These are a few of my favorite things...

Yesterday after school Lil Sara put on her favorite dress and favorite cowgirl boots before we headed out to help with the new goat fences....

 How could I resist but to grab my favorite camera and capture a few fun snaps before we got to work?

These images show so many of my favorite things that I just had to share....

Warm afternoons even in Feb.

Wide open spaces for us to play in.

Hay bales to sit upon.

Girly pink, mixed with country chic.

My little girl...

All pitching in to get the work done..

Silly moments that make me laugh...

Blessings Kelsie

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Pink Saturday@
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Boo-Hoo Buddies... *updated*

This is my first attempted and I am glad to say, I think the pattern (that I made myself) does not need any tweeking...I am hoping to make them for Etsy....What do you think??

Patched together using 100% cotton fabrics and filled with rice... Boo-Hoo Buddy is an eco friendly reusable hot/cold rice pack for a little one who needs a Buddy to Boo-Hoo to when they have a boo-boo...

Obviously this Blue Boo-Hoo Buddy prefers the cold...


And this Pink Boo-Hoo Buddy prefers the heat.

Blessings Kelsie


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Serendipity Tea...

For the longest time I have been wanted to add a pretty, delicate, with a touch of pink tea-cup to my small collection...But alas this humble farm girl can just not justify paying $25 for a tea-cup...Pink or otherwise...

How fortunate for me that in order to avoid an "unhappy accident" we had a very "happy accident" indeed...

Lil Sara, as 3yr olds are apt'd to do, requested a potty break while we were in a store with no bathroom...Fortunately right next door is one of our (my) favorite thrift stores...My eldest daughter was a volunteer there for a short time also....

So we leave daddy to choose his own cell phone and we pop next door to use the facilities...

Once business was taken care of, we of course must check the kitchenware section for any treasures that might have been donated...this is a RULE...and can not be broken...

Oh rapture...Oh joy...Hear the heavenly music ring...3 little delicate tea-cups and matching saucers, with just a tiny touch of pink on the flowers sat waiting for me...What a truly serendipitous moment...

My heart was just pounding as I reached out to turn over the delicate corset shaped cup and saucer to check the price...I just knew I would be walking out empty handed, because there is NO WAY, I can afford them...Oh! But this could not be...$1 each...yup...I walked out of there with all 3 tea-cups and matching saucers for a mere $3.21...

The other thing I found under the saucer was a red and gold sticker that says, Metasco - Japan.

Blessings Kelsie

PS: I think I had a little too much fun taking photos of this cups....Must be love


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Rose Chintz Cottage & Inspirations @ Tea Time Tuesday

Lady Katherine Tea Parlor @ Tea Time Tuesday

Wander Lee and Pam's @ Tea Pot and Tea Things Tuesday

Terri, Artful Affirmations @ Tea Cup Tuesday

Playing Dress-ups

Had a little fun playing dress-up with lil Sara today...I think I had more fun than she did...Especially editing these fun photos..

Blessings Kelsie

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Changing Seasons.

There is change in the air at Our Country Home...The evenings are getting a little cooler and the tad shorter...The mornings have a crispness to them that requires wearing a jacket on the way to drop Lil Sara off to Head Start....The pears are turning a more pronounced shade of yellow and if only I could reach them I could be busy canning...

Or maybe I should be busy weeding the garden by the looks of the shagginess around the suitcase...Look how much the rose has grown since late spring...big difference between this photo and that in the header I think.

I am excited that the rescued pink cone flower is blooming...I thought I might have to wait for next year to see it's beauty...After all it was just a mess of almost complete browned leaves and spent flowers when I grabbed it for 50cents from the clearance rack at Walmart.

But there are other changes on the way besides those in the garden...My eldest daughter will be moving home next weekend...Can I contain my excitement? NO!!!...I have missed her so much and though I know her return might only be for a little while, does not stop me from being UBER UBER excited about it.

I am also excited to see my lovely in-laws this week as they will be arriving from out of state on Wed and spending the night with us, my only wish is that they could stay longer and would not be taking my hubby with them when they leave again Thursday...He will be making a journey to North Carolina to gather more car stuff (because apparently you can never have enough)..He will return Sunday with a U-haul and as much of the "stuff" as he can fit in it...I am not so secretly wishing for some old window frames to make their way here also *wink*

Lil Sara is doing great since her surgery, she is sleeping better and quieter...have not heard her snore like an old man (or at all) since the surgery...Her tantrums are most definitely milder than they were...I guess that is a sign she is not overtired all the time now...Now the fun part of training her with a proper bedtime routine begins.

The other exciting news is we have gather enough funds to purchase the materials required to build a secure predator proof goat pen with shelter for at night as well as fencing for their grazing pasture...So just as soon as hubby gets back from NC we can work on getting our goats home at last.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend too.
Blessings Kelsie

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Toy Box Make-Over

As most of you know I have been working on creating Lil Sara's "big girl" room...The look...Country Chic

(to see the previous Sara Room posts CLICK HERE)

I want to create her a space that she can entertain her dollies and care for her babies, take naps and generally just get her toys out of my living room...(yer I'll be honest, this project is really all about me *wink*)

So my challenge was to blend in a white melamine toy box with all the lovely country looking painted furniture...Well obviously painting it was not the answer since a box is a box is a box...and I really did not want to make it bulkier by adding trim detail...And since she needed some seating...

I created her a pillow top using one of her old crib comforters and some pink check cotton fabric from Walmart...Added giant buttons and VOILA...now she has a cute little bench.

I made it like a giant pillow case so I can remove the inch foam padding and wash the cover...Notice the ribbons...they are holding the buttons in place...again so the cover can be removed easily....I also used Velcro strips (the kind you sew one side to the fabric and the other glues to the hard surface)...this will keep it from slipping when she opens and closes the toy box.

You may remember these flowers I got on clearance for 28cents each...
Well I butchered 3 for the giant buttons...Actually I butchered 4 but one did not survive the carnage.

Now not only does she have a place to store her toys that blends in nicely with the rest of the room, but a great place to host a tea party with some of her favorite friends...

Blessings Kelsie

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Being green with my PINK

Recycling some of my fave photos that just happen to have pink in them for PINK SATURDAY

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Blessings Kelsie

Perfectly Pink Rain Boots....

I know I have shared this photo before of my pink rubber boots, but since it is Saturday and I was wearing them to the chicken house, sharing them again seemed logical...

And the reason I was wearing them...WE HAVE RAIN...actually it has been raining since Thursday off and on, yesterday was a dark and dreary day and last night for the first time in forever I fell asleep listening to the heavy rain against the windows...*sigh* bliss...

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Blessings Kelsie

Pink McQueen....

Could a girl ask for anything more?

Pink as done by Alexander McQueen..

A total fantasy of fashion...

OMGosh...

Pumps...

To Die 4...

which with those heals they just might break your neck...

Classic, graceful, exotic

And every girl needs a pink union jack purse...*swoon*

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Blessings Kelsie

lil Sara turns 3

Pink is for little girls...and mine just got a year older...

Lil Sara arrived in the world 7 weeks earlier than planned by emergency C-section...She was just 4lb 5oz but perfect and HEALTHY...It was a long 13 days wait for her to be big enough to be able to ride in a baby carrier so she could come home from the special nursery...How we counted our blessings that day...

And here she is today...3yrs later...tall for her age and super smart...

Oh boy look what Nanma and Poppa got me for my birthday...

So much fun to be had...

Oh wow...Mummy and Daddy got me tricycle... Zoom...

Hang-on a minute...Mummy says I have to wear my helmet if I am going to ride it...

I am going to have a party tomorrow at Day Care with all my friends...Today we are just going to enjoy my new toys at home and let Mummy rest from having her teeth pulled out...I wonder if that is where she got the money for my bike...A big ugly molar should be worth a lot to the tooth fairy...right??

Blessings Kelsie

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Update: Poor lil Sara got a fever and was not able to go to daycare this Friday...We will just have to throw her an "Unbirthday Party" at a later date.

Pink Saturday's 3rd Bday

Congratulations Beverly...We are so glad you created Pink Saturday...

Pinks Saturday in the garden...

Not pink but still fun...3 butterflies in a row...

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Blessings Kelsie