Love

I love to use handmade hearts for photographic backgrounds. Don't they look beautiful under the jewelry? I am celebrating Valentine's Day with love, jewelry, Paris and always pink...

LOVE

is full of glitter!

(photo from archives do not remember source)

Love for me, also, is almost anything French. Don't you love this bed? The screen behind the headboard looks like open hearts...

and this grand building I loved in Paris,

If ever

architecture could say love, this one does!

The grand archway relief detailed like the most beautiful of wedding cakes

the soft pinkish brick contrasted to the gentle patina of the limestone,

Happy Valentine's Day, and may it be

FILLED WITH LOVE!

Linked with the beautiful parties at:

Vintage Inspiration Friday at Common Ground, Shabby Chic Cottage , Show and Tell Friday at Romantic Home, Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage, and Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound.

Images: Brayton Homestead Interiors 1,4 & 5

my handmade hearts

It's a Handmade Valentine Party at the lovely French Cupboard
so I am
showing my handmade hearts...

I enjoy making them. They are very relaxing to create and I love that I am recycling old fabrics and buttons, all snug here together in a wood bowl in my kitchen...

hope you

LOVE

my handmade hearts as much as I enjoyed making them.

FRENCH CUPBOARD

Be sure to check out the party at

and at the beautiful

FEATHERED NEST FRIDAY

Images: Brayton Homestead Interiors 1-6, French Cupboard 7

Paris Views

Can you see it, yes that tall thing?

Can you see it again? Right there above !

ummm..

Friends, I have to say how fortunate I am that have viewed

The Eiffel Tower in Paris

from below looking up

(pics from my Paris trip)

from the middle-

had this taken of me while going up the tower,

here almost midway...

and shot breathtaking views from

from the VERY TOP
of the Tower!

in all four directions...

I have even viewed it
lit up on a Saturday night from the balcony of my rented

PARIS APARTMENT!

but was I surprised when I saw it in
MY TEA CUP!

While sipping the last drop of my Earl Grey,
leisurely enjoying a pot of tea in the local cafe
I noticed
the tea leaves had formed the shape of the
Eiffel Tower
Can you see it?

Oh, good!

Merci

Linking up to White Wednesday at Faded Charm

enjoy...

Images: all Brayton Homestead Interiors

Red and White enamel sign

Thank you Ash Tree Cottage for your wonderful giveway !

I won Susan's blog giveway and I was able to select a sign from Ramsign

and this red and white enamel sign is what, after much deliberation,

I selected...

Thank you Bentley (above) and Susan...

Valentine's Day is wonderful, but I would be remiss, if in February...

I did not honor President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday!

It is especially important to my family as it is also my Dad’s Birthday.

Dad’s been gone from us for many years, miss him so.

Check out near my phone, the corner of a photo of Doyle

I had taken when he was young..

the red and white sign will be so perfect for my house as I love RED!

Red and white anything in fact!

longing for the warm summer flag days at the Homestead

and my new sign,

that I think I will hang on the granite pillar

attached to the red gate!

-click here for gate post-

Don't you think it will be perfect?

Linking to Rednesday at It's a Very Cherry World, White Wednesday at Faded Charm, Vintage Inspiration Friday at Common Ground, and Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage.

take a look, thanks...

Karen