My 3rd year blog givieaway!

Hi my Prims, This June 3 years ago I started my blog and I just love it.
I enjoy sharing our homestead, holiday's,new goodies and recipes with all of you and have made many wonderful, great friends that helped me through a very hard time in my life and I WILL NEVER forget that Blogging opened up a whole new world for me and I also LOVE checking your blogs and commenting. I also love your comments that you all leave me. They mean so much you will never know.
So with that said I am going to post my giveaway.............................

Here are the goodies.
Here are them split up so you can see the alittle better.

I also will be adding a few more goodies for a surprise.You will be SHOCKED!

So here are the rules....
1. you have to leave me a comment on this post only.

2. you have to be a follower but new follower's can join as well.

3. if you post this on your side bar of your blog and make a post about the giveaway I am hosting you get 4 more extra entries.

4.if you send new follower's my way I will enter you in with 3 more chances.Have them tell me in thier comment who sent them so I can give you the 3 more entries!!!!!!!!!

5. If you don't have a blog you can join just send me your email address and your home address in case you win. Go to my side bar and click email so it will stay private,

6. Tell me what you LOVE about summer. I love fireworks, watermelon,cookouts,sitting on our deck and watching the humming birds with my hubby,and swimming in our pool, taking day trips as a family.
As alot of you know we are getting siding that looks like shakers( colonial color) ( LOVE WHAT WE PICKED), it really does look like wook and we ordered our window's that takes 2 weeks, GOSH, nothing is easy any more and then a new roof so I am going to be busy . Thank goodness hubby has 4 weeks off for summer vacation. So he will be here.

I also love to havea fire in our pit and make smores.
So you tell me what you love about summer. You can write one thing or as much as you want.


So I will be drawing the name on July 6th........

Spread the word my friends and don't forget I will be adding a few more goodies in your package! BIG, BIG SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer Blessings Friends,
Tricia XO

Happy Summer

Hi my Prims,
It has been crazy busy here. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, on Father's Day!

I know that it is summer time. It is time for grilling,cookouts,making smores on the fire pit, fireworks, swimming in our pool,planting flower's,
taking day trips, exploring the wonderful state we live in and all the history that is right in our back door,sitting on our deck and watching our humming birds that we just love to do and there are so many of them,going to the ocean and collecting sea shells, having seafood, bike riding, talking walks and exploring, I could go on and on but it is a fun time. Even though it is summer time I love to keep our homestead warm, cozy and inviting.
Here are a few pictures......

My old bucket and put flower's in it. I love it and the prim flag in my watering can.

Here is my sweet basil and my sweet mint for my homemade sweet ice tea and my BF Dana is giving me her recipe that she makes from the South.

Do you see anything new, the mat it is blue and tan. LOVE it!Also in the wooden bowl is all my prim cookie cutters.

All my panrty jars, I ordered prim labels and will be pasting them to the jars and putting cheese cloth on top of all of them, so this is not all done yet.
The yellowware that you see is a candle and smell delightful.

Here is my prim display at night. I love the soft light glow at night.

You all saw this piece before but I changed it up. Can you tell what is different?
Yes, the prim baskets. and the iron rod candle holder and the pewter candle holder. I only light them to take a picture becasue I don't want a fire.
I have battery candles that I will be using to stay safe.

Love my baskets.

Added a alittle green to my collection of rolling pins in my crock.

Changed up my stove board for the summer.

Well girls I am done for now.
As alot of you know we are doing a face lift on our home, we have ordered our window's, and siding that is a colonial color and it looks like wood slates but is is really siding. It is more $$$ but so worth it and the roof they are starting next week.
So it is going to be VERY BUSY around here.
I just can't wait to have my new window's in because I have already picked out my coloinal/prim curtains. Hubby said boy you always think ahead right down to the color.
Have a wonderful day. This week is going to be they say 90 to 95 plus starting tomorrow. Pool day, I don't like when it is that HOT!!!!!!!!!

Oh I almost forgot I am celebrating 3 years this June that I started my blog and I will be doing a celebration blog giveaway.
I will post it tonight or tomorrow. There be some great goodies and details will when I post the giveaway!

June Blessings,
Tricia

Found some pewter!!!

Hi my Prims,
I can't believe that it is already June.
Where did May go?
I also wanted to let you all know that I have posted
my new goodies on my website shop, look under Summer, Spring,
and I did get some things for fall so look under fall and samplers.
I also wanted to thank so many gals that have ordered from me.
I have been very busy with orders and I am thrilled to say my shop is really taking off.


I wanted to share with you all some pewter that Mr. Hillcrest and I found
at a yard sale. We don't yard sale to often anymore but we knew the gal
that does her yard sales 3 times durning the summer and this is what we found.

See it says pewter!!

I was thrilled to have found these for my pewter collection.

Also I did some baking, these cookies are sooooo yummy.

Instead of choc. chips I crushed up these m&m's......

M&M's with pretzels they came out sooooo YUMMY, and then I made my own sweet tea with lemons and sweet mint that I planted.

If you want the recipe let me know and I will be more than happy post it.

I am off to put in a pork loin in the oven, it is cool today. Yesterday it did rain all day but we needed it, so we didn't open the pool but we plan on opening
it up next weekend.
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!

June Blessings,
Tricia