Early Sunday Around Bird Nest Cottage

 

 I took these photos earlier this morning....thought I'd show you around...just for a little something different.  I hope you don't mind....just some visuals.  I have a small kitchen, but it feels big enough to me and although it is cluttered (as is my whole house),  as I often say....I live in my own little world, but it's ok...they know me here. ❤️  Notice the sign....Yes, it hangs crooked.  We have found that no matter how we hang it...it remains crooked....I'm not perfect either, so it doesn't bother me and I love what it says....You have my whole heart!

 

 This is where I make my morning cup of tea...and other things too.  Of course,  as is my habit,  I have to put more things there than are necessary.

 And, this is one of my favorite prints in the house...I LOVE the colors!  And, this morning, there are tiny flowers from my tiny bit of yard.

 

 The center of the kitchen is taken up with this small island.  It does hold "lots of stuff" so is a very nice thing to have here.  Of course, you can see right into the dining room...I like the layout very much. 

 

 And, another photo of the dining room...remember the dress, the quilt?  And, did you notice the sign above the door....it seems to explain my whole house..."it is what it is."

 

 A TINY bit of a flower arrangement in an old cream pitcher, along with a poem I love.

You can probably enlarge to read it, but I'll write it out for you here anyway:

THE ARTIST

"She scanned the table with keen old eyes

There was the brown fried chicken

The creamy custard pies

The cool bright green of pickles

And the ruby glow of jel.

Then she hastened to the cellar 

Before she rang the bell.

And, brought the golden butter

With its drops of frosty dew

Chilled and sweet and delicate

In a deep bowl of old blue."

from

OZARK LYRICS 

by Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey

1934

I thank my friend, Kay, in Mountain View, every time I read this poem, as she gave it to me tied in a blue ribbon long ago.

 

 The sign isn't lit well....it says "OLD QUILTS."  Indeed!  A few odd flowers from the Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern, here at my ironing board.  They came to me via someone's collection of quilt scraps I was given a few years ago.  (Only a quilter would appreciate an iron and some vintage quilt pieces.)

 

 I recently moved my sofa so it's in the room diagonally.  It has given me room for a work area behind the sofa and yet keeps the resulting 'mess' out of sight from visitors.  Unless they want to see that stuff, of course.

This photo was taken at my new little work area behind the sofa.  It's by the window, which makes it nice.  This morning, I decided the space needed a little flower arrangement of it's own....along with a sweet card and a project I am working on.  More on that project this coming week sometime.

 

 I don't remember where this card came from but I do love it:

Kind Hearts,

Like Garden Flowers, 

bring

Grace and Beauty

to our World.

 Have a wonderful Labor Day celebration!

 from

Bird Nest Cottage

until next time

♥♥♥