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Sunday, January 29, 2023
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Thankful Thursday January 26, 2023, and pics of winter goodies
Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
Psalm 34:8
Greetings Sweet Friends
and Welcome to Thankful Thursday,
Hope you have had a great week
Mine has really been good, getting
my energy and creativity back and
it feels wonderful, I have to say.
Well, it's late so gonna let my post
do the talking. lool
Pictures today are of Winter Goodies
Compliments of Unsplash.com, because
I am running behind and have not quite
finished my Christmas to Winter decor
as of yet, therefore, I can't take any
Pictures either! lol
Hopefully next week!!
So thought this might be fun.....
Now............on with my Thankfuls.....
#1
Thankful to be able to attend Church finally......
Haven't been there since before Christmas, and
also haven't seen our friends in all that time
either. They weren't there Sunday, but she
has been sick too.
#2
Thankful that the Sweet Young family I think I
probably wrote about a few weeks ago, where the
Mom had a psychological breakdown is doing
much better, but not a 100% yet. She is still
in treatment and he is back home taking care of
the 3 kiddos. Thankfully he can work from home
most of the time. They did all get to come and see
her this past weekend and he sent me some pics
that made me cry happy tears, they all looked so
happy to be together.
#3
Thankful that we made some chicken Gnocchi
soup again, it's been quite awhile. It is a
Olive Garden taste alike recipe. It is really
quite good.
#4
Thankful for My Christmas Decorations
are all packed away. Finally!
Just got to get them to the garage now.
#5
Thankful we are having an old friend
come to stay with us on Sunday evening.
#6
Thankful we put 4 new cards in our
shop that I had been working on.
#7
Thankful a situation my Daughter and
her husband had going on seems to be
partially resolved at this point. At least
they are moving forward which is good.
#8
Thankful to be feeling 100% again!
#9
Thankful for several long conversations
with our lovely Daughter today and
the last 2 days. Missing each other.....
and very Thankful for our phone calls.
#10
Thankful that my January issues of
Better Homes and Gardens and
Southern living magazines came
this week, and I always find it pure
joy to read and look at them. I am very
old school about that.....There is just
something about holding a real book
or magazine in your hands. lol
#11
Thankful that I am just about
finished with my Winter decorating.
Just a few more touches and I can
call it quits.
#12
Thankful for a nice evening out to
dinner at our fav Mexican restaurant
and then a quick trip to TJ Maxx.
Both were fun.....been awhile since
we were at either of them.
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Well, that's it for Cozy Place this week.
Glad you could stop in.
Have a lovely Friday and weekend,
Love, Hugs and
Last of January Blessings,
Nellie
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
Scripture Sunday
Just a reminder to all of us, don't put your faith in Money,
put your faith in what Jesus willing did for all of us on the cross
to save us from that day of wrath. Jesus is coming back
one day, and all those evil deeds a lot of people are doing
all for the sake of money, are not gonna help them.
Sorry, this sounds so grim, but it is the truth that the Bible
speaks about, and I was just so struck by this verse
this week, I really felt I needed to share it. I truly feel
the only hope any of us have for the future is Jesus!
He is surely the best thing that ever happened to me
and my family and many others I know.
Have a Blessed day,
Love and Hugs,
Nellie
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
Thankful Thursday January 19, 2023, and Winter scenes
The LORD is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him,
Exodus 15:2 NIV
Happy Thursday Sweet Friends,
How's You??
Doing very well....I hope.
Been a better week here, for sure.
So I will let the post do the talking.
Pictures today are of Winter Scenes
Compliments of Unsplash.com
Hope these don't make you feel too cold........
Just thought they were all so pretty.
Now on with my Thankfuls............
#1
Thankful for a great day with lil darling, It was so good to see her after almost 3 weeks, and catch up with what she has been doing. Had a lot of school work to do, but we made some time to have fun too, and she finally had some time in late afternoon to have her lil buddy next door over.......they were over the moon happy about that..........
#2 and 3
Thankful that my sweet neighbor brought us her wonderful veggie soup, and there is a bit of a story to it. I was talking with another long time friend and she knows I have been sick, and I was telling her I have got to call my neighbor and find out what the tomato base is that she uses in her veggie soup because typically tomato based things can cause me to have heart burn after a couple of bowls, but her soup never bothers me. So I was laughing cause I was saying I keep hoping she might send me some but guess I'm gonna have to find out and make me some and my friend said well maybe if you call her and ask about how to make the soup, she will just make you some. lol
Anyway, later that day, our neighbor text me to see how we were doing, so I wrote her back and told her and asked about how she made her soup base, and she said I have a pot on the stove right now and was gonna ask if yall wanted some..............and of course, I said yes, and I was overjoyed and had a feeling it was because my friend had prayed.....and I talked to her later, and she said she did.......lol So thankful for the answer to pray, and the soup that was so so delicious!! Have had it 3 times this week. It is the perfect comfort food. God is so good.
#4
Thankful that my sweet hubby decided I needed a vaporizer cause since we are using our heat some nights now, It is drying the air out a lot a we are both experiencing that dried out feeling in our mouth and noses. So he got us a vaporizer on yesterday (Monday) and I can not tell you how much better we slept, and did not wake up stuffed up or have that dried out feeling, and best of all, my coughing has gotten better ever day since.
It was wonderful.
#5
Thankful for family, friends and neighbors that love me.
#6
Thankful that I made cuban food on Monday, and it was so delicious and really hit the spot, and thankful that my friend I was talking with in #2--3 reminded me of it as she said she had come across my recipe for Picadillo that I had given her over 30 yrs. ago. lol I had ground beef and was gonna make a meat loaf but Picadillo sounded so much better, and it was!!
FYI - Click here for the recipe
#7 and 8
Thankful the I got started on transitioning
from Christmas to Winter decor on Monday.
Thankful that I had been rearranging in my
mind for days before, as I knew exactly where
to start and what I wanted to do in the
family room already.
Note: Have taken down most of the things
that looked real Christmasy, and left what
looks Wintery, just have to fill in some
spots yet, but getting there.
#9
Thankful for strawberries that were
grown here in Florida and actually
not too far from where we live.
Imagine that!! Anyway, they were
just so delicious..........it felt like spring
for a few minutes...........
#10
Thankful that everything went well for
our Daughter and had a good result from a
medical procedure she had done on
Wednesday morning.
#11
Thankful for the discovery of program-
able tea light candles. I had the normal
tea lights but you have to light and
replace them all every night or the
battery operated kind, but you still
have to take them out of the candle
holder and turn them on and off
every night. I wanted to have a large
number of them on the mantel and other
places in the house. Hubby found some that
once you turn them on they stay on for
6 hrs. and turn themselves off.
They are wonderful, and have kept
our home looking so nice and festive
all thru Christmas and thru the
Winter Season and beyond if I want.
A great discovery I might add.
#12
Thankful to have a lil outing today,
We picked up lil darling and had here
for awhile, then ran to Sam's and
Marshalls and to din din at Longhorn.
Very Nice to get out.....my 2nd time in
almost 4 weeks.
Well, that's it for Cozy Place
this week.
Glad you could stop in......
Have a lovely yet Warm Winter Week.
Love, Hugs and
Mid January Blessings,
Nellie
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
How buying a new dresser led to an unexpected guest bedroom refresh.....
Hello Sweet Friends,
Hope this finds you doing well, and enjoying the Winter Season.
We are going thru another cool spell, which is
nice. Can't believe we are half way through
January already. It's sort of all a blur for
me.....lol Way better than I was, but still have
this dratted cough! It is getting better day by day.....
Have to say it likes me way way too much!! lol
today while I have time I wanted to show you
how our guest bedroom revamp came out,
since yall heard about some of it on my Thankful
Thursday posts for about 3 months.
Think we got started at the end of the summer
and finished right before Thanksgiving.
Just never got around to showing you cause of
all the holidays.
This all got started by us finding a white dresser
for our master bedroom, that we had been looking
for......forever, and we just happened upon it,
because we went to a furniture store still in
search of a sofa and instead we found our
white dresser..........finally............
and were very happy with how works
and looks in our bedroom. See Below!
The plan was to get rid of the old dresser cause we
were having some trouble with some of the drawers,
and because we have a lot of Oak pieces in our
bedroom so wanted to break that up a bit........
but then got to thinking about if we moved the oak
dresser to the guest room it would give us more
storage, but in order to do that the drawers would
need to be fixed, and the guest room rearranged.
So my handy hubby found some hardware and was
able to fix the drawers and they work great now.
We also rearranged the guest bedroom.
You can check out the before on these links
below if you so desire.
https://nelliescozyplace.blogspot.com/2015/10/no-guest-bedroom-redo-part-1.html
https://nelliescozyplace.blogspot.com/2015/10/thankful-thursday-october-15-2015-no.html
There were other updates to this room since these
pictures, like bedding, curtains and so forth, but these
were the only pictures I could find, and that showed
the layout of the room.
In the process we got rid of the headboard and 1 night
stand and and moved another night stand to our office.
I had decided I wanted a bit more of a classic modern look
so we purchased 2 matching night stands
(as our other night stands didn't match),
This one was the first one we ordered but
unfortunately the other one was very damaged
and this one only a lil but didn't feel it would
work out to order them again, as they were
not packaged very well.
These were the ones we wound up with, and actually they have worked out better than I ever could have imagined.
After hubby fixed the drawers with drawer guides
and they worked really well, we purchased some new
hardware for the dresser drawers to give it a more
modern look.
This is the before
this is the after...............
Amazing what a change in hardware can do.....
Still trying to figure out if I should do something
with that diamond shaped piece in the middle of
the one drawer, but think it really doesn't look bad.
Then when we were out shopping one
night and we happened on the mirror I had
hoped for, but figured I would probably
not get because most were $100-150.
We were in Burlington coat factory
and there she was for $30, truly a
gift from the Lord. It was love at
first sight, but wasn't sure if the color
would work. So we brought her home
and she was perfect.
You will notice some changes in the coming pictures
from some you already saw.... as it was a work in
progress for while...............
So here is the The finished product.........
and of course, all the table top accessories
were redone as well, for a bit of a cleaner look.
Anyway, we were delighted with how
the room came out and we call that our Daughter
and Son-in-loves room. Course, it was her room
before she was married. Anyway, they loved
it too.........so mission accomplished with out
breaking the bank!! lol
Thanks for coming by............
Have a lovely Winter week
Love, Hugs and
Mid January Blessings,
Nellie
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