~Don't you love antique wood~

Don't you just love the patina of Antique wood...I know I sure do and the warmth it gives off to me..I know so many in blog land will buy these pieces and shabby them up and paint them white...well I'm the nut that will buy them, stripe them and bring back the beauty of the wood...

Now this is one of my all time favorite shelf's that I got from Second Sunday swap meet...And I saved it's life...Oh I kid you not I really did...the gal I got it from had a whole booth of Shabby white pieces and said this piece had she taken time that week to shabby it up it would have sold right away...
But lucky for me...Everyone walked away from it because it wasn't chippy, painted,shabby enough YIPPEE!! I brought this puppy home for only $50.00...

Is it not a beauty...Oh I don't mean to offend anyone who likes that look really I don't...But I have spend good money buying pieces and many hours bringing them back to what they once would were...

I guess you could say I'm a purest...I just know it's so important for me to keep our history alive and I feel that is why I collect antiques so many generations from now can understand our past...

Thank you all for coming by my mountain top and putting up with this olden gal...

I'm joining my Dear Sweet friend Marty " At A Stroll Thru Life" for table top Tuesday...Please go by and see her and all the Great gals joining in today...Thank you Marty...

Until next time from my mountain to yours,

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~Winner-Winner Chicken Dinner~

Just Kidding!! No Chicken dinner here...But we do have 2 winners of my 2 years of Blogging anniversary...

Now to pick the winners I really went high tech here at Happy to Be...Got out my High tech scratch paper...wrote down each of your names as you entered....

Then I went to Mr. Random Number Thingy and let him pick the first winner...

Checked my high tech notes and the winner of the $50.00 Amazon gift card is...Drum roll PLEASE....

Mid-Atlantic Martha....Please email me your address so Amazon can send you your prize...And Thank you girl for entering...

Now I went back to Mr. Random number thingy to also pick the winner of the Pink 135 piece tool kit...

The winner is Sandra at " My Bella Rose" Thank you Sandra for also taking the time to enter my give away...Again email me your address so this can be send to you...

I want to thank all of you that did enter and for all the loyal support you guys have shown to me this past 2 years...

I wished I was Gloria Vanderbilt and could give each and everyone of my loyal followers a gift...

Each day when I come to blog land I feel that I'm a winner...I have met so many caring and sharing women here in blog land and if anyone would have told me 2 years ago I would be spending most of my day sitting at this computer, drinking pot after pot of coffee and eating chocolates and visiting with peeps I never met or will never meet this side of heaven ( I hope) I would have laughed big time...

As I visit your blogs you all just inspire me to want to be a better ME!!
I don't think you really know how many things I take away from visiting your blogs...

I take away the kindness you give, I take away the wonderful creative ideas that you show..I take away the great decorating tips that you give...And I take away a bit of friendship from each of you...I rejoice with your good times and pray for your bad times...I laugh at your humor and the sweet family pictures that are Priceless to you that you share with me....

I have met so many women that I feel I can now call Friend...
Each and every blog I visit I take something from it...You guys have made me smile you have made me pray you made me laugh and sometime I have even sat here at my desk and just balled like a baby...like when I see a blogger I just love close down their blog because it takes so much time to blog and maintain their real life sighs...I have seen your hearts my Dear friends and I thank you for that...

I have seen births and deaths in blog land....And I have cried with each one...Some times I ask myself" Gloria" how can you get upset over people you don't even know...and the answer is easy each one of you have a piece of my heart...Your not just a name on my computer you have become my Dear sweet friends...You are what makes me " Happy To Be"

I'm sending you all the BIGGEST cyber hug from my mountain to yours...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria