Pink Saturday~Wild Animal Park Pink

It's one of my favorite days: Pink Saturday! The pinks I have brought to the party are from my recent trip to visit my daughter and grandson in San Diego. My 2 sons came with me and we had such a great, memory-making time together. My first picture isn't pink but is pure sweetness; my oldest son and grandson adoring each other. Baby Philip rubs Uncle Adrian's wiskers ands says over and over in his baby boy voice "kitty", "kitty".

My daughter took me over to a lady's house where she sells shabby chic items that she makes. I bought this mirror with pink roses, and a couple of framed pictures with just-my-style floral prints.

The seller picks up frames of all kinds, as long as they are cheap, at garage sales and thrift stores. She makes these rose appliques in molds, from, I believe a plaster substance. She said it was her own secret formula. Then she paints it all white, or pink or green or blue, in an imperfect/shabby way. The decals are decoupaged as well.

I just love these and am going to try my hand at making my own.
The cupcakes are handmade lavender sachets created from vintage chenille, and embellished with buttons, pearls and/or sequins. To die for!

We decided to go to the Wild Animal Park in Encinitas. It is an extention of the San Diego Zoo, but,pretty low key, smaller and so peaceful. I pretty much took a million pictures of all kinds of creatures, but, these are the pink ones. Most of the other animals are grey, brown and tan so that they can blend into their surroundings and hide from preditors. So no hippo, meerkat or monkey pictures. For Pink Saturday, what else but PINK FLAMINGOS.

Painting the Table

Here is the bench that I will paint next. The girls are back from the store with everything BUT black spray paint. I guess this post should have been titled : " Preparing the table for painting ." Stay tuned. The weather is suppose to be in the 80's all week, so I expect to get it done.

I'm using the really course sand paper that I have on hand. Wish I had an electric sander; I bet I would feel so powerful. The texture of this sand paper creeped me out so I put on some garden gloves;much better.

Upside down table that I am going to paint. I really am! I asked 2 of my girls; Monica, 20 and Lilly, 13, whether I should paint it black, red or white, because I could go either way. They said "black!", in perfect harmony. They are on their way to buy black spray paint while I sand off the loose paint.