Category Archives: Decorations

It’s Christmas time

It’s finally starting to feel like Christmas around here. Vivienne spent the day with me yesterday helping to decorate the tree. We had lots of fun unwrapping the old ornaments and remembering where they came from. We had Charlie Brown Christmas playing and the tree smelled so good. What a fun day. Last week was [...]

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Spooky

My mom has been here for the last few days and we’ve been busy, busy, busy. We’ve been sewing and cooking and eating and visiting. We haven’t finished anything to take a picture of so I thought I’d share this new Spooky banner I finished right before she got here. I found the instructions for [...]

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Wonderful Crafty Friends

We are having a wonderful Christmas Day. First there was Egg Nog French Toast for breakfast with the last of the infamous homemade egg nog. Then there was the opening gifts with our family while sipping tea and listening to Christmas music. And now Rick is hard at work in the kitchen making the fillings [...]

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Our Christmas Party

Every year on the weekend before Christmas we have a party. It’s our time to host a big gathering and we really look forward to it.  This has been a really rough fall for me with two surgeries and the flu.  I wasn’t sure how we were going to pull it off  but we did [...]

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It’s the holidays!

Every year I try and do the Christmas decorations a little differently. I like mixing things up. This year I decided that gold paper cranes would be a great idea. Of course after folding about 40 of them, I started to think maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all. But I persevered and [...]

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