PAINTING SOME FURNITURE AND MORE SUMMER FUN!

The "What shall I wear" dilemma I wrote about last week ended up with me choosing the color block dress with a cardigan also from Old Navy (from a few years ago).  It was a good choice as our evenings have been getting cold.  The other dress is great and I was going to wear it at the lake this past weekend but I found when I put it on that the top hangs very low.  Even with a flesh/beige bra, it fell pretty far down!  So I think I may do some alterations on the straps.  And thanks for your votes...everyone seemed to really like this one, I do, too.

This is Snow and her hubby Craig.  You might have "met" them before as they come up to the lake quite often. The Husband and Craig grew up with each other... went to the same grammar school, high school, college and law school.  Wow! And if you look closely, you can see that Snow is also wearing a maxi.  We had a great dinner on their deck and then sat on their front porch which faces a park.  It was a really nice evening.

This is Snow's little (big) baby, Cassie.  She wanted to hang out with the girls.  She is the prettiest, most sweetest German Shepherd I've ever been around.  She's huge but she's so graceful.  She would wind around our chairs on the crowded porch and you would never know she was there.  Isn't she pretty?

This is my July 4th haul from Deals that I mentioned in my last post.  I'm so excited to start jazzing up the patio.  I was going to do it this weekend and then I thought it might just blow away.  Everyone is emailing and texting about what sort of food and dishes to bring.  With breakfast, lunch and dinner and appetizers going all day, it's like A Taste of Diamond Lake.  

The lake fireworks show is Friday night.  I think I've told you, everyone goes out on the lake in their boats and anchor and the fireworks are shot off from the island.  We used to have a pontoon boat in addition to the speedboat but it was just too much to take care of so we sold it a few years ago.  But when we had it we could get all of our guests out on the lake.  Now The Husband makes sure he gets the kids out and the rest of us sit on the shore.  As for myself, I sit on my upstairs balcony with 2 shaking basket case sort of pups.  Even the random firecrackers going off now scares the daylights out of Milo.  And another thing we have that is so fun, a live band plays on the shore of the sandbar and everyone anchors and gets into the knee high water to dance and float and play Frisbee.  My sons actually drive our guests over on the boat group by group to drop them off.  Oh, it's so much fun!

I arrived this weekend to find my lady slippers growing like crazy.  These multiply like prolifically so I may divide them and bring some back here to the city once they're done blooming.  I should have neatened up the gardens a bit but I have all sorts of plans for after the 4th and we get into a routine.

This is what I busied myself with.  The Husband bought this used picnic table and benches years ago and it was the most unflattering shade of gray.  Gun metal gray as you can see (the benches I already have painted in this picture).  He would not let me get near them with a paintbrush and every spring would put this monstrosity in my pretty English garden.  And then he would defiantly sit at it with his coffee and newspaper every morning.  Finally this year, with said ugly paint peeling, he said, "Do what you want with it."  So faster then you can say Sherwin Williams, I was on that set.  I also hauled out a coffee table that I have in a corner seating area in the Great room and painted that.  I really, really do not like this table and don't know where I found it and why I've kept it.  So I thought I would give it a chance with a paint job and if I didn't like it I would put it down by the road.

This is the before...I already had the legs painted.

And here she is in the corner sitting nook with some fresh picked daisies and a basket of shells.

So...is it a keeper?  

Well, that's what I did all weekend.  I was smack dab in the middle of the garden with no shade but definitely my sunscreen and I got a little color.  The Husband worked on cleaning his grill and worked even more on the beach (he is obsessed with having the PERFECT beach).  And Milo met a 

few visiting dogs (not only do our neighbors bring their dogs, their friends bring their dogs so we always have a menagerie of hounds running around).  Milo promptly met a golden retriever,  "Edie" five minutes after we arrived Friday night and actually leaped through the creek to get to her.  It would have made for a great little romantic  video captured in slow motion with the Theme From Chariots of Fire playing. When I jogged over to drag his butt home, he wouldn't come back  via the creek.  I had to walk down the road 1/4 of a mile.  He did double duty on the lead line that night.  

 The Husband and I worked up quite a sweat laboring at the painting and grill cleaning and we spontaneously decided to go on our first boat ride.  The skies were blue and the water just perfect.  Believe it or not, this lake gets crowded with boats and people jet skiing, tubing and water skiing.  But it was wonderful Sunday.

So we are back home and dealing with the rain...more thunderstorms early this evening.  I was able to pull some crabgrass before it started...my backyard garden looks like a jungle and I just don't want to deal with it until next week.  

Well, I'm glad I squeezed in a post.  I still don't have internet at the lake and I may be going as early as Wednesday morning.  So I'm wishing all of you a wonderful and safe Independence Day.  Wave that flag proudly and celebrate!! :)

Joining Tweak It Tuesday at Brenda's blog, Cozy Little House.

XO,

Jane 

THE JOYS OF SUMMER

I hope everyone is having a great week and that you're gearing up for the weekend before the BIG weekend!  I have been stocking up on 4th of July decorations here and there for the past few weeks.  We have such a nice bash at the lake that I add a little more to the patio every year.  I'll share some of the stuff I've found later, from paper lanterns to banners.  We have a store close by called Deals.  Do you have one of those?  Very much like the Dollar Tree.  The prices are great.  I bought separate packages of paper plates in red, white and blue, fifty in a pack, $1 each.  Oh my.

So it was back at the lake last week and all I had left to do was clean up the little Summerhouse (or guesthouse), and that only took an hour.  We hung out with our neighbors a few houses down, they are sort of new friends,  They moved in about three years ago but it's hard to get together with having company or missing each other while on boat rides, etc.  Finally Diane and I exchanged phone numbers so we can text each other instead of yelling across the bay and over a creek, "Come on over and have a beer!"

And this is what's blooming in Michigan.  These are my Eden roses that are supposed to be climbing up the arbor but instead are flopping all over.  I need to pick up some of those fabric ties and coax these pretty roses upward.

I planted this, spiderwort, last fall and to be honest, when I saw it this year I thought it was dying.  The leaves are chartreuse colored and really pop in the garden.  

And then they get these deep violet flowers.  I think I may plant some here in the city...I just love the colors.  Are any of you familiar with it?  Does it spread well?

I forgot the name of this rose, my climber (who also needs some directional advice).  It's doing very well after last summer when something microscopic was nibbling on it's leaves.

With my extra time I made a pretty little tablescape on the patio.  We grilled on Saturday as it was turning to dusk and just as The Husband was taking the food off the BBQ, a storm blew in that almost took everything off the table.  Chicago and northern Illinois were hit much harder by this storm.  Abby had girlfriends over and they made a beeline for the basement when the wind picked up.  My friend Melanie from Comfy House posted pictures of the damage in her area northwest of us in Illinois.  And that's just how the weather has been around here for the past few weeks.  It can be sunny and bright and then 15 minutes later, the skies darken and a storm blows in.  One thing that is constant is the humidity.  Though we rarely go over 80 degrees and the nights are cool, the humidity just hangs in the air making it feel warmer.  Well, enough complaining, I'm happy it's not a drought.

One of the first things I did when we got to the lake was take away the lounge chairs and the palm tree that The Husband had added in front of my new gallery wall.  This looks much better.  We have some shingles we have to paint and patch but I am loving my new wall.

I don't think I've mentioned much that across the road from us are woods.  Back in the day The Husband would take the kids and our old dog Shadow out into them during the winter to explore.  In the summer the poison ivy is rampant.  Do you know that even if your dog walks in it and brings it into your home or yard, you can catch it?

As I said earlier, there is a creek that divides us from Diane and Tom's house so we take the road.  Here is The Husband doing God knows what.  Our house is just around that bend on the right and the lake just beyond.  

We arrived home Monday morning.  Tuesday was son Kevin's birthday and his wife, MC, had told us he had been wanting a bike.  He told us he was stopping by after work so I pushed The Husband out the door at around 4:00 p.m. to go buy a bike before Kevin got here.  He was back in an hour and we lugged it inside.  And promptly a pedal fell off.  So back in the car and to the bicycle shop it went.  Hubby was back and with the bike as good as new (don't ask me why we were so compelled to have it in the living room, now that I think of it we could have just had it on the sidewalk!).  Anyway, Kevin walked in and in his usual fashion didn't notice it for 5 minutes.  I'm sure he SAW the bike, it just didn't register that it was in our living room!!  He was super happy.  He wants to get in shape so this might be the ticket.  The whole family, including Papa, went out for dinner at a nice steakhouse that has been here since the 50's.  Papa has had a standing Friday night date there for the past thirty years.  It was fun.

So back in Chicago, I worked in my garden between thunderstorms.  I painted this old cabinet (or maybe it was a nightstand) a long time ago and never had a place to put it.  I never liked the color too much either but I'm finding it works well on the patio to store my birdseed.  And speaking of my adventures in feeding birds for the first time, I'm still filling the feeder everyday, which is no small feat as I have to stand on a rickety chair and unhook it way above my head.  Sometimes I'm cruel and let a day go by and once I refill it, they are back in less than 5 minutes.  Do they smell it?  I just looked out the window and there are about 10 sparrows eating the seed off the ground inches from a baby squirrel doing the same.  Harmony!

My Knockout roses are just that, knockouts!

And I just started tying and pinching back my container tomato plants.

This is the first year I've planted cleome and it's just starting to bloom.  It has a very spidery look when it's mature.  My SIL used to grow it around her built in pool where the sun beat down and it would reach five feet high.  And it drops seed and sometimes re~blooms the following year which is really odd for the upper Midwest.  I'll share a picture once it's further along.

Enough flowers!  I had Abby and Tom for dinner last night.  I didn't fuss with a table setting but I wanted to show you this Turkish towel I found in Asheville a few weeks ago.  It's the orange and white thing I'm using as a runner.  The girl in the shop said people were using them for everything.

My everyday dishes and the infamous Pottery Barn napkins that I sold my soul for.  My daughter calls them my "hippie napkins".  Anyway, I made flat iron steaks.  Have you ever had those?  They're long and flat and come out melting in your mouth although there is little if any fat on them.  I wish I had pictures.  I also made Smashed Baked Potatoes by The Pioneer Woman.  I peel and cut Idaho potatoes in 1/4 inch rounds, spread them out on a parchment paper lined baking sheet (the key is the parchment paper that keeps them from sticking and ripping to pieces).  Season and drizzle with olive oil then bake until tender.  Mash each round with a fork and then you can serve or in my case I like to let them go under the broiler for just a second to brown the tops.  Steamed broccoli with shaved Parmesan and corn rounded it all out.  Next time, pictures!

 

Okay, I'm in the home stretch.  If there is one thing I will break my diet for, it's melon.  It wouldn't be summer without it.  Honeydew, cantaloupe and watermelon.  On a low carb diet you can really only have blueberries and raspberries, so I feel some guilt but heck...it's fruit.  Better to cheat with fruit than a chocolate cake (which isn't a bad idea either).  Oh, and a generous slice of prosciutto wrapped around the melon is the ultimate.  Heaven.  My friend Snow always brings the cantaloupe and prosciutto every time she and her family come to the lake.  She cuts her melon in big long slices and wraps and winds the ham all around.  You need a bib!

And speaking of Snow and hubby Craig, The Husband and I were invited over to their place for dinner tonight.  They live just up the street but we never seem to get together as much as we want.  Snow is a real estate agent and Craig is a busy lawyer.  Anyway, they just added on to their deck off the back of their house and want to show off a little with dinner al fresco at sunset.

And this leads me into concluding this never ending post with, "What shall I wear tonight?"  Old Navy is having a HUGE sale, but you have to go online as most of these dresses are not in the stores.  And there are tons!  So I have this one...

...and this one.  I'd like to pass myself off as this headless woman but I still need to shed a few more.  By the time you read this I will have probably been there and worn it but which do you like the best?  I'm loving nautical stripes. And  I'm loving maxi's because they are comfy and light and forgiving in all the right places.  Dress them up or wear them at the lake.  I cleaned out the Summerhouse in one, barefoot and cool.  I have some light cardigans in case it gets cool.  And I'll take pictures tonight!!

Tomorrow, back to the lake.  I think I'll decorate for the 4th this weekend as people will be coming as early as Wednesday night. Abby grabbed one of my new flags yesterday and popped it into a potted plant on the front porch.  I told it was too early and she wisely said, "It's never too early to be patriotic!" 

 I may hitch a ride with someone depending on The Husband's work schedule.  And this year he is eagerly planning the 2nd Annual Rocky River Kayak Trip.  Just for the adventurous types.  I will be on my (imaginary) hammock sipping a Bloody Mary. 

Happy Weekend! :)

XO,

Jane

MY HOME TOWN AT ITS FINEST...CHICAGO

Hi ladies...I'm back so soon!  I don't know how to pat myself on the back enough for this.  But this will be (hopefully) short as we are leaving for the lake bright and early.

We were downtown (Chicago) today.  The Husband had some medical procedures done at his hospital here and everything came out A~Ok.  So we spent some time wandering around the city. Please bear with me as I share some of the things I treasure about my city.   I have always loved the flower beds surrounded by classic wrought iron.   And these repeat up and down the streets in this area in unified succession. So pretty.  Renowned gardening and landscaping people have designed our sidewalks for years...they are works of art.

 

This is a sort of juxtaposition.  All I want to say is the CPD is the best.

And in the same vein...look at the diversity between two guys...in my interpretation not together.  Something that makes me think of how and where  and when we learn to bridge gaps of all kinds.  Just happened to see it in one of my photos.   Very much everyday life here.

Oh, and lots of lux.  The Husband splurged and bought me diamond earrings here,  Not!

Gino's East.  The BEST place for deep dish pizza!

Our waitress serving the first pieces.  After that you are on your own.  After one piece of deep dish pizza, you are pretty much bringing the rest home!

Need I say more?  Chicago pizza...truly the best!

Ah!  Switching gears.  My baby...Abby, went on a 5 day vacay to San Diego with her love, Tom.  Planned and scrimped over many months..several days into she got a kidney infection and spent the last few days flat on her back. She found a clinic and got antibiotic shots and prescriptions...she also followed up with her doctor here at home, but she's still in a lot of pain and flat on her back. 

And me?  I'm hanging out working in my garden beds whenever the sun breaks through these random thunderstorms we have been having over the past five days.  The rain is great for the grass and plants and flowers, but also for the weeds.  I've gone out between downpours and weeded a but...it's endless, I think.  I spend the rest of my waking hours with those summertime reads...I lay on my bed and pretend it's the beach!  And speaking of that...off we go bright and early!  The hard part is done and we will be getting ready for our 4th of July bash!  Just some fun in the sun with my (healthy) guy and that's all I need!  :)

Happy Weekend to all of you!

XO,

Jane

A LAKE GETAWAY

I really have to apologize (again) about this lack of blogging business.  It's been a week since my last post and I think I was able to visit blogs for a total of 3 hours total this week.  That's not a lot when you consider I follow over 300 blogs.  Please, please understand.  I hurt myself mainly because my personal goal is to blog 2~3 times a week.  And most of all it's depressing because I miss out on visiting your blogs and finding out what all of you are up to.  I'm working on it.  Truly. 

I had a bit of time to post on Friday but I thought I would bore you silly.  The week consisted of a little grocery shopping, a little shopping spree with Emily for her birthday, and a lot of puttering in the garden.  The battle continues with the squirrels.  They now know they cannot reach the bird feeder so they scramble around the patio eating seeds that my sloppy little birds drop.  Then, and I don't think they are trying to tuck away the seeds for later, but they have been digging in my pots and popping flowers out left and right.  This morning after being at the lake for several days, I found dead little flowers all over, they had just dried up.  The feeder was empty and I thought maybe I just wouldn't fill it again.  Seriously, I may have to move it and then I'll never hear them or watch their little antics.  I did have a tray of flowers I brought home with me so I potted them up in the poor old pots and I have them spread around, just not on the patio where I like the pop of colors.  Sigh.

As per usual, The Husband worked on everything and anything outdoors at the lake and I was shut in with the housework.  We arrived late Friday night and were up with the birds.  This sort of work usually takes place in late April or early May but with the cold weather and vacation in May, we are finally getting to it.  And it's a lot of work.  I got the kitchen clean which is a huge job.  If you think open shelving is beautiful, remember, you have to take everything off them periodically, wash all the dishes, etc., as well as the shelves.  Grrrrr...I also cleaned both baths and washed sheets and comforters for two bedrooms.  

A funny thing sort of happened...serendipity~like.  Every year we get a truckload of sand delivered.  It's a long and back breaking job for The Husband to shovel and wheel barrow it into the lake, going out about ten feet so we have a sandy bottom rather then muck.  It takes an entire day if he does it alone, a half day if he has another guy to help.  And this year we actually had it delivered when we weren't there so instead of the guys dumping the truckload on the beach, they dumped it in the driveway, not close to the beach at all.  About 4:00 Saturday afternoon, The Husband laid down for a little nap.  He was tired and sunburned and hadn't made a dent in the sand.  I worked on the patio cleaning the table and chairs, sweeping and arranging everything...just trying to make it livable, when a stranger appeared.  He said he was working on a beach a few houses down and it looked like we needed help.  I was like, "Sure!  When can you start?"  And he replied that his crew was in between jobs and they could start that minute and be done in an hour or less.  I nearly fell over.  Within 5 minutes I had eight guys there with 8 wheel barrows making the trip from driveway to water and back and forth and each time one went by me I was beaming!  The Husband came downstairs and outside after hearing the commotion and I thought he was going to keel over. And you want to hear what's funny?  These guys call themselves The Beach Boys!  And the Husband made sure he got their card!   Darn, I should have gotten pictures of the whole thing.  I hope I didn't bore you, but this whole weekend ritual of getting this place in shape is just something else.

Late Saturday night daughter Emily and husband Mike arrived.  Not only was it Father's Day on Sunday, but also Emily's birthday on Monday.  She turned 27.  Funny, I had her when I was 27!  We woke up Sunday morning and she was like a woman on a mission...she was going to help me whip the house in shape.  She organized, rearranged, scrubbed, polished.  She moved things that haven't been moved in over twenty years!!  And I'm sure she was mumbling under her breath what a slug I am.  Finally she came to me and said in a very business~like manner, "Mom.  This is crazy.  Next spring you have to hire a service, get this done in one afternoon.  This house is too big."  Hurray! Welcome to my world!  And it's like a B&B sometimes.  I'm cleaning before people come and then cleaning and washing bedding when they leave.  Sigh.  But don't get me wrong, the wonderful times, the peace and quiet, the memories...it's all worth it.

Last week I treated Em to a little shopping trip for her birthday to let her pick out her gift(s).  She's tough to buy for...she loves everything and anything :)  I wanted to stop at Homegoods and pick up a few beachy things for the lakehouse as I do every year.  I had really been agonizing over this empty wall on the patio.  it didn't take long before Emily met me halfway through the store, her cart filled with really neat things.  Here she is putting everything together.

 It's sort of a nautical theme which I've always hesitated in doing because obviously we do not have whales or crabs in the lake.  But I like it and half of it was stuff I already had.  Isn't it cool?

Here's The Husband on Father's Day.  See how sunburned his legs are?  His chest is worse.  Part of the reason he took that nap Saturday afternoon was because he decided to pull up a chair in the middle of the garden for an hour or so.  I found him out there with a Blue Moon, just languishing.  "This is what it's all about, Blondie."  

I promise to get back soon.  

XO,

Jane

DOG DAYS & FLOWER POTS

Boy, I have really been out of the loop for awhile.  I am really trying to visit everyone in spite of not posting, if you haven't heard from me... you will soon, I hope.  Oh, I have been wanting to mention, I used to have a block on comments which required you to have a blog in order to comment here.  Well, I lifted that after thinking about it...I mean all of my readers can't have blogs!  Duh!  So, if you haven't been able to comment before, feel free to do so.  As long as I don't get a lot of spam I will keep it like this.  

Anyway, I have been up to my ears in gardening and a lot else has gone to the wayside as a result.  I'm spending hours outside weeding, planting pots, watering, sweeping up birdseed. That bird feeder has become a battleground.  The sparrows scare the wrens and the cardinals scare the sparrows.  They line up on my porch railing waiting their turns.  I'm filling the feeder everyday and what I sweep up I toss into the grass.  They are everywhere!!  The Husband politely suggested I move the feeder near a tree and I said, "No!  I want be able to hear them!"  To which he replied, "I don't think you want to hear what they are saying."

Take a close look at the sign above.  It's attached to an old hoe.  I'm trying to nail it to the house, but it's really difficult to hammer nails into brick.  I've done it before though, just have to hunt for the right nails.  Again, The Husband sighs at my outdoor decor and swears one more nail is going to make the house crumble down.

I am going to be a terrible grandmother.  I know it.  This past weekend convinced me when I had my newest grandog for 32.6 hours.  I was really looking forward to it and was up and ready early for him with all sorts of plans for the day.  When my son dropped Tulo off he said, "Keep him outside.  In fact, keep him outside all day."  I thought, hmmmm, that's strange but I had a lot of flowers to plant so I figured that would work.  Within the first five minutes I found Tulo chewing on the hose.  Once I got him away from that he was digging in one of my big whiskey barrels filled with potting soil.  I stared in disbelief as he got on top, dug a shallow hole and plopped himself down in it.  He was covered in dirt, in fact, I think he ate some.

So I brought him inside, I figured he'd do less damage there.  Well at 8 weeks you can pretty much figure he's not housebroken and he proceeded to relieve himself on my living room area rug.  By the time I came back with paper towels, he was doing #2 next to the spot.

We went back outside and I managed to plant some pots while simultaneously rescuing the little monster from near death.  Thankfully Milo wore him out...they get along great.  By 5:00, I gave up planting, gathered up all the flowers Tulo had snatched and spread around the yard, and sat down with a cold one.  And then I saw him lying in a corner of the patio behind my honeysuckle, totally worn out.

 

And my little heart broke.  Maybe this is how a grandmother feels, just not used to running after a toddler, constantly pulling them from harm's way.  And then you lay them down for the night and see their sweet little faces (this one with whiskers and a contented smile on his face), and your heart just melts.  Awww, Tulo, we have a long road ahead of us, Pal.

I am really proud of this picnic table.  We needed one really bad as the one we had rotted in a lot of spots and the wrought iron base had rusted beyond saving.  I really wanted more seating for the family for when I start to have barbeque's (still working on The Husband for that grill).  I researched them online and I found this at Lowe's for a super price.  And it was free delivery, totally assembled.  That was good as we don't have a truck handy and The Husband refuses to put anything together.  I really had my peacock feathers rustling after it came because I sort of made a 'major' purchase on my own without consulting anyone.  Have you ever done anything like that?  I don't know, maybe I'm still living in the 1950's.  And I know The Husband definitely is living back in that era.  He's a "Make do or do without" sort of person.  And no, he wasn't a happy camper.  Not so much about the table...maybe that I had done something like this without 'needing him'.  Finally, after a few days, I was sitting out there at my new little picnic table by my lonesome, flicking through a magazine, when he came out and joined me with two cold Summer Shandy's, a peace offering if you will.  :)

You've seen pictures of this little area next to the patio.  I've always loved the cottagy look of the flowers and various pots but I'm starting to feel like it's looking a little messy and haphazard.  Beat down.   Next year I want to totally clean it up and do something different.  It'll be fun to plan it.  I still love the cottage look, just a bit more civilized.  

I think lobelia is my favorite flower.  They are annuals in our area.  And this planter is my hands down favorite.  The "GROW" part is actually cut out so it's the inside you are seeing.  

My big veggie plot is not going to happen this year.  It's tucked away on the other side of the house.  That area has been ignored since I stopped growing vegetables about 8 years ago.  I just couldn't keep up with it and the work at the lake as well.  And yes, the lake requires a lot of work and not just yard work.  So, I have to start early in April next year, maybe even work on it a bit this summer and fall.  Instead I hauled out some big pots and here I have four different tomato plants.  Marigolds help keep certain pests away and they look pretty.  In a few other pots here and there I have bush beans, lettuce and spinach.  It has been pouring out all day and I took these pictures out in the rain so I'll have to show you my other attempts at container gardening another time.

Remember my junk shop find a few months ago?  I planted her up and made another hole in the brick (egad!).  I don't know if it distracts from or emphasizes the cables along the wall but it is what it is.  I'd like to hang something in the middle.  Any suggestions?

One last pic and I'm done boring you with this stuff.  But seriously, this is all I've been doing!  I'm pretty sure I'm going to pare back on the flowers at the lake this summer.  I truly love puttering around there with my plants and pots, but the first bit of work in the spring is just too much.  I'm just going to try to get more perennials in the ground when they go on sale.  And we're off to the lake Friday!  Father's Day is Sunday and Emily's birthday is Monday so it should be a great time.  There's so much to do but it's a change of scenery.  I'd rather clean out a boat rather than a refrigerator!  You can always jump in the lake to cool off, too!

Well, I'm off to get some reading in before bed.  Now remember, if you read my blog and were never able to comment, now you can.  And you can leave your email address if you want. 

Have a great week all! :)

XO,

Jane