It seems like a perfect time of the year for a giveaway!!
A pink and turquoise giveaway!!
Fun Fun!
Oh and, because I am in one of those butterfly stomach crafty excitement moods…
The giveaway is stuffed with things to make things, and bits and bobs of trinketries.
Say anything in comments, and I will enter your name in a hat to win the loot.
I'll draw a name for the next post.
I was going to ask you to share embarrassing moments, but, that was too much pressure even for me to come up with 😉
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
It was great around here, an all around lovely time with our guests, and lots to eat.
I worked crazy hard baking and cooking two days in a row, and it was so worth it. Lots of happy bellies it seems. I made a full traditional Thanksgiving meal.
The funny hit here were my giant yeast rolls, they were soooo HUGE after they baked!
A conversation piece and giggles a plenty.
I timed it so they came out of the oven just as everyone sat down, and the aroma was delicious.
(I don't have a photo after they were baked, as they got gobbled quickly, but they were double the size easily, haha!)
I will perfect the recipe and share it before Christmas, it's a fun addition it seems.
My especially favorite part of yesterday was being able to pick flowers, still…
To decorate the dinner table with…
Time for tea!
See you soooon!
Love, V
You are so luckey to be able to pick flowers still!
How generous of you to host a giveaway! I’m in the mood to create, so fingers crossed that I might win some of your magical crafting supplies! Thank you!
I know exactly what you mean about the tummy-butterflies for crafting! I have a severe case of them today and have so many sparkly ideas twirling through my head I’m getting dizzy! Happy thanksgiving Vanessa 🙂 xx
Wow, what beautiful flowers still coming from your garden! I am glad you did not ask embarassing moments, I think I block all of mine out, so I would have nothing to share! Happy Thanksgiving! I always enjoy your art and your blog!
Bee U Ti Full flowers, as always. THanks for posting, it was my treat for the day:-)
It sounds like you had a wonderful Thanksgivng, Vanessa! I’d love a chance to win your giveaway. I got all my Christmas stuff out today to decorate and got about half way done. Hoping to get it all done by the time the weekend is over so I can just sit back and enjoy!
Ooh, the crafties sound delightful! How I would love to win those magical goodies…:) And those rolls looked delicious! So did the flowers 🙂
Crossing my fingers,
xx Jessica
A Woodland Fantasy
I’m so glad you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Thanks so much for the giveaway. Please count me in! Love the rolls and the flowers . Oh and pink and turquoise??? Wonderful!!!
adbt16 at suddenlink dot net
Hugs! deb
Happy Thanksgiving 🙂 Have a fantastic weekend filled with friends, family and food 🙂
Nathalie
Happy Thanksgiving Vanessa! Have a lovely weekend.
we don’t celebrate thanksgiving here in australia, so a big thank you for allowing me to share yours! also, any chance of getting the name of those beautiful flowers that were in your post Art & Life+ The Peacock Dance?! you know those stunning ones that seem to be purple on the outside, then turn pink, then orange before going yellow in the centre! i would LOVE to find some seeds for my mum for her birthday! thanks again for a wonderful blog! nicole.
Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful! Thank you for all of your beautiful photo-filled posts! 🙂
oh! vanessa! i’d love to win something from you!!!
I just bought something and now there is a coupon?! Hmm, I guess I will just have to buy something else now! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving Vanessa! I hope I win the little gifty! HEHE! I will share an embarrassing moment even though I don’t HAVE to.
Last week I hung out with a gorgeous boy. After the hanging out, he didn’t ask me out… or for my number… or anything… DISHEARTENING! So as I was walking away I thought to myself “Heck no, I ain’t through with him!” And I turned around and marched right back towards him. I hadn’t thought this through… I got back and had absolutely nothing to say… it was very bad. I am not sure what came out of my mouth. He asked me if I’d forgotten something and I think I said something along the lines of “Uhhhh yeah…. uhhhhh, ok, found it, bye!!!”
I am such a spaz…
Hi Vanessa! What a pleasure to read your words and to see you pics. I escape from routines of my city. I’m from Rome. love you.
pink and turquoise are favourite colours of mine, they are so magical together. Thank you for a generous giveaway, I am so curious as to what is in the wee bag! Curiouser and curiouser….
I am in love with your garden such precious life, and always in awe from your amazing pictures! Totally just ordered a set of Christmas postcards!!! I am super excited and can’t wait till I can show them off!!!
wwooo this is my first ever post! I just could not resist! I love your world Miss V!! Pink and turquoise are my all time favourite colours 🙂 X
Picking flowers this time of year! You lucky girl. And lots of luck with your sale. I would like to participate for the give-away :)) Thanx. hugzz…peebee
Fingers crossed, as I would love to win any giveaway from you!!! Hoping you share your recipe for the rolls very soon. I make your Challah bread recipe quite often. Bye now -ingers crossed!
That would be “fingers” crossed!
You are so very talented. I have been obsessing over getting a great camera and trying photography for a long time. Broke down and bought one yesterday. 🙂 I cant wait. Glad you had a nice Thanksgiving. Thanks for being an inspiration! 🙂
What lovely flowers and what a great giveaway! Good luck to everyone 🙂
Yay Vanessa, love your little loot bag, tee hee 😉 And a sale…oh my! I think pink and turquoise together is my favorite color combo.
Happy belated Thanksgiving Ms. V,
Jamie 🙂
I love your blog! You always have the prettiest pictures!
I just discovered your blog today – it’s so lovely! Thanks for hosting a give-away, too.
I haven’t posted on your blog before but I have been a fan for years! You have inspired me to retrieve my vintage wreath with lots of pink & turquoise bulbs. Thank you for including me in your give-away drawing.
Yes, flowers do make anyday special. Love the giant rolls. Also would love to win a pink and turquoise goodie from you.
So glad to hear you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day. Hope the rest of your holiday weekend is grand.
Always, Queenie
Loving pink and turquoise right now as well! And am always- always- loving rolls; can’t wait for the recipe! Your photos are always so magical. I love getting lost in your world- thanks!
Pink and Turquoise sale sounds so much more fun than Black Friday sales! =) I’m glad you had a wonderful Thanksgiving – we did, too. Lots of good food and belly laughing (my favorite kind!). Your flowers are lovely – alas, mine have all died away here in Virginia and the blazing trees have lost their leaves (in fact, hubby is out there raking them up right now).
Oh, and bits and bobs of trinketries are some of my favorite things, too! =) Have a great weekend!
Oooh… I will have to partake of the beauty in your store then, because I love pink and turquoise. 🙂
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Put ’em together and what have you got
bibbidi bobbidi boo
Enter me for the bibbidi bobbidi’s!
Oh my…a wonderful sale.I would love to enter your fabulous givaway. There is so much happiness in your giveaways. Just by taking a sneek peak makes me smile. Can I cross my toes too?
Glad you had a fabulous Thanksgiving. Your photos are all so grand.
Glad you had a happy Thanksgiving, Miss V. Love the pink & turquoise – and giant dinner rolls — yum! Happy pink & turquoise sales day to you!
Hi Vanessa,
I have been away this week and have been ITCHING to create! So I know exactly what you mean. Please enter me in the drawing for your secret bag full of goodies.
Hugs,
Sylvia
ooh magical! Those words to a woman ” a sale” ….. I’m off to have a peek right now 😀
So the creative muse is with me at the moment, and a little extra bundle of goodies to play with sounds wonderful…I will share an embarrassing moment with you just because. It was only Friday night actually, while leaving a friends house on dusk, that I smacked straight into their flywire door. Nup, did not see it! My head bounced straight off that thing, giggle…(I promise I only had a couple of glasses of bubbles…)
Those flowers are so gorgeous! Lucky you!
I really dig that vase too.
Glad your holiday was a happy one.
I hope your tooshie and tongue have healed after your fall from the hammock!
Sale! good timing, Im off to buy some christmas cards. And feeling like Im really missing out on being in a country that doesnt celebrate thanksgiving, it sounds like so much fun and eating! woop, my favorite!
much love
xxx
sheree
I made biscuits this week too which were also gobbled up right quick! I had some left over “self-rising” flour (I got for another recipe) and thought to try the biscuit recipe on the back of the package- they turned out quite yummy! Can’t wait to see your recipe.
Always a pleasure to lay eyes on your creations & to read your blog.
Thanks to you this Thanksgiving season!
What beautiful flowers for the end of November! I’m happy you had a good Thanksgiving. Even though my Canadian Thanksgiving is in October I found myself cooking a turkey on the American Thanksgiving. We were having a major storm with huge winds and I live in a rain forest area where we can lose power easily with all the trees. What do you do with a half-cooked turkey if the power goes out in your area for a day or so? Yikes! Thanksgiving and gratitude is when the power stays on while I cook my turkey!
This weekend and most of next week is spent moving. Just me, myself and I to move using a small truck. So Thanksgiving was spent packing and moving and thankful that I have a charming apartment with some planter boxes out front! So will plant some flowers and herbs this coming week (don’t we love living in Southern Arizona!)
Your pictures either make me want to grow flowers, or make me hungry!
Your blog is one thing I’m thankful for this year! It always makes me feel better about life.
Beautiful flowers–and a giveaway! Thanks! Have a lovely Thanksgiving weekend.
Super – I’m in. P&T – I like it. Merci V.
Rocks and stones, seashells and bones.
Stars sight in candle light,
I wish I may I wish I might,
Have my wishes come true tonight.
What fun to be included in your giveaway!
And yes, you are soooooo lucky to get to be picking flowers!!! I do love the snow, but I miss my old gardens so : )
Can’t wait to see your giant rolls recipe!
~Kim
Bonne Nuit Designs art dolls, puppets and miniature worlds
I hope you had a Great Thanksgiving. Mine was good and my friday was even better. I have a cool annoucement to make on my blog next week all about that.
Sis, I think you should send me the giveaway prize just because 😉
Just kidding! BUT, I do think it is lovely that you are having a pink and turquoise sale…. it’s very Southwest.
I just made some ginger spice tea. It’s raining, I have world Christmas music on (aol.radio-I’m addicted) the tree is mostly decorated, the lights are on and I’m putting all the other little things out.
I have way too many embarrassing moments. Thankfully as you get older they are quite as embarrassing:)
Thank you for your posts that have helped me get through a rather bad year.
OOOppps that shoulda been not quite so embarrassing.
(See it’s easy to do)
We have a more quiet beauty happening in our landscape right now. The plants are sleeping and the blue sky rules the scene. The trees are spider web branches against the sky and the long shadows hold an ancient wisdom. The land holds it’s breath waiting for the snow to come, and we sleep and snuggle under many blankets.
Your biscuits sound like my monkey bread-exploded basically over the sides of the pan almost! Hubby had never heard of it-giggled and gobbled it up by the handfuls! Hmm–goodies to create–that would be wonderful-magical a little time for moi…!Thanks!
i own several of your prints, would love to win a little gift from you. you are a wonderful spirit!
So jealous of all those lovely blooms you still have! Every year I promise myself I’ll plant flowers, and every year I forget. Ah well, at least I have plenty of lovely lettuce, arugula and spinach to feast my eyes (and tastebuds) on! Hope your weekend was lovely.
I adore pink and turquoise! The colors touch the depth of my soul with whimsy~
My brain is fried from the busy four day weekend…as the mom always has to work the most providing turkey and pies, etc. But it is all very worth while being with family and friends.
I refuse to view Yahoo news for a while as it puts me in a bad mood. Just too much ridiculous ‘stuff’ going on in the world. I would rather going iron clothes, or do chores, as that is much more rewarding of a past time…or being creative.
Thank you for your 20% off sale…I shall have a ‘look see’ in your Etsy shop.
Oh, and any giveaway you have is a joy!
Your rolls sound so yummy!
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I remain…always a CAT!
Miss Teresa
Happy Thanksgiving. This was our first Thanksgiving without my mom, but I tried to focus on how thankful I felt for having a mom that taught me to love books and words.
Your blog entry, as always, was lovely. It’s been surprisingly warm in Maine, and I have been able to still pick a few fresh herbs from my garden. The giant rolls look delicious!
Time for the knitting needles and a glass of wine.
Enjoy your Sunday evening.
Sarah
I am in love with your art!!! I can’t wait to see more. I would love to win this giveaway, thanks for offering this wonderful chance!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!And really, is there any better color combo than pink and turquoise?!
I love your blog and the magic you share 🙂
I’m glad you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for, don’t we. I’m thankful for finding your blog- it really brightens my day.
I am thankful to be back home to catch up on a week of Miss Vanessa and her Bizarre Arizona, goings on. I had a lovely time in CA for a Thanksgiving family gathering and my parents 50th Anniversary celebration! I am tired, but I can not sleep until I have visited Miss V, who is always delightful! 😉
Happy belated Thanksgiving festivities!!!!!! I would be most obliged if my name was picked in your give away because everything that bestows your touch brings me joy!
ahh, vanessa! u always inspire me to be the whimsical creature i feel inside, even when the pressures of my peers hold me back! thanks to you i have the courage to attempt new things, and never waste a worry on the judgements i might encounter! thanks! xoxo, Ariel
Oh POOOH I missed the sale…I was away visiting my puddleducks🖤 Now I can at the very least try for your generous giveaway.
Like you, I had a Thanksgiving to HP again, visiting my dear family…visit again soon🖤Debi
Vanessa, I really love your sugar plum fairy Xmas postcards. I have been looking at them and looking at them. (I make my own cards, but these are so cute) Sadly…I would be “dead meat” If I purchased cards, with all the “Supplies” I’ve already purchased…I could have 50 women come and make 50 cards each and still not run out of supplies! LOL and then some.
I also would like to say that vase is a unique piece…did you make it??
Just a suggestion, as hardly anyone makes them, how about some YULE cards?
Our TG was very nice, my youngest daughter hosted her first one! It was a proud day for me 🙂
Love n light,
Susan
Those rolls look delicious!!! Happy Thanksgiving 🙂
Thank you for offering the giveaway! Your lovely photos fill me with joy. xo
mmmm! lot’s of my favorites – pink, turquoise, flowers, bread and a give-away! Thank you Vanessa <3
I love your beautiful flowers & tablecloth! They look so cheery and springtimeish 🙂 I am always so inspired by all the pretty colors in your home. My husband and I will get our own home soon, and I can’t wait to paint and decorate in sunshiney, feel goody colors!
Pink and turquoise! My favorite color combination as well!
Beautiful! I hosted my very first (but small, thankfully) family Thanksgiving. It went well, with only a small hitch or two that was easily overcome with patience and understanding of kind family and friends. It’s lovely to be enveloped with good food, family and fun; a perfect start to the Holiday Season.
~Elle
I love trinkets-especially yours!
Oh pick me…pick me…I could use some of your magic…
I’m sure that your “bits and bobs” are sprinkled with magic dust… I would love to have a pinch of that to lure my Muse back. Thanks for a chance to win!
magic bag of goodies, enter me plez!
thank you lov!
Your blog is like a fantasy land filled with sprinkles and glitter! It is so lovely!
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lol… u left that wide open sweetie!!!!
muah!
Hi, I just started following your blog today, and I love it! Your DIY ideas are amazing; I love that creativity and you inspire me to do the same.
Happy holidays!