Everyday Living

Goodbye Summer 2020

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Family, Food & Entertaining, Gardening, Summer, Sunshine Cottage

Hello sweet friends. Fall, my favorite season, begins one week from today. Before moving onto all things fall, I must properly say goodbye to summer. I think we can all say that the summer of 2020 will be one for the history books!

“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1:19-20‬

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“When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.”
-Sarah Helen Whitman

The July garden is my favorite when limelight and vanilla strawberry hydrangeas are showing off their best blooms!

 Every summer we look forward to happy sunflowers…READ MORE

Y’all Come In

~ Everyday Living, Faith, Family, Sunshine Cottage

Hello sweet readers. Thank you for your constant kindness and encouragement. Without a doubt I have the best readers in blog land. Many precious friendships have been established through Everyday Living.

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭119:105‬ ‭

I am excited to invite you inside the Sunshine Cottage. 

The cottage was built for me to play with my “Little Princesses” and we have already been playing and playing. Before there was furniture in the cottage, Ella Mae and I had a tea party on the floor. We plan to have many, many more…you will be invited, I am sure! Last Friday night, Ella Mae and I slept on a blow up mattress on the floor. She was so excited, and best of all, I wasn’t even sore the next day. When the cottage was being built, I never guessed that I would be sleeping in it. If Butch misbehaves, I am sending him out there. It is also a fun place for me to decorate with dishes, share flower arrangements, and who knows what else! 

If you missed seeing the outside of the cottage, you can see it here. I won’t repeat myself with the specifics.

The French doors are antique with beveled glass. They had been sitting in RM’s workshop for at least forty years. I am still working on the glass panes with a single edge razor blade to remove paint and stain that has been on them for half a century!READ MORE