White Wednesday/Thankful Thursday - July 14 ,2011

I will praise you O Lord my God.

with all my heart,

I will glorify your name forever,

For great is your love towards me:

you have delivered me from the depths 

of the grave.

Psalm 86: 12 & 13

Morning Sweet Friends

Welcome to Thankful Thursday,
and since I was all prepared for
White Wednesday,  but never got
 to do the post,  figured I would 
just use white Weds. pictures
 and do both!!

So how are you???  and how has 

your week been so far???
Good I hope!

Our week has been tumultous, somewhat disappointing 

and pretty sad,  a myriad of emotions really, 

 yet hopeful and good.

Which brings me to my number one thankful

#1

I am thankful

that my daughter had the wisdom and courage to postpone

her Wedding indefinitely.  Although,  this has been very hard

 and disapppointing , it  truly was a very wise and courageous

 choice on her part and we are very proud of her.

(Magazine photo with affect)

#2

I am thankful

that although this has been hard for both families,  good

things are happening inspite of it,  the Lord is at work,

as always, and we see his hand of blessings, even in this.

#3

I am thankful

for God's sovereign ways.  Last week everything I

tried to work on for the wedding fell apart,  I could

get nowhere and I was incredibly frustrated .  Now

I totally understand...............if I had been able to

I would have sent off three deposits which were non

refundable,  and I would have signed a new contract

 with the hotel which would have made for a much larger 

sum of money.

God going before us once again.........................

#4

I am thankful

for the heart of this young man we will one day call son.........

He truly has a good heart!

#5

I am thankful

that Dee and I have been able to spend the week together,

  it has been good to have her here,  and I hope comforting to her!

(My photo with posterized affect)

#6

I am thankful

for the love of God.  He loves us so much,  and

He loves us enough to allow us to experience hard

 times in order to help us,  not to harm us as

Jeremiah 29:11 says.

#7

I am thankful

that some of my blogging friends missed me this

week,  and were so sweet to write me and ask

if all was okay.  Precious!!

Always nice to be Missed!

#8
I am thankful
for the gift of prayer....................
I have no idea what I would do without it!
What a miserable existence it would be not to be
able to pray,  but worse yet, not to have anyone
to pray to................

(Magazine photo with an affect)
#9
I am thankful
that a sweet friend from church, came thru her 2nd knee
 replacement surgery in a month.  God Bless Her!!
and may she heal rapidly,  and do twice as good as
the last time!!

(magazine photo with an affect)

#10
I am thankful
for public servants like policemen, paramedics, Dr. and nurses,
Physicians asst.,  nurses aides, home healthcare workers,
and mental health professionals, counselors and Pastors.
For they help so many people!!
and if you are a public servant and I left you off the list
by accident,  know that I mean YOU too!!

#11
I am thankful
 for Chocolate Elvis's, they are smoothies from planet
 smoothie, particularly in these summer months,  cause they
 cool you off so much,  and are just so refreshing,  a simple
pleasure for sure!!

They have frozen vanilla yogurt, peanut butter, bananas,
chocolate and ice as the ingredients........
  and they are quite Yummy, I must add!!  lol

(my photo with a posterized affect)

#12
I am thankful
that as I looked across our yard this morning as I was
outside saying goodbye to hubby,  that our yard looks
so lush, green and beautiful after our mowing it last night!
 God's rain has done a masterful job of resurrecting
it from a dry, parched, hard to keep moist, partially
green partially brown existence.  There are still some
areas that are filling in out back and in the side yard,
But to look at it this morning,  it was so pretty it just
sort of took my breathe away,  almost like a house
and garden picture in a magazine.


So Happy you came by to visit with 
me today, and hope you have


 a
Fabulous Friday and a Wonderful Weekend
My Friends!


I am linking up to Kathleen over at
Faded Charm Cottage,  to see more
of the wonderful world of white
Click Here.


Blessings Abundant to you and yours,


Love and Hugs,
Nellie 

Welcome to Thankful Thursday - July 7, 2011

Compliments of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, I think!


Great is the Lord, 
and most worthy of praise.
Psalm 48:1


Good Evening Sweet Friends,


How has your Thursday been??
Very Good,  I hope!!

Mine has been good and busy,  that is for sure,
and rainy as well.  Just been working on wedding
stuff and reading a bit, and just got off the phone
with my daughter.


Am getting ready to prepare din din,  it is gonna
be fairly simple since hubby has a meeting at
church tonight.  Pulled pork Sandwiches and
a salad,  sounds good to me!!  lol


Since this has been 4th of July week, and I 
have heard some good political type news,
I have to start off with
my #1 thankful being,


#1
I am thankful
to be a native Floridian and that I live not only
in Florida,  but in the Orlando area, and in the
United States,  all blessings beyond my control.




#2
I am thankful

for our new Govenor Rick Scott,  and for all

he is accomplishing with decreasing the jobless

rate, and also for his crackdown on prescription

drug abuse, and those who help feed the problem.

#3

I am thankful

that 2 christian men,  that were praying over their

food in a school cafeteria, in the Florida panhandle,

and that the ACLU brought up on charges, had

the courts rule in their favor.  Praise His Name!

#4

I am thankful

that I happened to get a local paper today and

saw that the County we live in has instituted

a dress code in all the schools in our County.

I am amazed...........it has needed to be so for

 many, many years.  I remember seeing how

the kids dressed when I used to take my 

daughter to school, it was appalling then, and 

that was 10 yrs. ago, so I can't even imagine
 what they dress like by now!

Compliments of lil ole me!  lol

#5
I am thankful

the Wedding plans are coming along well.

 Had no idea just how involved this would be.

  I am in process of reading contracts that must be

signed and making sure everything is listed that

is contracted for.........and praying I don't over

look or forget anything!!  If you feel so led

please pray for me that I don't overlook 
or forget anything!!

#6

I am thankful

that DeeAnna's wedding gown came in early.

So that way if she needs to have it altered in

any way she has plenty of time.

#7

I am thankful

for email,  and all the neat things people send me, and

 also for how quickly and easily I can communicate 

something and get a response quickly as well.

Has been tremendously handy during this process

with Wedding details

#8

I am thankful

for a book called the "divorce decision",  that 

someone told me about years ago,  and that

the Lord brought it to mind, so that I could buy it

and give it to a young lady who is about to make

a grave mistake.  My prayer is that she reads it!!

(Compliments of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, I think)


#9
I am thankful

for people who write books that can help other

people grow and learn and understand God and

his ways more, and bring encouragement to hurting

people, and lift them out of the depths of dispair

even.  What a great blessing that is to many!!

We are reading a lil devotional book daily that
a friend graced us with called "Jesus Calling",
by Sarah Young.  I think I may have mentioned
it before, but it is just the neatest lil book,  it is
all written as if God were talking directly to you,
with scriptures at the bottom that back up
what is being paraphrased, it really speaks
to us, I have to say,  so we just love and enjoy
 it so much!!

#10

I am thankful

that we are getting rain again,  we didn't get

any over the holiday weekend,  which was

nice,  but since Florida is still in a draught

season,  it is a huge blessings.

#10

I am thankful

we were able to get our yard mowed last night,

especially since it is raining now...........

#11

I am thankful

that hubby was able to have a good conversation

with his boss today (who lives in another state) and

 get some clear instruction.

He has been a bit dismayed as he has been having

difficulty trying to get clarity, so think that made his

day for sure.

#12
I am thankful
that my bougainvilla that the deer or whatever
was eating is blooming again,  we had to move
it to an new location awhile but it came back
 really well,  and looking very pretty again!! 
 yea!!

Well,  that is my Thankful wrap-up!


Thanks for stopping in................
it is always great to hear from you.


Love,  Hugs,  
and Blessings for a great Friday,
and weekend.


Nellie

Tablescape Thursday - Casual 4th of July table

Happy Wednesday to you

Sweet Friends,

Hope this day find you well and 

content in your circumstances....

whatever they might be!

This wedding stuff is really occupying quite a lot of my

time these days, so it is easier for me to just down

load pictures and say a few things,  so decided to

show you our CASUAL 4th of July table.

Summers around here means easy and laid back,

and Fun!!! It has been that way since my children

 were little. Not as much cleaning,  not as much

 fuss........cause I just wanted to enjoy my children

 while they were home with no schedules to keep.

We highly enjoyed our summers!  Have to say

I miss those days sometimes.

But we still have days that are the same, and

our 4th of July table represented one of those days,

  as you will see!  We had all the traditional foods,

hamburgers, hotdogs, salads and strawberry

shortcake cake!  All delicious,  and a very nice

time had by all.............

I believe you can have a pretty table no matter what!

 Even using plastic or paperware.  That is our casual look!

Found this cute lil bucket at Target for $1.00

and bought 2 packs of  flags for $1.00 each

and I was good to go for the centerpiece.

I had some clear glass stones I put in there

and then you could pretty much do whatever

you wanted with the flags.

Thought I would just press extra napkins

into place by surrounding the lil bucket,

added a lot of nice color.

Candy of course.........................

love these lil tiny dishes,  they come in so handy

for all sorts of things!

as do the egg cups!

Couldn't believe I got big bags of M& M's 

buy one get one free at Publix,  and I could

hardly find any blue,  and out of 2 bags only

7 red ones,  fourtunately,  just enough to put

one red on top!!  

These are my candle jar lids turned upside down

as candle holders,  added the lil stars around

the edges to make them more festive.

This is one of the photoshop affects!

 Think this is posterized affect,  one of my favs.

Guess what the red under the candle is???

A posterized affect 

The red under the candle is candy sprinkles 

you use for cookies,  they have been in my 

cabinet for years...............so thought it was

a great way to get rid of them!!  lol

and liven things up a bit at the same time.

These are solo plates and they look royal blue until you take

them apart, so they weren't quite as colorful as I thought they

would be,  but with the napkin on them they actually looked

quite nice.

I really love these mylar stars,  they make everything

look quite festive!  and you can save them and use

them over and over again for all sorts of cool things.

Notice the 1 red star that looks a lil 3 dimensional,

well,  Scott was playing at our Chritmas table and 

put lil folds in it to make it stand out more,  so I kept it,

 (after all,  I have been saving his art work for years, lol)

 and for grins put it at his place to see if he would notice,

  but Megan wound up sitting there instead,  but as

we were cleaning up,  I said something about it,  and

he laughed and then took 2 more and made a flower out

 of it,  then asked for a straight pin to make the center,

  Very Cute,  until I tried to pin in on Megans

shirt and stuck her with the pin,  poor thing!

This has a Crosshatch affect

This has a cut out affect

 Posterized affect!

Gotta have some candle light even if it is still

daylight out!

 Paint daubs affect!

Posterized affect! 

Hope you enjoyed your visit with me!

Thanks so much for coming by,

love hearing from you.

I am linking up to Susan over at

 between naps on the porch, 

 if you want to see all the 

wonderful tablescapes they

 have click here.

See ya tomorrow!

Love,  Hugs, and 

Red White and Blue Blessings............

Nellie

Happy 4th of July

Happy Independence Day
 Everyone!!


I am so grateful to God for all He has
done for this nation........and especially
for inspiring our founding Father's to 
come here, and to start this great nation.
If everyone followed in their footsteps
 America would not be in the place 
we are right now.


That reminds me of a quote I have
heard many times, that was quoted
by President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
as coming from some philosopher 
that visited America.


"America is great, because she is good.
If America ever ceases to be good,
America will cease to be great!"


That kind of goodness only comes
from God!


Something to think about!! 

Hope you have a wonderful 

celebration with family and/or friends.

Blessings Galore,

Nellie