Cool Gift

I thought I'd share what my son and daughter in love 
gave me for Christmas. I love sun and moons, and this I 
thought was perfect to go over the fireplace hearth.




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Here's a few pictures from Christmas

 My 3 sons

 Them stating the obvious!

My oldest son and 
beautiful daughter in love

A picture of all the cousins 
together for the first time.


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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all my friends 
and family!


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Santa Visit

Santa visit with my grand 

nephews and nieces :-)

Katie and I  strikin' a pose ;-)


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Cookie Decorating Par-tay!

I Had myself a cookie decorating 

party with my 3 favorite nieces!

Before

Bambi getting her creative groove on!

 What a colorful array of cookies!

3 Lovely nieces!


If you'd like my no fail all time favorite 
cut out cookie recipe click 
HERE!


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Owl Coffee Sleeve Ornament Project

I've been so busy making paper bird ornaments from Starbuck's coffee sleeves that I decided I would try something different.  Instead I made a paper owl ornament from two different coffee sleeves.  I grabbed a template HERE and then resized it to fit the coffee sleeve.


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Holiday Vignettes Around the House

 It's been several years since I put up my village, 
so it was really fun for me to see it again.

The two wood ATC blocks  I received in a swap work nicely with the old wooden skiers that I have left over from when I was a kid.  There was one for each one of us kids. Unfortunately, I only found 3 of them.


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Holiday Greetings

Happy Holidays!
Feel free to download and send the 
above postcard to a friend :-)

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Great Mail Days!

Whoohoo, its been a great couple 
of mail days! I participated in a 
chunky wood Christmas ATC block 
exchange with two of my friends, and 
my blocks arrived

Side 1

Side 2

Side 2

Side1

You can click HERE to view my wood ATCs I created for this exchange.  I have to say that mine are not really chunky and I can see how much fun using the thicker pieces of wood would be to work with!

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Winter Wonderland without the snow...

I finished getting up my big Christmas tree...without help 

I might add...what is up with that!

Here's a few of my winter wonderland banners hanging up.  I am so excited to finally get to hang them after hanging on to them for a whole year.
Last year I participated in a winter wonderland banner swap and they arrived around January.  
Click HERE to see pics of the banners that I received.
You can also click HERE to view my 
banners I created for the swap.




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Christmas & Free Vintage Images

I started decorating today and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
I have my nostalgia tree up. Its a small tree that has ornaments the kids have picked out when they were little.  Hubby's peanuts ornaments and my favorite is the topper my oldest son made when he was little.


Click HERE to download Freebie Vintage images.


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Christmas Wreath

It was a good mail day!
I'm in an ornament exchange with my art peeps and instead of an ornament this beautiful fabric wrapped wreath arrived in my mailbox
It's my first holiday decoration hung up :-)


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Pomegranate Liqueur Part 2

I recently posted about making pomegranate 
liquor (click HERE to read previous post) 
from the pomegranates off our tree. 

After letting the juice and alcohol steep the 

specified amount of time I just finished 

bottling my Pomegranate liquor. I did make a 

change to the recipe and instead of adding lemon 

peel I added orange zest. They'll need to

age a bit longer before it can be consumed.

Above are the labels I created for the bottles. Since I couldn't find the actual bottle labels I have! I used Avery brand name tag labels then sealed them with PYM II.
The bottles are from specialty bottles.com or you can find decorative bottles at your craft store.


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Download a freebie background I made 
using a picture of pomegranate arils by 
clicking the image above to download 
and print from your computer.


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