SUMMERTIME IS HERE!

Hi my peeps, It is summertime here in New England. This week there were two days that were SOOOOOOO HOT, it was yucky! I love summer, don't get me wrong, but when it gets like that I go in our inground pool, which I am SOOOO thankful to have and then the air conditioned home!!!!!! I needed it for sure!

What I love about summertime is, cookouts, swimming,vacations(we will be gone for 2 weeks) YAHOOOOOOO, campfires at night, one time going to the ocean, hanging out with my family, playing board games, cooking on the grill,going out for seafood and watching movies. Still my FAVORITE holiday is CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!

Okay enough of that. I made a GREAT homemade spaghetti sauce this week in my crockpot and then I made homemade stuffed shells, here are some pictures!

Here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the stuffed shells! It turned out so YUMMY!

It was just Mr. Hillcrest and I for dinner. The boys were out with friends! My new yellow ware plates I used that I LOVE!

 A prim display in my kitchen!!

Here is a display on our mantle

Until next time prims

Blessings

Tricia

Fathers Day/ Prims/ Flowers

Hi Girls, I'm back as promised. Here are some pics of Mr. Hillcrest with his sons and us spoiling him.

Here is Mr. Hillcrest and his son Matthew.

Here is Mr. Hillcrest with his oldest son Steve-o.

Here I am with Mr. Hillcrest, the love of my life.
Thank you Honey for being the best #1 Dad in the world to our sons.

Here is my Honey with a DVD,shorts,and chocolates.

This is what Mr. Hillcrest made for me last week, and I painted it black with some burgandy. I know all of you Prims know what this is but I will tell you anyway. It is a table riser,at least that is what some prim stores around here call it.

I made this strawberry,can you believe this, "ME" making a craft. I am so proud of myself. I made 5 of them and put them in a wooden bowl.They look nice on our kitchen table!

Here they are in my wooden bowl!

FLOWERS, FLOWERS and more FLOWERS. I hope you enjoy some of the flowers I post for you all! Here are some in my pans,that I got free. Someone was moving and put a sign out saying take whatever you want it is ALL FREE!

 I LOVE pink. They are getting nice and full!

 Another beautiful color, this is Mr. Hillcrest's favorite bush and I love it because later in the year I pick them and dry them and put the dried flowers in arrangements!

These come up every year and I do have the orange ones also I just forgot to take a picture of them! Next time.

Here are my four o'clocks and some people call them lemon drops.
They do close up about 4:00,that is why I call them that.

Another beautiful plant, love the color. All of them are perrenials but the first two pics are not!

Here is the side view of one our gardens and behind it is our inground pool that we love when it is HOT out. I truly love my gardens and deck!

Another view, my black eyed susan's have not come up yet and my cone flowers (the purple one's ) and my daisy,still waiting they look like they are going to open up soon!

Another view of our home!

Here is the bench I bought at a yard sale for $2.00 and I painted it and the watering I painted black,with some flowers in it.

My prim flag that I just love.

Okay my friends I hope you all enjoyed my post of Father's Day, prims and my flower's! I will be back soon. I hope you all have a GREAT week!

Big Prim Hugs,
Tricia

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!

I want to wish ALL the Father's out there a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!
To Mr. Hillcrest I want to say thank you for being the BEST and #1 Dad in the world! You are always there for each of our sons,you are a TRUE blessing to the boys and I!

 It is time to spoil you for the day!

                              HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

I will be back my friends with some pictures of some prims and homemade
strawberries that I, "YES" I made. Can you believe it? I put them in my wooden bowl and they look great, so I will be posting some pictures some time later today,after we spoil Mr. Hillcrest which has already started!

Prim Hugs,
Tricia

Graduation Day at Hillcrest Home

I am BACK, I took a blog break for a little while and it felt good, but I did miss all my Prims!!

Our son Steven graduated from High School this past Friday. It was a PERFECT night. All week I had such mixed emotions, I cried and laughed and thought about the day he started school for the first time and put him on the BIG YELLOW school bus.

Mr. Hillcrest and I thought that was hard, but this was even more hard but GREAT at the same time!

Here is Steven getting ready to leave home to only return hours and hours later as a GRADUATE!!!!!!

Here he is with his brother Matthew and I!!

Here is Steven with just a few friends, I couldn't put them all up there are soooo MANY!

We Love you.. Steve-o

When they read Steven's name to come up to recieve his diploma, Mr. Hillcrest and I knew how popluar Steven is but the whole auditorium went nuts and was screaming is name "Steve-o". We could not be more proud! In Sept. he is heading to college and again I will be crying happy and sad tears all at the same time!

Here is Steven with his grandfather getting his graduation present from him.

All I am going to say is that Steven said, "OH No Way, I have never seen sooo many zero's on a check before",LOL. Later I asked Steven if we need a loan we will come to you, LOL, LOL!!!!!!!

Thank you Papa!!!

I am going to post a few displays to keep the theme prim on my blog for you to enjoy.  Below are some display pics

God Bless America!!!

Summertime is Here!!!

Just Another Warm thought!

Until next time, my Prims,

Blessings,

Tricia.

P.S. Much more to come soon......

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