Vintage Hankie collection

I am also joining Cindy's Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home, Cindy's blog was the first blog I discovered over a year ago and I have been a follower ever since. So go on over and check her blog out, it is wonderful!! Trust me you'll love her.

If you haven't seen Centsational Girl's post today about what makes a house a home, I encourage you to check it out. I absolutely love what she has put together. It really puts meaning into the term "Home Sweet Home". A home is so much more than just a house.


I need to apologize for the large amount of photos that I have in this post. When I was a girl my mother had a collection of hankie's, I remember her giving me one to have in my very first purse. Through the years growing up I would often go to the box where she kept them all and I would unfold each one and admire them one at a time and then fold them back up and put them away. Several years ago mom bestowed the majority of her collection to me. Now I keep them all in a special box of my own and again as in years past I take them out and admire them, all over again. It never feels like they are old or boring and each time I notice another little detail that I missed the last 20 times. Anyone else out there do this kind of stuff?

This is me trying to find fun ways to display, at least for a photo shoot of sorts.

After Chrismas I went to an Antique mall in High Springs, FL and found some very special monogrammed hankie's. I even found one with my initial "M" and then a "B" maiden initial So very very cool, don't ya think? Besides that I am in love with monogram's these days, as many of you are.

Here are all the monogram ones together. Love em!

Love this butterfly.

Hand embroidery, so sweet with pink and blue.

This is linen, but almost looks burlap, hand crochet border.

Not sure what this is called?

Oh this one is special, it is hand crocheted on the border.

Tiny cross stitch on this one, also linen. This is one I have added recently from a thrift shop with several other linen pieces, they all had brown spots on them. After soaking in Oxyclean they magically disappeared. Good stuff I tell you, that and Zout, can't live with out them.

This one was my first ever hanky, it is the thinest one of all, I think it got used alot and washed many, many times. When I was in grade school I was known to collect rocks, caterpillars and all manner of things and wrap them in my hankie for safe keeping, and then there was the occasional runny nose!!

This one is soooooooo pretty!

This is lace border.

Can't leave out the middle pattern as well.

Breakfast Nook

Head on over to Always Nesting, Marla there has a giveaway going for a TJ Maxx gift card.

Thought I would share my breakfast nook with you all. You know it's one of the places I utilize the most. It is sunny in the morning and it looks out on our pool and patio. So invinting for a cup of tea or coffee in the morning.

Wish you each could join me for a cup or two, I know we would have a lot to talk about. The pot is on, come on over.

These are prints I picked up in Washington, we used to live in the Portland Oregon area.

The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table. Love this decal I put up here.

For a great giveaway head on over to Marla at Always Nesting. She has a wonderful blog and I love her Master Bed that she has featured on her Jan. 8 post.

Mosaic Monday

To my followers and fellow bloggers, this is a spring filled mosaic sent to you to brighten your day!

I have been so so busy ever since the holiday's began. I haven't had time to do the things I want to do
like making regular posts on my blog. Now that my Christmas stuff is put away and my house is
returning to normal I am looking forward to devoting more time to my blog and other things, like my house,
my husband and my saviour Jesus Christ.
My New Years resolution is to slow down, spend more time at home,
less time doing and more time being. I want to be the person God intended me to be.

Anyway here is my first blog of the 2010. Enjoy the flowers and I will be seeing you soon. I look forward to
sharing the beauty of life and the blessings of home and family with each of you in the coming year.




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