Giving all around!

I had all intentions on this White Wednesday with

Kathleen

of Faded Charm

to finally show you the things I bought at Brimfield...

gee over 3 weeks ago now.

Nothing like dragging it out. I had a friend that use to say " You tell a story like Edith Bunker" remember her?

always dragging it out !!!

Well my blog is like that too......

Stretching it out as long as I can!

making you all wait.

Well when you see why I've made you wait you won't be so disappointed with me.

The other day I received a package in the mail.

The first thing my husband said was " What did you get this time?"

As if I always get lots of things in the mail addressed to me...just me... not the biz.
At first it threw me off. It was in a Two's Company box. I thought? did I order anything from them??? they're a gift co.

Then I saw Vintage Living on it from Rebecca. I thought this is it!!!!!!!

it's here!

I took it out of it's box and there it was all wrapped all pretty and such with the cutest tag made of lace and velvet ribbon. A small bird tied to the lace and little tag saying "Just for me"!!!!

well it really said Just for You.......which is "me"

Last week when Rebecca had posted White Wednesday I mentioned I loved the bridal headpiece from her antique store shopping spree which you can see HERE.

She wrote back and said she would love me to have it. I was so touched by her kindness. A little embarrassed too so I told her I'd be more then happy to pay her. She insisted it would not be necessary so I told her I'd at least send her a Jeanne d' Arc Living magazine.


She agreed and I felt better..... it seemed only fair....... well until I opened this gorgeous box and laid my eyes on it.
I think I actually gasped for air.



Can you blame me???



Look at this culmination of femininity all wrapped in a box.
The creamy colored tulle is secured to the box with a delicate edging of thread that is part of the veil and frames it so beautifully. The satin ribbon is antique white with a hint of pink. Even the box it's in is lovely with the right amount of age and patina.


You can imagine how thrilled I was. I have never owned anything this precious and graceful. It's truly a work of art and I will treasure it forever.

Thank you so much Rebecca it is one of the nicest gifts I've ever received. I knew when I first saw your blog on my first week participating in White Wednesday (back when there were only a few participants) that I just loved it. It's been wonderful getting to know you and I hope to stay friends for a long time.

Now this takes me to another subject about giving.....

Back a few months ago Kelee from Kelee Katillac made us aware of the need to help raise money for animals that also had been suffering from the economic down turn. Yes even they suffer. People could no long feed their pets or no longer had a place to live. They were giving them up or worse just abandoning them.

This project is called The Pet Scarf Project from Design Gives Back and $2000 was raised already. The Blog Party is today and I didn't want you to miss out. If you go to Kelee's site and leave a comment a $1 will be donated to the cause. It's that easy!!!

Please watch the video and you'll get to see all the animals wearing their decorated scarves and the shelter where they are doing such great work.

You can also enter Kelee's giveaway too !!! for $100 from Hobby Lobby.

I tried so hard to upload the video on my blog but I couldn't do it. Not tech savvy enough. boo-hoo!

This was Nigella wearing her scarf being the good sport and diva that she is!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

I know this is kinda a mish-mash post

but....

Please go visit Kelee and make a diffence in an animals life.

Love,

Carole

& Nigella

DESIGN gives BACK

Nigella said to me the other day "I know how lucky I am to have owners who love and take care of me" .... "how can I give back to other ones like me who don't have the love of an owner like the two of you.........and in others I mean even dogs!!!! not just cats"

I thought well I do know a way we could help. I read about it on Tracie's blog from Tracie's My Petite Maison. It linked me to Kelee @ The Katillac Shack. There I found a way to help donate money to a program that would help dogs that were abandoned by their owners. There has been a record number of pets that have had to be given up because owners have lost their jobs and their homes.

All we have to do is decorate scarves......how easy is that??? A sponsor will donate $2000 if we decorate 150 scarves and send the pictures in.

We decided .....well I decided we could decorate 3 scarves and Nigella would model them.

She loves to be in front of the camera.

We enlisted some help from George to tie them on. Not so easy.This was the one that was made smaller to fit you remember but I think it would have been easier to tie if I had left them the way they were....opps!"It makes a fetching shawl when I want to keep the suns rays off my shoulders. You know pink pompoms are my favorite....so girly ....so me!"

"They make a nice bib for when I'm eating lobster or some other seafood or my favorite....... tuna juice."

"This last one is my favorite. It was worth staying up til 2 in the morning to finish them. Too bad you got the deadline wrong. I know you do your best work under pressure but you really need to get some rest."

Hope you enjoyed our fashion show. The deadline has been extented to Aug. 20th. Pictures of 115 out of 150 scarves have been submitted so they've asking if anyone else would like to participate. Please consider it. It's such a worthy cause for the many pets that need our help. Please watch this video which will explain what "Design Gives Back" is all about. It's easy, it's fun and your pet will love it too.

Thanks so much,

Carole