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2ND TIME AROUND TUESDAY - ANTIQUE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION AND MY WINNING SURPRISE

2nd Time Around is hosted by Diane at, A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words.  Please visit Diane's blog for more treasures to share.  Thank you Diane for hosting such a fun event.

I am sharing some Christmas antiques from my sister's antique business, Bluebird Antiques.  This display is full of many different Christmas treasures and the photo is not the best.  These items are considered smalls.  You will see why...

Click on photo to enlarge

This is a study of smalls.  I wish I had taken some closeups.

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MY WINNING SURPRISE

I WON A GIVEAWAY, finally.  And since then, I have won two more.  I am on a roll wouldn't you say?

This giveaway is from Joy at, Library Lady.  Her blog is all about her love of reading.  She reviews books she has read and for all those many bloggers who love to read and even those who don't have time to read...you will LOVE her blog. Go ahead, take a minute to visit Joy, she would love to meet you.

This is my wonderful giveaway...

 

I was thrilled when this lovely giveaway arrived last week.  It came just as we were leaving for Florida for Thanksgiving so I had to wait to share it.  I am really happy to win because I didn't see the movie.  Now I can read the book and that is usually better than the movie.  This sweet candle was included with this fun card.  LUCKY me.  Thank you so much Joy.

Blessings and love,

Jeanne

BLUE MONDAY - HANDPAINTED ANTIQUE BUTTONS

 

Today is Blue Monday and Sally at Smiling Sally is our gracious host. Please visit Sally's blog for lots more blue. Today I am sharing some more of Aunt Shirley's antique buttons. These are all hand painted in Miniature. I hope you enjoy them.

Happy Blue Monday Love,

Jeanne

SPIRITUAL SUNDAY - PRAYER FOR US TO REPEAT OFTEN

THANK YOU GINGER AND CHARLOTTE FOR HOSTING SPIRITUAL SUNDAY.

For inspiration and blessings click on Spiritual Sunday.

The World is Mine

        Today, upon a bus, I saw a very beautiful woman
        And wished I were as beautiful.
        When suddenly she rose to leave,
        I saw her hobble down the aisle.
        She had one leg and wore a crutch.
        But as she passed, she passed a smile.
        Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
        I have two legs; the world is mine.

        I stopped to buy some candy.
        The lad who sold it had such charm.
        I talked with him, he seemed so glad.
        If I were late, it'd do no harm.
        And as I left, he said to me, "I thank you,
        you've been so kind.
        It's nice to talk with folks like you.
        You see," he said, "I'm blind."
        Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
        I have two eyes; the world is mine.

        Later while walking down the street,
        I saw a child I knew.
        He stood and watched the others play,
        but he did not know what to do.
        I stopped a moment and then I said,
        "Why don't you join them dear?"
        He looked ahead without a word.
        I forgot, he couldn't hear.
        Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
        I have two ears; the world is mine.

        With feet to take me where I'd go..
        With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
        With ears to hear what I'd know.
        Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
        I've been blessed indeed, the world is mine.

        If this poem makes you feel thankful, just forward it to your
       friends. After all, it's just a simple reminder that we have so much to be
       thankful for!

        Give the gift of love. It never comes back empty !

This was sent to me by a dear friend.

I am thankful to be able to share this with my blogging friends

Blessings and love, Jeanne

PINK SATURDAY - A CHRISTMAS CACTUS AT THANKSGIVING

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly at at, How Sweet the Sound.  Be sure and visit Beverly's blog to see a whole lot more pink.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Do you go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving?

I never do.  Too many people.

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Remember, I am out of town for the Thanksgiving weekend

We are going to the UF (Gators vs Seminoles) FSU football game on Saturday.

GO GATORS!!!

OK here is the pink.  My Christmas Cactus is pink and red.  Very unusual and real pretty.  This year it has bloomed quite early.  My photos are not very good but I will share them anyway.

 DO YOU SEE THE PINK AND RED?

PINK

RED

A little bit of Pink Saturday and a little bit of Christmas.

Happy Pink Saturday

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Thirty days of thanksgiving

I am so thankful for my many friends who have prayed for my friend's son.  He is home for Thanksgiving.  He is a very lucky guy. Prayers are answered and my friend conveyed her thanks to all of you as well.

Blessings and love

Jeanne

WHAT DO YOU DO ON BLACK FRIDAY?

BLACK FRIDAY

Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 22nd and the 29th of November.

Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employees have the day off (with the exceptions of those employed in retailing, health care, and banking), which increases the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas and holiday season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open extremely early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5AM or even earlier. Some of the larger retailers (depending on the location) such as Sears, Best Buy, Macy's, Toys "R" Us, and Walmart have been reported to open as early as midnight on the start of Black Friday in localized areas and remain open for 24 hours throughout the day until midnight the following Saturday. Upon opening, retailers offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1960s.

The term "Black Friday" originated in Philadelphia in reference to the heavy traffic on that day (see Origin of the name "Black Friday" below). More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit).

(This info was taken from Google)

Go ahead tell me...do you shop like crazy on Black Friday?  At this very moment my daughter and her kids are plotting their route for the biggest shopping day of the year.

NOT ME....I do not do this kind of shopping.  I guess there is some kind of high when you find items on sale and get a good start on your Christmas shopping list.

All can say is...HAVE FUN.

I'm staying here at my daughter's home  with my puppy CC, eating left over pie for three meals a day.  That is my Black Friday event. ( Oh the calories)

CC and me taking a well earned nap.

Have a wonderful time shopping.

Love, Jeanne

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOURS

This autumn angel brings you.....

BLESSINGS AND LOVE TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Love, Jeanne

HAPPY THANKSGIVING RE-RUN FOR OURDOOR WEDNESDAY.

We are on our way to Florida for Thanksgiving and since I have many new blogging friends I decided to share this post again of a very special Thanksgiving in our family a few years ago.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING WITH MANY BLESSINGS TO MY DEAR BLOGGING FRIENDS

This post is all about our family reunion for thanksgiving 1997.  It wasn't an ordinary reunion, I will let you see for yourself.   We had 85 family members attending this very special Thanksgiving.

The local newspapers heard of our huge family gathering (probably by my sister Carmen who has lived in Franklin a long time) and came out to this huge complex we rented for the week and asked to take our pictures.  We were thrilled of course.    We donned our pilgrim and Indian clothing and posed for the papers.   

Can you see me standing next to my son John on the far right.  I confess those clothes were not at all the most flattering to ones figure.  (Newspaper article above)

Have you guessed yet?  We all wore pilgrim clothing or Indian clothing.  Our ancestor John Coulter was in the Louis and Clark Expedition and is in the encyclopedia as the first white man to discover Yellowstone National Park.  My maiden name is Sylva Jeanne Coulter.   That is another story.  Now for the pilgrims and Indians attending this special Thanksgiving dinner.

Here we are my family all dressed for the big Thanksgiving dinner.

Jeanne and Bill.   I made our costumes.

                                                                              Daughter Andrea and Jeanne

Daughter Christina, Garrett, little Caleb-Cody.

                                                                             Son Brett, Brandan and Bryce (right)

Daughter Diana, Robert, little ones Logan-Ashley

On the right-Son John and Molly Rose 

Sister Carmen kneeling, and her family

Sister Jane Anne and dh Bill (left)

Jane Anne's son Tim, Amy-twins-Andrew-Aaron

Sister Jane Anne and daughter Abbyjane/right

My brother Randy and his wife, Sharon  (On the right)  This posted kind of nuts. OE  LOL

My brother's daughter Wanda and her family

My sister Diane and her family. 

My sister Caralie and her family- Caralie is holding her dog Sasha

Do you remember Aunt Shirley?  She lives in the blue Victorian house posted on blue Mon. a few weeks back.  Here she is with her dh Uncle Bill.  She never misses a family gathering.

Well there were more but I shared my sisters and brother only. (except Aunt Shirley)  We were so blessed to be together that special Thanksgiving.

Some nieces and a nephew are missing from these photos.  They were probably somewhere thanking the Lord for getting away from the chaos.  All these photos were taken by my dh and families were gathered all around waiting their turn.  To say it was loud and crazy is an understatement.  LOL.  dinner would not be served until these photos were taken.  Not a popular concept.  After the photos were finished, 85 hungry pilgrims and Indians sat down in a huge dining room and shared their blessings and thankfulness for being together on this happiest of Thanksgiving celebrations.  The food was prepared by everyone's loving hands.  The tables were decorated with turkey pine cones made by all the children.  We gathered together with happy hearts and thanking God we all had food at last!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my dear blogging friends.  May God bless each of you on this coming Thanksgiving day.

Blessings and love...Jeanne

This post is all about our family reunion for thanksgiving 1997.  It wasn't an ordinary reunion, I will let you see for yourself.   We had 85 family members attending this very special Thanksgiving.

The local newspapers heard of our huge family gathering (probably by my sister Carmen who has lived in Franklin a long time) and came out to this huge complex we rented for the week and asked to take our pictures.  We were thrilled of course.    We donned our pilgrim and Indian clothing and posed for the papers.   

Can you see me standing next to my son John on the far right.  I confess those clothes were not at all the most flattering to ones figure.  (Newspaper article above)

Have you guessed yet?  We all wore pilgrim clothing or Indian clothing.  Our ancestor John Coulter was in the Louis and Clark Expedition and is in the encyclopedia as the first white man to discover Yellowstone National Park.  My maiden name is Sylva Jeanne Coulter.   That is another story.  Now for the pilgrims and Indians attending this special Thanksgiving dinner.

Here we are my family all dressed for the big Thanksgiving dinner.

Jeanne and Bill.   I made our costumes.

                                                                              Daughter Andrea and Jeanne

Daughter Christina, Garrett, little Caleb-Cody.

                                                                             Son Brett, Brandan and Bryce (right)

Daughter Diana, Robert, little ones Logan-Ashley

On the right-Son John and Molly Rose 

Sister Carmen kneeling, and her family

Sister Jane Anne and dh Bill (left)

Jane Anne's son Tim, Amy-twins-Andrew-Aaron

Sister Jane Anne and daughter Abbyjane/right

My brother Randy and his wife, Sharon  (On the right)  This posted kind of nuts. OE  LOL

My brother's daughter Wanda and her family

My sister Diane and her family. 

My sister Caralie and her family- Caralie is holding her dog Sasha

Do you remember Aunt Shirley?  She lives in the blue Victorian house posted on blue Mon. a few weeks back.  Here she is with her dh Uncle Bill.  She never misses a family gathering.

Well there were more but I shared my sisters and brother only. (except Aunt Shirley)  We were so blessed to be together that special Thanksgiving.

Some nieces and a nephew are missing from these photos.  They were probably somewhere thanking the Lord for getting away from the chaos.  All these photos were taken by my dh and families were gathered all around waiting their turn.  To say it was loud and crazy is an understatement.  LOL.  dinner would not be served until these photos were taken.  Not a popular concept.  After the photos were finished, 85 hungry pilgrims and Indians sat down in a huge dining room and shared their blessings and thankfulness for being together on this happiest of Thanksgiving celebrations.  The food was prepared by everyone's loving hands.  The tables were decorated with turkey pine cones made by all the children.  We gathered together with happy hearts and thanking God we all had food at last!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my dear blogging friends.  May God bless each of you on this coming Thanksgiving day.

Blessings and love...Jeanne

2ND TIME AROUND TUESDAY - TURKEY PLATTER, ETC.

This is 2nd Time Around Tuesday hosted by Diane at, A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words,  Please visit Diane's blog for lots more 2nd time around treasures.

I AM SHARING THE BARGAIN TO DIE FOR

Well, not really!!!

This is all about a few great bargains from a yard sale I went to a while ago.  I lived in Florida at the time for the first bargain.

Check out the turkey platter.  $3,00 and it was not made in China.  It is more beautiful in person.

A little closer look.

The pumpkin paper weight was my mom's.  I cherish it.

The bird was a find at a sale long ago.  It was 25 cents.

This wreath was an inexpensive purchase for $12.00.  I jazzed it up with some gorgeous velvet fall leaves from the thrift store for 1.00.  This is my back door.

Another yard sale find for 1.00.  Perfect to dress up my hall tree.

I am so thankful for the simple pleasures of finding a bargain that gives us a happy heart.  A happy heart is a true blessing.

Love, Jeanne

BLUE MONDAY - PLEASE PRAY

 

PLEASE PRAY

Today is Blue Monday and our gracious host is Sally at, Smiling Sally. 

Please visit Sally for lots of wonderful blue.

My weekend in Charlotte with my longtime friend was wonderful.  Her son is doing well  after three plus weeks in the hospital with a serious case of Swine flu.  Thank you for all of your kind comments.

Now I am asking You to pray for my cousin's daughter who is very ill and probably will not recover.  I received a call from my cousin last night.  Her daughter's name is Jera and she has been suffering for many years and is on dialysis,  Her vital organs are shutting down.  She had cancer and only has one kidney.  She is only 42 years old.  My cousin Marilyn and her husband are suffering such sadness right now.

Thank you my friends for your prayers on a time of need.

I am so thankful for my blogging friends.

Blessings and love,

Jeanne

PINK SATURDAY - A PRNCESS PARTY

Beverly at, How Sweet the Sound,  our host for the Pink Saturday event, invites you to share your pink.

I am sharing a 'Princess day at our church The young girsl,dressed up with princess dresses and had a wonderful time

Getting ready for the party

Princess tablesetting

 

Princess story telling time.  It is all about the castle and the princess.

 

This is my great niece Amber.  She is definitely my sweet princess.

Happy Pink Saturday.

Love, Jeanne