Everyday Living

Milestones & Memories

~ Decorating, Food & Entertaining, Gardening, Grandmother, Outdoors, Recipes, Simple + Southern Sunday, Tablescape Tuesday, Travel

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ”
Colossians 3:23-24

Hello sweet friends…and welcome to the post where we reminisce over the last three years, celebrating our blogiversary!  We are marking this special day with a giveaway that you will want to be sure and enter at the end of the post!  Today I want to take you on a little journey of the ever evolving lifestyle blog known as Everyday Living…

…starting with how and why I started blogging.  And the answer to that is simple – it was my Renaissance Man’s (aka Butch) idea that he tossed around for a couple of years.  When he never moved on it, I jumped in and decided I could do a blog.  I thought it would be simple since I enjoy so many different things…surely I could become a blogger with no problems whatsoever.  Little did I know what I was getting into…it only took a post or two for me to see that blogging was way more than snapping a few pretty pics and posting them with a nice caption.  And six hundred posts later, I am still learning!

But without you my sweet friends and readers who meet me here almost daily to read and comment, there would be no blog!  You have encouraged and inspired me as I have felt your warmth, kindness, and support to keep doing what I love!  From a special friend in Spain to all of you in the U.S., thank you would never be enough!
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Tablescape Tuesday: Tea Party Dreams

~ Food & Entertaining, Tablescape Tuesday

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37:4‬ ‭

Happy Tuesday y’all!  After many days of sunshine, it looks like we are going to have clouds and rain this week!  But I don’t mind a little rain every now and then, do you?  Sunday afternoon was a game of dodging showers while I was setting up my little bistro table in the garden.  You will notice that the table is a little different this week…we are having a tea party!  I can’t wait to share these with our sweet Ella Mae! I know, I know…this tea party is a little more sophisticated than the reality of what our first one will be…I am sure it will be animal crackers and milk, but it will still be memorable!  Join me in the garden for sweet iced tea and tea party dreams! 

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   The bistro table and chairs were placed at the rear of the garden in front of the limelight hydrangeas.
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Gardens Galore No. 5

~ Gardening

 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever”
‭‭Isaiah 40:8

Hello sweet friends!  The Mondays that we have our garden link party have quickly become one of the highlights of my week!  I am blown away by the posts and ideas you all have shared this summer.  I’ve only had one problem…it is SO hard to pick features!  So many ideas, so much inspiration, so much beauty!  

 One of my favorite times in my garden is just as the sun first casts its light!

Now, let’s take a look at my “picks” from our last party…
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