Living Life with Family and Friends....Graciously and Joyfully..one day at a Time!
Now Picket was so brave and clever and opened up one of her CJB boxes.....but as you can see, I am thus far too chicken to do that!!! (Isn't that silly...but then again, you never know when you might see these cute boxes AGAIN!!)
I had the best time Friday when I had lunch with the beautiful Laura from Decor to Adore. We met at our local Mimi's, however, it was really hard to eat lunch as we both wanted to just talk! And we did that very well! Laura is so beautiful and tender hearted. Laura brought me the sweetest gift. I thought I would show my precious gifts for Show and Tell at Kelli's. In the sweetest wrapped box was a delicate vintage embroidered doilie, a sweet little note pack that Laura made, some tiny vintage flowers and some yummy candies!
I haven't been there in about 3 years and boy have things changed. Unfortunately, a lot of my favorite stores are gone. And the economy is definately affecting this area.
First we stopped in Dewey. There is about 8 buildings that all look like an old town.
The first place we stopped in Prescott was LUNCH at the Gurley St. Grill. It is our favorite because of their....
Fried Mushrooms!
This is one of the old buildings in Old Prescott.
One of the main streets is named Whiskey Row....apparently, this was where the bars were in the town's early days. Mostly now, it is little restaurants and boutiques.
This is the Courthouse. Prescott is the county seat for Yavapai county. This is a gorgeous building inside. We didn't go there today though.
I just love their old lamp posts and the huge baskets of flowers hanging from them. See the gorgeous blue sky. It was a beautiful day...
I went into a little store that unfortunately is going out of business....it was so cute. Very sad.
This was the dressing room. That is just too cute.
Oh ladies...looky at all the cloches! But man oh man, even at SALE prices, they were out of my budget!
Ok, now you know I went here for all you PINK bloggers out there! This was a fantastic store. I did buy some gift items here.... here are two things I didn't buy. Not that I didn't want them....I just didn't!
My hubs actually told me to go back and buy this fantastic stained glass purse with the dingles on it....but I told him he really didn't need to spend that kind of money on it. Not that it wasn't, well, purely yummy!
We saw the cutest ice cream shop that had all this popcorn and candy in it. We did have a scoop of ice cream.
Remember all these old fashioned candy sticks!
This was the tin ceiling in the entire ice cream shop. Well, we were getting to my favorite time of day, the antique shops. And my hubs dropped me off and guess where my camera was...yep, in the car. I could not believe the prices of the antiques. I am much richer than I thought!!!! I did get just a couple of things, which will be another post! Sorry, but I don't want to bore you to sleep!
Barb at Grits and Glamour is hosting Tea Time Tuesdays and I wanted to join in the fun. Although I am not actually having a tea party right now, I do have this little set I bought a while back at HomeGoods. I just love the words on the Teapot, cups, and water pitcher. Right now they are on display ready for 4th of July.
You can see that before the sprinkles were generously added, the word Grandpa was sorta there!
My grandson is grandma's boy. He will always be sitting by me and wanting a back rub! I just love this picture. The men got hats, but of course, the kids had to have them...I have my granddaughters on for the pic! See the MICHIGAN t-shirt. Grandpa and Grandma have some influence!!
She likes her hat!
This is my handsome son with his nephew and his goofy look!
After dinner my husband, son and I went to a animal shelter to look at the dogs. But no luck. Lots of dogs but a lot of big dogs. So, that's ok. If it is meant to be, we will know it! It was fun though...talking to all those precious pups.
I know, I know...but you would have done it too!!
A medium size cloche holds my and my husband's baby shoes. The next cloche is very small. I use an old flower frog to hold a picture of my husband grandmother when she was young.
Technically, probably not a cloche...but I just love this birdcage looking one with a bird in it for spring.
A find at Ross...cloche and the tall black stand. Right now it is holding one of my chickens.
Just a teacup and old hankerchief...on a wire cake stand. 
I had prepared a box lunch....everything including the drink was in a box tied with raffia...they loved it!
We had turkey cranberry cream cheese mini sandwiches, spinach salad with strawberries and candied walnuts, pickles, olives, fritos, and a lovely chocolate mini cake...all were wrapped in parchement paper or chinese take-0ut boxes...
I showed these years ago...but I will do again, since they are CLEAN!
Fiesta ware pieces and old scale
metal dish rack, old spice can, my grandma's old mixing bowl with her springerle cookie pin inside, sweet spice box my hubs got me years ago, old masher and bit of old flour can
old coffee cans (and yes, I have 1 key!) marshmellow can, chip can, old cracker can WITHOUT the bars...and that is my baby cup...
These are really hard to see, but it is a milk bottle collection. The little "stand" is a milking stool... in the corner standing is an old pop crate.
A few of my old rolling pins....
My old bowls...they are filled with old cookie cutters
This is a favorite of mine...my grandma's apple cookie jar, one of my mom's cookie cutters and my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook! Do you see the God Bless Our Home sign? My uncle who is now close to 80 made it in school for his mom.
