McMeel. It is a "collection of poignant illustrations that celebrate the unique bond that exists between sisters." The words on the pages of this book totally reflect how I feel about my sister. My favorite page is the one in the mosaic above with the two sisters, one fair haired and the other dark haired, just like my sister and me.

It includes this poem by Edgar A. Guest:

I'd like to be the sort of friend

that you have been to me.

I'd like to be the help

that you've been always glad to be.

I'd like to mean as much to you each

minute of the day as you have meant,

Old friend of mine, to me along the way.

By Edgar A. Guest

As you can tell from the photo,

this sweet baby girl was born some years ago.

Happy Birthday, Sis.

You are truly a blessing in my life.

Joining

M. E. Monday @ The Cherry Chick

Mosaic Monday @ Little Red House

Blue Monday @ Smiling Sally

Friday, March 4, 2011

A New Look for Hyacinths

A Few of My Favorite Things

Notice something new at

Hyacinths for the Soul?

That gorgeous new header above was a gift from Vicki @ Curly Willow DYI. A few weeks back, The Tablescaper was sporting a new header made by Vicki, a talented graphic designer who had offered to create new headers for a few of The Tablescaper's followers. I was one of the lucky ones selected.

Vicki contacted me with a few questions. Then she visited my blog to look around, and after a few more exchanges my header went from boring . . .

To this gorgeous new look.

It is the essence of Hyacinths for the Soul.

http://curlywillowdiy.blogspot.com/

Vicki and her long time friend, Barb, share their adventures of decorating, antiquing, and traveling at their blog Curly Willow DIY. I hope you'll stop by to visit this delightful blog. You can click here to see more new headers that Vicki created around Blogville and arrange to have a new header designed for your blog.

http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/

The Tablescaper is known for her gorgeous tablescapes. You can visit her here. Each Sunday she hosts a delightful meme, Seasonal Sundays, to which I'll be linking this post. After all, hyacinths are in season, and saying "Thank You" is appropriate any season of the year.