Wonderful Embroidery Pattern: Peace & Plenty

I found this on Pinterest. It's a Kathy Schmitz download. Her Instagram account is wonderful too. See it here. xo

Buttons Made from Beach Stones

What a great idea. 

All you need is a drill or a Dremel Tool to make the holes. 

See more photos here on Bonkers About Buttons.

xo

I found a tutorial for making your own here.

Lovely Embroidered Tablecloth

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This is wonderful, isn't it? I love it.

It would make me smile every time I passed by the table.

What a fun tablecloth. I think the person who did the embroidery had fun doing it.

xo

Beautiful Pots of Geraniums

I adore red geraniums in clay pots and these are simply breathtaking. The stone wall leading up to the house is wonderful too. Love❤️♡❤️

Photo found here.

Three Besties 🐾🐾

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Aren't they adorable?

You can just tell they love each other.

♡♡♡

xo

Summer Garden Party

This Instagram photo is from a book by a Southern Author and interior designer that is coming out in a few days called Celebrating Home, A Time for Every Season by James T. Farmer III. It looks like a "must have" coffee table book, doesn't it? Click on the Instagram link to see more photos and follow him if you don't already. See a long list of his other books HERE. Enjoy your Sunday. I'm doing another Open House today. xo

William Merritt Chase Group Portrait (his family)

Beautiful family portrait. Portrait Group (Dorothy, Helen, and Bob) (c.1904). William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916). Oil on canvas. North Carolina Museum of Art.

Chase first met his wife, Alice Bremond Gerson, in 1879 when she was only thirteen, and still known as Posey. He married her on 8 February 1886, although some sources claim it was 1887, when she was nineteen and he was thirty-six. Initially, the couple lived with William’s parents in Brooklyn before moving to their own place in Greenwich Village. Between the years 1887 and 1904, Alice bore a total of eleven children, of whom seven are believed to have survived childhood. They include Dorothy, Helen, and Bob, depicted in this work. 

photo found here 

Yesterday I went to an early afternoon movie with two girlfriends to see Where The Crawdads Sing and enjoyed it thoroughly. Have a great weekend.