Look who was 8 months old last week:

She is growing up so fast and look at those two bottom teeth.  This was taken in India.  All the floors in her grandparents home is that marble and they look gorgeous.

I am so missing our Little Princess, can't wait to see her in November.

Well would you believe it, they let us back into Canada!!!

We're home.  We left Sunday afternoon, bit of a story behind that; and drove up to just past Cincinnati and stayed overnight there and arrived home late Monday afternoon.

Will get back into the swing of blogging after today.  Got some things to catch up on, including a pile of laundry.  Still got lots to share with you all about our trip.  We had a wonderful time.

Powder room renovation at daughter and son-in-laws house.

Last month dd and son-in-law decided to renovate the powder room.  I don't have a before photo which is such a shame, as it's night and day to what it was.  The floor was a beige and brown linoleum.  The walls were beige and there was a cheap wooden and sink.

First thing they did was pull up the floor and get rid of the vanity.  They painted the room a dark grey including the ceiling. and put in the white wainscotting at the bottom.  The put in a pedestal sink and little mosaic tiles on the floor.  Changed the light fixture and added new accessories.  They figured all in all this cost them around $700.

This is the floor tile, sorry the photo turned on me.  The floor vent is also a silver colour.

Dd is a huge fan of Young House Love and gets lots of ideas from them.

Some days you wonder what you're going to see next!!

Saw this the other day while driving to Gatlinburg!!  It's a motorized version of a red wagon, very neat.  I took the photos as we were passing in the car.  Had hoped they would stop at Sugarlands, but they went on through.

What a neat thing to travel in on a lovely day.  Not good for your hair though.

When we went to Gatlinburg the other day for the Arts and Crafts Trail we stopped at a restaurant.  There was a cart outside and the roof was really interesting with all the moss on top of it.  Shame it had artificial flowers in the middle of the cart.  Also won't mention the name of the restaurant (though look closely at the cart!!) as we did not enjoy the meal we had here.

Looked up and saw this hornets nest in the tree beside us.

I have to say we have had a mixed bunch of meals while away, more bad than good I am afraid.  But will say when they were good, they were really good!!!

Gatlinburg's Art's and Crafts Trail.

On Friday we drove the 8 mile loop of the Gatlinburg's Art's and Crafts Trail.  Done it before and it's a good way to spend a few hours.  Everything was being decorated for Fall despite the hot weather.

 The pumpkins were huge........

 Of course there was a quilt store that I HAD to go in.  I was very good though and only picked up a couple of zippers.

 This was a Christmas store, not that you would think that with all the pumpkins out front.  Got the fright of my life though when I walked around a corner in the store and bumped into Santa.  Full beard and the outfit.  First thing he asked me was had I been good, said I was trying to be, and he said at least you're trying!

 This was a beautiful wedding chapel.

We have been in the G.Webb Gallery before and I love his and his daughter Cami's work.  The work is still as lovely but I wasn't as tempted this time.  I know last time we went back and forth on a piece of original art for ages.  This time knowing we don't have the money to spend on it made it easier to visit.  Though there was a stunning original piece for $10,000 I would have loved to have!

 I bought a couple of things in this place, including a Limited Edition Serigraph by Debbie Littledeer for Our Little Sweetpea and a lovely little birthday card by Andrea Wilson

We also stopped in at Cherry Blossom Enterprises and bought a Cherry-Pit-Pac collar; and just to say it works..........

Have to say I have done my fair share of spending tourist dollars in the area!!  I hope you have time to click on the links as my photos don't do any of the places and products any justice.

A couple of Nursery photos.

Wanted to share with you a couple of photos of the nursery.  It's painted three walls grey and one wall pale pink.  The main feature on one wall is this tree decal.  Isn't it neat?  Dd bought it from an Etsy Store called Secret of the Cat they have lots of neat options on the site. In real life the tree is dark grey with bright pink birds, with paler pink wings, yellow beaks and feet.

It's a vinyl decal, that can be removed from the wall and was pretty simple to install.  As it was shipped from Chile, dd ended up paying an extra $20 for customs and duty.  I think it was well worth the money and is an outstanding feature in the room.  It is also not too baby-ish and will grow with Our Little Sweet Pea.

I'll share with you more photos when I have got all the sewing completed.

It could only happen to us!

I don't know why but some days I think we just attract the strangest type of people.  On our way down we stopped at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Tennessee to have a bite to eat.  We were minding our own business and eating our lunch when one of the servers came up to dh and asked what was on his t-shirt.  Dh said it was from the World Cup.  After seeing the blank expression on her face I said Soccer.

This is the t-shirt:

She went on to say "she thought it was maybe something to do with the theory of evolution and how we are all descended from people in Africa and thought he was brave wearing that around here?"  At our blank expressions she moved on.  Honestly it is a t-shirt from the 2010 World Cup Soccer, nothing more, nothing less!!!

Today we planned our day so we would have lunch at the Old Mill Restaurant in Pigeon Forge.  It is a very popular place and serves great corn chowder and corn fritters.  I love them and was really looking forward to them.  We are seated and across the way are a group of four people.  The one guy facing me tells me I am wearing an unusual t-shirt.  This is it:

What pray tell is unusual about this t-shirt?  So I say a couple of words back to him and he continues the conversation about my bloody t-shirt.  In the end I jokingly said stop looking at my chest, but no he carried on.  He was with his wife and two other guys and were older than us.  One of the other guys managed to change the conversation, thank goodness, but they continued to chat away, even when we got our soup.  They finally shut up when their meal came. 

Just after that our meal came and we had both ordered meatloaf with mashed potatoes and those bloody awful green beans.  What is it with everyone down here that they have to have green beans with everything?  Anyhow, we had just started eating our meal when the guy started to choke.  Then he vomited and coughed and coughed and coughed and vomited and vomited into his cloth napkin.  

Now despite not looking you could hear what was going on.  Suffice to say not only did I not eat my green beans, but barely touched the rest of my meal.  I was so disappointed, as I was looking forward to this meal; but I just couldn't stomach it. It turns out the guy had a Hiatus Hernia.  Oh well what can you do?

We finally got some rain, so fingers crossed it will cool down some.  Here is a view from our cabin looking towards Pigeon Forge.