Tray Chic!

Hello ladies, hope you all are enjoying a nice long holiday weekend!

 The other day I received the most wonderful surprise in the mail!  Ok, I knew that I was getting it, but it was still thrilling to open, it felt like Christmas!  Linda, over at Itsy Bits and Pieces recently had a giveaway of a $50 gift certificate to anything in any of her 3 Etsy shops!  And I won!  Needless to say, I was like a kid in the proverbial candy store as I browsed all of the wonderful treasures in her shops!  As soon as I spotted this gorgeous vintage toile tray, I just knew that it would be perfect in our house!!

 I really love the soft green shades of the tray, and the hand painted flowers are beautiful!

 It is even prettier in person!

 Just look at all of the wonderful hand painted details!  Linda is such a sweetheart, she also included some extra surprises in my package (which I forgot to photograph until I sat down to write this, darn!).  Linda must have e.s.p., as she included some vintage French vocabulary cards, which I just love!  In fact, I was debating on picking  out a whole bunch of them from her shop with the gift certificate!  And she also sent me some wonderful light blue vintage seam binding.  I am addicted to seam binding, so I will have lots of fun creating it!  Thanks so much Linda, for the generous gift!  I will think of you each time I look at your gorgeous tray!!

I imagine that many of you will be spending your long holiday weekend by the shore, soaking up the sun and sand!  Well, can you believe that we spent part of our weekend yesterday playing in the snow?!  Yes, I said snow!

Since we moved out here to Washington State, we've been enjoying taking day trips to discover our new little piece of paradise!  Yesterday we headed north, up near the Canadian border, to Mt. Baker.  It seemed like it took forever to reach the mountain!  We kept driving up, up, and up twisting, winding roads!  Good thing I wasn't driving, as all of those hair pin curves were starting to make me just a bit dizzy!  Or, maybe that was the altitude?!  haha!

We were in awe of just how breathtakingly beautiful it all was!  I never thought that in July I would find myself surrounded by snow covered mountains!  In the above photo, you can see the snow sliding down the hills, there were even big chunks of it that had fallen into the road!

God sure knew what He was doing when He created the earth, wasn't he?
Hope you all have a very fun and safe 4th!