...HAPPY EASTER...and SPRING is finally here...

Happy Spring...it finally feels like it is really here!!!

 all that snow in March just held winter over a few extra weeks here in New York...

...but I can see the daffodils coming up, forcing their happy, yellow color around the yard...so yes, SPRING is here and with it...EASTER!

I hope the new season is filled with glad days and good memories...

I've been enjoying a few days off with the kiddos and it has recharged my batteries...

The season feel fresh and happy...

and full of promise...so I am excited that Easter will arrive this weekend and give us a chance to be together.

I love celebrating Easter with the family...

...and I will share a peek at that soon. 

 

I am cooking for us and

I'll be decorating the table in all the colors of the season...with bunnies, and paper grass and wee CHICKS galore...

Speaking of chicks....I love antique postcards...

here's a peek at some of my Easter-tide faves...

So Happy Easter...Happy Spring...

enjoy the new season, however you celebrate it!

xxoo Jen

chicks RULE...Happy Spring...

Happy Spring...Happy Easter

I hope the new season is filled with glad days and good memories...

I love celebrating Easter with the family...

...and I will share a peek at that soon. 

I am cooking for us, I've made the place cards and wee basket treats for all with the help of the kiddos and, best of all...

I have decorated the table in all the colors of the season...with bunnies, and paper grass and wee CHICKS galore...

Speaking of chicks....I love antique postcards...

here's a peek at some of my Easter-tide faves...

Some collected... some as vintage objects others just as images, but this year, I've focused on CHICKS!

Just reminding you...chicks rule!

Happy Easter...Happy Spring...

enjoy the new season, however you celebrate it!

xxoo Jen

...a happy Easter to you and yours...a cyber break...hello Monday....

...hello Monday posts are something I have been doing for some time now linking up with my friend Lisa Leonard and her fab-u-lous blog...

feel free to leave your BLOG link in a comment...how about some hellos...

Hello Monday and Happy Easter...

I hope it's a special week and that it brings joy and peace 

to you and yours as we celebrate the season.

....

I will be taking a break this week to rest and reflect.

I won't be on-line much, but I sure will catch up with you soon...

as soon as I have caught up a bit with myself!!!

 

This is my favorite holiday...

hello spring and hello new and fresh and beautiful.

 

Hello to taking some time to say hello to what matters most!

 

Have a peaceful and beautiful week, 

and of course, here's to a chocolate bunny in your basket.

 xxoo Jen

a Happy Easter wish to you and yours...

May your holiday be peaceful and joyous...

...and filled with chocolate bunnies!

xxoo Jen

ps...some of you know of my addiction to old postcards and paperies...well, we've had a certifiable sugar rush and loaded more than 100 antique postcards to the ephemera pages ...see them all here

ALL are shipping free (standard domestic shipping) with SUGARRUSH until 5/1...and you can use that code site-wide-- a great treat!

hello Monday...big sigh

Hello Monday, it looks like it's going to be a pretty week. 

Spring has made a grand ad fashionable late entrance here in Warwick....

Hello new week all sun-shiney and sweet, we've got lots planned. The Easter decorations are tucked away, and Anne is here for just a few more days, so we'll put that famous Spring cleaning off for just a bit longer. I have got to go through that closet and clear it out some!

Hello to pretty new things on the site -- more on Lynsey Walters and her new wearable loot soon.

Hello to sunshine and warmer days...goodbye ski gear and sweaters!

 Hello to a peek at the Easter table...it was wonderful to have everyone here...

 Hello to Anne as she visits from Australia....so wonderful to have her here...her visit has gone too quickly...yes, time you fly.

Hello to you all...

xxoo Jen

hello monday - a goodbye and Spring

It's a brand new week. 

Last week brought lot of change, some of it will take some getting used to...

so here we go week, let's move through you with grace.

It's spring, its Easter and it's time to say hello.

 

As some of you know, last week the collecting world lost a lady we all knew...

Goodbye Glenda Jackson of Alabama, you were the very first person that said hello to me at that very first Madame Alexander doll event I attended in 1994. 

You told me, "Come sit next to me".

I guess every hello counts.

I am so glad we had a chance to speak at length recently dear lady, Becca and Ann will miss you lots...I hope heaven is full of lobster, and Coca Cola and See's Candies for you...Remember that crazy trip we took during UFDC through the White House with my sister, Vickey? And that "backstage" clearance thanks to your Birmingham connection...and Vickey and Ann getting all those fellow tourists to lie down on the White House lawn and spell out "HI BILL" when President Clinton flew over us in the helicopter we'd watch take off...
I am glad that great memories last forever....

 Glenda -- like all my friends -- loved me for who I am, faults and all. And likewise I held her in deep affection despite her many flaws too.
So let's say hello to celebrating who we are....

and thanks to Clare Jordan for reminding me, 

"Don't try to fit in, you were born to stand out."

Clare it's an honor to be working with you once again...

you know I adore what you do and how you see the world.

I've mentioned on this BLOG that we've been facing some budgetary and school challenges here in Warwick, and while I am relieved and our school Park Ave will remain open...for now...Kings is closing...

it's going to be a time of adjustment for many.

So hello Monday and hello to spring, now if we could just get that warmer weather to come rolling on in things might seem a bit brighter.

...the kiddos are off from school and we've got big things planned! Thinking Cooperstown, the Carousel at the big mall, maybe the tearoom...

 What else does the week have in store....hello to good friends, Anne will arrive this coming Saturday in time to share Easter...and please know how grateful I am for all my friends...some old some new, 

I am glad you all know how I feel about you.  

 

 Hello to pretty things, look at my little girl, getting soo big....

 Hello to differences of opinions, there are plenty of them in this house, this town, this planet...

 Hello to great friends who help me get it all done...xxoo to you Liv...

Hello to menus, dishes and decorations...we'll be hosting Easter this year. 

It's a treat to have the family over...the head count is hovering about 25...

the Easter Bunny better leave a lot of candy...

hope your week is a good one...hello hello to you all

goodbye and hello

xxoo Jen