A Special Birthday

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Happy Wednesday, Sweet Bloggy Friends! I hope you have a great day. I wanted to share with you a few of the decorations from my birthday party, and my favorite gift. We did not celebrate on the big day because I didn't want anything to detract from Shanley Belle's graduation. These days I truly treasure every moment when I have both girls together with me. With one daughter working in a clinic and the other working at a barn this summer, those moments are few and far between!

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The girls love the Molly Hatch vases we bought at Anthropologie several years ago. Both girls study French in school (Shanley is a French minor) so they love anything with the Marie Antoinette quote. But I although remind the girls that always attributed to the ill-fated French queen, she probably never said it.

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Now on to my favorite gift...Notice the tissue paper? It's from Shabby Chic! My sweet family bought me some of the pretty new napkin designs in the Ditsy Floral range. I really like the blue prints.

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These are a few of the Shabby Chic napkins I already had from a different range. They are so, so soft and launder very well.

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I know I'll get just as much use out of the new napkins as the old. The sweet prints make me smile!

Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill

13 comments

NanaDianaJune 3, 2015 at 7:45 AM
Happy Happy Birthday!!!! LOVE your new napkins. You can never go wrong with Shabby Chic and I LOVE the looks of your blog! Just lovely! xo Diana
JoleneJune 3, 2015 at 8:08 AM
What a beautiful gift! I love the decorations. Did you make the centerpiece?
StaceyJune 3, 2015 at 9:31 AM
They know what you like. :)

I hope you had a wonderful birthday sweet friend.
SarahJune 3, 2015 at 10:10 AM
Happy Birthday! Your new napkins are going to make pretty table settings. What a lovely gift!
My Molly Hatch vases like your two are some of my favorites. Sad to say I have them packed away in storage at the moment. Seeing yours filled with flowers makes me want to run over to the storage unit and retrieve them.
So happy to see you posting again.
The French HutchJune 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM
Welcome back RJ, missed you! Happy Birthday!!! I love your pretty new napkins, pretty color and patterns. I love all your MH vases, I have the "Let Them Eat Cake" and I love it. Love yours with the flowers. Congratulations, I know you are so proud of your daughter. Seems you were moving her in only yesterday, yes, it goes by in a flash. Glad you enjoyed your year home schooling, what a decision that was. Have a wonderful summer...........
AmyJune 3, 2015 at 6:21 PM
I love her napkins!! I wish I had kept the ones I got years ago.
Jo-Anne's RamblingsJune 3, 2015 at 7:18 PM
Oh what lovely decorations l really like the flowers, and the gift oh how I would like such a gift lucky you
Ellen ThompsonJune 3, 2015 at 8:20 PM
Happy Birthday!
So glad you are back.
Ivy and ElephantsJune 3, 2015 at 8:51 PM
Welcome back, Ricki Jill! Such lovely decorations, I'd never seen those, LOVE!
The napkins are so special, you are getting quite the collection! Happy birthday and
welcome back!
Big hugs,
Patti
AndreaJune 3, 2015 at 8:57 PM
Such fun and so pretty! You really are back!
Patti @ Pandoras BoxJune 3, 2015 at 10:00 PM
Happy Birthday - the napkins look so soft ( i hate the stiff ones!!)
Butterfly 8)(8 BungalowJune 4, 2015 at 2:07 AM
Happy Birthday, RJ. Such beautiful gifts! xoxo Su
Carla from The RiverJune 6, 2015 at 9:40 PM
Happy Birthday ~ I have enjoyed your other posts too. Thank you for the Summer Reads :-) I am going to check out several of your ideas.
Carla