Words to live by...

....hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Seal Beach Trip, Part Two

Another favorite store of mine in Old Orange is Country Roads Antiques...it's a shop with little spaces of individual vendors...

Zac and Amy out in the garden of Country Roads...

'Nother shop is Victoria Co.--jammed packed with goodies!

I think Zac had about enough!! ;-)

Dinner that night was at a darling Italian Restaurant in Belmont Shores...

The next morning we visited Zac and Amy's church, Damascus in Seal Beach...Zac's in the worship team...

Sunday afternoon we motored back to Belmont Shores to dine at Lucille's....and BFF's Dave and Laura came up from San Diego to join us!! A lovely afternoon was had by all.

Monday morning we walked to The Crema for breakfast before hitting the road to go home...one last pic of Zac and Amy--SUCH a sweet couple!!

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Shops in Old Orange..

Here is some eye candy from one of my favorite shops in Old Orange..Tea Leaf Cottage...

And my sweet, patient husband. It took him all of five minutes (along with our son, Zac) to go through the store, then waited outside for Amy and I to investigate every nook and cranny! ;-)

Tablescape Tuesday

Friday Steve and I motored down to Seal Beach to visit our son and daughter-in-love for an extended weekend. We arrived a little later than expected, due to a stop for lunch and a half-off sale at an antique store on the way...then getting caught up in a phenomenon near L.A. called rush hour traffic--although there was nothing rushing about it!! ;-)
We arrived to Zac and Amy's darling apartment and the most wonderful delicious smells were coming from the kitchen...then my eyes landed on the dining table where she had set a wonderful setting...and I exclaimed "Yay! I've got something for Tablescape Tuesday!!"
I thought she did a wonderful job and wanted to share it with you!!

She's a budget shopper like me...everything on here was either from a garage sale or on clearance from Target, or her favorite store, IKEA..

I loved how she mixed color and textures....

The dining table is an antique that we had for years and we gave it to Zac and Amy as a wedding present 5 years ago. I love her flair for mixing vintage and contemporary. Amy is a wonderful homemaker and a fabulous cook! She prepared a delicious salmon dinner for us....a great way to start our visit off!!

Thanks, Amy, for letting me show off your darling tablescape!! I am so proud of you!!

Stay tuned for more pics of our visit in Southern California...we ventured into Old Orange to frequent some of my favorite shops there!!

You can view more beautiful tablescapes at Between Naps on the Porch...

Hooked on Houses Fall Tour

Welcome to my home! This is our front entry all decked out for Autumn....

And this is a close-up of a secretary desk that's in our front entry. Somehow when I was loading the pictures, some of them came our backwards. Sorry 'bout that! It'll make sense as you scroll down....

This is inside one of the shelves..

And this is the drop-leaf desk of the secretary. I just bought that scripture plaque when I was shopping in Elk Grove with my Mom-in-law last Saturday...

The top of the secretary desk...

And here is the picture that was suppose to be at the beginning! Oi-vey! Just when I thought I had this blogging/posting/uploading picture thing down--THIS happens! ;-)

This is also in our entry way. I changed out the flowers in the pitcher from pink cherry blossoms to fall colors. The old sewing machine belonged to Steve's (my husband) grandmother.

And here is "The Loo"--I put a couple of fall touches in here, so I thought I'd show you...

A little collection upon one of the shelves...

I won't tell you where I was sitting when I took this pic... :-) I picked up this table at a thrift store and had it white for a while. Then I 'antiqued' it and applied wallpaper to the top and the shelf underneath. Finished it off with trim around the side.

Here is our sitting room. During the Spring/Summer it is all decked out in pastels...the Autumn/Winter time bring out the darker side of my personality...

Yee-Gads! I don't know why there is all this space between pictures! Arrrggg!!

Another view of the sitting room...

Here is a fall vignette on our kitchen counter...I love the verse....

Another vignette...I picked up the vintage calendar at a thrift store. Picked up the bird at Joann's and added some copper colored glitter for a little birdie-bling.



More vignettes in the family room....



And here is the views of our family room...I'm afraid to move the pictures closer together for fear they won't enlarge if you click on them.

If anyone has any advice on how to manage these, I'd appreciate it!!

So just keep scroooooolllllliiiiinngg down....



Keep going, you're almost there.....

Okay...here we go again....

I hear the Jeopardy song playing.... ;-0

Our kitchen table....



And here are a few pics of our formal dining room...




I squished that last three pics together, so you won't be able to enlarge. I am so sorry about all the spaces between pictures!

Hope you enjoyed the 'tour' anyway....I had fun playing!

Check out Hooked on Houses blog for other fabulous fall tours!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!