The Grounds

Hallway to the Orchid house

Topiary Garden

One of the tree house. So cool !

Here are a few more, Hard to pick from the 300 pictures I took.

Plus I don't want to bore you with too many more.

Thought I'd include a couple of the grounds and a few others.

Check out that tree house, nothing in there just a cool little lookout point.

While the others were taking pictures, I had finished early and decide to people watch on the bench.

We an array of people coming thru this place.

Today is my hubby's birthday, 32 ! whoa we're getting old. ha,ha

Off to celebrate with lunch at our fave Mexician Restaurant.

We are having Grilled Tuna steak & Carrot Cake tonight !!

Made another Etsy sale Yay!!

Ordered Etsy Moo cards with a special promotion they're having you get 50 free cards.

You just pay the shipping. Pretty awesome!

I am working on my shop, need to figure out

packaging and a banner.

Bea-u-ti-ful

don't these look like spiders..

Had a wonderful time at Longwood Gardens, lots of beautiful stuff. Not much blooming outside but inside the Conservatory it was unbelieveable. This month was the Orchid Extravaganza. Tons and tons of Orchids. It smelled so good in there, but after awhile my nose started running.. I know we spendt a good 1 -2 hours in the Conservatory. They had the cutest little childrens garden. I'd love to take Maddie there when she gets older.  And let me tell you that was a workout. The grounds are huge, everything is far apart. And  my butt is sore. My legs hurt, make that burn in some areas..lol  I am so out of shape.

Guess it didn't help that Sunday we went on a nature hike.. yikes.

I didn't post many pictures I was so tired last night. It was a long beautiful weekend. We couldn't have asked for better weather. Plus my mother in law bought me New Moon so I wanted to watch that AGAIN!!!

I'll post more pictures later, so much to share.

Take time to smell the ...

 Caught Maddie bending down to take of whiff of these dead black eyed susans..

So cute! If only they were in full bloom.

Lots of things blooming & sprouting up.. Can't wait to get to work on my flower beds.

What beautiful weather we are having!! Luv it.. Looking forward to a great weekend.

Off to Longwood Gardens tomorrow for a Photo shoot w/my buds at the Tidewater Camera Club.

Can't wait to try out my new lens.

Its been a good week, the weather has gotten me out of my funk.

I received copies of the Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend brochures

(with my name listed in them) eek so excited!

Have a great weekend! Get outside and enjoy it!

NC Dream Houses

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My DREAM house!!!  Love the color the style. The Porch ! etc. etc...

This house is awesome, on a corner lot. Has white picket fence. A mother in law suite.

Which would be awesome for house guests. (The kind that don't stay for 6 months or longer) ha,ha

Sorry! Rude.

ooh luv the built ins ~ I'd put my pottery & my twilight books here.. ha ha

Another Cute house (love the color) 3 acres Beaufort, NC

5 bedrooms

Sideyard water access, Wouldn't this be awesome to launch your kayak or canoe.

This house located in outskirts of Edenton, NC

Partially redone but still has all of the original fireplaces.

Love the porch and the columns.

It's okay to dream right ! Maybe one day.

I also keep a notebook with clips from magazines of stuff

I like cabinets, lighting fixtures, paint colors, built ins etc.

Thanks for letting me ramble about my dream houses.

I have a couple local houses to show you tomorrow

Happy St. Patricks Day!!

Dream Houses ~ Blog crushes

Meadowbrook Farm

I adore this kitchen, I totally want white cabinets.

Love this built in and that hardware is great!

I love this floor, such a warm tone. And don't you just love that ledge with the cute plates on it

I love the color of the hutch too!

Okay where do I start, check out the lighting fixture, and that hutch Love the color!

I also love that huge window so much light! And how awesome is the wainscoting (spelling ?)

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Wanted to share my crush on this charming farm house. I came across Teresa's blog Meadowbrook Farm  from another blog. And was hooked on her house. I couldn't take my eyes off of the page I kept looking and looking checking out every detail. I love it, I could move right in. We have alot of the same interests:

McCoy pottery, quilts, Vintage tablecloths, and she takes great photos! 

Not only does she have an awesome house, gardens, barns and so forth. She has a great story. She's living our dream. Her and her family purchased a farm with a old farm house and redid it.

Check out her blog for the before photos.

Tom and I have always dreamed of one day buying an old cottage or craftsmens house or even a  farm house and redoing it. We loved to simplify and slow down and remember whats important to us.

We'd  love to move to North Carolina one day, some of our favorite towns to name a few are Edenton, Beaufort (where my brother & sis in law live), Oriental, New Bern

I'll continue my dream houses tomorrow with some photos of my dream houses in NC

Moooo, Moooo

Meet my other new addition, My new business cards are here! Yay  Aren't they awesome.

They're from Moo cards, So easy to order and so many great layout options.

You can even get mini business cards. So cool!

I have 8 different photos displayed on mine. They turned out great! Can't wait to hand them out.

These are a great idea for business owns to display their products, I'd highly recommend them.

On another note I attended my Exposure & Basic workflow workshops this weekend. Learned alot.

Can't wait to try out what I learned and change up some things in my photo storage set up (housekeeping so to speak) I need to reorganize alot of things.

New edition to our family

shh my hood is on backwards so excited to get it. Just put it on there.. lol

shot w/my new lens

 

Yay!! I finally got my 50mm lens I have been waiting patiently for.. okay not so patiently

I have been wanting a 50mm forever, I have a 70 that came w/my camera body. But I have been wanting a nice Macro/Portrait/low light lens. I  haven't had much (any) time to play with it yet.. eek

But so far it's pretty awesome.

I have been crazy busy, busy with what ? nothing ..normal everyday stuff.

I am attending a workshop tomorrow on Exposure & workflow. I am stoked.

Hopefully I'll get to grab a few shots and learn some stuff.

Next weekend off to Longwoods Gardens in PA ! for a photography trip. Super excited about that.

Have a great weekend!!