Life need an extra helping of sprinkles sometimes!

I hope everyone is simply having a splendiferous summer. Things are as crazy as always around Alice and Jay, some things just never change, ya know. Some things are good and some things are not so good but we try to choose to add an extra helping of sprinkles on top of each and every day. Nellie Pearl(my pink fiat) is certainly enjoying her days wishing smiles to passerby's

Jay has been busy as a bee in the workshop while I have been AWOL. He has been creating all kinds of lamps and chandeliers and planters and on and on and on. Yesterday we acquired an house full of yummy old pink, yellow, and green heart pine boards. As the fellow tearing down the house told me of that " nasty old pepto bismol pink wood" I am pretty sure I heard the heavens open and a small choir of gypsy angels sing! Good golly, I love me some old chippy pastel pink boards. I can already hear the saws a sawin'. We also scored a huge load of beautiful old porch columns. Good lawd, Jay is gonna be a busy fellow.

On a new and exciting note...

Can you spy my new addition? It's a grain bin! Woo hoo. I pray daily for the good Lord to give me refinement and taste in my latter years but I am pretty sure that the answer is always, " nope, not yet, sweetie pie. The world still needs a little Pippi long stocking. ". Speaking of which, I discovered(well, not really discovered, cause my best friend told me) I went through most of today with my shirt on inside out. June cleaver, how did you do it? So, back to the bin. Isn't it the most delightfully tacky thing you have seen today? I love it. We brought it back from my family farm over a month ago and it has sat in the parking lot with one ring down until all of the town folk started asking Jay how much the admission would be to our "red neck swimmin' hole". I thought that was a super idea but Jay was insulted, so low and behold, just a day or so later, we have a grain bin! (note to self for future projects that Jay doesn't really want to do). Now the fun begins...making her pretty. We haven't decided what to do with her yet. I want to add something that will enhance our little one horse town but I just am not sure what that is. Lemonade stand, milkshake shack, margaritas on main? I would love to have any ideas or suggestions from anyone, please! Think on it and share your thoughts with me.

Well, I have rambled too long. I hope you will stop in the next time you are by and share a smile with us. We will even pack up a few and send them home with you. Smiles are always free and plentiful at Alice and Jay.

 

Love

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

No words

Due to the illness of my precious Daddy I will be taking a break to spend every moment with him. Our store will be open but may look a little different for a while. I hope everyone will understand. Life is a gift and this store was a gift from both my Heavenly FAther and my one here on earth. My gratitude iS so far beyond words. What a lucky girl I am! Until then, take time to give the ones you love a hug and a kiss. See you soon.

A room with a view

Have you ever seen A Room With A View? The moment that they throw open the shutters to discover their view has been our daily routine for the last two weeks. What a magical view we have had. The colors of Spain are bright and white and worn and washed. Deep yellows that are softened by pink or punched with deep blue. Whitewashed houses with pink and red and purple flowers falling out of the window sills. Reminders of the One who makes the view by hand are peppered on every corner. In Sevilla, we have had the honor of a view that has been gifted with the sweet gentle fragrance of orange blossoms. Everywhere you go you are surrounded with this heavenly scent. Oh, how I wish I could bottle it all and bring it home to you all. My pictures and commentary do not do it justice. Our plane leaves on Saturday and we will be so happy to be home but we will have this special treasure tucked away in our souls to take out and savor over and over again. Enjoy the pictures and have a lovely day.

Just a few more...

Spain

This quick tour of new pictures is for our family and friends back at home who just can't wait to see us again!! We are still eating and drinking and enjoying new adventures but mostly missing all of you!