HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

Today the boy's and I will pamper hubby! He can sleep in a bit and then we'll have breakfast before we head out to the links for a little golf. Not sure yet where he will choose to lunch after our round of golf and then we'll do some grilling in the yard and enjoy dinner. He's really a super-duper DAD!

Oh the Treasures!

What a great morning for yard sales! Here is my haul; Chic Chenille Chair $20, Iron Bench $7, Coffee Grinder $2, Round suitcase $3, Wooden Flag $3, Lamp $3, Letter Organizer $3, Umbrella Stand $10, Globe $10, Petit Chandelier $4, Doll Chair $3, Candelier $5, and Vintage Green Make Up Case $3. The iron pieces are going to be shabby'd up. Please visit this sweet gals blog she's really talented and finds some really great treasures too!

Gorgeous Purple Pin $2.
Ruby colored pin also has piece to hang on a chain $2.
This is my haul from a few weekends ago lot's of rhinestones!
Off to price items for the shop and continue with the rest of my weekend chores!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Second Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser

On Saturday, May 31 we hosted our Second Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. In Mission Viejo we participate annually in the Relay for Life and along with my hubby and my BFF's we throw quite a party! This year we had twice as many guests attend - 75 and also had a wonderful band play! We had an abundance of really fabulous wines donated by many good friends; Schug, Guilliams, Silverado, Buena Vista, Flora Springs, Signorello, Rodney Strong, Berringer, Ocho and many more. Our friends from Coppola also donated some really fabulous silent auction baskets. We prepped food all morning and set up the yard - it looked really awesome and we did not want the night to end! We raised $2,700. for our cause in memory of our dearest BFF Judy - we lost her a few years ago to melanoma and since then have relayed in her memory. Her mom and dad were at the event again this year as well as her husband Fritz. Cheers!

The hosts! Jeff, Erin, Dar, Jill & Debra

A few of our silent auction items; signed bottles and baskets!

The "line-up" of wines was amazing! No spit bucket - there would be no spitting tonight!

Standing at attention and ready for pouring.

Don't you just love my canopy! It was made for me by this talented lady!

Our check-in table; raffle tickets were given out and guests guessed how many corks were in the wine bucket - there were a 119!

Our desserts were yummy! Cupcakes, brownies and delectible little petit fours!

Coronado Drive Bys

We spent last weekend in Coronado stay at this wonderful historic hotel!My sister and her family were visiting so the boys and I headed South to Coronado Island and enjoyed a fiew days at this beautiful resort. The weather however did not cooperate but it did not dampen our fun too much - ok except for the surry cycle ride! What started out as a fun ride around the island on a surry built for 6 ended in a down pour with two little one's strapped to the front literally hysterical by the time we were able to make it back. Nothing that a warm bath and a trip to the candy shop could not fix! We collected sand dollars and assorted "baby shells" on the beach. The kids rock climbed and we shopped for beach cottages!

Enjoy the Coronado Island drive by's - taken from the surry cycle speeding past.

RED is my Favorite Color

Sara Duckett of Sadie Olive is hosting a little tour of blogs featuring RED! Here are just a few of my favorite things! I'll try to add more photos tomorrow. My Vintage Red Wash Stand filled with Flowers on the Patio

Raspberries and Strawberries (Blueberries too)
My Red Hammock
My Girlfriend's Red Dining Room - in progress photo
My Red Hutch in the Kitchen

Hope you enjoyed the quick little tour...it's late and I'm too tired to take any more photoes right now.

The Color Purple

was everywhere Monday evening! We had an amazing turn out of wonderful guests at our First Cancer Survivors Dinner in Mission Viejo. There were approx 85 guests in attendance. We enjoyed music by Alan Levin who is an amazing performer and has been so generous with his talent for our Relay for Life for many years.

We had oodles of cupcakes - purple of course and delicious Mexican food donated by many of our local restaurants (I never even had a moment to taste a single thing the whole night)! Our gal pal Kathy gave a very moving testimony about being a survivor and what Relay has meant to her - she really rocks! The little flags in the cupcakes and flags in the centerpieces I made from a template that I purchased from talented Tracey!

THANK YOU DEBRA & PAT!!!

I'll be spending my weekend sprucing up the garden with the plants that I bought this morning from the Garden Club; shasta daisy's, foxgloves and ivy geranium's! and of couse a little trashing!

Some Catching up to do...

Stop and smell the flowers!

A little hectic lately here and I have been a lazy blogger...

Bathroom re-do. Our tiny master bath is going through a make-over. I forgot to take a before shot but here is the demo photo. Hopefully (fingers crossed) the after shot will be taken in a few days!

Front porch make-over. Here is the demo shot and here is a sneak peak of our in progress shot. We are loving the aluma-wood patio cover and christened it with a glass of chardonnay and smoked salmon this afternoon.

I'm up to my eye-balls in preparation for the dinner tomorrow night that I am hosting for cancer survivors and care-givers. We are topping out at 90 guests - YIKES!! I was hoping for a 100 and it looks like we are very close. We're going with a cinco de mayo food theme with food donated by a couple of generous Mexican restaurants, the cupcakes are tooooo cute 1/2 with purple frosting and 1/2 with white - I added the sprinkles. With all our renno this weekend there was not time to bake! I made cute little flags for the cupcakes and some bigger one's for the centerpieces thanks to the templates I bought from this talented lady! We are so busy getting our yard ready for our 2nd annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. We're hosting with my 3 girlfriends and the money raised will go to our team's fundraising for our Mission Viejo Relay for Life. We have about 3 weeks left to get everything looking "oh so perfect". Wish me luck tomorrow night - it should be a great night. I was getting a little choked up at times as I spoke to people on the phone calling in their RSVP's.