Mosaic Monday: Green and White

First of all, forgive me for not posting this till rather late in the day -- we had a full day, including shopping with my daughter and driving her back to school. Also, I have been having some pain in my hands, probably due to too much computer time, so I've been trying to cut back. So you must also forgive me for posting an old mosaic -- something I made a few years go. I thought it was a nice look at something I always look forward to -- the coming of spring! All of these photos were taken in our garden and around our yard. I always think a white garden would be lovely... until I see some colorful flower that I absolutely cannot live without. :)

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1.	Suzy@KitchenBouquet	24.	Elaine	47.	Dawn Treader Sweden
2.	Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti	25.	Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson	48.	Misty, moisty morning in Normandy
3.	Black Eyed Susans Kitchen	26.	Mary Tingsgrove, KY	49.	My Esteemed Art Critics?
4.	Lavender Dreams	27.	Solitary Moments	50.	DMountain Breathsebbbie@
5.	Carol @ Always Thyme to Cook	28.	Riet, Holland	51.	Iowa Gardening Woman
6.	Cathy	29.	Podso	52.	Crafty Gardener, Canada
7.	Eileen	30.	Kim,USA	53.	My Third Eye
8.	A Garden of Threads	31.	Lorrie	54.	Warm Day at the Beach
9.	Gillyweed... Butterflies & Spring	32.	Edwards Granddaughter	55.	JBigg's - Bridalveil Falls
10.	Rajesh, India	33.	suzyq-atthefarmhouse	56.	Terri @ Fifty for Four
11.	Sweet Nothings	34.	ellen b	57.	QMM
12.	Coming up Roses	35.	cathy@home	58.	Having Tea
13.	playing with my camera	36.	Teacup-in-the-garden	59.	Schotzy, in Virginia
14.	Pondside	37.	Mary @ hopefuldays	60.	Best Christmas Presents
15.	Becky	38.	What's a Grandma to Do?	61.	scrapbook layouts!!!
16.	Dreaming of Spring Planting @ My Cozy Corner	39.	Yael at Home Garden Diggers	62.	Nature Trail
17.	Lavender Cottage	40.	Ranu	63.	The Cottage Wren
18.	Pat@Back Porch Musings	41.	Karen, A Scrapbook of Inspiration	64.	Coloring Outside the Lines
19.	InaSandbox	42.	Regina, Daily Living-PHL	65.	Home from Mexico!
20.	Here's My Heart	43.	Diann @ The Thrifty Groove	66.	sall
21.	Snap @ Twisty Lane	44.	Porch Days	67.	photo challenge
22.	Gina, Art and Alflafa	45.	Tina´s PicStory	68.	Tudo brilhante... depois da chuva
23.	Molly [aspen frame]	46.	Jackie's life in Surrey

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I ♥ Toile

First of all, please ignore all the mess on our bedside tables, and my running shoes, and the floor that desperately needs refinishing. What I wanted to show you was our new duvet cover and euro shams, which were birthday gifts this week. The bedroom has been painted this pale smoke blue for several years now. We've been using some bedding which I found in TJMaxx. It is beginning to get a little shabby, however, and I've always wanted a toile in here. I've finally found a bedding set that I absolutely love. It's from Pottery Barn, and it's a pale blue toile in a pattern called Martine.

The fabric is 55% linen and 45% cotton, so it's heavy, with a beautiful texture. Looking at this picture, I'm thinking I need to get the dust ruffle next. :)

Mosaic Monday: Winter Pinks

We got our first snow of the new year on Saturday. This is always a little bittersweet for me. Although I love how it looks, it always seems to emphasize how far away spring really is. I went back through my photo archives to pull out some pretty pink images, and have gathered them here for you. The mosaic is made from a web board which can be found on The CoffeeShop Blog, here. If you use Photoshop, this is a great resource. I placed my images, and then changed the color of the frames to better match my blog colors.

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1.	Wandering Thought	23.	genie~va	45.	Leslie's Garden
2.	My Little Home and Garden	24.	InaSandbox	46.	Crafty Gardener, Canada
3.	Black Eyed Susans Kitchen	25.	FABBY:Altaflor Rose Farm Tour1	47.	Doilies @ My Place to Yours
4.	Winter World	26.	JBigg's Yosemite Falls	48.	Quiche Maraîchère
5.	ellen b	27.	Pondside - Memories Take No Room	49.	My Third Eye
6.	Rajesh, India	28.	QMM	50.	The Keen Eye
7.	Eileen	29.	Life Among Mountains	51.	Sall's Country Life
8.	Kim,USA	30.	Cathy	52.	Sherry
9.	shadows ~ Pamela	31.	Pat ~ Mille Fiori Favoriti	53.	That Country Place
10.	Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson	32.	melon-colory	54.	Roberta
11.	Snap @ Twisty Lane	33.	Molly [pastels]	55.	birthday
12.	Carol @ Always Thyme to Cook	34.	Vee	56.	Terri
13.	Lorrie	35.	Ash Tree Cottage	57.	Tablescape
14.	Tina´s PicStory	36.	Koi Fish Cookies for Chinese New Year	58.	Days of WInter
15.	Pat@Back Porch Musings	37.	Teacup-in-the-garden	59.	cathy@home
16.	Sweet Nothings	38.	Yael	60.	Lavender Dreams
17.	Mary Tingsgrove, KY	39.	Porch Days	61.	Ranu
18.	Gillyweed...Valentine Ready	40.	RIET, Holland	62.	Patricia
19.	The Cottage Wren	41.	The Girls- chickies	63.	Jocelyne Deneau
20.	Sullivan and Murphy	42.	Ingmarie We/Refugium	64.	JBigg - Bridalveil Falls
21.	Lavender Cottage	43.	My Garden & Me - Winter Walk
22.	Shirley LeMay	44.	Synnöve

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Mosaic Monday: I ♥ Fog

First of all, thanks to everyone who left comments of encouragement or commiseration on my post about house cleaning. I managed to get the house in decent shape, and the kids had a fun weekend. Now I just need to keep it clean... :)

I'm sharing a few foggy images this week. These were taken back in December. I love a good fog -- it's one of my favorite things to photograph outdoors. I tend to get in a photographic rut in the winter -- it's often too cold to take the camera outdoors, and I feel as though I have already shot just about everything I can in our little house. So this is the time that I often go back and start playing with older photos -- trying out different edits in Photoshop. For those of you who have Photoshop, I used some free actions from photographer Maria Kallin. You can download them from her blog here.

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1.	Life Among Mountains	24.	Becky	47.	Sallie (FullTime-Life)
2.	A Garden of Threads	25.	Pondside	48.	Crafty Gardener, Canada
3.	Kathy-Delightsome Life	26.	Sall's Country Life	49.	Agni
4.	A Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson	27.	Shirley LeMay	50.	Irene@The Happy Turtle
5.	Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti	28.	QMM	51.	My Third Eye
6.	Vintage Aprons	29.	olivia	52.	cathy@home
7.	InaSandbox	30.	Mary's Tingsgrove	53.	Mary, MI
8.	Sheila	31.	Gillyweed... Birthday Girl	54.	Vintage Hats/Family Matters
9.	1800s Dishes, Books, etc.	32.	JBigg - A Quiet Moment	55.	valentine
10.	Lavender Dreams	33.	RobinfromCA	56.	morning
11.	eileen,md	34.	Teacup-in-the-garden	57.	My Little Home and Garden
12.	Winter Beauty	35.	Lorrie	58.	A Tiny Cottage on Grand
13.	Carol @ Always Thyme to Cook	36.	Fishtail Cottage	59.	The Cottage Wren
14.	Wandering Thought	37.	Diann	60.	Gypsea Nurse
15.	Rajesh, India	38.	Our Back Porch	61.	Linda @ A La Carte
16.	Home is Where the Boat Is	39.	Jackie in Surrey UK	62.	Schotzy@Wings of Eagles
17.	Podso	40.	Tina´s PicStory	63.	Missing my flowers in the middle of the winter
18.	Elaine	41.	Ingmarie We/Refugium	64.	Joanna & To a Pretty Life
19.	Cottage & Creek	42.	Cottage tails	65.	Shirley @ The Gardening LIfe
20.	The FrenchHutch ~ Carnival of Venice	43.	Sweet Nothings	66.	water
21.	Vee	44.	Synnöve	67.	Porch Days
22.	"Juan Wayne" - It's What's for Breakfast	45.	Ingrid	68.	Rejoicing
23.	Kim,USA	46.	genie ~ va	69.	Gina, Art and Alfalfa

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Help Needed

Just popping in to say "Hi" to you all. This week has been a whirlwind of house cleaning, getting ready for some visitors. My daughter's freshman college roommate and my son's girlfriend are arriving this weekend. And so, it has been Triple Red Alert here at our Little Red House.

I have to confess that I am a terrible housekeeper. I really, really hate housecleaning. So I tend to let things slide... And every time I get caught up in these crazy bouts of cleaning for guests, I swear that I will not let things slide any more.

So, would you guys please remind me to pick up a dust cloth once in awhile? ;)

Tell me, are you an Oscar or a Felix? Slob or neat freak? Or somewhere in between? And if you hate housecleaning like I do, how do you make it easier to accomplish? Any tips for this helpless housekeeper?

Mosaic Monday: Pink

It's January, which means it's time for supermarket flowers here at Little Red House. We all need a little floral cheer after the holidays, right? ;)

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1.	1948 Wedding Collages	26.	Kim,USA	51.	Project Bag/Pink
2.	sleep	27.	InaSandbox	52.	rosie,mygardenhaven
3.	Valentine	28.	The Cottage Wren	53.	Crafty Gardener, Canada
4.	JBigg's Cypress Trees	29.	Cathy	54.	Tiny Bubbles!
5.	Karen, A Scrapbook of Inspiration	30.	Becky	55.	Dawn Treader Sweden
6.	Black Eyed Susans Kitchen	31.	{oc cottage}	56.	Carnival!
7.	January Blues	32.	genie ~ va ~ usa	57.	peach and grapefruit
8.	Lavender Dreams	33.	Bernieh	58.	Brenda
9.	Eileen	34.	Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook	59.	Sheila
10.	Garden Dreaming	35.	Molly [beautiful gloom]	60.	cute bag g'away, bj's
11.	Wandering Thought	36.	Elaine	61.	Synnöve
12.	The FrenchHutch ~ Afterglow	37.	Red House Garden	62.	Sall's Country Life
13.	Rajesh, India	38.	That Country Place	63.	Three Little Feats
14.	Joan @ Applejack Lane	39.	Ranu	64.	Leslie's Garden
15.	The Sweetest Days	40.	Riet, Holland	65.	Coloring Outside the Lines
16.	Shirley LeMay	41.	m	66.	Patricia
17.	Pondside	42.	Roberta	67.	Avs on 3LilFts (ryt)
18.	Podso	43.	New Angel for the Garden @ My Cozy Corner	68.	My Third Eye
19.	ellen b	44.	Jackie's life in Surrey, UK	69.	Color Chic
20.	Gillyweed... Ikat Fabrics	45.	cathy@home	70.	Demitasse Cup
21.	Mantel Clock give-away	46.	Shel	71.	Katalin
22.	QMM	47.	Tina´s PicStory	72.	NHGarden
23.	Lorrie	48.	Teacup-in-the-garden	73.	Porch Days
24.	Debbie @ Mountain Breaths	49.	Yael - Home Garden Diggers
25.	Mary, MI	50.	EILEEN (CORRECT LINK)

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White and Wonderful

It happens every year. After the excesses of Christmas, we crave simplicity. After all the red and gold, I want white. And lots of it.

I've been sort of collecting white dishes for my kitchen for the last few years. I found this little covered dish at my favorite thrift store last year, and I'm not sure if I ever showed it to you. It's white, it's covered, and it has a bird on it, so as far as I'm concerned it's a home run. :)

As you know, I also collect milk glass. I won this Westmoreland hand dish on ebay recently. I'm not really sure why this particular shape should appeal to me so much, but it does.

My milk glass collection has pretty much filled the corner cabinet in our dining room, so I'm thinking I will have to stop soon. When my son was little, he had a friend whose grandparents collected milk glass. They displayed their collection in floor to ceiling shelves in their living room. I don't think I'm ready to go that far, so I'd best start to pass by the pieces I come across.

Yeah, that's going to happen.

When pigs fly.

Mosaic Monday: 2011 in Pictures

Because of the holiday, I'm not sure how many of you will want to play along today. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday week. It's been lovely having my daughter home, and my son was here for a few days before Christmas. My husband has taken the week off, which has been great. My father-in-law is back in the hospital, which has been not so great. But it is what it is.

I have made a mosaic of some of my favorite photos from the past year. When I was young, I always wanted to be an artist. I drew and painted and used pastels constantly. I dreamed of having an attic studio with fabulous north light. But life happened, and I never did become the artist I dreamed of being. Blogging got me into photography, though, and now I cannot imagine my life without it.

As many of you probably know, I love to take nature photos, and I love to play in Photoshop. Having gathered these images, one from every month, I can finally see a personal style evolving. I'm not sure why this should be so important to me, but it is. For the past several years, I have been inspired by and learned from some fabulous photographers, professional and amateurs both. I have always envied the fact that they each had a very beautiful personal style. Now finally, seeing these photos from 2011, I'm starting to feel as though they really represent me. So no matter how depressing this past year has been (and it has had it's low points) I must say that I'm grateful for the opportunity I had to take pictures and make art. :)

To all my wonderful blogging friends, I wish you much love and joy in the new year! xoxo

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Thank you for sharing your beautiful images with all of us at Mosaic Monday!  

1.	{oc cottage}	21.	Pat ~ Mille Fiori Favoriti	41.	Sweet Nothings
2.	Jazzee's Paw Prints - Christmas Delights	22.	Gillyweed... As Seen On TV	42.	Gimme Some Bling!
3.	Black Eyed Susans Kitchen	23.	Gillyweed... Vintage Santa	43.	Sheila
4.	eileen	24.	QMM	44.	Winter Rivers
5.	Lavender Dreams	25.	Francisca in Negros Oriental	45.	Leslie's Garden for the birds
6.	Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook	26.	Sunnymama	46.	Color Chic
7.	Podso	27.	Teacup-in-the-garden	47.	The Cottage Wren
8.	Rajesh, India	28.	Gayle	48.	Natural Art
9.	InaSandbox	29.	Twiggy	49.	Goodbye 2011
10.	Cathy	30.	Suzy@KitchenBouquet	50.	Pondside - The Year Turns
11.	RobinfromCA	31.	Porch Days	51.	New year party
12.	Around California	32.	cathy@home	52.	winter
13.	Elaine	33.	Jackie's life in Surrey, UK	53.	A Montana Life
14.	Becky	34.	Bohemian Valhalla ~ Details	54.	Cassie @ Little Blog on the Internet
15.	Kim,USA	35.	My Cozy Corner~ 2011 mosaic review	55.	My Third Eye
16.	A Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson	36.	Life Images by Jill	56.	Mary Tingsgrove, KY
17.	nancy	37.	Yael at Home Garden Diggers	57.	Three Little Feats
18.	Gina, Art and Alfalfa	38.	Dawn Treader Sweden	58.	Patricia
19.	Chatelaine	39.	kapa	59.	Ranu
20.	gorgeous produce	40.	Agni	60.	Barb P

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