Giveaway Reminder and a Rose Powder recipe...

Hello everyone.. 

Welcome to the Blessed Hearth tonight.. 

I am afraid this Friday night has not turned out as we planned.  

We were expecting the Keepers of the Home tonight for our annual over niter but circumstances interfered.. 

I have been sort of laid low with a bad Summer cold and could not get my act together...

Also, my Mom was taken to the hospital for infection and with all that we decided to postpone it for a bit..

Hopefully in a week or two we will be able to succeed.. 

smile.. 

Anyway, just sharing a few pics of the House of Henry and the dear little village of St. Martins that we summer away in... 

I hope you will enjoy... 

I wondered if you would like to make some of your own rose powder .... 

Roses are plentiful right now so it is a good time to try some..

ROSE POWDER RECIPE 

In a plastic tub with a lid add the following...

1 cup of baking powder

1 cup of arrowroot 

Whisk together well and then add some rose petals... 

Put your cover back on and each day shake them about.. 

You can double this recipe if you like.. 

In a couple of weeks sieve out the rose petals and add several drops of rose essential oil... 

Rub each drop in with your fingers until well distributed... 

Keep covered ... 

A lovely gift for your gift pantry if you put it in a jar and perhaps add an antique shaker or puff... 

Now here are some pics I took on a little drive through the village.

St. Martins, New Brunswick in Eastern Canada... 

Thank you for dropping by.. 

I did want to thank you all for signing up for the little give away.. 

You can sign up HERE...

And I am sorry that I could not show you what I did with the roses and Queen Anne's Lace.. The batteries in my camera died and I could not find my other ones.. 

So... I will do that tomorrow night hopefully... 

So happy you stopped by and I am looking forward to hearing from you all... 

Have a blessed weekend... 

Weekend Memories...

Hello there everyone.. 

I am posting as you can see... 

A bit late and a dollar short but I am here.. grin.. 

That is an old saying but knowing me I have it backwards or something.. 

Bear with me..smile.. 

What a crazy wonderful weekend here in St. Martins during Old Home Week.

Simply beautiful weather, too..

Our company arrived on Friday..

But before they arrived Sammi and I went out and picked a few flowers to put about.. 

Consider the lily... smile.. 

That old mason jar had a water proof light in it and our company told me she wondered all evening what on earth was lighting it up.. 

smile.. 

We picked some roses and distributed them about the house..

Roses are my Mom's favorite so the vase with the rose painted on it was placed in their room... And a few for the Dining  table....

And this beautiful peony and such went into the other bedroom..

I love going out and about the yard and making little bouquets.. 

Do you?  

And then of course, there was some food involved...

Gotta love those Summer Salads.. 

Especially, when basil is included..  

I still worked in the House of Henry..... 

Although, I did wait until the Village Yard Sale calmed down.. 

My word.. I didn't think St. Martins could hold that many people .. 

Ann who was visiting from P. E. I. told me she had no idea.. 

Imagine ...smile... She was so thrilled.. 

So.. I opened the shop right after lunch... 

Main Street had cars parked on both sides and the Cruise Ship buses were trying to get to the Caves... 

Good bus drivers, I must say... 

Only heard the ambulance go once.... 

Oh, and the fire truck and police went once.. 

This is only a village, remember.... smile..

Here are a couple of Shop pics for you.. 

dear old hand hooked rugs...

vintage wares... 

I had one of my new customers back and she took a pic of this room.. 

So, I took one, too.. smile.. 

I am sure her photo is much nicer for she looked kind of like a professsional to me.. 

I am not sure.. yet.. grin... 

more vintage... 

It was exciting meeting other Summer people and especially seeing friends and family from away.. 

I even saw a couple of our grandsons and their Dad as they picked up Gramps in the early hours to take him to New Hampshire for the Nascar Race ... 

Also, our youngest son brought down a few friends and took dear old Sammi to the beach for a few hours.. 

He loved that...

The camp grounds were filled as were most of the Inns... 

Our friends that were in charge of the Bus Trip when we joined up with them in Lancaster County, Pa. came into the shop.. 

I was so surprised as they live in Ontario... 

She grew up in P. E. I. and just caught our friends leaving.. 

They had grown up together... 

A sweet reunion...

So great to see them..

And then there were dear friends  that I have had for 48 years and 30 odd years.. 

We tried to figure it out and started laughing about something that happened back then.. grin..

They are more like family, really.

And then there was Judy .... 

Our families have known each other since we were born.. 

When we started  grade 7 at the same school we became personal friends..

So long ago..

Imagine what Heaven will be like!!

Meeting all the ones who have gone on before..

 What a day that will be... 

On with the story....smile..

I tried to concoct  a few things between chats.. grin...

Like this..

A primitive stamped muslin ribbon garland... 

I love how it turned out.

I just need to make one and tea dye it first and see which my customers like best... 

And...

A bit of homemade Fish Chowder... Sprinkled with Dulse Flakes.. 

Do you know what Dulse is?  

The most delcious sea weed.. 

We buy huge bags of it and snack on it like chips or buy it in a bottle and sprinkle it on our chowders... 

ymmmm..

Well... 

All in all a wonderful busy weekend.. 

Poor old Sam has had the biscuit... grin.. 

He is not the only one...smile..

So thankful for all that God has provided for us this past week... 

His love.. family and friends..

His touch as I talked to Him... 

Health and strength and protection ...

And the sea... 

What more does a gal need.. 

And thank YOU  for the sweet visit.. 

Looking so forward to hearing from you all.. 

Appreciate every word you write...

Hugs from the Bay of Fundy...

Just an ordinary day....

Good Evening my dears.. 

Welcome to the Blessed Hearth tonight.. 

It is an another rainy day here in the Maritime provinces of Canada... 

We had a few hours of sunshine today, though but the rain is falling again... 

I went over and opened the shoppe..

There is still a lot of pricing to do and such... 

My desk sits here beside this window..

I made some tags for the Lavender Bath Cookies that I made.. 

For the recipe  CLICK HERE...

I tore some pictures out of wrapping paper and glued them on my tags...

Then used brown stamping ink to age them and wrote the instructions on the back.. 

I wrapped the cookies in cheesecloth..

And added some lavender buds and tied them with string...

There... 

Already to sell ... 

That was fun... smile..

Then the best part of my day...

My sweet cousin Bugsy dropped by to see me..

What a dear friend she is.. 

We are kindred spirits in so many ways.. The best part is that we are sisters in Christ.. 

We talked and laughed and I showed her around the place.. 

She is a new reader of the blog and we chatted about that.. 

Then we shared some concerns.. 

We all have them, don't we? 

As she was leaving we hugged each other and just as natural she prayed with me... 

So precious... 

Thank you, Bugs... 

I guess it was not such an ordinary day after all.. 

Smile.. 

I thank God for my dear family... 

Thanks for dropping by sweet friends.. 

Until we chat again... 

May Jesus be your friend and guide... 

Hugs...

And the week goes on...

Hello everyone.. 

Hope you are all doing well.. 

We have had a busy week thus far.. 

Yesterday, we went down to St. Martins to hook up the water in the cottage.. 

Can you see the lovely Bay of Fundy in the picture above.. 

See the Bay way over there in the blue and the distant shores are of Nova Scotia.. 

You followers know that we live in a wee village here in New Brunswick, Canada and in the Summer we live in our old 150 year old summer house... 

Old, peeling paint and in need of a new roof this year.. 

smile... Oh well...

Here is the view of the Bay from our driveway.. 

Pretty with the tide slowly coming in this day..

A nice breeze was blowing in though and a hint of rain was in the air.. 

There wasn't much I could do while Terry worked at the water so I drifted on over to my little pink cottage shop...

I took this pic on my way to the secret path that Janelle made for me.. 

See the back of the shop by the tree? 

Anyway...

I could smell these before I saw them...

Lovely magnolia blooms... sigh... so fragrant...

I wonder what is going on in the HOUSE OF HENRY... 

The little cross stitch my friend Christine from Northern Ireland sent me...

Little Henry is sitting and sniffing the magnolias... ahhhh..

Don't you love old chocolate boxes?...

I do... 

These guys are enjoying the sunshine...

A bit of odds and ends.. 

Love the blue...

We always check out the Bay before we head for home.. 

Kinda calm today... 

Gotta get going... 

The magnolias will no doubt be gone by the time we get back again... 

We were to our District Conference and were so blessed to hear anointed preaching of the Word that so inspired and challenged... 

Thank you, Lord..

Hope you dear ladies are having a wonderful week.. 

Thank you so much for your sweet visit and I look so forward to hearing from you.. 

Hugs from me to you...