Thankful

When Autumn arrives, our thoughts often turn towards Thanksgiving, our bountiful blessings and why we are so thankful.  Thanksgiving is this coming Thursday.  

This Thanksgiving my blessings are many.  I am grateful and thankful for what I have...

my family, friends, food, home, health, job, safekeeping...

Recently our oldest son was involved in this

and he walked away from it with minor injuries.

I am thankful.

Recently so many in the East Coast lost so much to hurricane Sandy

I have a safe home, I am so thankful.

I have the love and support of family & friends... I am so thankful!

Thanksgiving Blessings to you ~ Tami

Thank you Linda!

I have always admired my friend Linda Kelly's Glue Books.  Recently Linda created a glue book just for me.  It is too wonderful to keep all to myself, so I am sharing it with you

     Front cover

  I love the saying on the left page "Write injuries in dust; kindness in marble"

The elephant is in memory of my mother

The hand-written recipe is from Linda's grandmother

 

The hand-written note of prayer on the left page is also from her grandmother

She knows I rely on God for my strength

We both love kitties

On the left page are description tags on how Linda sees me... I am honored!

The little girl, dress & well are too cute for words

Notice how Linda on the right page and other pages in the book has circled specific words that are meaningful

I just adore the singing birds with my initials 'th'

We both love black & white

 And of course, we both love our Button collections - we met through buttons and are forever friends!

Oh, Oh! A Bunny

The Easter basket represents years ago when Linda surprised me with a Easter Egg hunt hidden in my yard

Both pages are precious - the hand-colored children at Mollie's Lawn Party Two-Step... and the sweet vintage hankie trim page

You'll notice a lot of Frenchy things as I am a Frenchy girl

All the images, text, poetry, colors, etc. in this book mean something to me or Linda... Linda admires Abraham Lincoln.  Her tag here is a reminder... "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."  Abraham Lincoln

We both collect star buttons - notice the star paper on the left and the star tag on the bottom right page

William Henry Channing's My Symphony - how wonderful it is!

It is a blessing when a friend gives you a gift like this!

Thank you my Apple Tree friend, I love my glue book!

Nostalgia & Reminiscing

Well, it's about time I finally post to this blog... smile.  
The past few weeks for me have been overwhelmingly busy.  

It was a bittersweet decision, but after several years I recently closed my antique booths.  It was emotionally and physically exhausting.  Over the past few years I've taken several treasure hunt road trips and have made awesome friends!

Reminiscing....

This guy was a hoot!  We meet him and his family along the Highway 36 flea market run in 2010.  Dee, me and our fellow road buddies (see 2nd photo below) had competition tasks on our treasure hunt.  Dee & I were on one team.  We told this guy we were looking for odd things... can you guess what this was?  Maybe not as the photo is blurry.

This is "wood eye, wood eye"

Would I love to help you was his response while wearing a disc of wood over each of his eyes - there always fun people to stop and share with along the way! 

It's a lousy picture of both my sister Dee & me, but we always had fun road trips.  This is us the morning of what may be our last road trip... the 2010 Highway 36 flea market run trip just weeks before Dee was thrown from a horse breaking her neck, back and shattering her left knee.  After months of hospitalizations, nursing home, physical therapy and lots of answered prayers, Dee can walk and has gone from a wheelchair to occasionally using a walking cane.  We are so thankful!

Here are my 2010 Highway 36 flea market run buddies - Julie, Randy, Dee, Cindy & Gerald...
can you say
"good times!"

Oh, BTW, Dee & I WON the competitions!! 

 This was my last road trip with my mom and sister Dee in the Fall of 2005 as mom passed away in June 2006.  In our earlier road trips, mom often traveled with us.  Such fond memories.

I guess I'm feeling a bit nostalgic since closing down my antique booths.  I am thankful for all the memories and friendships given to me through my antiquing journey.  Thanks for journeying down a small path of those memories with me.

Thankful

Thanks so much to everyone for your encouraging and kind comments on my blog!

I also want to thank Laurie from Indulge Your Shelf as I am the blessed winner of her Ephemera giveaway at
http://indulgeyourshelf.blogspot.com/

I eagerly await this bundle of treasures... you can visit Laurie's blog to view the lovelies she included in her giveaway
 http://indulgeyourshelf.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-300-posts600-followers-celebration.html