Paris Marketplace at Sweet Salvage

 Yeah!!!  It's time for one of my favorite shows at Sweet Salvage. The Paris Marketplace.

 The show was filled with it's usual wonderfulness! ( I know, I like to make up my own words sometimes. )

 Everything looks more interesting under a cloche'!!!!

 I love these colors!!!

For all you lavender lovers out there, there is plenty to be found!!!

 There are wonderful French baskets, galvanized metal, and of course cool vignettes!!!

 This little cutie came home with me and now sits among the plants in my garden. :)

 For the last few months I have seen these great olive baskets, and I keep passing them up! Why is that?? I need one to put a tree in this year for Christmas!!!

Ah... soothing soft color.  I love it all!!!!!

 In the back, there are always awesome architectural pieces and wonderful wrought iron.

 One of the vendors did a lovely job a recreating a Paris storefront.

I love the awning!!!

 Here is a close up of that darling iron crib.

This cart was darling too! I need a bigger house!!!!

 This birdhouse was sooo cute!!!

 

 Don't you love the color on these spindles???

Needless to say... there were many beautiful and ornate mirrors there this month too!!!

I was very happy to meet up with my blog friend Rhonda from A Little Bit French too!!

This was our first time meeting "in person" and she was just as much a  sweetheart as I thought she would be!! We were able to go to lunch and even get a little bit of junkin in at Qcumberz!  You probably know her blog already, but if you don't... go by and visit her. You wont be disappointed!!

Butterfly Wonderland!

I had the loveliest of days today, as I spent it having lunch with my bff Sandie and then visiting Butterfly Wonderland,  a large butterfly museum here in Scottsdale.

We started our visit watching a 3-D movie about the migration of the Monarch Butterfly. Now, I had never seen a 3-D movie before, (I know... can you believe it?) so this was absolutely magical to me!!! Seeing all those butterflies flying off the screen was amazing!! (I know... I'm easily amused. )

  After the movie we went into the Butterfly Conservatory where hundreds of butterflies were flying around.

 These blue ones were the most spectacular, but very hard to get a good photo of because every time they landed, they folded up their wings so you couldn't see the spectacular color. I use this butterfly in my blog designs all the time, so it was really cool to see it "live".

 

It was cool cause, the butterflies had no problem landing all over us!!  

This is a moth and not a butterfly... Each one of his wings were as big as my hand!!!

Yes, it was a lovely day!!!

A Favor to Ask....

Hello my bloggy friends!! Just a quick post today, to humbly ask a favor of you.  My most wonderful hubby has entered a contest for a "man cave" makeover. Unfortunately, he didn't find out about it until very recently and the contest ends on Wednesday. If you don't mind... could you please follow this link and simply click the "vote" button. That's all you have to do. No sign ups or anything.

We would both be most grateful. He works so hard and puts up with all my girly decorating. He really needs a manly place of his own!!

Thank you so much in advance! You guys are the best. :)

(p.s... You can vote tomorrow and Wednesday too. )

Warning! Some of this months Sweet Salvage post is CREEPTASTIC!!!!

 As I sit here writing this post... it's still 100 degrees outside. It doesn't feel much like Autumn here in the Arizona desert but I am not letting that spoil my Fall like mood!!! It supposed to get down to a cool 89 degrees this week so,  woo hoo!!!

Sweet Salvage was full of yummy fall goodness this month.

 I loved seeing the mums and pumpkins out. Makes me want to start to start pulling out my Fall goodies already!

I just adore this little cuties don't you?

 Last month there was a fabulous card catalog that I passed on. I could just kick myself now, because afterwards hubby said... "aw honey, you should have just bought it. We can put it in the storage unit until you are ready for it. "  What?????? Are you kidding me???  Seriously I was kicking myself!

Anyway, these two beauties are fabulous too. I just haven't gotten over the loss of that other one. :(

 So unique!!!

 This tablescape was amazing in person. The natural trunk table looked like a giant toadstool sitting on the dining table.

I loved this hanging birdcage. There are so many cool things you can do with them!!

 Okay... now the creeptastic stuff begins, so if you are not a fan of Halloween, proceed at your own risk!!!!

 It's just disturbing right???

Cindy... this whole room reminded me of you!!

This is my favorite photo!! Its soooo creepy!! (What that says about me, I don't know. :)

Hope you are all having a wonderful start to the fall season!

I'm already seeing tons of pumpkins and leaves on Pinterest!!

Love Notes

I know I haven't been around very much this Summer. I suppose to many things are distracting me, or maybe I just needed to take a bit of of a break. That being said, I am working on a few things to share with you, so I won't be away as much from now on. :)

I did however want to share with you a sweet gesture from my sweetie. When we first re-did our kitchen, we put a chalk board into one of cabinets. I jokingly told my husband it was so he could write love notes on it. That was almost a year ago, and never did there appear a sweet sonnet  or poem.  (Seriously... I did not expect there to be.)  It was always full with a shopping list until recently. We added a larger chalkboard to the Laundry Room/Pantry, so the need for the smaller one in the kitchen went away, and has been blank for a few months. Until now. Want to see what I found in the kitchen over the weekend????

Isn't my hubby the sweetest, most romantic guy you know??? LOL!!!!!
Now I'm not saying he's not romantic... he just has a weird sense of humor sometimes!!!