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Friday Favorites

Posted on December 3, 2010 by crystal

This week’s Friday Favorites has a winter theme, complete with vintage illustration and seasonal quote!

I would love to return to this era – just for the clothes! 😉

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they do when they stick together”

~Verna M Kelly, American writer

Thank you, thank you, sweet friends, for all of your comments this week. You are absolutely the best!

By the way . . . I answered your comments from yesterday right there in the comment section of yesterday’s post! Going forward, I’m going to try to do that whenever I can.

Hope you have a chance to enjoy a little “you” time over the weekend. 😀

See ya Monday . . .

Hugs,

Friday Funnies

Posted on November 19, 2010 by crystal

This week ends with a vintage illustration that will hopefully bring a smile.

You gotta love fellas. Women may be exceptionally creative – but men are just born inventors! 😉

And before I forget, thank you for your answers to the jewelry survey. It was very helpful to “hear” your feedback, and how interesting that almost every one of you prefer silver over gold!

Savor this weekend, Kids! The holiday rush will be upon us shortly . . .

Hugs and smiles,

Friday Favorites

Posted on September 10, 2010 by crystal

Friday, already? 😉

With the holiday on Monday, the week seemed to fly; didn’t it?

For this edition of Friday Favorites, I have a fall-ish illustration from a vintage children’s book.

I’ll bet you can still remember crunching through the autumn leaves when you were a kid, and maybe even choosing a few pretty ones to take into the house with you!

Speaking of being young…..

Here’s a quote with a youthful theme . . .

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

~Henry Ford

Have a super special weekend, Kids!

See ya Monday 🙂

Hugs,

By the Sea

Posted on June 25, 2010 by crystal

This week’s Friday Favorites has a summer theme – complete with vintage illustration and seasonal quotes!

I wonder if this bathing beauty went through the angst that her sisters in today’s world often face while trying to choose a new bathing suit! 😉

“In summer, the song sings itself.” ~ William Carlos Williams

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” ~ James Dent

“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.” ~ Barry Cornwall

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
~ Sam Keen

“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” ~ Ada Louise Huxtable

“The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog – a summer night’s serenade.”
~ Michael P. Garofalo

Thank you, thank you, sweet friends, for all of your comments this week. You are absolutely the best!

Hope you’ll have a chance to enjoy a little “you” time over the weekend. 😀

See ya Monday . . .

Hugs,

Smiling Faces

Posted on May 21, 2010 by crystal

When I was a little girl, I loved to watch my grandmother plant pansies. She loved flowers, and I loved her, so I guess that’s how my love of flowers began.

Nana said that if you looked closely enough at the pansies, you could see little “faces” – smiling faces! I can remember squinting at the blooms and then agreeing it was true.

For this week’s Friday Favorites, I have a colorful vintage illustration with a whole basket of pretty pansies, followed by an interesting quote.

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible”. ~Vince Lombardi

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

Thank you so much for another fun week. 🙂

See ya Monday!

Hugs,