Saturday morning...

Wow...this week really got away from me.  Work has been really busy and by the time I got home I was in cruise mode, plus a couple of my favorite shows were season finales...

I did manage to make a couple of cards for challenges this week...

A Father's Day Card for the Crooked Path Challenge over at Crafty Secrets...

I had the most wonderful visit with my parents yesterday.  Such a leisurely day...a long conversation with my youngest on the hour drive to my folks...a little shopping with my mom...some t.v. with my dad...a nice chat with my niece and a fun phone visit with my sister in South Texas, (she says they're in the 90's and humid already)...homemade Mexican food for dinner (yummo)...peppered in with my grandson entertaining us all! 

A Paris themed card for City Crafter Challeng Blog CCCB, which also fits the bill for the color challenge over at The Playdate Cafe Challenge PDCC30...I love when that happens!

I have plenty of housework to catch up on today and then tomorrow hubby and I are spending the day at a park on the coast.  Better get going!

How about you?   Any plans?

Have a wonderful weekend,

Patty

donuts and the holes, too...

I'm feeling so much better, thank you all for your well wishes and prayers.  Sunday morning my Pastor preached a message just for me (or so it seemed)...

I had a nice rest, played in my house and enjoyed some homemade donuts...

I told you I was going to try and use one appliance a week and this week it was my deep fryer.  Actually my daughter made these super simple, super scrumptous sugar donuts from an easy peasy recipe.  It is actually just refridgerated biscuits deep fried in peanut oil and rolled in sugar and cinnamin. 

So simple but so yummy.  The stack kept getting smaller as I was reaching for my camera but I managed to snap a picture before they all disappeared...

Hope you all had a restful weekend.

Blessings,

Patty

Saturday afternoon...

I had so many plans for today...so much I was hoping to accomplish...

here it is late afternoon and my to do list is mostly undone...

sigh...

Do you every have days like that?

It seems I'm in crisis mode...life has thrown me a few curves this last week.  I don't know if that's why my get up and go, has got up and went...

Somehow it seems okay to take a pass on my to do list today and just breathe...

I received this beautiful magazine in the mail this week...

Life Beautiful - Faith for Your Journey

I think I'll just put my feet up a while and enjoy it...

and that's okay.

"Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up...We are pressed on everyside by troubles, but we are not crushed.  We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God.  We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.  Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies."    2 Corinthians 4: 1, 8-10

Blessings,

Patty

I've linked up to Spiritual Sundays...

my cottage rose garden...

You know I'm a cottage kinda girl

and that holds true of my roses as well...

I wish I had neat well manicured roses to share but alas...

I pop them in where ever the sun shines brightly...

and the empty spot in the ground is big enough to dig a hole in...

I wish I kept accurate records and could tell you what each of their proper names are...

but as I've said before they are simply named after people in my life...

This miniature white is Gloria Jean...it was given to my dear mother in law before her passing.  It started out in a little 4 inch pot but now is at least two feet wide and three feet high.  A non stop bloomer, just like she was...

This white floribunda is Esther...named after my mom who just fell in love with strong fragrance of it.  I have searched for it at every nursery I go to but have yet to find one for her...

Take this gorgeous, profuse, yellow rose...this is Emily.

This miniature yellow is Elsa...

and this is sweet Laura...

This miniature red was a gift to my grandson Andrew in the hospital at his birth...

 I have a beautiful pink tea rose named after my sister in law Shelly...

A hot orange rose named after my daughter Jessica...

And this stubborn yellow is Annie...

Call them what you want...

Plant them where you will...

I just can't get enough of them...

How about you? 

Blessings,

Patty

Today I've linked up to Tootsie Time for Fertilizer Friday...

My Romantic Home Show and Tell Friday...

Dipity Road Friday Finding Beauty...

Home is Where My Story Begins Home and Family Friday...

playing with paper...

It seems that I've been spending alot of time lately in the garden and redecorating in my little cottage...
 I
lately I've had the itch to thumb through the treasures and trinkets in my paper stash and play around some...

I forgot how much enjoyment I get out of creating beautiful cards and tags...

There certainly is no shortage of inspiration out there...

Card Patterns Sketch 63...

I found it here with Melissa Phillips at Lilybean's Paperie...I love yellow in decorating but don't usually use for cards...I really do love it's sunny disposition...

and more inspiration here with my dear friend Heather at Simply Handmade...she's hosting this week over at City Crafter Challenge Blog...

There is something about all the pretty paper and my treasure chest of trinkets and buttons and pearls and punches that calls me back time and again...

That's it for now...

Hope you enjoyed your visit...

Blessings,

Patty

I'm linked up to My Cottage Charm...

Card Patterns Sketch 63...

City Crafter Challenge Blog...

tag tuesday...