Thinking Easter

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Oh...how I adore Easter.

It's full of all my favorite colors.

I didn't decorate this year....I just had too much going on.

I did buy a little bunny the other day at Hobby Lobby on sale.

She'll be pretty added to my things for next year.

You can see what I did last year on this post.

And here too.

Since starting the new job...I've met so many nice and interesting people...

I've decided I'm going to start sharing their stories here.

We'll start with the 65 year old man that came in the other day to purchase two twin beds.

He and his new wife were adopting two teenage boys.

He met his new wife on Facebook a little over a year ago. 

Seems they knew a lot of people that knew each other. 

They had both lost their spouses to illness a few years before

and decided after visiting on Facebook to meet up.

They met at a Denny's and that first date lasted four hours.

After marrying his new wife, he learned that she had two great nephews whose parents were

involved in drugs and in prison. 

The two boys had been in different foster homes since they were little, now 15 and 18

they were coming to live with him.

He said in his previous life...he had two girls...now grown. 

The boys have already come and stayed many weekends with him and he was so excited to 

have them come live permanently. 

He HAD to have the twin beds by the weekend for their new room at his house.

He left telling me about all the activities he had planned for them and how he'd already

arranged for one of them to have a car to drive. 

He was so excited to have these boys in his life and filled with hope to bring happiness 

to them. The two boys grew up apart. This will be the first time they've gotten to see

each other every day and live in the same house since they were like 5 and 8.

The least I could do was help him find the right beds.

Oh...I love the stories of the people I help each day. 

More to come....

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Easter

H A P P Y   E A S T E R !

I doubted this post was going to go up for awhile there.

I have been so sick this week...I couldn't bring myself to finish my dining room decor for Easter.

The buffet had been decorated for days but I still had some other things to add to the table.

Last weekend I'd bought moss and twig wreaths to use as charges.

But I never got around to getting napkins.

I'd seen some I wanted but thought I'd wait to see if I found something better.

Well, seeing as I didn't leave the house this week...this is as far as I got.

I do love getting all my majolica out in the spring!

The colors are so right at this time of year.

I never tire of the majolica begonia leaves.

And although I have quite a few...I want a few more.

Eggs nestled nicely into a cupcake stand.

I found sheets of moss at a local antique mall for a runner.

Moss from the Dollar Tree went inside the cupcake stand.

Who knew Dollar Tree had such cheap moss?

It's not the highest quality but it will work in most instances.

Twig wreaths also from Dollar Tree became chargers. 

I've started to buy charges countless times over the last year and then put them back because they just seem so ho hum. 

I'm still looking for the perfect ones.

The dishes are my Johnson Brothers's Richmond White with Luray Pastels on top of that and then topped with these pretty decorative plates that hung on the wall in my past homes.

They never made it to the wall here...not sure why...

Maybe they will yet.

There are four different ones....I didn't take a photo of the fourth.

Etruscan begonia leaf dish. I can't get enough of these.

Love this majolica plate too.

All the colors I like to use in my house.

The large bunny is by United Design. A company that manufactured stone figures 

for years here in Oklahoma.

My sister worked for this company and knew I wanted this large bunny.

She grabbed it for me on an employee sale day.

I cherish him because of this. 

I think it's going to be a quiet Easter for me this year.

Just Mom and I...I think. 

Oh...yes...and the weenies.

I hope you have a lovely one.

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