Anniversary Dinner

Today, aside from joining Susan for Tablescape Thurs. I am also participating with Leigh of http://lbratina.blogspot.com/ for Thrifty Thursday. I have a thrifty pair of candlesticks holder that I would like to share with y'all. For more amazing thrifty finds, please visit Leigh!

Well, here comes another fun meme made possible by our most gracious hostess, Susan of http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/. If you want to see some interesting and elegant tables where you can get inspriation for your next dinner party, make sure you go visit her and her participants.

For our anniversary last week, this is where we ate dinner. We were going to eat out and then go the little theater downtown and watch a play but the fence guy made an appointment to come so I rushed to prepare dinner instead. We were still able to watch the premiere of Fauntleroy. It was pretty good and we had a good time!
You can enlarge the pictures to see more details.

See little cupid reading a book? He is pretty relaxed now thinking he did his job when he pointed his arrow towards me and John.
I used our new "lion" flatware I bought from Horchow, American Limoges salad plates (actually they are luncheon plates cause they're a little bigger) in a Mandarin Green Trillium pattern, lace plate chargers and white dinner plates I bought from HomeGoods.


I used our Meissen rose napkin rings.

I found the candle holders for $5.00 for the pair in an antique store downtown. And then they were marked down another 20% off so I ended up paying $4 for the pair. I thought they really went well with my salad plates. These are my thrifty finds.
Lladro bride and groom figurine and a white rose placecard holder.
Aren't the cups pretty with the flower design inside? The plates are really nice too with gold and green scroll borders.

For glasses I used green goblets with gold scrolls but I do not remember where I got them from. I also used Mikasa tulip wine stemware which I bought from a Mikasa outlet store.

Tulip crystal candle holders

See the lion head flatware? Aren't they elegant? I don't know why but I love lion heads. Have you seen my lion chair?

I tried experimenting on enlarging the pictures. Laurie was nice enough to email me the instructions. I only enlarged some tall pictures because the wide ones might not work because of my blog layout. How do you like the larger pictures?

I would like to thank Susan and Leigh for hosting these fun events and you all for your much appreciated visits!

Cotton Field and Snake

It's Wednesday so it's outdoor fun day! Thanks to Susan of http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ for making this possible. Please visit her and her participants to see and enjoy amazing outdoor pictures.

Have you ever seen a cotton plantation? I haven't, until we moved to Mississippi. Last week, on our way home from shopping, we passed by this cotton fields and I took pictures so I can share them with you.

Isn't the sun peeking through the trees so pretty?
Also last week, we had a gardener working in the yard. I saw him walk towards the office where I was blogging to show me this. Eeeek! I hate snakes!

But anyway, don't you think I took a beautiful picture? The snake was small but very aggressive. Sorry to all you snake lovers out there but I had to have him killed because I think he is venomous. See the triangular shape of the head? What do you think he is? My best guess is a rattlesnake.

I hope you enjoyed my outdoor contribution for this week. Thank you all for coming by and thanks Susan, for hosting this event.

Herb Planter Converted to Cacti Planter, Anniversary Presents

Metamorphosis Monday and Blue Monday are both hosted by 2 gracious bloggers namely Susan of http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ and Sally of http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ respectively. You will enjoy both of their blogs so be sure you visit them and then go check out their participants' posts too.

This is a herb planter (and it's blue!) I bought from TJ Maxx for $5.88. Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the "before", when it was still empty.
For a long time, I could not find herbs that are small enough and short growing to fit in the openings. And even if I find small ones, I know that eventually they will grow too long. So, this cute planter sat in our garage for the whole summer.
Last week, my friend and I went to Home Depot in Monroe and then I spotted their cactus center and admired the many little cute cacti. All of a sudden, the lightbulb in my brain just lit up. Hey, I thought, these would be perfect for my herb planter. And so I bought a few and here is how the pot turned out after I planted. How do you like it?
Last week was John and my wedding anniversary. He surprised me with a box and when I opened it, I found a big white leather "Dooney and Burke" purse.

I opened the purse and saw the big blue dust bag and a small Coach wristlet. Hubby knows me very well and he knows I am crazy with purses and shoes and it does not matter how many I already have. I think half of my purses in the armoire have not been used yet.

Isn't this coach wristlet cute? It has pink, turquoise and blue butterflies.

Here is the big Dooney bag.

I love its supple soft leather.

Thanks to Susan and Sally for starting the week with lots of fun.

Thank you all for coming by!

Another NY Trip

Another day is here to do a double post. Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/. Please visit her blog and see a lot of pretty pinks.
It's also time for Sightseeing Saturday. If you have any travel pictures or any sceneries that you want to share with us, please link with Mr. Linky below and share them with us. Please feel free to copy the Sightseeing Sat. logo to display on your link and sidebar.

For today, we will go back to NY. There is so much to see in NY and I felt that I did not show you enough last Saturday, so I am showing you more here. This was another trip to NY that we took. You will see both AJ and me wearing a lot of pink outfits, therefore I am linking with Pink Saturday. AJ's favorite color was pink when she was younger, so she was always in pink then. She has changed it to blue since. She said pink is too girly and she said she is a tomboy, lol!

First pink: a pink advertising by Time Square.
There is AJ wearing a pink and blue sweater and a pink muffler while we were browsing through jewelry in a street sale. They have a lot of those in NY and I really enjoy them.
How about fake designer purses sold by street vendors? You have to be quick if you want to buy anything cause they get raided by cops and then the vendors wrap everything up so fast and they disappear. LOL!
I told AJ the 9-11 story for the first time, while showing her Ground Zero. She was so sad hearing about it.

We were on the tour bus when we passed by these markets at Soho so it was too bad cause I couldn't go shopping.

But we stopped at Fao Schwarz and AJ enjoyed it of course.

We made time to watch another broadway, Beauty and the Beast. It was excellent!

How about a chicken barbecue? Yummy!

waiting patiently for the subway

and AJ waiting to ride the giant ferris wheel at Toys R Us in Manhattan

Radio City

AJ is smiling here but just a few minutes before this picture was taken, she was crying because she put her head through those bars and it got caught and she couldn't get it out. LOL! Of course I eventually was able to wiggle her head out of of the tour bus bars.

We were on the upper deck of the tour bus and everytime we go through a street with a low tree, we had to dock. See how John can reach the traffic lights?

Can you spot John buying a sports jacket from Century 21? Nope, it's not the real estate agency. It's a big discount department store in NY near Ground Zero.

We enjoyed walking through the Museum of Natural History and Sciences.

No matter how many times we go to NY, we always go to the Central Park Zoo.

And we try to watch as many broadway shows as we can fit, in the short time that we spend there. We usually just go for a long extended weekend. Here, we watched The Lion King.

All that walking really got us exhausted. Look at AJ, she couldn't even wait to get up to the hotel room. She fell asleep right on the sofa. Poor baby!

Hope you enjoyed another NY tour. I told you , we go there a lot. I hope you are not getting tired of seeing NY pictures. I try not to show you the same sights.

Thank you all for coming and thank you Bev for hosting another Pink Saturday.

If you want to join Sightseeing Sat, I encourage you to link with me below and I will be elated if you do. Thanks!