Showing posts with label TFT link party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TFT link party. Show all posts

25 May 2023

Goodbye May Already!

Welcome friends! Can you believe next week is June already?! My goodness time sure flies by, doesn’t it. I hope you’re enjoying a beautiful May. I’m crazy busy in my garden, as you can imagine. As a matter of fact, here’s a quick peek at two of my 30+ heirloom tomatoes growing outside now! Not to mention, all the other veggies! 

On with our party! 

27 April 2023

Planting Has Begun!!

 I’m so excited to tell you that I am finally getting plants in the ground!!  Such an awesome time. All my work babying my seedlings since late January is getting closer and closer to actual veggies and fruits! 18 plants in today and 12 more going in tomorrow! I really, honestly cannot wait! 

Okay, back to why you’re here. 🤣

Happy Thursday and welcome back to the Thursday Favorite Things party! Please enjoy the party! Next week is May!! Here’s a few of your posts from last week’s party.

Lily of the Valley Flower Arrangement

06 April 2023

Happy April!! Time To Get the Garden In! (TFT Link Up)


Happy Easter week! May your Easter be filled with love and joy! I hope your enjoying April.  I pray you are all safe from the crazy, awful weather. As always, thank you for joining me here, and with all the wonderful co-hostess’s at this, our Thursday Favorite Things party. 

30 March 2023

Power's Out...Dialing It in! Sorry.

Welcome, friends. 

Happy 602nd Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop!

Sorry! I don't have more to share with you this week or highlight, but as the title reads, my power is out and I'm trying to save my phone battery, just in case we don't get it back on soon.  Thank you for being here, and thank you for sharing all your inspirational posts with us each week. Please link up! I hope to be back with more highlights later so please check back.

Love, love, love Pam's gorgeous tablescape in her beautiful post, "The Blessing Of Easter".

23 March 2023

Spring 2023 This and That! (@ the TFT party)

Happy Spring, officially! I hope you all are enjoying these first few days of the new Season.  I’m still recovering from baking and decorating 175 cupcakes for my church! Wonderful cause. My body’s older than it used to be.  LOL 
Welcome back to this week’s Thursday Favorite Things party! 
Let’s look at a few of your shares from last week’s party! 
CoCo from the Crowned Goat’s Cottage-Inspired Spring Porch Tour was gorgeous! Her hydrangeas are heavenly.  

09 March 2023

Let's Get Ready To Spring Forward!

Welcome friends!  Are you ready?! It's this weekend! We're Springing forward in the middle of an "atmospheric river" event! Supposedly, starting today and continuing through next week. You know, I still can't ever complain about the rain. First, I love it, and second, we have needed it SO BADLY for so long.   It's exciting to see our green grasses and rivers and lakes filling up again! Okay, back to today and the Thursday Favorite Things party! Always so exciting to join Katherine and all the other wonderful ladies to bring this party to you! Again, you didn't disappoint. 

Look at Shelley from Calypso In the Country's How to Decorate a Tiered Tray (for Tea Time Entertaining) was just too sweet to pass up. Especially, for this time of year!

02 March 2023

Happy March... Dreaming Of Spring Continues at the TFT Party!

Hello and welcome sweet friends. Happy March! I'm so glad you are here. I must tell you I am getting so excited for Spring! This wacky Winter weather is a lot of fun though too! Let's just get straight to the party, shall we? I think, judging by your posts shared, you all are a little excited for Spring too!

Cecilia, from My Thriftstore Addiction, has stolen my heart again with her beautiful DIY PAINTED WICKER CHAIR. Now, this is somewhere I can see myself sitting!

23 February 2023

Goodbye February…Already!

Welcome back for this week’s Thursday Favorite Things party! Can you believe next week is March, already?! Meanwhile, we’re bracing for a big storm the next several days. So many mixed emotions for me. I love rain and winter but I’m also super excited to get back into my garden. Let’s look at what you have been up to from last week’s party.

Jenny from Not Entirely Average’s Extra Tender And Sweet Strawberry Cream Scones With Ricotta recipe is DIVINE!

15 September 2022

The Countdown to Fall Is On

Are you all ready to welcome Fall? When we meet next week it will be, officially, here! By the sign of your posts, you are readying your homes and tummys for those Fall looks and Flavors! Welcome back to the Thursday Favorite Things party! Thank you so much for joining us.  Here are just a few of your highlights from last week’s party. Thanks for making this party so inspiring. 

Celebrate with Fall Watercolor Printables from My Wee Abode  

09 June 2022

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! 

02 June 2022

Happy June! Summer’s Here @ the TFT

Good morning sweet friends! Thank you for joining me as I, gratefully, join Katherine and all the wonderful ladies for our fabulous Thursday Favorite Things party.  Happy June!  Can you believe it?! Summer’s here.  I hope you are all well and enjoying some pleasant weather. Ours has definitely become more tolerable than last week’s high 90’s.  Great for my garden though, so I’ll take it.   Okay, enough about me, Let’s look at some of your awesome offerings from last week’s party. Again, thank you for all your wonderful comments and participation. I truly enjoy every single one of you!

21 April 2022

What We’re Eating This April!

Hello sweet friends. Welcome back to Shoestring Elegance and to the Thursday Favorite Things party!  I hope you all enjoyed a beautiful Easter weekend. I am, ecstatically, enjoying some April showers. As you may have guessed RAIN is always a good thing and a blessing here in California. I’m still working on my garden, though, albeit with my seedlings inside for now. There is something so miraculous about watching a seed sprout and grow, with the knowledge that in a few short months it will actually be providing us with wonderful, abundant food!  If you are trying your hand at gardening this year, too, I highly recommend planting some sweet snap peas from seed, they grow so quickly and beautifully, it's quite a thing of beauty to see.

Did I mention I'm Container gardening this year? If you haven't heard about it, it's easy and can be done virtually anywhere! I chose to do this method, in particular, because it saves a ton of water, you're just watering your plant and not the ground! (definitely important in drought areas) or even just due to limited space.  You can get a better idea with this pic! The ideas out there are endless! 

14 April 2022

Happy Easter! ( TFT Easter Edition)

Happy Easter, friends! Christ Is Risen! What a wonderful way to be able to greet you all this week. Happy Thursday and welcome back to the Thursday Favorite Things party and our last gathering before Easter. 

Before I go any further, thank you all so very much for your kind and caring comments after my accident last week. They meant the world to me. All said and done, a few sore muscles, a loaner car and repairs being made. So, I’m counting my blessings, as it could have been so much worse. 

Thank you, again, from the bottom of my heart. 

I pray you all enjoy a safe and Happy Easter with your loved ones and keep those enduring the horrors of war in your hearts and prayers this Easter weekend. 

On with a few of your beautiful features and this week’s party!

Did you get a chance to see Katherine’s Creative Easter Eggs post?!! They are simply gorgeous! 

17 February 2022

Signs of Spring & The TFT Party

I bet many of you are looking quite forward to Spring 2022.  Whilst, I admit, I absolutely love all the blossoms and blooms and brighter days that come with the Season, I'm still waiting for rain in Northern California!  After all, I love raindrops on roses too! LoL   As for me, Baking Brioche this morning to share with family and friends. I hope you are all having a wonderful week! Thank you for coming to join me at Shoestring Elegance and this week's TFT party! Wishing you all a happy and healthy Season. 

Let's look at some of your beautiful offerings from last week!
CoCo from the Crowned Goat’s sweet DIY Valentine’s Mailbox just makes me smile. 

03 February 2022

Happy February!

Happy February friends! I can’t believe we’re already here! 

Welcome back to the Thursday Favorite Things party! You all have so much talent to share it amazes me every week! 

Let’s just get on with the party and take a peek at a few highlights from last week’s party, shall we?! 

Amber from Follow the Yellow Brick Road shared her 14 Heart Wreaths to Love and I do! I love every single one. Here are just a couple of the beauties she gathered.

30 December 2021

Happy New Year Shoestring Elegant and TFT Friends

Hi friends. Welcome back. I pray you all had a safe and Happy Christmas. Can you believe tomorrow is the last day of 2021?! How is that even possible?? I'm afraid I'm a bit in denial and trying to hold onto Christmas as long as I can. :)  Thank you, all, who have joined me at the Thursday Favorite Things Party over the past year and years. Thank you to those of you who used to join me at the What to do Weekends Party, before that! February will mark 10 years that I have been at this blogging gig. Time flies when you're having fun, eh?! 
God's Blessings on us all as we head into this New Year. 

Let's spotlight a few posts from our last party that caught my eye. 

Cecilia from My Thrift Store Addiction shared, quite beautifully, I might add, 3 Ways To Create a Cozy Christmas Bedroom

21 October 2021

Rain, Pumpkins and a Whole Lot of Beauty! (TFT Link Party)

October 21st already, friends, and we HAVE RAIN in Northern California!!  Soon all of California with the systems through this weekend! They are saying that these are, OFFICIALLY, ending our very long, large, devastating, and costly fire Season.  All I can say and do is Praise the Lord! Thank you to all of you who have prayed along with me for those tragic fires to end. Though this won't take us out of the drought, it's a darn good start in the right direction!

Can you see me? I LOVE to dance in the rain! 

Alright with that piece of good news conveyed, I can move on to welcoming you to this week's Thursday Favorite Things Party! And, I do welcome you and thank you for joining me each week.

26 August 2021

Having Fun Jumping the Gun! (TFT Party)

Welcome back, friends!  If I'm jumping the gun on excitement for the upcoming Seasons, it's wonderful to know I'm not alone! You all are sharing some awesome inspirations for Fall/Autumn... even a few for Christmas! I.. Can't.. Wait! ☺️ But, that's me! I canned this week! 12 jars of Tomato Pepper Jam and 11 jars of Strawberry Rhubard! Definitely my happy place! Let's see what you were doing! 

Rachelle from My Hubbard Home's A Beautiful Tablescape for Autumn Entertaining is simply stunning.  

06 May 2021

National day of Prayer, May Love & the TFT Party

Welcome friends! I hope "merry is the month of May" is true for you, and continues to exceed your expectations!  Today is the National Day of Prayer. I'm praying for us all.  I hope you will too. 
Does anyone else find it odd that in the Winter months we turn our heater up all the time and, yet, in the Summer months we keep the house open at night to try and get the temperature down to at least 10 degrees cooler than what we just liked a couple months before??
C'est la vie!
Enjoy the party!
Here are some highlights from last week's party!
Jenna from The Painted Apron Spring Blooms in the Dining Room

01 April 2021

Hello April & Happy Easter!

Good morning friends, Happy April first and Happy Easter! I can't believe it's already here this year! It seems I'm not even quite use to it being 2021 yet and BAMM! there it is! I hope you are all safe and well and are planning some way of enjoying the Easter weekend with the ones you love in some way. Christ Is Risen, Indeed! Always the Greatest reason to be Grateful! So grateful to shift my eyes to Him and remember that He's got this!   Happy Thursday Favorite Things. Thank you for joining us this week! Here are your Features!

Master"pieces" of My Life shared her sweet Easter Kitchen Tablescape