More Vacation pictures

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I had hoped to get some crafting done today, but that didn't happen.  

I did go craft shopping...Now I just have to find time to use the things I bought.

So I'm again posting Vacation pics.  I like to look at the vacation pictures other people post...but

I know that not everyone does.  I also like to look at decorating sites.  So I'm also fascinated the way Inns and Bed and Breakfasts are decorated.

This was our room at the Bed and Breakfast.  I found it to be quite comfortable, Not too small for us, or too large.  I really liked the view from our window.  Believe me, it's not the kind of view that I see from our windows at home.   smile...    The Inn keeper gave me permission to post pics of her Inn.

Thank you for stopping by my blog

Blessings,

Jill

Going Down Memory Lane

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Today, I'm going down Memory Lane, as I was trying to figure out which wall we were going to hang up our Anniversary gift from our Inn Keeper...  I found myself remembering the day that my In laws celebrated their 50th Anniversary, and the Scherenschnitte wall hanging was given to them by a friend of my Mother-in-laws.  After we lost my in laws, I asked the lady who gave them the gift if she wanted it back, she said no, and asked me if I would like to have it.  It now hangs in our bed room as nice memory of my husband's wonderful parents.

It's an absolutely gorgeous day in our area...I have most of windows open and I can feel a nice breeze coming through as I type this.  It made me think back to last week when we were sitting outside on the screened porch at the Bed and breakfast.  While we were eating our breakfast we were looking out into the back yard seeing the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background.  It would nice to have that every day...

Hopefully, I will get some crafting done today.  It would be especially nice if I could do of that outside.

Hope everyone is having a nice day.
Thank you for visiting my blog
Blessings,
Jill

For the Bird Lovers...

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The Bed and Breakfast (that we stayed at) has the theme of "Birds"  Bird Houses all over the place outside, and Bird pictures, etc...inside  Thought you might like to see a few.

I'm too tired to make a card...or go through my other vacation pics...so I thought I would post these for right now.

"My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather."  ~ Loire Hartwould

Today would have to  be considered to be bird chirping weather...It was just so lovely outside.

I hated having a week's worth of laundry to do, but it gave me an excuse to be outside since I
hung everything outside on my wash line instead of my dryer.

It wasn't a good day for two drivers though.  I just getting ready to sit down and read my email
around noon time, when I heard brakes squeal, and then a big bang!

When I Looked outside my window I saw an  accident right up the road from me.  Fortunately, I don't think anyone was hurt, because I never heard an ambulance, but the one car had to be towed away.  Since this has happened to us several times through the years, (accidents) I could feel for them...I know just how that feels...not a good way to go through the day.

We spent more than 14+ hours on the road, getting back and forth to our vacation spot, and this is one time that we did NOT have to detour for an accident...or see one by the side of the road, etc.

Hope everyone is having a good week
Thank you for stopping by my blog...
Blessings,
Jill

I am super tired as I type this...so please any typos etc...LOL

I need a vacation!

I need a vacation!  Actually, we just returned from being five days away from home...so now I need a vacation from my vacation.  We had a nice time but we are exhausted!

I have lots of vacation pics...
Here's the first two...The top one is the gift that the Inn Keeper made for us.  She took 50 pennies and put it into a shadow box for us.  The pennies are in date order from the first penny being the date that we were married until this years penny.  On the back there is a pocket with a journaling page where we are to write something from  each year that we are married...Boy will I have to put my thinking cap on with that one.

The second pic is the gift from our daughter.  She really surprised us with a beautifully done photo album with photos that some I have never seen before, and never knew they even exsisted.  Alot of work went into that gift.

Our daughter and son in law joined us on our vacation.  We have not been on vacation with our daughter since she was in grade school.  So that was a real treat to have her with us. 

I have a lot of catching up to do...at home...and on my blog, and on visiting other people's blogs...
Which I will try to do this week...

Thank you for visiting my blog...
Blessings,
Jill

I'm going down memory lane

 Filoli Gardens...Click on pictures to enlarge

 Muir woods

and Napa Valley trail

I'm working on a card right now...that is only about half finished, and I had to walk away from it...
Can you tell that it is not going very well...Time to take a break...and maybe Day dream a bit instead!

This time of year, I always think back over my DREAM vacation.  My husband and I have done very little traveling through the years..  (There's this thing called budget...that has prevented us from taking too many vacations  smile).  However, I was fortunate enough to get to go on what I call my dream vacation back in 2007.  I live on the East Coast, and for me to get on a vacation to the West coast was something I thought I would never be able to do.  Thanks to family and friends who provided free lodging and some free meals, (and my Mother even paid for our plane fare as our Christmas gift)  We managed to get to California for a couple of weeks...Our longest vacation ever.  We were in Napa Valley, (My favorite)  near Pis-mo Beach, Solvang, and San Francisco.

I enjoyed almost everything about it, except the plane ride.  It was only my second time on a plane, and I hated it almost as much as my first trip on a plane.


I was visiting a blog yesterday...

http://www.blackcatsstudios.blogspot.com/

I found Liz's blog while I was visiting the Dream team's blogs     Dreamweaver stencils

(the link is on my side bar.

Liz posted a beautiful card she made using a Dream weaver stencil. The stencil reminded her of the wisteria at Filoli Gardens in California.  She immediately had me dreaming about my vacation in California, and visiting those beautiful gardens...I had to go and try to find  my pictures from the Gardens...

Another favorite place I visited was Muir woods, and the Napa Valley trail...

I hoped to post more photos...but, at the moment, I can't find where I saved those photos on my computer or the disc, I have them on.  (I told you I'm not too organized.  But I did find the discs that my SIL gave me of our vacation.  which has over 4000 photos on it...  I think it's going to take me some time to find the photos on those discs that I am looking for...LOL

so I am going to have post those another day...

I hope you enjoyed day dreaming with me today....

Thank you for visiting my blog...

Blessings,

Jill

I'm Back!

I'm back! I know you didn't even know that I was gone! smile!

I've just returned from a several day trip to Virginia. (Hot Virginia!) I'm told it was also very hot in my home town, but it was even hotter where I was on vacation. We stayed at a B & B without the A/C working. I don't have Central Air at home, but we do have one little window A/C which I wish I had at the Inn we were staying. The A/C did get fixed but not until after we stayed in a very warm room for a while. Our Inn keeper did go buy a fan for us and it did help.

The pic above shows one of the things we like to do on vacation...visit book stores... This is a pic of the Green Valley Book fair in Virginia.

We also visited Books-A-Million, it's a store we had never been in before...and yes we bought books at both book stores.
This is where we spent some of our time on vacation. I like the view from the screened in back porch. (Where you can see the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background) But with the heat we didn't spend as much time there as we would have liked to. (I like eating breakfast on the porch! It was way to hot for that!)
The above picture shows another place I visited while in Virginia. This was the high light of my vacation. I think I mentioned on this blog before, that I live only a few miles from an A C Moore store, Joanne's and Michaels. But I had never been to a Hobby Lobby before...I really liked the store. Wish I would have had more time to spend there. (But then again, I may have spent even more money than I did...LOL)

I took some craft supplies with me on vacation, but I really didn't have much opportunity to craft, Or much opportunity to be on a computer. I have a lot of catching up to do with both my card making, and visiting every one's blogs.
Hope everyone is having a good summer so far, and Keeping cool! Blessings, Jill

Wine Country in pics part 2

Another Vinyard we visited in Napa Valley area

Napa Valley trail... I think it was about a two mile walk and we did the trail every morning.

More of the trail, It was so beautiful, in the background there are some of the trailers that were at the place we stayed. Show more of those pics later.

One of the biggest cows that Ihave ever seen...smile.

And one of the biggest dogs I have seen, located in the Napa Valley area in California

I was actually going to post a card, but I could not find where I saved it on my computer...smile...Does that sound like me?

Anyway, It seems that you enjoyed looking at the other vacation pics I recently posted that were from a few years back. So I decided to post some more. I need to look at these too, since My vacation this summer will have to be in my daydreams. None planned in the immediate future. We did get to Virginia, a few weeks ago, but would you believe that I only took one picture?

Wine Country in pics...

Our Trip to California

One of the many vinyards that we visited. Not sure which one, just know it was in Napa Valley

This could be a different one in Napa Valley. I lost count as to how many we went to see while we were in California. LOTS...smile. I had NO idea that there were so many vineyards in California.

This was located in the Town of Sabastopol. We visited this shop while we were staying in the Napa Valley area. This was one of my most memorable days there. I loved this shop! Just wish we had something like this in my area. It was a resale shop (second hand shop) selling nothing but CRAFT supplies. It felt like heaven on earth, except for one thing. I didn't have much room in my suitcase, so I could NOT buy much...:-(

I was fascinated by this Purple house, and yes that's me taking a pic, So many of the photos my husband took of me, I'm holding a camera. So many of the pictures I took of him had him holding a camera. When I looked at these photos yesterday....I IMMEDIATELY STARTED A DIET!

Hope you enjoyed my trip down memory lane, might show more later...Don't worry, I won't show you all 1000+ photos.

Whenever I see the words "Wine Country" it makes me think of our vacation to California several years ago. It was the BEST vacation I have ever had. Truly a Dream Vacation. We visited Napa Valley, Carmel, San Luis Obispo Bay, and San Francisco.

The only thing that I did not like about the trip was flying. It was only my second time in a plane. I did NOT like it the first time, and the second time even less...smile.

However, there were no plane delays, no lost luggage, no problems with any of the four places we stayed in. An almost perfect vacation. I say almost perfect, because I did become ill on two of the days of the trip. But otherwise, the best vacation EVER!

I'm sharing a few of the pics from that vacation.. All together I think we took over a 1000 pictures.

More pictures of the Bed and Breakfast we stayed at last week

More pictures of the Bed and Breakfast we stayed in last week...This is some pics of the beautiful back yard at the Inn...

In the background you can see the Blue Ridge Mountains.

More pictures to come, because I just realized that I forgot to take some of the pics off my camera...

Our beautiful room In Virginia

Today, I'm posting the room where stayed in at the B & B...tomorrow, I hope to post

some pictures I took of the beautiful area around the Inn...

My Birthday cake...

This is the "CHOCOLATE" chip birthday cake that the B & B owner made for me on my birthday, It was so good. (Come to think of it...I still have some...I think I'm going to go get another piece when I get off the computer...LIKE I NEED CAKE! NOT!!!)

What is your favorite cake or dessert?

I also posted a pic of the table showing the delicious birthday dinner she made for me...

so GOOD!

Maryland Bed and Breakfast

I've only had time to make one card, and I had trouble scanning it. So tomorrow, (if the sun is out) I hope to try and take a picture of it instead so I can post it.

In the meantime I Thought I would show another Bed and Breakfast we have stayed at in the past. It's located in Maryland. Just lovely, we have stayed there for two weekends as guests, and one weekend as house sitters! We were so fortunate to have been asked to do that!

I would post a link, but again I think the B & B is going out of business. (The owner , who is such a wonderful person, and born to be a bed and breakfast hostess, is Ill and can no longer operate her lovely Inn.

Barb, I had to post the "Rooster" pillow for you. The cat in the one photo is called "Precious" and she really fits her name...

Lititz Bed and Breakfast

Swiss Woods Bed and Breakfast This was our private deck area...
The dining room where we ate a very Delicious breakfast!

The view from our Patio

Having trouble posting these photos so I hope they come through..If at first you don't succeed...

Lititz Bed and Breakfast Part 2

I'm still going through photographs, and since I didn't get on vacation this summer...I'm going on a vacation by looking at pictures, and remembering some of the places we did get to visit.

I'm not sure how long ago we were guests at this bed and breakfast, but it had to be at least 8 or so years ago. I looked at the link that I am putting here, and it looks like it is still owned by the same people. If so, they were wonderful hosts, and help to make our stay very memorable. We had planned to stay there 3 days and only stayed for two because it, rained, and rained, and rained, so we decided to just go home instead of trying to sight see anymore in the RAIN!

Our first evening there was just lovely though (before the rain) We sat out on our own private patio, and later walked to the near by lake through the woods. Beautiful place...

http://www.swisswoods.com/index.html