It's Pink Saturday!

Each Saturday, Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound, hosts Pink Saturday.

I love attending the party and hope you will hop over and look at all the pink items

shown by bloggers from all over the United States. (Go to her home page here.)

Many years ago, my mother (who LOVED the color pink) presented me with several

pink paint color swatches and informed me that she was hiring "Willie", the best painter in town,

to come paint my bedroom.

I was to have pink dotted swiss curtains and a small club chair covered in pink flowered fabric.

I was going through a "my mother knows nothing" phase in my life and I will never forget how hurt she looked when I didn't jump up and down and clap when she presented her plans.

She also wanted to have "Willie" wallpaper my ceiling in pink rosebud paper. I said "ok" to everything but the wallpapered ceiling. I thought that was just too over the top.

So I dramatically rolled my eyes

and put the "squaeetis" on the rosebuds on the ceiling

and that ended that.

I have always regretted my stupidity...

my mother was ahead of the curve, because shortly after our conversation,

wallpapered ceilings became the "in" thing and I was stuck with a plain old white one.

(Live and learn!)

My "entry" in the Pink Saturday Party today is a

shadow box that I arranged for my granddaughter.

Her great, great grandmother's Kewpie Doll is the star of this show!

She once was naked as a jaybird, but I made a tutu from an elastic hairband and a top

from a piece of ribbon to cover her properly.


I don't know how it happened but I broke the "grandmother" cup while assembling

the shadowbox...behind, Kewpie is a needle keeper in the shape of a pink rosebud. In the upper

right hand corner is a tiny piece of embroidery made by her great, great, great grandmother!

Wow! We have some serious memories here.

The porcelain Minnie Mouse was the possession of my husband's mother when she was a little girl.

Another Kewpie forms the background...a little gift enclosure card...my grandmother gave

me a set of the cards when I was little and I've always kept them...

couldn't bear to use them.

A doll's spoon, a few pressed flowers and a Mother of Pearl button complete the scene.

Today, my house doesn't lend itself to pink and I think I might have to do something

about that! I'm beginning to lean in that direction once again.

I also found a package of Barbie notecards for granddaughter..

For some reason tonight a wave of nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks.

I thank Beverly for hosting Pink Saturday,

it reminds me of days gone by...

when things were simpler, sweeter, prettier somehow.

May all your Saturdays be PINK,