Back to Normal -- Part One

Sometimes you just need a change

My dressing room and dressing table

 With a new addition

which I just could not pass up when I was at the garden center on Saturday 

for I thought they would be perfect

In the famille rose bowls

They're Avon

but not "for sale" Avon

rather, I think, a gift for sales representatives.

I found one and sometime later I found another

both for little or nothing.

There was a time, I think,

that Avon had some quality "reproductions"

 for I've got another -- it's a silver centerpiece

I've not used the bowls much but decided that these bowls

would be perfect as a "cache pot" for the violets.

And while I was gone . . . 

The kitchen 

Went from this

Trash bags on the windows

Held by duct tape

To nice clean new panes of glass

In the hall upstairs

The window over the sink

And the window that looks into the back garden

There were 18 panes of glass that were either broken or cracked.

And we're still finding pieces of glass here and there

even after sweeping and vacuuming and sweeping and vacuuming again!

But it is nice to be able to see out again.

And we're grateful that the windows were fixed so quickly.

And a pretty day today, we worked in the

herb garden

It's beginning to look respectable!

It's Monday and I'm joining Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Met Monday.     Last Sunday we witnessed what a difference 15 minutes can make and this week we realize what a difference a week makes!