Mantel Friday - Nell Hills 1

The weekend that my BFF and I spent in Atchison, Kansas this past fall was great! We attended the open house of Mary Carol Garrity, Nell Hill's Fall Openhouse. We stayed in a B&B across the street from Mary Carol, and toured many beautiful homes, including hers. This week I'm featuring the different mantels we observed. Next week I will begin to feature Mary Carola great ideas for mantels.

This as you can see, is not a mantel, but a beautiful baby grand that the owner played one afternoon to entertain us. We played "name that tune" and she played wonderfully.

This mantel is in the B&B that we stayed in, called the Tuck U Inn. I should say ONE of the mantels.

This mantel was in one of the homes that we toured.

This is the mantel in the home that Amelia Erhart was born in. She lived first part of her life in Atchison, and came back numerous times after she married.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. I know you can't wait to see what Nell Hill's has to show for this winter! Join me as I return to see more Mantles at : http://bethcrabtreehunter.blogspot.com/

It's a Junkin' Mosaic Monday!

You know me!!! I LOVE to go Junkin'! In this week's mosaic, you will find a few of my favorite things!

Don't forget to drop by to visit everyone over at the "Little Red House". You can find them at: http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/.

Sharin' The Love!

Be sure and join me as we celebrate the first year of blogging for a friend. She is having a wonderful giveaway to celebrate and hats off to her! Click below to go directly to the giveaway page!

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Pink Saturday

It's EMMA again! She is so darn cute!!!!! and as always, pretty in PINK! Have a wonderful pink day and stop by to visit more pinkies here:

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Also want to send you to a new blog, to read about a young mother struggling with a difficult disease. You can find her at : http://millionmiracles.blogspot.com/

Mantel Friday

I got an electric fireplace in December, and I'm so excited. I love the way it pulls my living room all together. This wall has always waited for a fireplace on it. So this is what I ended up with.This is what it looked like at Christmas. I actually turn it on every night. It has a heater that can be turned on, and it warms up the room very quickly.
I love this meme! I have tons of photos that I took at Nell's Hills that will work for this one! Yeah! Aren't you all stoked? Ha! Thanks for hosting this Friday Fun! Thanks Beth! Its a great idea! Join me, won't you? I'm over visiting:http://bethcrabtreehunter.blogspot.com/

Mosaic Monday

Join me for another great Mosaic Monday by visiting http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

We had a PINK Weekend!

We spent last weekend getting acquainted with our newest grand daughter, Anya. She was born on the 21st of December, then came the Christmas snow storm, then DH was in the hospital, then came the next snow storm, and finally we got to see her. We live 6 1/2 hours from them, so it takes awhile to get there, but she was definitely worth the wait. It was our other grand daughter Emma's first birthday, so we had a full PINK weekend!

Anya

Big Sister

Emma's first birthday our little "princess"

Emilie and I made tutu's for Emma and her cousin Greta (Anya's big sister).

Thanks to Beverly again this week for hosting Pink Saturday. I'm so glad to be back in the swing of things again! Please join me as I return to her blog and see the grand list of Pinkies! http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/