tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:58 +0000cookingcake decoratingbirthdaytablescapesholidaytaggedcrystalcupcakesshoppingIn the kitchenThriftstore bedroomchristmasprojectsfallmakeoversGardeningInspiration Fridaygarage saledecoratingcraftsthriftstorerecipes thriftstoredishesShow and Tellthrift store findsbakingTtransferwarevintage linensAround CaliforniaflowersHome Decorkidsroseshttp://romantichome.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Cindy)Blogger1295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-7555181844684584354Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-05-23T18:00:01.397-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! I've been in Hawaii for the past week and got home in the wee hours this morning (Wednesday).  We were supposed to get home last night but our flight was delayed.  I usually do my Show and Tell posts on Wednesday evenings so it can go up at 6pm Pacific Time on Thursday evening.  Since I've had very little sleep (I went to sleep sometime after 3am) and had http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/AVhbG_FY4XE/hawaii-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)15http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/hawaii-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-2680737488040555086Fri, 17 May 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-05-16T18:00:02.786-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  I'm in Hawaii (the Big Island) again so I only have vacation photos to share this week!  I arrived around 10:00 am Hawaiin time on Tuesday morning so I've only been here two days so far.  I wish you could feel the warm tropical breezes! They are wonderful! We went to the pool the first day and the beach yesterday!  Allens's daughter and 4 year old grandsonhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/xDXkTlYEawE/aloha-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)40http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/aloha-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-32909093897166783Sun, 12 May 2013 14:36:00 +00002013-05-12T07:36:13.484-07:00 Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers out there in blogland!  I hope you have a wonderful day! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/S8y967l0nNU/happy-mothers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)12http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-mothers-day.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-6656128251816666577Fri, 10 May 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-05-09T18:00:01.557-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! I don't have anything new to share this week so I compiled a bunch of old photos of some of my collection of birdcages!  I no longer have any birds but I do love bird cages!  People comment when they come here about all the bird cages with no birds...sometimes I feel like a crazy old woman.  They also comment about all the old mirrors in my home. I likehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/-WYMSsU4TL4/birdcages-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)38http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/birdcages-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-2102881647805107484Thu, 09 May 2013 02:02:00 +00002013-05-08T19:03:35.027-07:00 I've updated my Fit and Fabulous over Fifty blog a couple more times this week! I'm on a roll! Stop by and check it out: Fit and Fabulous over Fifty.  I'm sharing some exercises I'm doing and what I've eaten so far today! ....and thank you all so much for the nice comments you left about my weight loss journey! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/C9Qp4WzPuPs/getting-fit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)3http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-fit.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-5390104482186181699Tue, 07 May 2013 01:43:00 +00002013-05-06T19:06:25.807-07:00 Before June 2009                                        After May 2013 I shared some before and after pics on my Fit and Fabulous over Fifty blog! Stop by and see!  Click here: Fit and Fabulous over Fifty http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/y7h_OObPW8U/me-before-and-after.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)15http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/me-before-and-after.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-6861596370894752858Fri, 03 May 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-05-02T18:00:06.292-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! Again I'm sharing some of my garden roses! These white ones are called "French Lace" and the peachy pink ones are called "Nancy Reagan".  The French Lace roses are one of my favorites and they are used often in bridal bouquets. I bought these roses at the same time when I first moved into my little apartment 10 years ago!  I thought they http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/f7cP2iF7Rzw/bathroom-color-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)37http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/05/bathroom-color-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-3909315720352328119Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-04-25T18:00:00.387-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  I'm breaking my own rules this week and not sharing something from my home and garden. Rules are meant to be broken so if you feel the need to break my rule, please feel free to do so!   I'm hardly home these days but I am out enjoying life!  When I started my blog I was a single mom and I spent most of my time at home. Now that my youngest is going to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/kW4mopuTCto/a-day-in-carmel-california-and-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)43http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-day-in-carmel-california-and-food.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-6529008079005470484Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-04-18T18:00:01.154-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! Spring has sprung here in Northern California and I'm enjoying all my garden blooms!  This weekend it's supposed to be in the 80s so I think we are going straight to summer! I bought this wood box years ago and stenciled the word "Flowers" on the front of it.  It's been sitting in my backyard for the last couple years and now has a very faded and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/XY4kIGGzGI8/garden-blooms-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)52http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/garden-blooms-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-1581298563559622360Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-04-11T18:00:03.290-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  I love this time of year...when my Eden rose bush blooms again after its winter break!  I sure look forward to having these beautiful bouquets in my home again!  This bouquet will be the first of many! It blooms continuously from now until December!  I put these roses that I picked this morning in a little vintage cherub dish I have in my http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/tn9TIrqxYDg/my-eden-roses-are-blooming-show-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)40http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-eden-roses-are-blooming-show-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-1004834549287578588Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +00002013-04-05T09:01:18.746-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!   Last weekend I received an unexpected package in the mail!   I was so surprised when I opened it and found these beautiful glittered shells!  They are from a fellow blogger ~ "M" at OC Cottage!  She had sent me some of these years ago and I display them in my tiered dish every Christmas.  After a couple years they weren't looking so http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/ZKZPGP3OeBk/spring-shells-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)24http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/spring-shells-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-5098958028110787035Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:30:00 +00002013-04-04T08:30:01.718-07:00 Aloha from Hawaii! Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this to the world but I'm experiencing hot flashes more than any other woman I know! This horrible symptom of menopause has been going on for over two years for me! When will it end? If you haven't had a hot flash let me explain how it feels. It's different that just feeling hot from warm weather. It's more like an internal heat. It http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/LC6-MZhbj1Y/keeping-cool-in-hawaii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)102http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/keeping-cool-in-hawaii.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-2174751263967408887Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:09:00 +00002013-04-02T20:41:00.475-07:00.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Spring has Sprung!, originally uploaded by Romantic Home. Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that my Show and Tell Friday post won't be posted on Thursday evening like it usually is. I committed to doing an ad/product http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/FMExs3qXhrg/show-and-tell-will-be-delayed-this-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)8http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/04/show-and-tell-will-be-delayed-this-week.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-574443049154150999Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-03-28T18:00:03.338-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  Last weekend I finally decorated for Easter! A few years ago I bought all these faux chocolate Easter bunnies at Marshalls.  I love them and look forward to decorating with them every year! I also look forward to this time of the year because my lilacs are blooming.  I usually have numerous large bouquets of lilacs but not this year for some http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/hBQvndHTiA4/easter-decor-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)41http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/03/easter-decor-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-4053155722949910357Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-03-21T18:00:04.155-07:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! It's Wednesday evening as I write this post and I just got home from my vacation in Hawaii at 9pm. I'm so tired and I have to get up early to go to work tomorrow but I went through some of my photos to share with you.  Allen has a second home in a resort area in Hawaii and this photo above was taken from the pool area. We had an amazing sunset that night!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/JgMNZpoMIeM/my-hawaiian-vacation-show-and-tell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)40http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-hawaiian-vacation-show-and-tell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-2722619251184601338Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +00002013-03-14T18:00:02.786-07:00  Aloha! I'm blogging from Hawaii!  It's Wednesday at 5:00 pm Hawaiin time which is now 3 hours earlier than California time because they don't move the clocks forward for daylight savings time!  It's 81 degrees! I was sitting outside but had to come in because it's too warm!  I'm a California girl and grew up in that dry climate so any time I'm in humidity of any kind its hard on me!  Really http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/8zwsGtmGwvQ/aloha-from-hawaii-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)49http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/03/aloha-from-hawaii-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-1433697841938513874Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-03-07T18:00:00.405-08:00 My nephew, me, my niece and my daughter Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  Last weekend I met up with my nephew Andrew (my brother's son), my niece Erin (my sister's daughter) and my daughter, Lauren for lunch.  The only cousins missing from my side of the family were my son and my other niece.  My niece Erin lives in Arizona and I hadn't seen her in a very long time so I was so excited whenhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/2ET6FWm7egU/family-time-and-new-honey-pot-show-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)46http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/03/family-time-and-new-honey-pot-show-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-7103087543920025165Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-02-28T18:00:01.148-08:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!  Lots of things are beginning to bloom right now in Northern California including the camellias!  Floating camellia blossoms in a bowl of water is the traditional way to display them.  I used this beautiful cherub pedestal dish I've had for many years. I love the soft pink color against the aqua birdcage!   I love this time of year when http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/igY5BKsdKo8/camellias-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)46http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/02/camellias-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-8678404110087333319Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-02-21T18:00:00.531-08:00 Who doesn't love roses?  I do now but when I was young and moved into my first home I ripped out all the rose bushes because I hated roses! I replaced them with junipers!  Ugh...JUNIPERS!  It's really amazing how much our tastes can change over the years! Now I love roses... especially pink roses!  I'm really not into red roses at all!  Pink, peach, white, yellow, lavender... really http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/wUf0nyJWBVg/for-love-of-roses-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)54http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/02/for-love-of-roses-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-5387292700164731637Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-02-14T18:00:00.460-08:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! I decided to make some Valentine's Day cupcakes to take to work! Because it was a weeknight, I just used a box cake mix. My favorite box cake mix brand is Duncan Hines. I don't like ready-made frosting though so I mix up my own butter cream frosting. It's so much better!  I've shared this recipe before but I'll repost it so you don't have to hunt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/9JFUc2c7My0/valentines-day-cupcakes-show-and-tell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)36http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/02/valentines-day-cupcakes-show-and-tell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-15776840324944562Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-02-07T18:00:03.217-08:00 Feb 2012 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!   My life is busy! I bet yours is too! I know I said at the start of this year I was going to blog more than once a week and at the time I said that I really believed it but my life seems to get in the way of that these days and I feel like that I have half the free time that I used to have. I've been blogging since 2005! Maybe that's the reason. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/WSQiatfND8Q/four-years-of-february-show-and-tell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)57http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/02/four-years-of-february-show-and-tell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-7858205708288598485Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-01-31T19:22:29.439-08:00 You may remember I posted these snowflake candles on my blog earlier.  I bought them for 50% off after Christmas.  I went back to get some more and they were 75% off so I bought them all because I love them!   I've decided to share them...I'm giving away a set (one large and one small) to one lucky winner!  All you have to do is leave a comment saying you want to win them.   If you http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/CEnRV8nZKDo/a-candle-giveaway-and-show-and-tell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)97http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-candle-giveaway-and-show-and-tell.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-734638170402844500Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-01-24T18:46:21.129-08:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! Well, I did it! I went skiing after a 28 year break between the last time I did it!  I was well aware going into this that I am now 52 years old young (it is a state-of-mind) and the last time I skied was before I had children! Since my oldest is now 26 years old I 'm guessing it has been about 28 years since the last time I skied, which means I was about http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/NwT435EZ27w/skiing-is-like-riding-bike-and-show-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)46http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/01/skiing-is-like-riding-bike-and-show-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-2094237824873070962Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-01-17T18:00:04.693-08:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! I love paperwhites! I usually start to force paperwhites right after Thanksgiving so I have them blooming during Christmas but this year the holidays just seemed to sneak up on me and so I didn't plant these until right after Christmas! And they are already blooming!  I think it because it's been so cold here in California and the heater has http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/J-yayQ5jOSY/paperwhites-show-and-tell-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)46http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/01/paperwhites-show-and-tell-friday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13907926.post-6071436058276561635Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:00:00 +00002013-01-10T18:00:03.959-08:00 Welcome to Show and Tell Friday!   Ever since I bought my slipcovered sofa from Ikea I've wanted to get the matching chairs to go with it.  I don't know why I never thought to look on Craigslist for used ones until recently!  There are a lot on there and there are some great deals to be had!  I bought this Ikea Ektorp chair above for only $50 and it came with two sets of slipcovers!  I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyRomanticHome/~3/cnSVg48Z8ww/collecting-craigslist-chairs-show-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cindy)52http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/01/collecting-craigslist-chairs-show-and.html