1947 Susie Q's My REFLECTIONS...

Pick yourself up an old book sometime if you want to see IF times have changed

and IF so how they may HAVE or HAVE NOT.

THIS Reflections booklet is from 1947

Love the Name SuzieQ

(even call one of my granddaughters Suzie Q)

Susie Q gets to test her skills on her personal life from 1-4 then scores at the end.

Were you ever taught to hang your head over the bed and brush your hair 50 - 100 times

before going to bed?

Stepping stones to measuring up...

Like being broadminded, listening to others points of views, tolerant of your family,

Life is a give and take process.

Be tolerant of others, it's a free country.

Have I the character I'll need

to face this life in word and deed?

Mirror Mirror on the wall.

Do I keep myself in check when the crowd begins to neck? lol!

Do I resist the request to pet? Boys like the girls they never get.

Do I know how to get a date or must I just sit home and wait?

If I am friendly and attractive the boys will all be retroactive!

Yeah right.

Whether you spend your life in the sun or the shade depends upon you.

Keep your head in the clouds, your feet on the ground, your heart in whatever you may do,

and a smile on your face.

Good luck to You

See... its not so different today than 60 years ago?

HOTTER than the DEVIL...and one HOT MAMMA are here

Good "hotter than hell" afternoon friends...OOPS...is that FRENCH?  Well, it happens to be
103 degrees our hottest day of the year here in Northern Utah...so I can speak French, right?
                                                    Are you speaking FRENCH too?
                                                          Cause its okay... today

While YOU are basking in  air conditioned homes/offices or swimming at the pool, your vintage shopkeepers around YOUR town are getting ready BEHIND the scenes for the Other HOT season soon to be on its way...soon enough
                                                                     HALLOWEEN
                                                                        It's coming..

                      HAUNTING shabby dolls and doll parts collected all year long are tucked
                                          in the" Do not open till Halloween season" boxes...
                                            GOOD cause they give me the Heebie Jeebies!

                                                                         SERIOUSLY
                                                               keeping that boxed closes tight!

                  Pretty vintage pink pom poms/ tassels in fall colors, tea dyed laces arriving daily.
                                     So YOU can create a shabby or haunting home & fabulous costumes.
                             Speaking of HALLOWEEN COSTUMES...TAKE A PEEK AT THIS:
                                                                 CLOSE YOUR EYES FIRST!

Now open

Fooled ya...

This is a fantastic  pale gold vintage party dress with rhinestones...

but its NOT this one I want you  to ohhh and ahhh about.

It's THIS one...ready?

I call it the HOT MAMMA vintage NAUGHTY!

check out the little crochet nipples

if you don't beleive me!

This is the back frills, can you see the pink dangling garters...

The past owner from Brigham city

YES, you read that right ... BRIGHAM CITY UTAH...

evidence of some parties goin on there in Brigham.

Granddaughter said Grandma was one Hot Mamma

unique in her own way.

she grinned and giggled and so did I!

( I must show a better picture when it gets all fastened up cause its such a cutie)

and a whoa for a vintage costume.)

And SPARKLY BLISS is her name

she's coming "OUT OF THE CLOSET" soon enough.

I could go on...it's so much fun

but I need to relax on the porch and enjoy a hot summer day before they end.

Joni came home from Hawaii bearing gifts

from cinnamon girl Maui.

Can empty, bag opened. so good and thoughtful.

Thanks Joni!

Shabby French Bathroom chic...

Poodle bathroom accessories from the 50's/60's  with rhinestones!

Iron based ornate small table, pink topped childs rocker,

marble lamp, little pink table,

adorable plant/tea cup stand

to make home a touch of french chic

Just a bed of roses, a great place to get your back to school purses

Remember when you purchase $50.00

you will receive certificates for 2  complimentary cupcakes at

vintage cupcake Co. or Sugar daisies.

60's song for the day...

Downtown...Petula Clark

When your alone and life is making you lonely you can always go

Downtown.

when you got worries all the noise and the hurries seem to help I know

Downtown...

Cant help it, in love with my satellite radio station

thinking of getting one for the shop

then we can listen all day

to the 60's

Hmm...great idea!

SUGAR DAISY BAKERY come get your coupon

Sugar Daisy Bakery is located in Kaysville

Owner Marni Costley

Had I not left the card home I could give you the exact address.

It is located to the south of Taco Time/Bell in a white strip mall area.

will insert address soon here...

help me out Mimi. k?

WHY AM I TELLING YOU ABOUT SUGAR DAISY bakery...

#1. It's dang cute eye candy and oh so yummy

#2. they do special occasion baking and weddings

#3. WE ARE DOING A PROMOTION WITH THEM!

Same thing as with VINTAGE CUPCAKE on 24th Ogden

By the way...VINTAGE CUPCAKE CO. will open a SECOND LOCATION

THIS WEEK AT THE NEWGATE MALL FOOD COURT

You may also redeem your coupons there.

What the promotion is:

When you spend $50.00 or more at Just a Bed of Roses

we give you 2 complimentary cupcakes!

Yeah!

How nice are we!!!

It's summer...it's all about the cupcake and vintage shops, right?

I thought it would be nice to offer TWO cupcake shops because some of you come

in so many times and I thought you may need a closer place to try too. 

It's all about accommodating you!

Sweet again.

Now you have TWO CUPCAKE shops to visit this summer

Coupons will be given out the month

of July

and must redeem by August 31, 2010

We'll see you soon...

and you must come check out EVERYTHING in the shop

Special evening in Paris...Salt lake city

Shellie planned a special occasion at The Paris Bistro on 15th s. 15th e.

in Salt lake city, quaint romantic setting...

eat inside or out.

Escargo was ordered as a "first" try for many, lets see how it goes for Shellie...

!

Hard to place in the mouth, but turned out very delish-i-o-so

everyone agreed.

Some had cold beet soup, french onion soup and 

pardon, none of the french name I remember at all. 

Have to laugh, husband thought he needed to see a dr. today

and I reminded him he ate too many red beets.

(Not to be gross)

But hey, even Oprah thought she was dying when she had eaten beets.

I tried a nice salad with candied walnuts and goats cheese,oh so good.

Miss Manners here...using the snail crackers to eat  apple slices she

sweetly BEGGED the waiter for in her cute little spanish accented voice...

then can I have strawberries and blueberries too?

Okay darling, your really pushing it!

again...being the creative princess (at times) child that she is

And please lets just TURN OUR HEADS and ignore when she eats her spaghetti...Oh dear child!

And sorry about the 3 photos...tried to edit/eliminate the first two and obviously it

isnt working.

The choices of meals were so amazing.

This was something like sweet squash noodle thing, probably one of the

tastiest foods I have eaten in a very long time. first bite...sweet and memorable.

This is a lovely place to take friends.

French desserts...this is just one of the many so we could sample them all...

a lemon cheesecake, not like you've had before.

And grandpa RESCUES daddy...HE WILL WATCH the sweet angel grandchildren in the car

while the rest finish up with a fantastic french party

for two boys who graduated from Stanford and Berkely college

Proud of you two grandsons!

Congratulations.

Crowns arrived on stakes and charms...stakes will be here today and gone

tomorrow...hurry in soon.

We are still running the cupcake coupon through July.

Hope your weekend was wonderful too.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE...after the PARADE SATURDAY

After the Farmington town parade is over about 11:30

come over and LOVE WHATS NEW...

This IS the purse everyone has been waiting for since last nov.

is now in...only 2 each color of black,red,white,aqua, pink and a brownish gray.

Rose purses in white,pink,black,white & aqua.

only 2 each so we don't saturate the market.

Glittered garden stake crowns

PARTY WITH THESE GLITZIES

ARE YOU IN LOVE NOW?

Open AFTER THE PARADE about 11:30

If these don't do it...check out the funniest neclaces from Jayna...

there is one about calling your friend and needing to borrow her weight watcher points...

oh my heck!

I need that one, just having sat down with a carton of rocky road ice cream

where is that spinach /banana shake when I need one?

Plus...we still are giving out cupcake coupons to Vintage cupcake co. in Ogden

with a  $50.00 or more purchase.

Treat yourself!

Did someone say...VINTAGE CUPCAKE CO.?

Todays PURCHASES...for ME!

I love a day off...this morning MR.Roses and I made our weekly vintage delivery to the General Store

Chics co-op...and  need to let them know how tickled to now own this beyond charming 

chippy /rusty paint tole patio table and chair set.

(we drop off, and haul more back home!)

This is going inside or outside MY  Where Women Create work room

(as You know Jo one day...or REALITY  IS one of these YEARS my work room will be finished.

and I will invite you over...OF COURSE I know different... YOU do the inviting, so sorry!) But it helps MOTIVATE ME

 to CREATE and BUY wonderful display and storage pieces for my special working space.

Making room for 2 vehicles to fit in the garage last month was HUGE I TELL YOU...real PROGRESS!

 

Back to my purchases...say VINTAGE & CUPCAKE and I will find you!!!!

Adorable shop Michelle, all vintage...children/teens will love you!

Congratulations and I have customers who will love you.

So I am inviting them right now.

Here is the address: 470 24th street  Ogden ABOVE WASHINGTON BLVD. on North side.

Am I ever familiar with THAT AREA... my husband worked at ZCMI 17 years and for 2,000 hours

I went to Hollywood Beauty college and walked down that street( I mean hill every single day.

Hard stuff at night walking UP THE HILL.

college days...we were poor, no wheels.

Let's make a deal...when you spend 50.00 (reg. priced items) or more, I will give you one of the cards shown on

this table... as long as they last

and will buy you TWO VINTAGE CUPCAKES...in a CUTE PINK BOX!

My friend Maria was in visiting yesterday and she was telling me how she only eats LIVE FOODS, I agreed

that is a great way to eat, I surely must try it real soon.

However...these cupcakes seem very LIVE TO ME!

Lets see that was SPINACH & BANANA SMOOTHIES wasn't it?

Yes yes it was, but you added something else.

visit: http://www.vintagecakecoblogspot.com/

and also General store: Gentile/Main northwest corner.

my products usually have the tea stained tags on them.

There is great stuff at all our places

come see us this summer!

Now off to see Vampires and Wolves fight over Bella...why????

Just being a good follower of what's popular

A Hoola Hoop summer...

Any of this going on lately?

It is quite adorable (when YOUR not the mother)

This picture was on the back of a knitting leaflet that came from Mickys knitcraft studio on 27th.

Ogdenites remember that sweet place and wonderful Mickey?

That was a good 25 years ago, Micky had that old home stacked with handwork supplies

 floor to ceiling and she KNEW where everything was.

Were you into counted cross-stitching like I was in the 80's?

I would never do that now and at that time

I was raising 4 (wild) children!

It's fun to look back isn't it.

Sneak away to Just a bed of roses to relax and see what's new/alot of vintage has arrived.

A huge shabby white ornate mirror, black vintage crystal chandalier in 2 sizes,

french style home decor

Rose purses in white/black/pink arriving this week and a handbag style

everyone has been waiting for since November.

What can you do with these vintage handmade flower squares for only 6.00 each?

There is probably 20 of them.

Pillow, summer banner, framed and sure originally was for a quilt.

Come get refreshed with a complimentary ice cold bottled water!

See you this week!

Vintage Flower Garden make-over during the 4th of July Holiday

A beautiful morning isn't it...Mr. Roses and I worked on a vintage yard decor make-over.

Our yard was just feeling a little too  pink,purple, white with splashes of yellow...a little too dull

 I suppose for us.

After all, a grandmothers garden were flowers of EVERY hue?

right?

We saw this idea at Gardners village in front of a gift shop, they had taken a giant antique trunk 

 which had beautiful garden of

flowers spilling from it...and we instantly knew that was for us.

We placed the trunk where it would get sprinkler water well, drilled many holes in the bottom

for some decent drainage and since we didn't pay much for the trunk  (by the way don't you love

the neat colored stripes on it) we felt

like it was a nice display to enjoy for little money paid.

Now almost all planted, with some colorful asiatic lillies that will fill in really full and big

and will add bolder splashes of colors to our old fashioned yard.

I'm using old  metal wood burning stove pokers to hold up the flowers for awhile.

The fourth of July was a special day with excitement everywhere.

Long before the high school band marked time in the village square....

Fireworks:

Fireworks, fireworks!

Oh, what a joy

For the wide-eyed girl

and the wide-eyed boy

Who watch a flaming ball

burst into spray

a shower of sparks

making night like day.

red sparks and green sparks

and silver sparks glow.

to be greeted by a rapturous

and long-drawn Ooooh!

Fireworks, fireworks,

lighting the sky

What a glorious ending

to the fourth of July!

Ours was spent with the grandchildren watching the Eaglewood golf course display of fireworks,

what a spectacular setting it was for everyone who came to enjoy the

peace and beauty of this day and evening there.

Hoping yours was every bit as special.

See you this week!

Are you loving this weather!

I'm going back outside now to refinish an antique pie cupboard, primitive chest,

child antique desk, and some odds and ends, even some shabby mirrors.

My kind of day!

AMERICA...you ARE BEAUTIFUL

It's everywhere you look...Happy Birthday!

Complimentary bottled ICE WATER...come get refreshed

Here at Just a bed of Roses we offer complimentary bottled ICE WATER while you shop

through JULY AND AUGUST

Come get REFRESHED during these hot summer days

Here Now!

Summer hours: Mon-Friday  11-5:30

Saturdays 11-4:30 or so

CLOSED THIS SATURDAY AND MONDAY

FOR THE 4TH OF JULY HOLIDAY