Daisy Cottage

From the Desk Of..

Yours truly - information for YOU about a really FUN holiday decorating contest:

Jennifer at The Old Painted Cottage is hosting a Holiday Decorating Contest on her website, www.theoldpaintedcottage.com and she's looking for the Best decorated Holiday Home! The winner of this contest will be fully featured in her upcoming "Dreaming of a Cottage Christmas" holiday issue of her December Cottage of the Month page. Also the winner will have permanent placement in her Cottage of the Month archives book, and will receive gifts & prizes.

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If you wish to post about this contest on your blog, please email Jennifer at jennifer@theoldpaintedcottage.com and she'll gladly send you the contest image and info.

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All entries must be received by midnight, November 28th. Winner to be announced on Jennifer's blog on November 30th.

Jennifer is a TRUE sweetheart - if you haven't met her yet, please stop by her pretty blog and WONDERFUL web site! You will LOVE her "Cottage of the Month" feature too!

xo, Kim

Breakfast At The Diner

I think some of the BEST breakfasts are served at the local diners - and the older the better too..

Nothing fancy - but predictably comforting and the coffee is always on..

And when you share a breakfast like this one with your one and only sweet son, who needs linens and fine china?

I know the days ahead are going to be very busy ones for many of us, but I hope that you can steal a few moments away to enjoy the simple things... like a good, old-fashioned diner breakfast!  Even if it isn't low-cal!  ;-)   

Lucy's Game Pieces

Remember when Charlotte sweetly sent me this game board? Well, after I shared it on my blog, dear Kathy from Vermont, emailed me and asked if I would like to have the game pieces for the " The Glad Game". I said that I would LOVE to have them! She told me that the pieces had come from her husband's grandmother's house.

This beautifully wrapped package arrived a few days ago. Attached to it was a card with a handwritten note from Kathy that I will now treasure forever too.  In her note, she shares about the game pieces -

"...these came from my husband's grandmother's house.  When I looked to see how many pieces were there, I was puzzled by the marbles in the box.  Then I realized their intent.  Lucy McCollough raised four boys and one girl through the depression.  Her husband was a logger and a trucker.  Just like many others, they "made do".  I imagine game pieces went missing over time, so marbles were substituted."

Sigh.  Can you imagine Lucy and her five children lovingly playing "The Glad Game" together, during the Great Depression? What a precious thought. Something tells me that even though it WAS the Great Depression, they, as a family, had much to be glad about... for they had each other and they knew, first-hand, how that was all that really mattered. They were very, very WISE back then.

Thank you Kathy, SO MUCH, for passing these little tokens of a family's treasured past on to me. You know that I will keep these here, safe and sound, and will love them always.

Dusting And Fluffing

Dusting....

Fluffing.....

 

Simply enjoying some Daisy Cottage "nesting" on this beautiful, sunny, November day....

          AND always so thankful that YOU stopped by.

It's A Sham

It's really a pillow sham (thank you Fifi) - but now it is a seat cover for my red office chair -

I simply slipped it on - no fuss, no muss, and best of all - NO SEWING!  ;-)

Which is great because I can spend quality time with these instead...

And now, the old chair cushion can have a turn being a pillow in the wing back chair..  fun, right?   :-)