Deck the Halls....

I worked a bit on finishing some of my decorating projects today. The first thing was the kitchen candy themed tree. I added some ornaments, candy, beads, and snowflakes.....

I like how it turned out and am working on a garland for the garden window over the sink. What do you think? Then I worked on the wreath hanging over the fireplace. It change every year to match the tree decor. I found some stuff that I didn't use on the tree itself and tried to purdy it up. Here it is. I think it will work.

I used the red silk hydrangeas on the tree as well. They are my favorite. Looking forward to posting more pics tomorrow. Hope you are enjoying decorating with me....

Christmas Decorating

So, I thought I would share with you a few pictures of my Christmas decorations. I still have a bit more to put up to complete it, but I have a pretty good start. Here's my tree...

...I like to change it up every year but I stuck with a more traditional look this year. I used turquoise and browns last year. We have a bunch of ornaments that we have gathered over the years and I am able to separate out certain ones to create a theme on each of my small trees. Here's a snowman tree....

I actually forgot to put the lights on this little one so I may have to take it apart and re-do it in order to put the lights on it. I haven't decided. I just love, no.....LOVE snowmen! I have collected them for years and I just think they are soooo cute! I have more but they are not all out yet. More pics to follow on these guys.
Here's the begining of my kithchen decorating. I'm going for a "candy" theme here. It's very festive! I can't wait till it's all done so I can share some more pics!

Oh! And I just had to share a picture of this adorable word art that I purchased off my friend Jen's Etsy shop. You can find it here http://www.etsy.com/shop/createdbyjen. She does word art among many other things and is so creative! You may have seen the one I posted earlier from the night she showed the Crazy Ladies how to make them. I just loved the snowglobe....don't you?

I hope you enjoyed my pics. Check back to see more in a day or so...."Jingle Bells....Jingle Bells....."







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Crazy Ladies Cookie Exchange and Craft Night

I guess it's been awhile since I posted and I thought I'd share a few things with my friends out there in Blog World....


Monday night was our monthly craft night and we had a cookie exchange as well as a craft. I have only been to a couple of these before so I am not familiar with all the ins and outs of a cookie exchange, but I think it went over well. We had 6 ladies to trade cookies with and everyone was to bring 1 doz. cookies per each person so that was a total of 6 doz. cookies. Several of us decided to make more than one kind while a few just stuck to the plan and made one kind. I had everyone send me the recipes so I could format and print them out and then we put together paper bag books with all the recipes. I am still finishing mine up, but I wanted to share a pre-view with you all so here it is.....

 This is just the outside. I still need to make a title and do some more embellishing but I think it's a good start, don't you?

Here's a shot of the first pages. I did a bit of embellishing and I will be adding the name of the contributor to the page as well. On the side you can see the pocket with the pull out tags....

And here's a shot of the first pull out tag. I think I am really going to like this when it's done. These would make great gifts too.....I wonder who would want one of these????? Any ideas?
I must say, I love my friends and spending time with them like this. It was truly a blessed time. Thanks gals!

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Birthday Musings....

Last Friday was my birthday and my mom and family treated me to a wonderful day. I went to pick my mom up because she was taking me to lunch at Bobo's....my favorite Vietnamese restaurant, and this is what was waiting for me. A wonderful gift basket filled with goodies. We were looking at the latest Martha Stewart Magazine and saw a cake plate towered with red and white Christmas candy.  I commented on how I would like to do that, and she went out and found every red and white candy she could find to fill this basket. There were a few goodies that wouldn't fit in the basket as well. But don't you think this is a fantastic basket? My mom has a talent for making great baskets.

So, after lunch.....and dinner, I went home and played with all the goodies in the basket and put this together...

What do you think? Isn't it fun? I am hoping to share it with some of my guests for the Holiday Open House in a week or so. I hope it will last that long....

Crazy Ladies Nov. Craft Night

Our once a month craft group met on Monday night for some Christmas Ornament crafting fun. Paula hosted this month and her parents were visiting from out of town so I was able to meet her mom. What a nice gal...just as lovely as Paula....guess that is where she got her wonderfulness.  Jen and I were the only other two from the regular group to make it this time since it was so close to Thanksgiving Day, and we had a blast. Paula made these years ago and decided to teach us how to make them....check out how stinking cute they are.....

This cute little angel isn't supposed to be bald, but I didn't find the hair or yarn for it yet. They are made from paper bags, cut out, painted and embellished. We added wire hanger and there you are....cute handmade ornament for decorating or giving.

If you look closely you can see the adorable cookie cutter shapes used to embellish the gingerbread cookie man. So adorable!

Last but not least, this adorable snowman! Isn't he cute!!! I can hardly believe I made him. I didn't get pics of the other ones made last night, but they were all soooo cute! Thanks to Paula for hosting a fun and festive evening.

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