The BrocanteHome Puttery Treats Challenge

For my love of Alison and England, I must enter this!

I love Alison over at http://brocantehome.typepad.com/ she shares ways to make your life lovely with "scrumptious" ways to "create a simpler way of life: a life that celebrates simplicity, authenticity and whimsy." Right now she is having her first Puttery Treats Challenge.

I want to win! How cool would it be to get a "post" from England! England must be so cool. Not just because DH was in England (NAVY) when I told him he was going to be a dad. Not just because DH's family is traced back to two brothers that were from Cornwall. Not just because I love tea and beautiful tea cups, but the challenge is not about England, so on with the puttery treat.

One of her puttery treat ideas was to "Find a blackboard and write yourself a daily maxim; a favorite quote or a line from a poem that makes you smile. Make a commitment to yourself to change it regularly.".....

Mine is a whiteboard I have over my desk. I would post a pic, but it has some other stuff on it too. I really do enjoy looking up and seeing more than just a to do list. So here are three of the quotes.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it Matt. 7:13-14

We don't manage time we manage ourselves. -Randy Carlson

The measure of a man is not his strength, but the depth of his nobility.

Another one is to "Use the stacks and stacks of vintage linens I know we are all hoarding. Stretch scraps of vintage embroidery over canvas and prop them one leaning against the other on your mantelpiece. Cover a pin board in a tablecloth. Peg a line of pretty hankies across your kitchen window. Use crocheted table runners to scoop back your curtains...."

This is my version in my laundry room. I display them on a vintage baby bed side rail. It's sooo much better than having them in a drawer. They are art on my wall. I have vintage hankies, pillowcases, doilies and a few aprons.

Another one of her Treats

"Delicious Doilies.

Aside from using them for all manner of crockery resting purposes, I've got them in the bathroom and the bedroom, and they decorate my kitchen a treat: looking particularly divine under my kitchen herbs...Thread them on to ribbon and string across your windows so the sun makes pretty patterns on your walls.Sew together to make table mats.Use them in the fridge (Who doesn't want a pretty fridge?)Stitch two the same together and stuff with lavender......."

Ya see, I too have a doily obsession. I did this to my fridge back in February. I used paper doilies. I am now using vinyl Martha place mats, that look very similar. It is easier to clean than the glass, which is a little scratched. I would show you a better pic, but you don't want to see in there now with all the Thanksgiving fixins, its rather a mess.

Mess or not, I do love to read The Brocante Home Chronicles.