Happy New Year



Wishing everyone a Happy and
Healthy New Year!!! 

Friendship Friday

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One recipe for friendship is the right
mixture of commonality and difference.
You've got to have enough in common
so that you understand each other and
enough difference so that there is some-
thing to exchange.

--------------Robert Wiess
 



Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all

 

 

Here are a few images of our

Pinecone Cottage this Christmas

 

 

We had to keep things simple
because of our kitten. 

Love this box I found at a thrift store. 

This little church is from my childhood. 

Little treasures. 

Wonderful tissue paper and
my favorite Christmas wish,
given to me by a dear friend
many years ago.  She did the
calligraphy herself.  It is my
wish for all of you.

"May you never forget
what is worth remembering
or remember what is
best forgotten."
Old Irish toast

Be happy and safe and have
a wonderful Christmas. 



Friendship Friday

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If the first law of friendship is
that is has to be cultivated, the
the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.

---------Voltaire
 

 

Friendship Friday

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True friends don't sympathize
with your weakness----they help
summon your strength.
 



Friendship Friday

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If I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it
To the last article.


-------------William Shakespeare
 



Thanksgiving

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Wishing everyone a wonderful
Thanksgiving.  May you have
happiness and health.
 



Friendship Friday

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One can do without people,
but one has need of a friend.

-----------------Chinese Wisdom
 



Friendship Friday

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Of all the gifts that a wise providence
grants us to make life full and happy,
friendship is the most beautiful.

---------------Epicurus
 



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You give but little when you give
of your possessions.  It is when you
give of yourself that you truly give.

                 ------------------Kahlil Gibran
 



Rainy day

Today is a rainy day at Pinecone Cottage.

 

So I thought I would share some

blooms from the yard to cheer myself!

 

A post just for viewing...enjoy....

 



Update on Making the Cut

 

 

Just a quick update on how the ferns look

after my last post about them being cut.

They always come back so bright and shiny, pretty!!

 

I don't know how to link back to a previous

post but you can look on the old posts for

Making the Cut to compare.

 

 

This last one wasn't in the first post

but it is one of my favorite parts of

our shade garden with ferns.  They

were all cut down, too.



Driving home

 

 

This time of year in the Northwest

the mountains are still covered in snow.

We are having unusually beautiful

weather and this is what I see on

my drive toward home

 

 

Mount St. Helen's

When I was a child we would go
to Mt. St. Helen's and camp.  We
would fish on the gorgeous Spirit Lake.
When we moved away I missed my
beautiful mountain.
After returning to the northwest as
an adult, I lived in Portland, OR. when
Mt. St. Helen's blew her top.  I saw my
lovely mountain explode and later I saw
the devastation.  But I still love her.  She
is an old friend, and as an old friend I
see her beauty and the joy she brings to me.

For those of you far away, here she is, all
dressed up in white.



Happy Anniversary

Our 29th and still crazy about each other!! 

More Sneak Peaks

Here are some more sneak peaks for the

Cottage Vintage Home sale May 5th.

See previous post for address and time.

 

Many more little treasures. 

Cute little candle holders. Rulers. 

Napkin umbrellas, trivet that expands,
laundry sprinkle bottle, tins. 

Colorful box of drawers, cookie cutters
recipe boxes. 

Precious little baby record book, unused. 

It has great graphics! 

Vintage bottles, pin cushion, bolling pin shaker,
small games.

More things are being readied. Many fun
items to peruse. 



Sneak Peak for May 5th

Here are a few sneak peaks for the sale I am doing at

Cottage Vintage Home

 

May 5     10am to 3pm

 

2819 E. Evergreen Blvd

Vancouver, WA

360-721-9980

 

 

Please ignore the garage stuff in the background.
I will have my usual eclectic merchandise. 

Button jars, tins, paint by number, squeaky toy.... 

Little blue shelf, game, jar of letters
that hook together. 

Great old jacket with U of Oregon colors.
Has a zip hood.   

Basket full of  $ 1    items.  I will also have
a basket of 25 cent items.  I am clearing out
so there will be lots of little things for sale.

Sure do hope you can come by.  17 vendors
plus the shop to keep you busy!! 



Tree news

 

The man that I married likes to move

things around in our yard.  Sometimes it

is because they need to be moved and

sometimes because he just wants to move them.

A couple of days ago he needed to move

a tree from the back to front yard so it could

get more sun.

 

Originally he had a couple of friends to
help him do this.  But it poured that day. 

So he decides he can do this by himself.  

And I am watching him turn the tree from
side to side and cut and dig and then... 

He uncovers this poor little guy who was
just trying to do whatever he was doing
underground.  I think he is a salamander? 

I decided to look at the flowers  Our tulips
have just started to bloom. 

I just love bulbs of any kind and hope to
plant more this fall. 

Turns out the only help he needed was
a little bit from me to get the tree into
the wheelbarrow for the trip to
the front yard.  Fortunately it was
mostly a downhill ride! 

And he did it!!  Now this paperbark maple
will be where it can get more sun and be
a much happier tree.  If the deer don't eat it.