Summer Eats @ The Thursday Favorite Things party!

 Summer inspiration galore! Thank you all! Welcome any new joiners.   I’m so excited to let you know that Monday morning @ 7:57 a.m our family grew by one sweet little grandniece, Eleanor Diane! Mum and baby are both well and beautiful! Such an exciting time. I’m over the moon. 

 Thank you for all your wonderful comments. They are so appreciated! Let’s get a look at some of the yummilicious recipes you all shared at last week’s party! 

Look at Jenny from Not Entirely Average’s 5 Ingredient Southern Fried Zucchini Fritters Yum! I make a version of these and Summer wouldn’t be the same without them! Be sure to try them out! 

Happy Summer 2022!

Good morning sweet friends! Thank you for understanding my absence last week and for your kind well wishes and prayers.  I’m happy to report my mother and sister seem to be past the worst of Covid and on the road to recovery.  Praise the Lord! Happy Summer 2022! Can you believe it? Thank you for joining us @ the Thursday Favorite Things party.  I hope you are all well and enjoying some pleasant weather.  Summer started off with a bang, here in Northern California, with 105 degrees!

June Food Recipes

Good morning and welcome. I hope you are all enjoying some, hopefully, beautiful Summer days and gorgeous weather. The kids have all just gotten out for Summer break here and it seems like our population tripled with everyone out and about again. Which made me think, what a wonderful time to highlight some of the yummy recipes linked up, here, at the Thursday Favorite Things party, each week! So, without further ado, here are this week’s features! Try not to drool on your computer, it won’t be easy. LOL  

The Lou Lou Girl’s BLT Pie looks absolutely delicious! I can’t wait to try this this Summer! 

Whoops! I'm Running Late...Happy Summer~💛

 Friends, please forgive me! I'm running behind! Yesterday was 93+ degrees and I think it zonked my brain. I will get back with your features, I promise, but for now, please link up for this week's Thursday Favorite Things party! Summer may be three days away but you sure couldn't tell here. Since it is so close,  Happy Summer!

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I must admit I'm awfully excited for Farmer's market again!

Happy September! (19 Days Until Fall and Counting Down!)

Good morning, beautiful friends! I'm getting so excited for Fall/Autumn! I don't know about you, but this has been an excessively hot, and isolating (COVID, wildfires, etc..) Summer and I, for one, am, quite frankly, ready for it to be over. But, I'm grateful and happy to report that yesterday was the first day we woke up without smoke in the air! I, happily, was able to throw open my windows and enjoy the day!  You all were absolutely wonderful, giving me so much season changing posts full of inspiration for the coming of my favorite Season! Thank you for playing along.  Thank you all so much for your kind and supportive comments.  They are appreciated more than I can adequately express.
Here are your features from last week's party! 

Pam at Everday Living 8 Favorite Autumn Tablescapes

Beautiful Countdown to Fall Features!

Hi friends! Welcome back to this week's Thursday Favorite Things Party! My regular followers know that I live in Northern California. So, yes, I am in the middle of all those historic wildfires going on right now, that's the bad news. The good news, is that they are gaining ground on them, finally, and that though I've been living inside from smoke and ash, I am NOT in one of the actual fire zones. Don't get me wrong, twenty minutes or less from some in more than one direction and we have had our GO bag ready, but, thankfully, have not had to use it. Enough of that! 

Wacky Summer Weather!

I don't know about you guys but this Summer has had some pretty wacky weather here, in northern California! Since Sunday we have had record highs (and I mean 106-108F in my town, to world record breaking highs elsewhere in the state) to thousands of lightning strikes, marble-sized hail...
This is not normal in my area and has, unfortunately, started a great many huge fires. Thankfully, although we have woken to ash on everything and can barely escape the smoke, the fires you have probably been hearing about are not in my actual town. Thanking God for that and knocking on wood. However, a great many people, nearby, have lost everything. Many, many prayers to them and their families. May we all find safe haven and some true peace soon

(Co-hostess, Amber, from Follow the Yellow Brick Road's) Enjoying Peaches In Recipes and Decor “National Peach Month” (above)

The features are just a few from all of the wonderful blogs shared every week. If you missed last week’s party please click Here.

Grateful and Getting On with a Very Different August

Good morning friends! Before I get to this week's party, I would like to personally thank each and every one of you so much for your kind and comforting words of support and prayers for my family's loss. Your comments were soothing to my soul in a very difficult time. Thank you seems inadedequate. 

Thursday Favorite Things

Family emergency, please link up.

Summer's Best DIYs and How To's!

Good morning sweet friends!
Here are your features! 

Pillar Box Blue's How To Make A Denim Wreath With Felt Roses

Happy July and Happy Fourth of July Weekend!

Happy July and Happy Fourth of July Weekend! I hope you have all found a wonderful way to STAY AT HOME and enjoy your family and celebrate the 4th, even in these very different times. We certainly have had plenty of time to find ways to decorate our yards, get creatively safe visiting family and close friends, and all the while bake, 

Everyday Living's A Patriotic Garden Table

Summer's First TFT ~ Simple Joys

Good morning friends! Thank you so much for being here every week and sharing all your creative posts, recipes, crafts, and DIYs!! Can you believe we're in June already?!  

I'm still here, happy and healthy, and baking away, on the days that are cool enough, that is.  

Thank you for your wonderful comments, I apologize if I didn't respond to them all, but I read and smiled about every single one. Here's some features from last week's party. 

K'Mich Wedding Soiree Blog's Make Your Reception Tables Gallery-Worthy Pretty

Here Comes Summer, Come Get the Latest Inspirations to Enjoy It!

Welcome friends. No matter what's going on outside our doors, time and seasons march right on.  Whether you're staying at home or venturing out, here are some wonderful features to get you inspired for fluffing up your on nest or preparing yummy dishes to share with friends, distantly, of course. :) 

Barbra from Mantel and Table shows us all her best Tips To Create A Romantic White Table Setting. Isn't it inviting?!

Celebrating the Beauty of Summer (This week's TFT)

Hello dear friends. Welcome to this week's Thursday Favorite Thing party! Thankfully, I am back in the pink and able to be more present this week. I hope you'll forgive me the absence of features last week. That was a first for me, but couldn't be helped.

I'm doing everything I can to survive the heat. How about you? I am such a Fall/Winter person, this is my personal worst season like, but I do love all the beauty and Summer traditions that come with this (too hot) season.

Sounds like a perfect segway to your beautiful Features, doesn't it?

Kimberly at The Lou Lou Girls is speaking my language with her No Churn Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Add to it that it is 97F outside as I write this! No A/C! I could use a sheet pan of these today, Kimberly! Thank you! 

Jennifer at Celebrating Everyday Life shared this beautiful setting with us in her How to Host an Easy & Beautiful Patriotic Party post.

Penny from Penny's Vintage Home shared her daughter absolutely gorgeous Farmhouse Table & 12 Chairs for $200 I'm in Love! This is the table of my dreams and they built it right in the house! What's not to love?!

Pam from Everyday Living Sweet Peaches & Summer Flowers: Monday Morning Blooms

Paula at Sweet Pea made these DIY Footstool while up at the lake. Aren't they wonderful? I love her Adirondack chairs too! What a beautiful spot to enjoy your morning coffee!

Sandra from Dinner at Eight's Hot Summer Colors for Brunch are just beautiful! As a matter of fact, her whole table is gorgeous! 

I just couldn't pass up Michele from The Scrap Shoppe Blog's Individual Blackberry Cobblers Double yum! She really has the cobbler recipe down. I'm going to make them with all the fresh blueberries I have in my house. Shh.

That's it for me this week, but remember to check all my cohost sites out, as we pick our own and often very different features!

Thank you all so much for sharing all of your incredibly talented posts and creations! I just LOVE seeing so much beauty in one place.

Wonderful weekend wishes to you all.

Many Blessings,

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Happy 4th of July! (This Week's TFT)

Good morning. Wishing you all a safe and sound Fourth of July, here in the USA and for all of my friends and family in Canada, I hope you had a wonderful Canada Day! I shared some of your wonderful Patriotic projects and recipes on Shoestring Elegance's Facebook page, HERE
If you haven't already followed me there, you may want to now, as I do share your projects and recipes off and on during the week.

Do you have exciting plans to celebrate this Independence Day?! I'd Love to hear about it. Please stay safe.

It's ALL About Summertime! (This Week's TFT Party)

Hello beautiful friends, I'm so glad you are here. Welcome to this week's Thursday Favorite Things party! Are you all surviving the heat in your area? I sure hope so. I'm doing my best, but triple digit weather is not my cup of tea.  What is, however, re your beautiful link ups last week! How's that for a segue-way?  Enjoy your weekends and enjoy this week's wonderful Features. (Can you tell I was a little hungry when i picked these? Yep! They are perfect for Summer, though! 

Look atCarol from Comfort Spring's Strawberry Cupcakes! YUMMO

Summer Trends @ This Week's TFT Party

Happy Summer! Well, tomorrow anyway. I hope you all are enjoying this time with your families. Welcome back to this week's TFT! 

I'm so very glad you are here.

 No  time to waste! So many wonderful and inspiring things to see.

 Come see the Features from last week's party and link up your latest posts for this week!

Katie at Let's Add Sprinkles' Evolution Of A Color Crush LOVE!

I couldn\t decide what image I liked best! They were all so beautiful. 

New Summer "Go To's" at This Week's TFT Party!

My goodness, friends, I, literally, could have pinned all week!! You all are sharing so many wonderful projects, DIY's, Inspiration and the Recipes! Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for joining us and me here.  I'm finally getting an evening to breath, after numerous days of record breaking heat and couldn't be more thrilled. What more perfect way to end a great day than to share some of your wonderful posts! As I said I could have Pinned and Featured some 200+ link ups! Here are the ones that caught my eyes first!
Jamie from So Much Better With Age shared her Awesome post 5 Tips for Summer Decorating

Summer Lovin' Recipes!

Sorry, my friends I ran a little late today!! I have some of your wonderful features up now, and I will add more throughout the day, but I wanted to make sure you could join the party now! So please accept my apology and check back later today! FEATURES ADDED!!  Thank you for your patience! Please enjoy these wonderful summer recipes and party with us!!

Michelle from Thistle Key Lane showed us how to make this yummy  Strawberry Lemonade Sorbet Recipe

Summer DIY Inspirations (This Week's Favorite Things Party)

Hi friends, can you believe the day after tomorrow is June?! Already! This year just seems to be flying by. Just a few short weeks till Summer, hard to believe we are here already. I hope you all are in safe areas, with all the wacky, scary weather. I truly pray that you are not in a flooded state or one dealing with tornadoes.  Heads down, pray and get through.  If you are, please know that you have my prayers. With that said, you all are bringing some wonderful Summer Inspiration to the party. I sure hope you are enjoying it. As for me, I'll get through the summer, as I do every year, actually anxiously awaiting Fall. What can I say I'm a Fall/Winter kinda gal. :) That doesn't mean I can't appreciate the beauty, like this week's features!