The Winner Is.........

Hi, girls We have a winner...


The winner is Audrey  from Audrey's prim world

Send me your information and i will send
your prize off to you!!!

Girls I will be back, we are working outside so I
have to get back out, I will be making a new post some time later today
or tomorrow!!

Blessings,
Tricia

A Great Giveaway from The Primitive Pantry

Hi Girls,

Besides the great giveaway with two surprises that I am doing in the previous post.  I have been informed about another fantastic giveway from "The Primitive Pantry" forum, which I am also a staff member of.  You can access the forum by clicking the Primitive Pantry link to the right. There are two rules for the giveaway.  The first rule is that you must be a member or join the forum.  The second rule is you must have at least 15 posts or more on the forum.  After we reach 50 members or more, in celebration of that milestone, we will be doing this awesome drawing in mid-June, even if we have many more members than 50.  All of the items were obtained from our store which you can also access by clicking our store link to the right also.  We will be getting new inventory this week at the store.  Below are pictures of the items "The Primitive Pantry" will be giving away to one lucky member drawn at random.

The giveaway includes the following...

A mat that says "believe"

A 10" yelloware bowl with blue stripe.

Two sheep towels

Two Pantry sacks, "spice" and "corn meal"

A beautiful "Praise Ye The Lord" Sampler

Below is a closeup of the Bowl

O.K. Girls.

Come on over to "The Primitive Pantry" forum.

We are going to have a ball there and at the rate we have been growing...the 50 member mark will come very soon.  Hopefully, there will be many more than that.  We hope to see you there.

Blessings,

Tricia

It's Giveaway time again

Hi Prims,

Here it is May already, and I have decided to do another giveaway!!! We are giving away this beautiful sign below, and I also decided to make this giveaway a little more fun by adding two more surprise gifts in the package if you win!

Here is the sign

The two rules to enter the giveaway are just like the last one.  Rule #1 is, you have to become a follower of my blog and leave a comment.  Rule # 2 is that you must post the giveaway on the sidebar of your blog and you will get two more entries for this awesome gift with two BIG surprises included.  If you are already a follower, that is fine, but please let me know if you want to enter and post it to your sidebar for the extra two entries.  The drawing will be held on Saturday, May 29th.

Good Luck to all!!!!!

I thought I would post some more pics of our adventure colonial/prim hunting yesterday. Mr Hillcrest and I had a great day with some wonderful finds.

We found this great Ice Cream maker from 1889, as you can see from this old advertisement.  Is a "White Mountain Ice Cream freezer" and everything is included, and "it works". What a find!!! Can you imagine this, it only cost us $15.00 after some bartering, what a deal.  After we got home, we went on the internet and we found out that the freezers have not changed much over the years, and this is a first edition model.  Can you imagine that new ones cost $200.00, and it is a real keeper.  This will be handed down over the generations in our family.  We just love it.

We gave it a home here in our kitchen

This old plate holder before a prim touch for only .50 cents

This is after I painted it black, and I will be putting a yelloware plate inside.  How do you like it girls?

Here is a cute bench we got for only $5.00 and it needed a prim/colonial touch.  This is the before pic.

This is the after with a black watering can.  It will be displayed in one of our perinnial gardens, which we will be posting soon, when all the flowers come up and are in bloom.(It takes some time for that up here in New England)

Here is another great piece that we got for $5.00 and it needs some prim attention.  It will be going next to our bed when I am done with it today.

Well girls I just want to say you are all so great and I love to read all your comments you leave me, if it wasn't for all of you I wouldn't have such a great

blog. Please don't forget about the GREAT , AWESOME giveaway with 2 GREAT surprises that will be included!!!

Till next time my friends God Bless and have a GREAT week!!

Blessings,

Tricia

Our Day at the Boston Marathon

Hi girls,

As I said before, I would be posting today about our morning at the starting line to the Boston Marathon.  We live in Hopkinton, MA, which I described in an earlier post.  The Boston Marathon is a 26 mile run where runners from all over the world come to Hopkinton to start the race and then run into the city from here.  Our little town is so full of excitment as it fills up with 24,000 runners, and over 250,000 specators.  Mr. Hillcrest knows alot of important people due to his job, and every year, we are lucky enough to see the race start from the VIP booth here in town with special passes.  This always makes it so exciting, because we are lucky enough to sit and mingle with many important people while we are there.  As promised, I am going to post some pictures of our adventure on this picture perfect morning here in Hopkinton.  The weather could not have been more beautiful, and the people were just great.

Here we are at the starting line, and I took a picture of the statue and the American flag, which I am so proud to be an American!!!

Here are our VIP passes to go and see the Boston Marathon.

Here is the starting line and all the people across the street standing and waiting for the event to start!!!

Here is Mr. Hillcrest and Steve-o saying OH NO Mom is at it again with the camera, LOL!!!!!

Here is our Matt-o and I sitting on the bleachers, Matt hurt his ankle yesterday so the poor kiddo had to walk around with crutches which you will see in some other pictures!!!

Here are the MOST important Men in my life!!! I love all 3 of you so much!!!

Here I am with our oldest son Steve-o, he is graduating this year, June 4th, I can't believe it, and it looks like he will be going to the Mass Maritime Academy for engineering.

We can't be more proud of him!!!! I am just having a hard time letting my baby go, he is 6 ft 1" and I feel like I was just holding him in my arms in the hospital!!!!

Former Trooper Dan always sings 3 songs and the one that always brings me to tears is the National Anthem!!!

Dan is there every year and we just love his voice!

After the National Anthem the fighter jets went by and I always get the chills.  I start to tear up because when they go by I am so PROUD to be an American, and that we have our freedom!

Here is Steve-o's friend Kat that was holding the Marathon flame that is at the police station that NEVER burns out!!!!!!!!

Here is Mr. Hillcrest and I at the Marathon, Aren't we CUTE!!!!!!

He is my everything!!!! My life , my soulmate!!!

Here is the official clock!

Here they are ready at the starting line to run 26 miles and I can't run 26 feet,LOL

Here is Senator John Kerry that I dealt with about having the Bullying Bill passed here in Massachusetts and it passed! He is a great person to work with and a friend to Mr. Hillcrest.

Mr. Hillcrest wanted me to get a picture with the bomb squad and his dog, the other bomb squad people were everywhere, in the crowd. Which made me feel very safe being there.

Here is Steve-O and his friend Kat!!!!

Here I am with a Tim Cahill who is running for Governor of Mass.

Here is our good friend, which Mr.Hillcrest and I know well, you guessed it girls Tedy Bruschi.

Here is Mr. Hillcrest and our son Steve-o with Tedy and he always brings up a time when he and the Patriots worked with Mr. Hillcrest on an exersize program and this woman put them through so much that after they where done Teddy and Troy Brown said come here Ken we want to give you a BIG hug and Mr. Hillcrest said "No Way", it was because the were sweating soooo bad!!!LOL!

Tedy's wife is a sweetheart, she was there this year with Tedy and loves him so much.

Here is Tedy with Steve-O's friend Kat who NEVER met Tedy and was so excited she was jumping out of her pants!!

Here I am watching the runners running all the way to Boston!!!!!!

Here they are going all the way to Boston, Good Luck runners

Here are some more!!!!

Well, we had the BEST DAY ever! Sunny and Blue sky and being with my family just enjoying my day with the MOST IMPORTANT people in my LIFE!!!

I love you My husband , Matt-O, and Steve-O!!!

Until till next time my prims, my friends!!!

Blessings, Tricia

Cheesecake Recipe and New Kitchen Window Display

Hi Girls,

Since so many of you were interested in this delicious cheesecake recipe, I decided to post it this evening, along with a picture of my new kitchen window curtains and display, just because......

Tricia's Cheesecake Recipe

40 Nilla Wafers crushed (about 1 1/2 cups)

3 Tbsp. butter or margerine (melted)

4 packages (8 oz.) Philidelphia Cream Cheese (softened,divided)

1 cup sugar ( divided)

1 Tbsp. + 1 Tsp. Vanilla (divided)

1 tub 8 oz. cool whip (thawed)

3 large eggs

Heat oven to 325.F

Mix wafer crumbs and butter together, press onto bottom of 9" baking pie pan.

Beat 3 packages cream cheese, 3/4 cup sugar, and 1 Tbsp. vanilla, mix until blended well, add eggs one at a time , mixing on low speed after each, just until blended. Then pour over crust.  Now, you bake 50-55 mins until center is almost set.  Cool completely in pan after removing from oven. 

Beat remaining cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla with mixer in a large bowl until blended well.  Wisk in cool whip. Do not over mix, fold.

Spread over cheese cake, refrigerate for 4 hours.

We put our own homemade blueberry topping, but you can add any topping you desire.

Makes 16 servings(unless you really like it)

Prep time: 20 mins

Total time 6 hours, 15 mins.

ENJOY EVERY BITE

Now girls,

I have a surprise for you!!  I decided to change my kitchen curtains and make a new dispaly in one of our kitchen windows.  I feel that it is colonial/prim at the same time.  I love it so much that I keep going into the kitchen just to look at it.  Silly me...  Please give me your honest opinions, and let me know.  I would love for you to comment on your thoughts, just in case I should tweek it.

Here is my New Display Below

Monday morning, we will be at the Boston Marathon, as it starts here in town.  Mr. Hillcrest has VIP passes for the starting line for our whole family, which he gets every year.  Our friend Teddy Bruschi, who was a New England Patriots Linebacker now retired, will be sitting with us in the stands, as well as some other Hollywood bigshots who will be running.  I hope they all show up, I know I will.  I am just so excited, and will be posting the adventure this week with LOTS of pics.

Until next time,

Love to all my Prims,

Blessings,

Tricia

P.S. Try the cheesecake and let me know how you like it.

We Have a Winner

Okay girls, we have a winner.  I am so excited about this, below you will see our youngest son Matthew picked the lucky gal. First, before I let you all know who won, I just wish you all could have won. I wish I could send something to everyone because you all were so sweet and kind hearted with your comments, and today with all of you wishing me a Happy Birthday, it did bring me to tears, happy ones though!

So the winner is:

Here's Matthew looking:

Here he is with that beautiful smile that we love to see and the winner is:

Wendy, The Cozy Yellow House, I am so excited that you won!!!!!

Please send me your information so I can send out your giveway just email me at mailto:triciamcn@verizon.net, I hope you are excited!!!!     I am!!!

Here girls is Easter, yes I still give our 18 yr. old an Easter basket and our 15 yr. old a basket. This is Matthew and you can see that KoKo our baby dog wants some of Matthew's Beef Jerky!! Matt was so happy with his Easter yummies!

Here is our oldest son Steven and he is very happy with his yummies, Matthew also got a t-shirt but he didn't put it on.  Steven put his on right away, his is Rocky and he LOVES it!!!! I also got Mr. Hillcrest an Easter basket but he wouldn't let me post him in his P.J.'s, he loved everything too!

Here is our dinner, we had lamb with mint jelly and mashed potatoes, corn, baby peas and rolls. We also had Sparkling Cider which we have on every Holiday!! This is our new yellow ware dinner set. I just love it!!! Before dinner we had a veggie platter and a fruit platter, with different cheeses and crackers. YUMMO!

Another view of our table setting.

This dessert was YUMMY, it was a new one, Philadelphia vanilla mousse cheesecake. It was delicious, Steven had his girlfriend over and she LOVED it. She is a real sweetheart of a kid!! On top we put our homemade blueberry topping!!!!! Yummy for our tummy!! Doesn't that look DELICIOUS!!!

Okay my prims, I had a ball with the giveaway and I will be doing another one

in a month or so, so keep checking in, I have something really BIG planned for the next giveaway!!

Again, I thank you all for making my blog so speacial, if it wasn't for you girls I wouldn't have such a wonderful blog. Thank you all!

Till next time,

Blessings,

Tricia

It is Giveaway Time Today!!!!!

Hi my friends, loyal followers, it is time for the Giveaway. I am so excited about this. What I am going to do is have all your names out in a bowl and
have our youngest son Matthew pick out a name and then take a picture of
the name that Matthew is holding. I wish I could send you all something, but one lucky gal is going to win the giveaway. I love the fact that I can give a gift to one of you on my Birthday,to me that is a Birthday gift right there!

I never realized that there are so wonderful blog friends out there and I appericate each and everyone, and for all you wonderful comments!!!

Good luck my friends!

Hugs and Blessings,
Tricia
Also I will be posting picutres of a few things also!!!!!!!!!!!