Happy Halloween!

With Love,

From Mimi's Cottage

Sunday Sayings

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our 

behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."  Steve Furtick

The Last of the Zinnias

There's snow on the mountains and close to freezing temperatures at night

which means the zinnias are done for the year.  

Yesterday I picked all that I could and brought 

them into the house where we can enjoy their cheerful colors.

At least for a few more days.

Sunday Sayings

"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."  William Cullen Bryant

Trailer Bedroom Makeover

The Mister and I have a 5th wheel trailer that we use now and then.

Last fall we towed it from northern Utah all the way to the Mississippi River.

In January we took it to southern California where it was sunnier and warmer

and visited with family and friends.

During the spring and summer we took a few days here and there and enjoyed

the wonders of our beautiful state.

It's just so fun to get away and sit by a river somewhere and see

new scenery and meet new people.

But the trailer needed a little makeover.

I thought maybe I should do something to the blah

 interior of our little home on wheels.

See that fabric insert?

Blah.

A little blue checked fabric really brightened up that space, don't you think?

Why, yes, that is a vintage chenille bedspread!

We took down the ratty mini blinds and I made some insulated

roll-up curtains out of a couple of curtain panels from Martha 

Stewart's line from a few years ago.

So glad we have white cabinets throughout our little trailer.

So happy with the way it turned out.  

I asked the Mister if any of his friends would laugh if

we went camping with flowered curtains on our windows.

He kind of rolled his eyes and said everyone

knows who he's married to and no one would be a bit surprised.

Not sure how to take that.

Maybe next year I'll have to work on the rest of the trailer.

Sunday Sayings

"He knows not his own strength, that hath not met adversity."  

                                                                       Ben Jonson

An Adorable New Baby

No, not a new grandbaby!  (I wish)

An adorable little dolly made by the adorable Mimi

from Dandelion Wishes!

Mimi has sooo many cute things in her Etsy Shop.

You should go on over and take a look.

The cute little baby came with her very own little puppy

finger puppet.

Not sure why I didn't take him out of his cellophane wrapper to take a picture...

What was the occasion? 

Why it was this little sweetpea's first birthday!

A new baby to love!

And no diapers to change.

Sunday Sayings

"Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey."  Dieter F Uchtdorf

Christmas in October

As some of you might remember I'm on a committee for the

big Primary Children's Medical Center fund raiser held each December.

The Festival of Trees is held the first weekend in December and 

raises millions of dollars for our local children's hospital.

One of the events of the weekend is a boutique with mostly

hand made items for sale.  Everyone that's on a committee is asked to donate 

ten items for the boutique.

Usually I wait til the very last minute.  This year I'm a couple of weeks early.

Here's what I came up with...

Some tags, to be sold in sets of three.

And some embellished battenburg lace stockings.

Everything's all packaged up and ready to be turned in at the end of October.

It's truly a Christmas miracle!