Silly Kitty

As I have mentioned in the past...this is my first kitty. He cracks me up sometimes. For instance, this picture here. He is obsessed with shadows at the moment. He sits and stares at the walls watching them. When he can not take it anymore, he gets down and pats at the shadows that are moving. Any ideas why he does this? He will sit and stare for quite sometime at them. It looks really funny when he does it in the corner. Looks like he is in time out or something. HA! Silly kitty makes me so happy with his quirky ways. I guess the answer to my question is there is no answer except that he is a cat and he can do whatever he wishes. ;)

(Like sit on my kitchen table when he should not be!)

Christmas Parade

Friday night our little town had a Christmas parade. Santa Clause came to town Friday! Downtown, next to our library, is a little house. Santa's house! He sits in there in the evenings and little ones can stop by for a visit and a little candy cane. Seems like a long time ago that we took the girls there to visit with Santa. :(

My daughter got to march for the very first time in uniform Friday night. She looked like a little toy soldier I told her. So dapper in her attire! She was sooo proud, as were we. These are the high school colors. My sister said that the uniforms are "much cooler" than they were back in her days of wearing them. HA! It was about 20 degrees Friday night. BURR!! There was a few floats and our beauty queen and the fire trucks and the band. The band director said that the band ALWAYS goes in front of the horses. HA! Since horses sometimes leave "gifts" in the street....not a good thing to march through. Yuckie! ;(

Here she is (in the middle) with a couple of her friends. Aren't friends such a good thing? The band teacher had a little snack bar set up for them after the parade. They brought things to eat and they all had a good time!

And, here is my little toy soldier! Isn't she beautiful?!??!! I love that she is using her gift God gave her of music. She loves it and I love her!

Peek a Boo

This is my "studio." I reeeeeeeeeeeeeelly want a room/studio of my very own, but we have a small home (that I am very thankful for) and there is no room to do that now. So, here is where I have my "stuff." It is an antique armoire that I bought a couple years ago. The talented friend that I have put shelves in it for me so I could load her up. :) It is sitting in my living room now. At first my intentions when I bought it was to keep my linens in it and my bigger pieces of china like serving platters and such. Well, I decided that my growing love of sewing and crafts was much more important than silly serving platters. So, here is what it looks like with the doors open.

Can you see the goodies inside? There is little buckets with scissors and paint brushes so I know where to find things. There is also one with all the different size crochet hooks in them. I have the little baskets with my linen napkins and other assorted linens in them. If you look on the next to the bottom shelf, you will see my fabric stash and my table cloths. Not much of a stash. I simply must do something about that! Hee hee!

Here is a closer look at the "stash." Do you see a color scheme going on here? Say pink? All I can say is "ahhhhh." :)

Here is my little basket of ribbon. So neat and tidy. Makes me want to make something! What shall I make? Isn't it so nice when your things are organized and just waiting on you to come play with them? :)

Here is my corner of books. There are some great ones in here that I have not had a chance to use yet. A couple are because I don't know how to sew well enough yet. The Amy Butler book has a pattern in it to make jammie pants. I bought it with the intention of making some for my friends but sad to say, I don't know how to do jammie pants. Maybe someday.

Well, that is my craft studio. Not much as of yet...but you should see the area I have designed in my head for someday!! Lets see now...only five more years and my oldest will be in college.....that gives me time to start saving before I can take over her room. HA! I know, I know....it will be here before I know it. Then I will be crying and worrying because she is not living here any more......Sniff Sniff. Well, a girl can dream, can't she? :)

My Faves

Here are a few of my favorite magazines. I can sit and look at these for hours upon hours. And then a few days later, I can look at them again! HA! Country Home Magazine is one of my most favorites. I have gotten it for years. I also get Home Companion for some more Mary loveliness...but as of now....I believe, they don't have a publisher for next year. That makes me very unhappy! I hope she finds a new one before January. I am quite sure that I am not the only Mary fan out there....just her biggest. Hee hee! ;)



Hallmark magazine is one of my newest favorites. I love the stories in there and the recipes are great too!



Anyway...it's time for a cup of coffee (in my cute Mary Christmas cup), curl up in my comfy spot on the couch with a soft blankie and read some of these. Wish you were here to join me.

First snow of the season

It happened. The first snow of the season. Just a light dusting but none the less, it came. Is it just me or does it seem like it came early this year? It seems here in the midwest that the seasons are all different than they were when I was a child. I remember building snow forts and snow men and making snow angels and eating "snow cones" with the freshly fallen snow. Now I am not so sure if I would let my kids do that or not. All the stuff you hear on t.v. about the ozone layer and pollution...is it safe to eat the stuff that falls from the sky? Who knows.

So, welcome winter and snow. You are welcome to stay until January 2nd...then scoot on out of here! :)

Santa's workshop...

Santa's workshop is officially open! Last night I made these little pretties for some people on the nice list. :) The family one is for my sister in law since I have her name in our drawing. She has a lot of pictures sitting around her house so I think she will like this to put a picture of her hubby and her son in it.
The grandkids one is for my co-worker. She ADORES her grandbabies more than anyone I know. I think she is going to love it.
The third one that says cousins is for moi'. I bought the frame this summer with intentions of putting a picture of my girls and my nephew from Disney in it. Obviously I never got that done. So, after I fancied it all up...I am ready to put the kids picture in it. Of course my frame is pink. Of course. :)

Oh Christmas Tree....Oh Christmas Tree

Well, here we are. Preparing for another Christmas season. We put our tree up last weekend. It is a slim line, pre-lit tree from QVC. We have a small house and this is just the right size for our living room. We are hosting Christmas this year for our families and we can not have the tree taking up most of the room when we need space for all our loved ones! :) My only wish is that is smelled like fresh pine....oh well...This is my souvenir from our Disney vacation this year. All my favorite characters are on it along with the year we went. We have two of them now. Can not wait to add a third one. I LOVE that place!

This ornament is special to my husband. His grandfather made it for him. It is a little wooden fellow. It has fabric on the feet and belly. Can you see the sweet rick-rack around the fabric? He is also sporting a little fabric hat. My husband asks every year when the ornament box comes out..."where is my ornament that Grandpa made me?" He places it on the tree himself. I watched the girls faces this year when he did it. They both just smiled at him and watched him place his memory on our tree just like they do.

This is my very first Christmas tree ornament I ever had. My mother used to be a beautician. One of the ladies that she worked for in her forty plus years of doing hair gave this to me on my first Christmas when I was seven months old. It is made from a styrofoam ball with a pipe cleaner face and a little felt hat with some glitter on it. This baby is 42 years old! HA! I too look forward to unwrapping it from the ornament box each year and placing it on our tree to enjoy. One of those little things that just make me smile.....

And last but not least.....you know my tree could not be decorated with some Mary loveliness...right? She is a little fairy sitting on a sea shell with a bucket and shovel like she is playing at the beach. She is sporting a very cute blue pokka dot swimsuit and little red flip flops. Oh...the cuteness! :) I must confess though....there are several Mary ornaments on my tree, but hey...what's wrong with that? ;)

What about you? What ornaments are special to you and your family?