Showing posts with label April showers bring May flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April showers bring May flowers. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Our sofa has spring fever...

.. just like me!


Yes, it is definitely time for a burst of springtime color in our little cottage! My poor old slipcovers have seen better days (pulled and pilled by little kitty claws), therefore I like to conceal the damage under quilts!


So off came the old quilt used this past winter (a more subdued floral that looked great during the winter moths)...



... and out came the thrift store baby quilt I scored several years ago, because I am ready for some serious springtime color!


Bright blooms dot the pink and white striped background, and the border has a sweet sunny yellow striped ruffle...


...while the reverse side sports a soft green & white pattern pattern.


Now I should have stopped there with the flowers, but I couldn't. So my Rachel Ashwell hydrangea pillow sits in one corner of the sofa...


...and a pair of robins egg floral pillows sit on the opposite side. Yup, we are officially ready and waiting for spring, and flowers, and WARM weather, to finally make an appearance in our neck of the woods! And after three long months, the bare ground is finally visible beneath the melting snow! I think that's reason enough for a major celebration and explosion of flowers!
Hope you are all having a lovely week!
Donna

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

April showers....

(click any photos to enlarge)

(Spring 1994: Our little Courtney caught the eye of a local newspaper photographer one rainy day while we were out & about... She looked so darned cute in her little rain slicker, holding her Mickey Mouse umbrella!)

... bring May flowers...


I've been looking through last year's garden photos...


...and realizing that May flowers...



...truly are just around the corner....



The promise of flowers seemed inconceivable during the long, cold, snowy New England winter we just went through...


But Patience is, indeed, a virtue...


...and good things do come to those who wait.... (May flowers... a mere month away! Be still my heart!)


I'll announce the giveaway winner tomorrow!!!


Donna