St. Patrick’s Day

Well I missed it.  Did you?  You know…Pi Day so Happy belated Pie Day! (Freudian slip!)

Did you ever hear of  Pi Day before we were all so computer savy?  I didn’t and I knew what that “pi” symbol was (which I can’t write on this blog without screwing up my text) but had no idea why yesterday was “pi” day. Because…3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.  I know this because I’m a physicist –not! I just copied it from Wikipedia which is written by people like me who only get things right about half the time. ( yea I found the π symbol!)

Anyway – in belated honor of π Day here are my Py people! Aren’t they darling?

And now that we’re all here…the gang and I want to wish all of you….

A Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Don’t forget to…

wear green and stop by Beverly’s at How Sweet The Sound for Green Saturday!

xoxo Nancy 

Lucky

I have got to get on the stick!  I’ve just spent about an hour looking for some pink pictures that I haven’t used and I couldn’t find any!  I am out of pink.

I found a green bingo card and turned it pink so if you can use it have at it.

I put this on here last year but here it is again – you can make a really cute banner.  Click on the pictures to enlarge to original size to download the original size.  Which reminds me – I need to find that banner and hang it up.  It’s raining right now and supposed to continue through the weekend so that’s lucky for us since we need all the rain we can get.   :)

Here’s mine that I made.  It’s coming unglued…just like me!

It was sooo humid today you could hardly breathe. The temp was high 70s so it wasn’t hot just miserably humid.  Then this front blew through an hour ago and we’re in the 50s heading for the 40s. Lucky again since I feel like we skipped winter this year.  I wore my coat one time!

And finally on a sad note….it’s time to set our clocks ahead one hour Saturday night or if you prefer get up at 1:00 a.m. and change everything to 2:00 a.m.  Would you like for me to call and remind you? At 1:00 a.m.?  I’m sure I’ll be awake worrying about losing an hour!

St. Patricks Day is next Saturday.  Maybe we can post green  for Pink Saturday next week.  Beverly at How Sweet The Sound who hosts Pink Saturday usually celebrates every holiday with colors of the season.  Meantime I have to go on a Pink hunt with my camera.  See you next Saturday all you little leprechauns!

xoxo Nancy

Fashion By The Sea

Remember The $10,000 Pyramid Game Show?  Let’s play  - shells, sand, swimsuits, rosy – that’s right…Things you find by the sea, that also happen to be pink!

I’ve worked in Kay Ellen’s circle journal this past month and when asked if the other journalers wanted to see pictures of their book now or be surprised later  3 out of 10 said now and  7 out of 10 didn’t answer! So what did Kay Ellen say?

Survey says…………..NOW! So here it is and my pages are titled “Fashion By the Sea”.  One daring fashionista is taking much delight in ignoring city ordinance 72.  (click on pics to enlarge)

I’ve embellished with a teeny tiny little doll fan so le Pyjama gals can keep cool.

 

On the opposite page sitting under a polka dot banner another vintage beauty suns herself by a watercolored sea in her socks and shoes!  I painted a background and zentangled a horizon line.

Embellishments  (I hope) evoke feelings of buoys and splashing waves and crystal waters.

Vintage crepe paper ruffles for sand and some fisherman’s netting and a little bling to finish it off.   On the left I used a piece of a cigar box to stabilize the page.  It reads “Hand Made”.  Truly it is and I didn’t have to buy a thing as  I found everything in my craftroom.

Hope she likes it. 

I’m joining in for Pink Saturday with Beverly at How Sweet The Sound. 

Happy March! xoxo Nancy

and let us not forget…TEXAS Independence Day! March 2, 1836 – The Republic of Texas – no longer northern Mexico.

Three Sheets To The Wind

Not me – my new sheets on the clothesline!  I’m trying to be proactive this week and get my Pink Saturday post ready earlier than usual.  I bought the prettiest embroidered linen set on Ebay that just happened to have the prettiest pink flowers and our initial!  Lucky for me they had the R or there would have been some competition.

I got 4 of these monogrammed shams plus one small pillow sham.  Last year we bought an electropedic bed – most comfortable bed I’ve ever had.  It’s a split king (like two twins) with temperpedic mattresses and you can raise and lower the head and foot of the bed and it has a massage feature.  It’s just fabulous for watching television.  The only problem is…I need two twin fitted sheets and a king flat sheet.  Rather than pay $250 for a set made specifically for this bed – I’ve been on a quest buying separates and guess what?  Almost all sheets are sold in sets now.  So I found the fitted white sheets at WalMart sold individually.

And this “set” on ebay which consisted of the 5 shams, one king size flat sheet, and a top sheet/coverlet.  And I got them for…get this $24! I don’t think they were ever used either.  This is with the coverlet….

and this is with the flat sheet

They look wonderful with these Rachel Ashwell shams.

I’m joining Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday along with some really interesting blogs who don’t air their dirty laundry! So be sure and stop by.

Sweet Dreams…Nancy

Cherries for RedNesday

Why don’t I join in with the Sue at It’s A Very Cherry World for Rednesday more often? I know she’ll love these shams that I put on Ebay recently.  They’re cherries and they’re red so what’s not to like?

They didn’t sell so I’ll be taking them to our booth at The Round Top Antiques Fair next month and if they don’t sell there I’ll just have to keep them!  Actually, I’d really like to keep them but I have sooo many linens I promised my husband that I’d try.

 

They’ll be wonderful for next summer to change up the bed.  xoxo Nancy