Sunday Blog Love - Linky Party

Thanks so much for stopping by to Cherished Treasures!

Can you believe that tomorrow will be April? And that next weekend is Easter?

Right here in South Dakota, we are expecting the temperature to be as high as 90 degrees!

I don't think this has ever happened before in March...
Did you buy a mega million lottery ticket?
And more importantly live in Maryland?

I've decided to announce the winner for the Easter banner giveaway tomorrow,
so click here and leave a comment!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

and I want to thank everyone who took the time

to link up last weekend!

Let me show you my top five picks

and also the most viewed ( it was a tie!)

Creative Mrs Smith - a yummy recipe for parmesan pecan tilapia.

A Mother and Daughter - madeover a lamp with sun yellow spraypaint.

Joyful Homemaking - shared her recipe for baked caramel french toast.

Sweet Water Style - shared her thrifty finds to decorate for Easter.

Inspired by Family Magazine - tutorial for making a rolled flower bouquet.

For the most viewed from last week was a tie...

The Cottage Market - Andrea loves to make knock off's of Anthroplogie
and shows how she made this with some thrifty finds...

and

Gail's Decorative Touch - shows how she decorated her son and daughter-in-laws
mantel for spring.

Feel free to grab the featured button to add to your blog.

Now it's on to this weeks linky party....

I hope you'll join me this week and show what you've been busy with..

All kinds of posts are welcome--whether it's about your family, a craft project,

thrifty find, a favorite recipe or maybe it's decorating your home or a giveaway....

The only requirement is..you must link back to my party...

(besides it's blogger ettiquette to link back...)

Not required but if you become a follower - then you know if you've been featured....

and will also be added to my Sunday Blog Love on Pinterest.

Have a great weekend!

Using Pinterest to Update My Bulletin Board

One of my most popular projects was the bulletin board that I have hanging in my

scrapbook/office...

I wanted to use some of the

great printables that I've found on Pinterest...

so I took everything off except the mirror and got to work...

The first thing I wanted to hang up was this frame that I got from The Cottage Market.
Andrea also did a guest post and showed how to make one...
Then I added the big daisy, I had hot glued a thumb tack on the backside,
and it's another one of my favorite things....

This picture is of me and my twin sister...
its one of only a few pictures I have...
when I was a freshman in high school, our home caught on fire
and we lost everything...so there aren't too many pictures of us
growing up...I've always loved this picture...

And I so love Pinterest...

so this printable was a no brainer...

I'm obsessed with this frame...

and now my bulletin board is updated at no cost....

Thanks for stopping by!

Don't forget to enter my Easter giveaway...

and I'd sure love if you linked up at Sunday Blog Love

time is running out!

Linking to these parties...

Tuesday Treasure - Little Darlings

One of the many reasons that I got into papercrafting is all the pretty papers that are available.

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Have you seen paper collection from Graphic 45 named Little Darlings?



 The paper line is so cute and with a vintage flair from the 20's and 30's that will work for either a boy or a girl.. So for a little more inspiration, I went to Pinterest and found these pins using the Little Darling paperline... 

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You can find me on Pinterest, right here!

Don't forget about my giveaway
and also my linky party, Sunday Blog Love...

Linking to these parties....

Decorating for Easter on a Budget and a Giveaway

On Sunday, DH and I traveled to spend the day with my daughter and her family...

it had been three weeks since we'd seen Macie.

And I must share how big she's getting..

She was all smiles until the camera came out and then her smiles stopped...

but I had so much fun holding her, loving her...wonderful day!

Crystal and I also decorated the built in hutch in her kitchen with Easter things she had on hand as well as items from Dollar Tree...let me show you ...

I did the cardinal rule...I didn't take a before picture..

but it was a mixture of things, nice things...

but now it says SPRING or EASTER...

and we shopped her home to put this together....

The top shelf, the big platter stayed where it was..

and I used her drink dispenser and filled it with

the plastic Easter eggs that Crystal already had..

I spray painted a frame from Dollar Tree and added the printable..

the lamb was found last year on clearance at Pier One....

I kept the two tiered serving dish and added some spring items..

again, more things on clearance from Pier One..

nothing says Easter more than chickies, bunnies, a little stuffed baby lamb...

and the burlap bunny is from Etsy that I had bought Crystal a few years ago..

For the bottom shelf, I took her wicker utensil organizer and added some fun

napkins I picked up at Dollar Tree...another painted picture frame withe a printable..

I took a blue Mason jar and added some pink basket stuffing and added a few

Easter egg picks to make a cute bouquet...the bunny was on clearance from Pier One

and the candy dish was something that Crystal already had..

So if you're on a budget or you just don't want to spend any money...

shop your home...and use things in unexpected ways!

Now it's time to talk about my giveaways!

I'm giving away this fun, Easter bunny burlap banner

to one person..

(sorry the beaded garland is not included )

I fell in love with these banners that I came across...

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There's a couple of ways to enter this giveaway

1) leave a comment

2) post on Facebook

3) leave a comment on my Facebook page

and leave a separate comment for each one!

Sorry - US only!

Because Easter is fast approaching...the giveaway will end on Friday. the 30th.

The winner will be announced Saturday morning!

Linking to these parties

Good luck and have a great week!

Sunday Song - Smash - Shake it out

One of my new favorite shows this year is Smash...

starring Katharine McPhee who was on American Idol a few seasons ago...

If you haven't seen this show and love Glee - you'll love this show...

it's a more grown up version with spectular singing...

Katharine McPhee is not only so beautiful and thin

but her voice is amazing...

And this is my Sunday Song...

love the message!

Sunday Blog Love - Linky Party

So glad you are here!

The weather this week has been gorgeous!

Mid 60's into the 70's.
Today I will be spray painting!

Thank you to all who linked up last week

for Sunday Blog Love!

Let me show you my top five picks from last week!

A Mother and A Daughter used clear contact paper look like etched glass.

Inspired by Felicity shares her recipe for Pork Fried Rice.

Green Willow Pond new word is galvanization!

Northern Cottage shares her very spring mantel.

My 1929 Charmer shows how she made this ruffly pillow.

Now for the most viewed from last week.....

The NY Melrose Family shares a little leprechaun mischief.

Seriously this is cute, please check out if you haven't!

Feel free to grab the featured button to add to your blog.

Now it's on to this weeks linky party....

I hope you'll join me this week and show what you've been busy with..

All kinds of posts are welcome--whether it's about your family, a craft project,

thrifty find, a favorite recipe or maybe it's decorating your home or a giveaway....

The only requirement is..you must link back to my party...

(besides it's blogger ettiquette to link back...)

Not required but if you become a follower - then you know if you've been featured....

and will also be added to my Sunday Blog Love on Pinterest.

Have a great weekend!

March Altered Calendar Page

I love to alter things, and my one monthly altering project is a calendar kit that

I picked up at Michaels last year right around Christmas time...

The kit is really a cute calendar kit that even a non-scrapping person can do..

but the fun is when you can make it yours

and add things from your stash...

all the more reason that to go shopping!

Here's what I did for March...

gotta have lots of green and shamrocks...

DH had a birthday on March 15th...

First day of spring on Tuesday, the 20th..

feels more like summer here...

80 degrees last weekend...

the cute little bird button came from Popalicious Too...

When we were in Minneapolis, Crystal got this cute St Patricks Day

outfit for Macie...

January page

February page

Thanks for stopping by..

hope you're all having a great week.

Linking to these parties...

Stay tune..giveway on Monday!

Tuesday Treasure - The Amandas

I love to watch shows that organize and transform spaces, don't you?

Have you seen this new show on Style TV?

Amanda is the owner of The Amandas, a organizing business based

in Birmingham AL. The crew of 6 employees deal with not

only the chaos of redoing the spaces but also dealing with

each other...but it's all very low key drama...

Let me show you one before and after....

In this episode, the baby was due in one month and the nursery wasn't set up yet...

The mother-in-law hired The Amandas to set up the nursery

and organize the kitchen....

The soon to be nursery was more like a storage room with lots of purging needed...

And the after...

very shabby chic with lots of pink touches...

the soon-to-be parents knew they were having a baby girl...

Isn't this space so pretty?

And if you watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta...

this week on The Amandas, they redo NeNe's closet!

Amanda also has a list of the Top 10 Things to Purge Right Now!

Click here to find out more about the show..and also on Facebook.

And this is my Tuesday Treasure,

let me know if you've seen the show and if you like it!

Have a great Tuesday!