Sweet, Simple Pleasures

Ok.

Call me spoiled.

But I love buying myself a dozen roses each week at the grocery store

where I sometimes get lucky and find them on sale.

I love the simple act of picking out the blush pinks and whites,

or sometimes the lovely lavenders.

 I love the simple act of trimming them when I get home

and plunking them in various vases and vintage cups.

I love that they're real.

I've used faux ones before because they look so very lifelike now.

Hobby Lobby and Michael's carries beautiful silk flowers, btw.

But I bring in blooms from my garden as often as possible.

There's nothing like real flowers scattered throughout your home all year long.

Lilacs and peonies in the spring.

Roses and hydrangeas in the summer...

But with the drought this summer, blooms were far and few between.

I was in withdrawal.

So, I resorted to setting aside a few dollars each week for a small splurge.

And it had to be roses.

I love watching them slowly open their soft petals during the week,
and the way they eventually bend their pretty heads over the side of the vase

as if in prayer.

They grace various vignettes throughout Heaven's Walk,

even in a vintage mustache cup...

that sits in my favorite corner of the living room

on my favorite little table.

A new pillow slip carries through the pinks and greens of the roses.

See it peeking from behind the chaise on the slip covered church pew?

I first saw this fabric at Tausha's and fell head over heels for it.

I found some online and begged my sweet friend Shellagh at Ticking and Toile Linen Shoppe to whip up a nice, big, 28"x28" pillow slip for me.

I simply adore it.
(Thank you, Shellagh!)

Sweet, simple pleasures that bring a song to the soul

and 

make my heart sing.

♥

~  Blessings ~

PS ~  May I ask for some advice from you computer techies out there?

My computer keeps telling me that I have "high CPU usage" and "low disk space".
I can't even defrag because there's not enough disk space.  Yikes!
I spent houuurrrs deleting old files and photos, and then trying to transfer a huge amount of photos to CDs to create more disk space, but I'm still stuck because there's not enough disk space to actually write them on the CDs! Help! 
What do I need to do....??? 
Do I need to purchase more disk space?

I have tons of photos (as I know many of you do). How much disk space do you have on your computer? Or do you keep your photos someplace else?
I'm not savvy enough to know what programs I can delete from my drive or how to solve this problem...
so I need some help here, peeps!
Thank you so much!!




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