Christmas Last Minute Touches

I hope you're  enjoying the holidays, family and friends. I'm still adding a few touches here and there and loving every minute of it.

This wonderful Father Christmas was painted by my dear talented friend Theresa Lott Stanley in the early 90's.

  

It's wonderful to bring out our treasures once a year to enjoy the season.

We can find more places to tuck this and that, this year over my mantle I used gold, copper and bronze it was nice for a change. I wish you and your family a very blest Christmas season. Kathy Morgan Lovitt

I'm Late, I'm Late

Hello Friends,

 

Lots going on and I want to tell you everything,

Let's have all the children paint the flowers Red for a Party.

 Alice in Wonderland

 

I want to share a little of what I have been up to. 

Set staging for a dramatic photos shoot with a lovely family.
It was this time last year, hot, hot and hot.

 

 Acclaimed photographer, Toni Riales with Studio TRP Production, www.toniriales.com

Tons more, I have been as busy as the white rabbit.

 I want to get back in the swing of posting.  I have been swamped with

my new career as life coaching

 Check us out: 

https://www.facebook.com/liveavictoriouslife?ref=hl

 

 

Kathy Lovitt, Personal Growth Coach, Virtual Mentor and Creative Redirection Muse

That's a mouthful.

Have The Time Robbers Attacked Again?

Hello Friends,

 What in the heck has happened to TIME,

 

                     have the time robbers                      

 

appeared again and stolen from me a year of my life?

 

 

 

 

Have I been in a deep sleep, brought about by eating

 

 

 

 

 

that darn poison apple   

 

     and still waiting for the dreamy prince to plant one on me?

 

Nothing as exciting as waiting for a prince, although,

 

I have been busy taking online classes

 

in Life Coaching and that is exciting for me. 

 

 

Starting over, studying, testing and writing is



is not the norm for me but I have enjoyed every minute of it


and looking forward to walking with others


towards reaching their dream.

Enjoy this beautiful day God has blessed us with.
Your friend Kathy

 

 



Welcome to Wonderland

My very special friends the Searcy's and Caton's came 

 

from Wetumpka for an afternoon of magic and celebration. 

Publix's Bakery prepared the cake, seemed natural to request a stump with mushrooms.

 

 I couldn't have been happier.

 

My friend, Theresa is always there to help and she waved her magic wand.

 

She made acorns out of donut holes, sprinkles and pretzels,

 

from meringues and pretzels became woodland mushrooms.

  

 

 The magical woodland scene was set.

 

 Big Sister, Janie Bess, made the day perfect

by reading magical adventures from a pop-up book, to

her little brother.

 

 

Hope you are spending time in wonderland this summer.



A Short Trip to France by Detour of New Orleans

Hello Friends,
Last week I was lucky to spend a couple days in New Orleans with girlfriends.  I had always heard
of the Old Ursuline Convent and gardens on Chartes Street. It's the oldest French-colonial architecture in the United States and it was just up the road from me.  The Convent was never open in the past so I was so excited to get a chance to peek behind the wall to see the gardens. 

This order of French Urseline nuns came to our country in 1722 to build their school, a stucco covered brick in 1752, the new building, also known as Old Ursuline Convent, is typical for the French neoclassical architecture.  It is a formal, symmetrical building, severely designed in its lack of ornamentation. No applied orders of pilasters or columns relieved the plain walls. Only the slightly arched window set in shallow moldings, the rusticated quoins at the corners and narrow central pedimented pavilion break the even rhythm of the fenestration.

After you enter the gate you are facing their lovely French Boxwood sculptured garden.  Just Lovely.

 

 

 Letter written to the Ursuline nuns in 1804 by Thomas Jefferson
Washington, May 15, 1804

 I have received, holy sisters, the letter you have written me wherein you
express anxiety for the property vested in your institution by the former
governments of Louisiana.  The principles of the constitution and government of
the United States are a guarantee to you that it will be preserved to you, sacred
and inviolate, and that your institution will be permitted to govern itself
according to its own voluntary rules, without interference from the civil
authority.  Whatever the diversity of shade may appear in the religious opinions
of our fellow citizens, the charitable objects of your institution cannot be
indifferent to any; and its furtherance of the wholesome purposes of society, by
training up its younger members in the way they should go, cannot fail to ensure
it the patronage of the government it is under.  Be assured it will meet all the
protection which my office can give it.
 I salute you, holy sisters, with friendship and respect.

                                                        Thomas Jefferson

So much history.

 

 

Be sure to see the herb gardens, which inspired one of the nuns to become the first pharmacist in the United States: she was never licensed, but she published a list of herbs that cured various maladies.

                          
 A stroll around back will take you to their kitchen herb garden.

 

 

 

The Sisters no longer work in the garden but they do have a local

gourmet restaurant, just around the corner,  who keeps it up for the herbs.

Pretty good exchange. 

 

 

If you make it to Big Easy drop by for your fix of loveliness.

 

Enjoy this wonderful week God has made for us.  Kathy

 

I am joining my friend Linda with Coastal Charm

http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2014/06/show-and-share-party-no218.html

ENTERTAINING FAIRIES

OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN

 

 

I can't.... but I am young at heart and can still

 

take every opportunity to enjoy

 

the magic of kids in their

 

wonderful imagination and fantasy world

 

they live in for just a brief time.

 

 

 

Grandmothers, mothers, fairies

and 1 little Peter Pan

 

joined the Fairy party this year for lots of

 

 

bubbles, hopscotch,

 

 



 

reading, giggling and fun 

 

 

 

Flavored Fairy dew drop teas were on the menu and

 

lots of Fairy delights to eat.

 

 

Goodbye Dear Fairies Until Next Party, Ms. Kathy Loves You

                                                                    THE END

 Hope you can share some of those

 

magical moments with that special child.

 

Enjoy this blessed summer and stay cool.

I will be joining Mosaic Monday at Dear Little Red House

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2014/06/mosaic-monday-hyde-park-rose-garden.html

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