We made it back from our little excursion to see the Paolo Nutini concert in Nashville last night and oh my! This was at a club scene at a place called The Cannery, which is part of the Mercy Lounge. So much fun and such a great show!! Here’s a few pics I wanted to share:

Paolo even did an encore!

Here’s where we stayed in Nashville:

We really, really needed this little mini-vacation and some fun. Of course, it’s back to work tomorrow and I’m a bit hoarse from all the screaming I did at the concert, but hey…it’s all good!!

One of my all time favorite actresses and one of my favorite new actors star in this wonderful romantic comedy called “The Proposal”.

Charles and I went this movie yesterday afternoon and it was so cute! I just love a good chick flick!

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Wishing you all a safe and happy Independence Day! Hope you see lots of beautiful fireworks in the sky on this wonderful holiday!

xoxoxoxo,

Rhonda

Finally! I was able to finish a new little pretty for my shop. Seems like I started my new job in April that I’ve been MIA with so many things I dearly love. Alas, I did get a chance to complete something…

I’ve forever loved pretty little storage containers. From jars to boxes, there are so many cute ways to store things that we love. This little heart shaped box was such a joy to create. I actually started working on it a while ago and have worked on it occasionally for a couple months. Here it is:

I’m so happy with this little box and there’s so many possibilites with it. It’s so much better than a plain little storage box to me. Plus, it’s a sweet baby pink – what could be better??

I listed this cutie in my etsy shop “The Cozy Loft“. Just click here to go to the listing where there are a few more pics to see.

Happy Sunday!!

That’s a photo of our Roma Tomato plant as of the weekend before last. There’s no way you can see all the blooms and tomatoes on this one plant. It’s absolute madness!!!

A close up of some of them:

Again, that’s one plant with dozens of tomatoes and dozens more blooms… Did I mention we have like 2 full rows of tomatoes????? LOL!

I’ve been working on a facebook Fan Page for my cozy loft etsy shop and finally published it yesterday. There’s still lots to do but it is up and available for you to see and become a fan if you would like. Just click here to see it.

Also, I’m collaborating with a lovely lady named Leslie who contacted me about sponsoring a giveaway on her blog of some of my goods. There will be two prizes to be given away from my shop – a scrabble tile pendant of the winner’s choice and a sachet pillow of the winner’s choice!

Be sure to go by her blog and see all the ways you can get an entry:

http://livelovelaughwithleslie.blogspot.com/2009/06/cozy-loft-etsy-giveaway.html

This lady is super sweet and has such a nice little blog. I’m sure you’ll be so happy you visited there. Good luck!!

Also, happy father’s day to all you daddies out there! I hope your day has been super special and full of spoiling you rotten!!

Charles signed up for a test package of Sunflower seeds this past winter. We received them earlier this year and planted them when the time was right. In return for receiving this gift, all we have to do is report bee activity back to the company who sent us the seeds. Such a little experiment. It has actually been so much fun that we plan on having more next year. It’s so exciting to watch them grow and now one of them has a beautiful bloom:

(Please note the watermark on these is for protection of the photo as these are available as cards and prints in my shop The Cozy Loft on etsy.)

These flowers are ones that just make you happy. They are so pretty and delicate yet strong and handsome. Perhaps they should be called smileflowers…

We are super huge fans of Redbox. You know those red vending machines that you can find at Walgreens and Wal-Mart? For $1.10, you can watch a movie and return it the next day by 9:00 pm the next evening. When you reserve it online, all you have to do is go to the machine, swipe your card you reserved it with and it dispenses your movie. That’s it. A receipt comes to your email. Absolutely lovely! Technology is so great in so many ways.

This weekend, we watched What Happens in Vegas and it was a cute movie. I like the feel-good-couple-falls-in-love-by-the-end movies. Yes, indeedy. I’m a chick-flick kinda gal. Now, I like some of the other stuff too but a feel good romantic comedy certainly works for me.

It was funny…It was cute….Very sweet.

Big Brother 11 starts July 9th!! My guilty summer pleasure will soon be here and I just cannot wait!!

Lately, my life has been a whirlwind of work, gardening, spending time with Charles and then we run out of time. Where does it all go so quickly? Especially the weekends – they are gone in the blink of an eye and then good ole Monday rolls around again.

This weekend, Charles and I worked in our garden, doing some much needed weeding and a little bit of harvesting. We had a large strawberry ready on our one strawberry plant. I should say the reason we only have one plant is that we bought it at a little country seed store here where we live and when we went back for more, they were sold out. We couldn’t find more of this same variety so we are going to be patient and hold out until next year and purchase more of this same variety so we know we love them! That one strawberry we did have was better than having a dozen so-so strawberries though. It was the best flavor and texture! Soooooo good!

We have also harvested an onion and a carrot just to see if they were ready. Lettuce and greens are ready like crazy and we’ve even shared some of our harvest with friends and family. That’s always nice when someone does that for us and now that we are gardening, we are happy to return the favor.

Back to the carrot for a sec…I had read online they are ready to harvest after 60-80 days. Realizing it had been 80 days, we harvested one which ended up being really small, so they have more time to go before they are ready. Still, we are definitely having it on our salads tonight. Here’s the carrot in the middle of our harvest:

And a close up of our Bibb Lettuce, really dark in color and so tasty:

And here’s some of the Black Seeded Simpson lettuce:

Our broccoli that we started indoors from seed is really starting to show some excitement. Check this out:

How exciting is all this? We weren’t sure how things would grow here since this is our first attempt. So far, so good. This year is sort of a work in progress and hopefully we’ll learn some things that will help us in our next garden next year

All I know is this…I love love love eating lettuce from our garden. I really want to do whatever it takes to have it year round. There are ways to grow lettuce indoors during cold months. We just have to figure out a good place as well as what we’ll need and we just might do it…