Amazon Summer Must Haves For Garden Entertaining

Here are some of my favorite Amazon must have for summer entertaining in the garden. And some books too, if you are simply lounging and not entertaining! Most of these recommendations would make brilliant Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and hostess gifts as well! #cottagegarden #gardendecor #gardendesign #gardening #gardentour #cottagestyle #beforeandafter #backyard

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well today we have a special episode for you and it’s all about online shopping specifically for Mother’s Day for Lakeside living for outdoor entertaining for dressing for said outdoor entertaining and any kind of outdoor events you might be having and you know what sometimes I just like to press the Easy Button I am not a big shopper well let’s just go over some of the things that are my favorite uh favorite purchases online some of them you’ve seen before well what do you say steuart let’s do it let’s do it well before I start showing some very specific items for all of those categories we discussed earlier let’s talk a little bit if you would like about my attitude towards online shopping in general and shopping on Amazon specifically because I know for some people it’s kind of controversial so here’s my philosophy number one if I can find something locally without having to hunt for it to a great extent then I always try to shop local first before I shop local I will try to Thrift it but that said both of those are really time consuming activities and typically if I’ve got extra time I’d rather spend it out in the garden which is why I do lots of online shopping now a little bit about Amazon um for you know for most kind of day-to-day kinds of things I can just find it on Amazon I am not an absolutist about almost anything I tend to take everything with a degree of let’s say modom um and and I’m okay with that so if I need light bulbs if I need you know something utilitarian and I can find it on Amazon then I’m okay with that um but I also shop on eBay I shop online for oh different kinds of things on Etsy different handmade goods and often times even those kinds of things Etsy items handmade items you can also find on Amazon so that’s kind of my theory but that said if you are opposed to shopping on Amazon if you’re opposed to shopping at Walmart at Target or whatever that I respect that you do you I’ll do me and hopefully we will just make our lives easier in the process so let’s get started and I want to show you some of my my favorite purchases that I have made some of which you have seen now that’s important why because if you have seen them before you know I have them and I use them and it’s very important to me that you know and you feel as if I have some credibility because we’re friends here and a lot of us don’t have a lot of margin for error in our budgets to make poor decisions when we spend our money so typically if it’s something that costs a lot or costs a little I always like to use a recommendation from a friend and another thing is these are not only things that I use but I’m showing them to you in case you missed them in the past but also because these are things I’m using I don’t just go on Amazon and buy whatever they are saying we’ll give the biggest commission or something like that and yes we do get a small commission I go online to buy the things that I need that I specifically want for gifts or for myself I’m not just randomly buying things off of Amazon to show you these are things that for some reason they are really playing a role in my life and that’s important to me okay so what do you say oh and by the way here’s my question of the day if you get something on Amazon or online shopping that has really made your life easier or that you feel pretty passionate about it really really works and you can’t find it other places then please put those in the comments below you guys have made recommendations to me in the past and I have taken you up on them so let’s get started so Leah here’s why we kind of do this shop and share thing and yes we are Amazon influencers but we started doing this originally long before anybody was paid commission for doing these kinds of things because I got so many questions Linda where did you get your top Linda where did you get uh those glasses Linda where did you get those things and I was spending so much time um just expressing okay I got this here I got this there that now it’s just easier if we out front say this is where I got it you can find the link in the description box below it prevents us from having to go back and answer a ton of separate emails and DMS from you guys okay so Leah is here today and this is something that she requested that we review some of my favorite items that I bought online for outdoor entertaining specifically for I’m H I’m planning a baby shower for my best friend this summer and we’re planning days at the Lake where we’ll be having get togethers at their lake house so we kind of have been shopping for some lake house Vibes summertime entertaining Vibes those kind of things yeah and things that not only would you use at the lake or that you would use during the shower but that you would bring back and you would actually yeah and you would actually use okay so so Leah said this has a a kind of a Lakeside Vibe because of two different things number one we have I am obsessed with this Leah was absolutely obsessed with this when we saw it at my friend’s house now she got it in green I got it in blue but I love this so my sister saw this on the video that we put up and she immediately sent me a picture I I don’t remember it from growing up but do you know what the Genesis of these fish bottles was okay so for many many years my dad was an executive with Eli Lily pharmaceutical company and many many years ago in the early 1900s they they uh stored and sold cod liver oil in bottles that looked just like this or very similar to this and she said don’t you remember we had one of those in a bottle in a bookcase downstairs with some of Dad’s old Pharmacy bottles I said no I did not remember but she did no wonder you felt drawn to it no wonder we were drawn to it so so so the I guess like I say the the birth of this was for practical reasons it was originally used to sell cod liver oil and I just loved that which made me have that much more of an attachment and I thought I need to have one and yes it came in different colors what else you got the dark blue there’s a clear and then a light blue light blue and you got the green this is one of my most prized possessions now I think yes you know yes it’s very very dear and what does it say on the back Herring bar it says herring Herring bar I guess because this is maybe supposed to be a rendition of a herring I don’t know and these glasses match it and I got them perfectly now why we recommend these glasses first of all they are not plastic secondly they have heft um they won’t blow over if you’re entertaining outside they’re pretty sturdy they’re kind of this Lakeside green the other reason one thing that I look for a lot of times is how much of a trough do they have on the bottom this one doesn’t have much of a trough or an indentation why is that important to me because we all know when you put these in the dishwasher that the deeper that trough the deeper that indentation the more water is it’s going to spill everywhere all of your over all of your other things so these um I like these I like because they look oldfashioned I think they’re and I think they’re great and we will put a link to these and because they certainly match the entertaining Ensemble Ensemble you have now something else that we became infatuated with and I love these as a smile present as a Hostess gift we immediately ordered some to put on our bars and that is these little shell piics they came with both of them and they yes and they came with both of them for like seven bucks or something um I think how fun would this be if you are going to the lake going wherever and you wanted to bring a basket with some of these and make just a container full of mozzarella balls some cherry tomatoes some olives or something and everybody can make a do it your do it yourself or derve I think that’s really fun and then my sons gave me these glasses that have fish on them I didn’t even notice yeah yeah very very Lakeside I don’t know if you can find these online or not but in the spirit of Lakeside entertaining we thought this was really fun okay the other thing that you said you bought online that matches all of this this is something as kind of pedestrian but ever so important as paper napkins paper napkins and you really wanted all of this to coordinate they’re kind of retro colors it came with a couple other colors that I loved and we thrifted that butterfly napkin holder a few months ago and so these I have them these fit in them okay we’ll have we’ll have to show that the other reason I like them and I think that will look good for your entertaining is she’ll entertain on her little balcony outside and these clay and terracotta colors kind of go with all of the clay and terracotta that you’ve got out there they’re very earthy the other thing is is I think they look very good in the summer and they would also look great going into fall and I love that color palette I think that’s great so you got these you got these on Amazon and again I’m going to have to borrow this you’re going to have to borrow that and you might want to borrow these charges so another thing that that we are obsessed with I I really fell in love with this type of weave this retan weave when we went to Bali this kind of woven um well just all of these woven accessories were everywhere in Bali I brought back just a couple of things I could have shopped and brought back a whole trunk full of stuff but when I came back I intentionally wanted to Source some of this stuff and if I can’t find it locally then it was easy for me to Source online so I got the Chargers which I absolutely love I got this little side table which I is I do too it’s portable um you can use it anywhere you could use it in your bath you could use it as um kind of a spontaneous bar outside it’s it’s movable I love it but I also love the fact that all this stuff mixes and matches yeah I was about to say that well Isn’t that cool okay so so if you are serving all you’d have to do then is take one of these Chargers if you’re not using it with your China and then put one of these baskets on top put a bowl inside put your dips or whatever and then you can put your crackers all around the perimeter and you have chips and dip and it not only coordinates with this small basket but I believe when I got these they came in a matched set yeah I think there’s a bigger one too yes and I think there’s a bigger one and I also have that I keep out in um a a plate stand as just an accessory a home decor item I’ve got a really large one of these that’s like the platter size and I’ve got that in my hallway on that skinny table so I love the fact that all of these coordinate that they’re kind of a family that they go together that they’re mix and match very earthy they have a lake Vibe they have a Seaside Vibe they have a garden Vibe and I think they just really cross the entire spectrum of outdoor or entertaining now these okay these are my the lastly these I am so obsessed with these okay so my friend Jen at bricks we know her we love her she is wonderful not only not only is she so knowledgeable if you go by and visit and visit her at bricks but she has the biggest heart and she keeps me in all sorts of greens bok choy the best arugula I’ve ever had um baby gem lettuce not to mention fresh eggs all sorts of different stuff and she’s growing some seedlings for me and she absolutely refuses to let me pay her I keep trying to pay her and she won’t let me so periodically I try to give her presents that speak to her and my love for gardening for you know cooking for those kinds of things and so I’ve given her one of my garden journals in the past but I came across these and I think they are adorable they’re 100% cotton they’re so soft they are so soft and they are tea toils this one has eggplant that one has tomatoes and they come in sets of four and I bought two why because I thought they would be and they’re look they have they’re two-sided and because I think these would make great I uh plac mats or napkins for outdoor entertaining here we’ve got Peppers represented here the colors are cool the colors are cool they’re fun they’re mod they have a very anthropology Vibe I think yes and cucumbers okay what’s not to love about these they’re very anthropology I think they are they’re so soft I can’t get over I know they they just feel good now obviously you could also use them as tea toils the other thing I think it would be fun to do is to get these maybe in bulk save some for yourself and then if you are going to someone’s home and you are entertaining and you’re bringing a bottle of wine or you’re bringing a wine bottle with um sometimes I decant my salad dressings into wine bottles and you’re bringing something like that then you would just take this and just tie it around a little scarf for your yeah a little scarf for your wine bottle how cute is that and then if you wanted to you could stick a wooden spoon in there you could stick you know you could you could stick a jar or a bottle opener I just think it would be imminently imminently adorable I just I I love everything about it but again you could also use these as place mats I guess actually lastly is the tablecloth we forgot yes yeah yes and the T oh yeah oh yeah but look I have to show you I mean I’m I’m sorry but I I just I love these colors um I love these colors but they would be very very cute to also have one of these tablecloths that you can also get on Amazon that I have have purchased and I love these borrowing the T and I love these that is one thing I don’t yes I love these neutral colors and I just think they’re fun and match these are at a great price point they’re cotton they feel like linen okay now we can go on now we can go on I didn’t mean to yell at you I didn’t mean to yell at you but I had to do that but wait just like they do on on info infomercials so there you go there are some entertaining items that you might want to consider for your own outdoor entertaining the outdoor entertaining of others or as Hostess gifts or Mother’s Day gifts okay so now let’s move on to another category uh let’s just let’s just call it literature well as I have told you all many times one of the most fun things about moving to the cottage is that I was able to kind of mix up my Decor color palette incorporating a lot more blue and white than I had before so I give you this blue and white moment on the corner of one of my cabinets in the kitchen I just I I love the whole vibe of this it feels very very sumary to me it feels very Serena and Lily and all of these things are products that I use in constant rotation that’s why you’ve probably seen some of them before starting with this beautiful blue and white ceramic lamp I love the ginger jar shap shape of it I love how massive it is I did have it on the sideboard in The Parlor but I decided to move it in here because I love the way it looked with what The Mixing Bowl in blue white for my kitchen egg mixer there were a number of different options but I believe this one was sold out for a while but as I understand it I think it’s back in stock and if it is we will definitely put a link below now another fun thing is that I love how it kind of color coordinates in the exact same Hue with other things that I had and if you just have a rainy afternoon or a really hot afternoon you don’t want to go outside just become your own stylist and try putting together some kind of vignette like this it’s kind of a fun thing to do because you notice all sorts of color commonalities in your home that you might not notice otherwise for me this book was one of them this is cook this book techniques that teach uh reip and recipes to repeat which is my theme for repeating and having constant rotation all of the usefulness of all of these different things I got this after my kiddos up in Denver used it for one of the recipes my wonderful daughter-in-law who is a wonderful cook she made something that was in this cookbook and so I thought oh even though I don’t cook that much I definitely needed it if for no other reason than I wanted the recipe I believe it was some kind of seafood tacos um the other thing that we use all of the time are these bowls now I was telling Leah this is a secret of adulthood I asked her if when she bought those green classes if she just got four of them or if she got eight of them and she said no I just got four and I said well if you can afford it and this is true whether you’re thrifting whether you are buying something in a shop whether you’re buying it online if you can afford it buy at least eight of whatever the serving piece is because chances are if you entertain if you’re having a party you’re going to have more than just four people and then you’re going to kick yourself when you don’t have enough things that kind of coordinate now I’m that way and I have a feeling that you guys out there are that way too so that’s a secret of adulthood that I shared with her and did I practice it when I bought these bowls no I did not because I didn’t anticipate using them actually to dine from I anticipated using them to sit around the house holding matches um holding you know maybe nuts or something like that but now that we’ve actually been using these primarily for our yogurt and fruit in the morning and by the way look at these wonderful patterns really Co I decided that indeed I need four more and so I am getting four more of these now since I liked these so much when I was looking online they had tiny little versions similar to this also in this blue and white ceramic and they would be great for shuder B for little nuts for things that you’ve just got sitting around the house and as Stuart and Leah can tell you even though today I don’t have usually I have some kind of little treats that are sitting around they’re grab and go treats there wasn’t any yeah well you probably haven’t looked um I’m I’m very fond of having espresso covered chocolate covered coffee beans uh all different kinds of nuts just different little treats that you can snag and go that are kind of healthy and kind of not and often some of those things I have in this little spoe bowl which I also bought online I love it I think it’s dear my favorite way to have styled it was with tiny little orange cumquats in it that still had some of the foliage on it was really really sweet and I especially like to use blue and white plus Citrus around the holidays or in the summer or whenever so that’s another idea okay Leah had the green and I have this deep blue and I really love it now not only is this going to be great to serve my signature iced tea that I have in the summer but this would also be great if you put it in your bathroom because you’ve got that Seaside Vibe and you could put bath salts in this you could put um uh bubble bath you could put almost anything you could also use it to store maybe your wooden back brush things like that I think it would look great in your bathroom and of course it would also look great as a vase maybe with some beautiful white menow and Lace in it I picked this from the garden gosh how many days ago you guys like five six days ago and look at how fresh it still is that is one of my favorite favorite things in the garden and I think maybe you can also buy menow and Lace seeds online because it’s kind of I well never seen it in a nursery or a garden center so yeah so if we can find it we will definitely put some seeds online now we bought these candlesticks thrifting um Leah squealed when she when she found them and I love them they’ve been on the mantle but now they are in here and there is a doppelganger of these that you can also find online and we will put the link to that as we will also put the link to these extra ex ra tall taper candles you guys know I love taper candles and I really like them when they’re extra tall and dramatic so those are also online and lastly I love the idea of blue and white napkins of any kind of any fabric all stacked together and I actually have them in a different location in the kitchen all different patterns of blue and white these are just classic blue and white stripe you can get something similar online now I love these just the way they are because they look great with my blue and white SPO or whatever but I especially like them when you style them with some cute kind of just inexpensive napkin rings but even better if you wanted to take something very inexpensive like this buy them online and then take them someplace to have them monogrammed like these are my friend Deborah got these they say Cottage on the hill and you can put initials on them you could put whatever and I think that makes a really really special gift for Mother’s Day or if you are visiting someone at their Seaside home at their Lakeside home um at their home in Santa Fe this would be a really wonderful thing to do to monogram something and give them as as a Hostess gift I love giving Hostess gifts I love coming up with concepts of different Hostess gifts and I think any and or all of these would be great lastly okay this is just so fun this is just so fun so I had I had some of these truly matching truly matching yeah truly matching I had some of these in Amber because I like to keep these filled with just water because you can spray them on your tablecloth to get out the wrinkles I also sometimes like to have them if I’ve got just a little bit of vinegar and water in here if I want to um use them for some kind of purpose even in the garden you can put vinegar water in here and sometimes you can use it as a um a weed killer but I love the fact that these are so inexpensive and when I saw that they had them in this color I thought o I definitely need this maybe to mist my Fern to mist my plants you could also make your own um linen spray lavender linen spray or something and put that in here I think it would be really really wonderful mosquito spray Stuart says um but again this is a fun idea so so inexpensive but you could get it in whatever color matches the Tableau of your vignettes in your home now let’s move on to another category well welcome to my reading Corner this is one of my favorite places to read especially in the winter now you may say well that doesn’t look like a very comfortable chair to read in but ooh it really is especially when I’m cold and that South Sun comes cascading through the window and I usually have a cup of hot something like I have some hot coffee right now now speaking of treats I am also eating a treat that Stuart’s daughter Julia brought to me and more importantly it was because it was one of her graduation cookies that she was serving at some party or was somebody serving these for her was her her mom her mom okay so let’s just take a moment to really say here here and congratulations to steuart being such a phenomenal Dad to have raised such a phenomenal daughter who is just oh gosh was she like third in her class or third in the entire class third in the entire class she’ll be getting another scholarship to go to graduate school she’s a brilliant mus music we love her principal clarinet yes principal clarinet we love her she is just great so a moment a congratulatory moment for Stuart and his daughter Julia okay but I digress back to our video so one of the things that I think most of us probably the way most of us were introduced to online shopping was through books now I get books everywhere and you know I have several favorite bookstores commonplace books being foremost am amongst them I love uh full circle books I just love bookstores in general and they are one of the places that I always frequent when I am traveling but while I often will go ahead and buy a book while I travel if I see more than one no I won’t and why because it is difficult to if you’re packing trying to pack very efficiently it’s difficult to add extra weight to your bag if you have to you know heft it up and over on the airplane so a lot of times what I’ll do is I’ll buy one book at that independent book seller and then I will make a list and take some snapshots of ones that I might want to order online and I’ve got a whole stack of them that I want to share with you but first this was an idea that I just I just came across it really captivated me it was such an inexpensive way that I could express an interest of mine and it had it had real sentimental import to me so what is that well I often look for different things on eBay particularly Prince of favorite artists and things like that and I came across while I was while I was looking for different things some prints by matis and he apparently had a whole series on women reading and he did a number of different paintings to that effect and I thought oh I love to read and then I started looking at each one of the images and I loved the images and for a song you could order a whole collection of these or collect them over time and you too could have your whole kind of um well your collection of women reading now the one that really captured my eye and my heart was this one it is just a sketch of a woman looking down completely absorbed by her book and that’s what I love about all of these images of women reading they finally have a moment to themselves they are Le leing the World Behind and they are completely subsumed by whatever it is they are reading and this one well it reminds me so much of my first mom she is even dressed in a row but was very similar to Something in in my very few Recollections that I have of her an outfit that she used to wear and my brothers and sisters reiterated that so this was the first one that I got I bought it on eBay again for just a song and I just loved it I just put it in a gold tone frame because this lives in my bedroom along with some other things that are also framed in that way now this is the second one that I got it has a completely different mood to it this one is probably kind of a Victorian vintage but this woman here when women really were not encouraged to be very intellectual or to do much um intellect ual Pursuit she is here and she is reading again in a quiet Corner completely subsumed by whatever it is she is reading immersed in the tale of of what that book tells so this was my second one and I am just starting to collect them they’re inexpensive again they are inexpensive you can find inexpensive or thrift store frames but this is something that I am getting online I did not know about it until I found them online and now I know where I can get more in the future and that is mati’s women’s reading series I absolutely love this idea now what am I reading well I share with you frequently different books that I am reading and typically if it’s if it’s something fiction or if it is um kind of a oh I don’t know boring non-fiction I get those in paperback and those aren’t typically the ones that I show you though I guess sometimes I do the ones that I now Embrace to have in my permanent Library I am very discriminating about I have given away as many books as I bring in and my theory is whatever comes in if one comes in another one needs to go out and here are some that I have purchased recently again that I saw when I was out traveling and I came home and I bought them off of Amazon this one is drawn to the Garden by Caroline on Carolyn Quinton and I am trying to learn how to sketch so for obvious reasons this one and because it’s kind of got a a well the medium is mostly watercolor this was really really interesting to me now what another one that captured my eye and this one I did buy I bought it in San Antonio but you can buy it online this one I’m sorry I got out of frame for a minute this you can buy online and it is absolutely Exquisite it is just Exquisite it’s got what are what do you call this like embroidered very tactile images of bugs and other garden creatures on it but this is a Sketchbook and I saw this in San Antonio I got it and I do want to gift it to some other people so I looked online to see if it could be sourced there and indeed it can and I think this would just be really a brilliant brilliant Mother’s Day gift or birthday gift especially if you put maybe a little flowering bookmark in there from your own garden what a special thing you could also use this as a garden journal as a kind of meditative Journal anything like that not just as a Sketchbook but I just I love it and even if I am never inspired or motivated enough to learn how to sketch I can just leave it sitting out and I just think it’s inherently beautiful so I love those two books related to an interest that I have this is one of my most treasured books I’ve had it forever I think I told you the story of this that I checked it out of the library and I kind of lost it couldn’t find it ended up having to pay for it but I was glad because this is one of my most cherished books you can see by what I just dropped that I keep different things in here different tear sheets usually related to topar and I keep them in here I just love it um I love the illustrations in it I love everything about it it’s one of my most prized books and even this you can find in a used form not prohibitively expensive online and we will put the link this is called the Potted herb and it’s largely about topiary um I would be remiss if I did not give a shout out to my own garden journal and you can also get these in the two box set mine is white in the two box set they’re both the same color that kind of grayish grayish blue but you’ll notice mine is starting to get dirty and I like that because I keep it outside on my table to record right after I have finished doing whatever it is I have done in the garden and I want to record so that would be obviously another recommendation for me this one is another example I saw this in San Antonio this one is really heavy and I just took a picture of it and I ordered it when I brought it or ordered it when I got home it’s called the English Gardener’s garden and I don’t even need to explain that because I definitely have an English garden the photography is beautiful and it highlights lots of different famous English Gardens around Europe and maybe even some in the United States so and it’s just beautiful is it not gorgeous to order it from my mom right now are you are you okay okay okay so Leah’s getting it for her mom for Mother’s Day that’s the other thing about books they typically arrive yeah they typically arrive very very quickly yeah and lastly this one mostly because I sometimes just like to copy ideas from it this is James T farmer celebrating home sometimes it’s it’s a little bit sweet for me but never a little bit too precious for me some of the ideas but nevertheless I love it it’s beautiful um the the watercolors in it are enticing and the ideas are also really really yummy so these are some of my book recommendations again they have gone through my rather discriminating process to determine whether or not they become part of my permanent library and one of the reasons that I want to share them with you because we’ve all made a lot of missteps about books that we purchased and then eh and we didn’t even look at them that much so this is is uh this is just kind of a Roundup of some of my favorite tones and we’re going to do what comes up next Leah we’re going to do just a brief Roundup of some accessories some of our favorite accessories some apparels some clothing kinds of things that we think you might want for yourself first and foremost but then you might also want to give to someone else now this is what I had on earlier I love this top I have gifted it to so many different people it comes in very very fun colors I of course like in the blue and white and earlier I had it styled with these earrings okay I think I also got these online I love Hoops I love big Hoops it’s a signature it’s a signature trademark of mine but now by the magic of TV and hand placement voila I have on a different outfit also available online Okay so let’s I tell you what let’s start with your Ensemble okay okay this hat I stole from hubs because I love it and she looks so cute in it but I was like yeah I need to borrow that these are online you were wearing them let’s show the the sunglasses though I I wear these every single day of my life yes okay so these are so cute now let’s do this let’s switch so I got some of these and then immediately Leah had to have some and then she got some of these and now I have to have some and these aren’t expensive they’re like $15 or something I can’t have expensive sunglasses too much and they sit on them and they want to wear them and well I I don’t really lose mine but I just it’s an inexpensive way to accessorize and I and plus I just think they’re fun and why not and why not okay so you wait you can have yours back thank you let me poke your eye out Leah my earrings are from Amazon they came in a set of three there’s three different pairs and I paired them together today and those are so so cute they’re so cute I wear these almost every day as well scarf is also from Amazon we were doing an Amazon theme today so I get from Amazon Amazon this little tin might be from Amazon now let’s let’s I I love the color of this cuz it’s a little bit unique but also she’s got it tied in a really cute way and we’re going to try to do a segment on signature style Saturday where you show us how to do different all the scar yeah all different scarf ties this skirt is from Amazon it’s 100% cotton that is so cute and it’s got an elastic waste elastic waste in in the Oklahoma summer you have to have flowy cotton skirts great yes looks darling with your cowboy boots would look really cute just with a denim top tied at the waist would look cute over over a bathing suit yes cute over a bathing suit now this that she is modeling sometimes I order things because my young sister tells me I have to have it and my sister Meg told me that I needed to have this leather bag I got this on I got this online it’s the perfect size it’s lightweight you can carry your laptop in it yeah you can carry your laptop in it I love it because it looks great if you’re doing that Safari thing and you’ve got on a brown belt white top white jeans and some kind of leather shoes so that’s that’s why I like that we’re again we’re going to put links to all these below okay now this Ensemble Leah told me I needed to wear it okay so so describe the top and you bought this online flouncy this is my top Linda’s borrowing it I’m going to Santa Fe we we do share since my daughters-in-law don’t live here we we share clothes all the time but last time uh you went out of town I think I lent you some stuff I yeah and you use my suitcase we yes we share clothes all the time okay so I love this I love it’s kind of flam thing flouncy I don’t know if that’s a word is that a word it’s flouncy and it’s Dancy because last time you wore it you went out and you danced a lot but isn’t this so it’s it’s yeah it’s very fun it’s very flco white and black but I was like I love this green I love the green a little cinch waist actually you can wear it both forward and backwards a little V in the back now I don’t necessarily have the appropriate undergarments on but you can see that it’s Ved in the back but I like it this way cuz I wanted something to wear with this statement necklace this came from TJ Maxx but you’re the one that told me to wear this backwards so about how much was this top I think it was like 46 it was kind of like more than I normally would spend on Amazon clothes but it’s pretty special and it’s a quality like I would I’m all about quality so I read review before we post anything or we read reviews I read reviews I look at what the material is and I if I don’t like it I will return it yes and so this one I kind of bought on a whim and let’s be honest that’s another reason we shop at Amazon and because the returns are easy and this is not an ad for Amazon it’s just it’s just the reality of the situation I’d rather spend my time gardening than taking time doing other things including shopping so it’s just easier if Leah finds something that’s cute and she say Linda you need this or my sister does and she’ll say Linda you need this then I don’t spend a lot of unnecessary money or unnecessary time shopping for things that I won’t use and we share and we share so it’s am the cost is amorti you can tell we’re rationalizing this is how the C is amortized because it’s over time and over people but I think this top is really cute I’ve got just a black cameon underneath it my white jeans are actually vintage so I got these thrifted I say vintage they’re thrifted um and then my shoes are Steve Madden but I think I bought these online we’re going to look to see if we can find a link now in actuality I totally I’d probably wear this with some black pleather pants or something like that in Santa Fe where are your earrings from uh my earrings are from a a Street Market okay so this is the case where okay I’ve got Amazon I’ve got TJ Maxx but then then accessories like this I typically get at Street Markets or fairs um I’m yeah closer yeah yeah I’m looking forward to being in Santa Fe in this shirt and this actually I got these in cida Colorado okay and your shirt you got I think this might be Amazon it’s just a little tank top yeah and she’s still young enough she can get away with those kinds of those kinds of things so I think this is you know this is just fun it’s just fun um I would also suggest getting a bunch of those bandanas which are so inexpensive and getting a bunch of bandanas to use as napkins came tied dyed or whatever it is yeah I like that I like the finish on it or whatever and you guys know that I like to wear those band bandanas around my necks as well mostly though because I’m sweating um or glistening please show your back I’m glistening oh yeah oh yeah yes and then this is also the other bag I think this is so cute this actually came from CLE home and this this is a like I said small business but she sells online and I think this is really really cute Stuart said he would care his vinyl vinyls in here but but I think it’s cute and I would probably wear it more to the beach or whatever so there you go we got to go yeah we’re cuted up we got to go someplace do it see you guys later [Music] [Music]