Planning the 4th!

These photo's are from last year!!

I love the 4th of July. We always have a family cookout and then head downtown Nashville to Riverfront Park for the BIG Fireworks display!!Nahville has one of the BIGGEST in the US!!It is so patriotic and you get tears in your eyes when Lee Greenwood sings I'm Proud to be an American!!Howtrue and how blessed we are!! So tomorrow I will go Krogering for hotdogs, burgers, chips and cold drinks. As we say in the south!! Usually we have strawberry shortcake and watermelon but I may do something different this year!! Have not given a lot of thought yet so we will see. I will post pics later of my this years decorations!!Hope you have a fun weekend, God Bless

Candilou!!!

Trash and treasure

lunch @ corner drug store

Every year about this time in a little town in Tennessee called Cross Plains they have the Trash and Treasure sale/It is a blast and there are literally sales every where you look. Folks come from every where. Tents are pitched and goodes are loaded underneath for sale. You will find anything from Old Buckets, books and home baked goodes and jams& jellies. There will be folks selling hotdogs and snowcones. Churches handing out free ice cold water and booths of homegrown vegetables and fruits for sale. There will be cokes in large old tin wash tubs full of ice and kids riding up and down on bicycles ! Children being pulled in red wagons and old folks on cains walking. Every kind of people and then the people like me looking for that perfect primitive piece!!I actually found lots of things. Got today an early fabric blue book/ hogscaper tin candle holder/a fabulous cinnamon candle. Keepers of the light!A tall old churn/ early egg basket/ English pewter tea pot/and an old prim box!!So much fun and found a great Antiques shop based in an old barn!!Can I hear an Amen!!So have had a fab weekend thus far. Hope yours is great as well/!!

GOD BLESS.

Candilou

Banana Pudding

Put meringue on top of banana pudding and broil till brown on top

Meringue/ 2 egg whites/1/4 cup sugar and 1 tsp vanilla/ Beat till thick and frothy

I smash up a box of vanilla wafers and layer with banana's

after adding milk, sugar, eggs and tsp Vanilla add 2 heaping tbs flour as a thickening agent

Mom, dad and brother Ricky @ one of our family picnics/fried chicken/ potato salad/fesh green beans/ rolls/ and banana pudding/ oh and chocolate cake and cokes from bottles

2 eggs/ yellows for pudding reserve white's for meringue

Banana's , 2 cups milk and 1 cup sugar/ love to use my old tin measuring cups

Thought I would share my Mama's banana pudding recipe!!It is a Southern dish that will warm your heart!!I hope you will enjoy it!!

I like to change my prims!!

THIS IS FUN TO CHANGE

tHIS IS NOW!!lol

CHANGED AGAIN!!

i AM FOREVER IN A DAY CHANGING THIS TABLE!!

I LOVE CHANGING THIS CABINET!!!

Ok I am in a decorating faux pas !! Is that how it's spelled? Who cares??? Anyway, I am ITCHING to make a serious change, like maybe moving cabinets around or something. But wait!! I can't do that anymore. I am not crazy about this getting old and not being able to achieve the things I want. I do give it a shot though. So I decided since I can no longer Move cabinets I will post pictures for your viewing pleasure so you can see how I do change my mantle and tablescapes. Etc I am sure by now you have seen them a zillion times but here's to a zillion one!!

CANDILOU