WOYWW #239 and A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Welcome friends.   It's almost 2014 and I wonder just where did 2013 go?  Thanking Julia over at the
STAMPING GROUND for a Year of Wednesday FUN.  Making of new friends, sharing new ideas and feeling at ease with presenting a messy desk each Wednesday on WOYWW.  Stop over to Julia's she has all the details.

I started packing away Christmas crafting supplies and organizing it in a chest of drawers rather than totes. Then I survived the storage room ordeal and found some Valentine items. Hoping to get a head start on that this year.

For those of you who are not followers of my blog, I did a Youtube post on a wonderful video by Sissel signing "Auld Lang Syne"   the nature theme and the verbiage throughout the video are wonderful.
Hope you take a peek and enjoy it.

Thanks for stopping by, wishing you and yours
 "A HAPPY, HEALTHY, and HEART LOVING NEW YEAR"

Auld Lang Syne by Sissel (Live) Happy New Year

USHERING OUT 2013 and WELCOMING IN 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 TO YOU AND YOURS



This video has beautiful words, wonderful video, and some very awesome music ENJOY

FOOD for THOUGHT

Good Morning to YOU....as our year comes to an end, we all need a reminder once in a while. I saw this on Facebook and liked it.  

A must read....
Burned Biscuits - A lesson we all should learn.

When I was a kid, my Mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my Mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed!
All my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my Mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that ugly burned biscuit. He ate every bite of that thing...never made a face nor uttered a word about it!

When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my Mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said, "Honey, I love burned biscuits every now and then."

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said, "Your Mom put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides--a little burned biscuit never hurt anyone!"
As I've grown older, I've thought about that many times. Life is full of imperfect things and imperfect people.
I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else. But what I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other's faults and choosing to celebrate each other’s differences is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.

And that's my prayer for you today...that you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your life and lay them at the feet of God. Because in the end, He's the only One who will be able to give you a relationship where a burnt biscuit isn't a deal-breaker!

We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket--keep it in your own."
So, please pass me a biscuit, and yes, the burned one will do just fine.
And PLEASE pass this along to someone who has enriched your life--I just did!
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil--it has no point"

(Source unknown)

http://www.MidgetMomma.com

CHRISTMAS TIME with WOYWW #238

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU AND YOURS.

A large group of us on Wednesday get involved with sharing our workspace with others who follow Julia's WOYWW  Wednesday's post at the  STAMPING GROUND.  And for those of us die hards we're even doing it on Christmas Day.   (Really I'm scheduling it the night before).

The remains of a quick tag for my brother, who just called and is coming home for Christmas. Oh my mother will be so excited.  I did take time to organize all the Christmas items and find room for them in my creative space and actually brought out a few containers of my Valentine things.

But now it's off to our Children's Mass. Best Wishes to You and Yours this Holiday Season.

Our church's Nativity.

CHICKANIDDY CRAFTS A FUN NEW LINE OF DESIGNS

Welcome, I hope you are getting back to some normal part of life after the fun Christmas Holidays.

I always get excited to see new ideas in our world of Paper Crafting.  Stop over to CHICKANIDDY CRAFTS  to see the great blog posts of  Heidi's new line

 of  DATE NIGHT

and TWIRLY GIRLY

In both collections, she has awesome papers, stickers, embellishments and clear stamps.
Stop by and wish her well.  I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Thanks for stopping by,  and enjoy your day.

     WISHING A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS. 

    Jesus is the Reason for the Season

I came across this blog and just was overwhelmed by what was posted hope you enjoy

 http://wwwcastlescrownscottages.blogspot.com/    

Blessing to you and yours.

CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN ---- MISSING MY DAD

You think your strong, but memories, feelings, and missing ones you love always pop in your head and make you shed a tear.  Holidays this year will be a little tough without my dad being here.  I know he's in a better place. He lived a good life.  And I will always love him.  The song is sweet






Happy Holidays.

HOLIDAY FUN

Welcome !  Happy Sunday to You.

I came across a blog I have so much enjoyed.  Wanted to share her lovely post, with some beautiful photos.
http://wwwcastlescrownscottages.blogspot.com/

Not too many more days left until the special day.  Enjoy.

and too all my blogging friends enduring terrible destructive weather, a prayer is being said for your area.

IT'S WOYWW #237

Happy Wednesday to all of you.  So glad you stopped by. It's What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday over at Julia's STAMPING GROUND, snap a photo of your workspace, add it to her blog, and visit those who are participating.  She's all the details on her blog. It's fun and addictive.

My desk this week:  bits and pieces from the last of my homemade cards.

I took most of the cards I made to a Vintage Shop to sell, but I ran short doing my cards, so I had to make up a few more. Truthfully a few of these there would have been nice for her shop, kind of a theme for some men in our lives.

I've about wrapped up decorating, sending out cards, shopping, crocheting, wrapping gifts and locating recipes. I have two posts prior to this, showing Christmas trees  and  some Antique angels, so stop by if you are interested.

This past few days, I've been dealing with an achy breaky body. Taking HOT baths, using ice, heat and advil. Hoping it all is gone in time to have a Birthday date with my hubby tonight. Thursday pm we are invited to the Christmas dinner party at a near by casino and it is always a good time. They call it a FREE night, but really it never turns out that way.

Enjoy the WOYWW day, thanks for stopping by and have a fun weekend. I know lots of people who are having their family gatherings this weekend.

Antique Angels and a Santa Tree

Good morning to all of you !  Thanks for visiting.

Back in the 70's  I lived in an apartment and made friends with a special lady in her 80's who lived upstairs. Always a fun adventure with Helen. Spry, happy and full of vim and vigor.  She was to the point of cleaning out boxes and downsizing. And offered me a little box of Christmas goodies.  Her daughter didn't want them and she knew how I "LOVED" to decorate for Christmas.  So I accepted. I miss you dear Helen but

Every year since her passing I treasure these special little ANGELS more and more, they date back to Chicago (where she raised her daughter alone) in the 1940's.  And I have recently thought  I will try to find her grand daughter and label the box for her and when I decide to start giving away she can have the enjoyment of these little treasures.

                                            Made from Balsam wood

                                            A heavy plastic

A collection of wooden Angels all with musical instruments

                                         Another Balsam wood  and a newer Angel from beads

                                          The Topper

                             The Hanging Tree itself, I did find some beaded garland  I will add today.

 The Santa Tree, mostly Paper Santas  and I love the Rice lighting on this, click the photos to enlarge

And a Santa quilt that adorns our bed, I don't have a wall big enough to display this or I would hang it.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed the "Little Treasures".  Have a lovely and supposedly BUSY weekend.  

A LITTLE BIT OF DECORATING

This time of year, I am always in wonderment.  I use to love to decorate the whole house, and then I had big homes.  Now I have a small home and can hardly keep up. I've downsized when moving here, BUT still have too much. And this house doesn't have the nook and crannies or wall space I once had. So I always seem to be at a dead end. Nothing looks just right.

I have a few small trees that I leave decorated and just store that way in the storage area, so I don't have to redecorate them, just bring them up to a cleared space. I've decided not to put up my BIG tree. I've 3 rubbermaids of collectible ornaments and I doubt that anyone will be here and it's just a lot of work for me to be the only one to enjoy it.

This is a spare bedroom and I leave this up all year. It is decorated in pinks, pearls, hearts and clear glass ornaments. I truly think it is my favorite.

This is a hanging tree. I bought it when my hubby and I were dating. If you can imagine, he never decorated and I couldn't believe anyone would have at least ONE tree in their home for the holidays. So I put it up while he was away and decorated it with JOHN DEERE ornaments and Tractor lights.  He liked it so now each year it's by our dining table.  Makes a good night light when the grandkids come too.

This is a grapevine tree a friend of mine made years ago, It's in our TV room and I redo it with the seasons changes. This year I used part of the decorations from a Big tree I did years ago. It's so sparkly pretty in the evening.

This is another year round tree in our family room. I have yet to add the Santa's to it for this year.

This little Snowman tree has a timer on it and sets in our bedroom, we awake to twinkly little lights.

This is another year round tree, totally Red/White/Blue decor. It sets in my Raggedy Ann laundry room. It is sort or a Charlie Brown tree, odd shaped, and sits in an old wire egg basket with 3 big rocks to hold it in place.

The top of a bookcase going from the family room up into the laundry room I love the little primitive Angel and Santa. My old wooden blocks give the names of my 5 grand children. This also stays up all year.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed some of my decor for the holiday season.  I will share a hanging tree decorated with very old angels and a few more tidbits by Friday.  Enjoy a festive day.

WOYWW #236

It's hard to believe I have not done a post since last week. But have had lots going on with preparing for the Holidays.If you want to know more about WOYWW go to the STAMPING GROUND, Julia has all the fun there waiting for more new people to show their workspace on Wednesdays.

Here's where I've been working since Monday pm:

Learning the new system for photos, so I can add them to my Christmas letter. Once I got it all sized and ready to print, I had no ink in my printer.......our little town has nothing so I had to order it online, now I wait to finish this project.  I printed out labels and organized my address book. I had a LOT of NEW addresses to update.

I didn't even have a path in my creative space, the floor, 2 tables were overloaded with holiday supplies, waiting to be used. Saturday and Sunday, while it snowed and blowed  I made 20 some cards, 30 some tags, and took them to our little Vintage Shop to try to sell.  Monday AM...I spent 3 hrs clearing, and organizing all of it again to no doubt be put away til next fall.   The plan is to start earlier!!!!  So today my workarea is TOTALLY BORING...nothing around my area to show you.

I also finished up wrapping gifts and sent them off to Germany today. I so miss having all the family together on Christmas, it was such a tradition for me.  But things change and I try to adjust.   I also brought up a few of the small trees and only have a couple of Nativity's to set up.  I've decided not to put up the BIG tree this year.  I'll have pictures on another post by Thursday I hope.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy WOYWW.  I hope you have great weather and a creative week ahead.

WOYWW #235

It's  What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday on Julia's blog  the  STAMPING GROUND, lots of fun desks posted, and a lot of info on lots of things,from lots of crafty people, from lots of places!  just hop on over as she has all the details.

My desk:

a few cards in the making, the lower  aqua and white will be my sons birthday card,  I made the paper,  sprayed with aqua glitter, added the fuzzy white layer, and a die cut snowflake. AND I forgot to take a picture of it finished..had to get it in the mail.  The little stuffed ornament was made from a swether and purchased at a little Xmas fair.

I am wondering if any of you have ever seen a plastic tree form like this,  I have google searched, shopped and to no avail. It was a Pinterest post and was stated the it came from Wal-Mart...but not finding it.

I also have been doing some crochet work, I posted some pretty yarns I purchased a while back and I have completed a few projects:

Red/Gold, Iowa State University Cyclones,  Black/Gold, University of Iowa Hawkeyes, and some pretty off white with sparkles.

Thanks for all the visits last week, I hope to do better at visiting this week. We had company for our Thanksgiving Holiday til  Sunday. So enjoyed some quality time with grand children, my son and his wife.
Took in the movie "Epic" with them, had lots of good stories to catch up on and caught up on many DVD's

Have a lovely week.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Just a little post, to wish you all a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING.  I hope you are enjoying quiet times, or entertaining with family  and or friends.   But most of all  THANKFUL for all that we have.

#234 at WOYWW

My week started off at thinking Sunday was Monday, I had  many things planned, but it all waited another day.
But today is already Wednesday and that means it's time to share our workspace with many others who follow Julia's blog the  STAMPING GROUND.  She has all the info on her sidebar.

This is my floor, in the post previous I said the Lost was Found,  I had forgot where I had stored all of my Christmas papers/stamps etc. Well at 3am I thought I remembered and sure enough, back behind the little drawer storage files is a big space under this cutting table.  When I pulled one file out...there were 4 or so little totes with all my winter supplies.  I did a "Happy Dance".   And got busy. Sometime I need to clean up the floor area.

   I put the corks away, just didn't have enough ideas and space to let them sit there.  I made a few tags also in a previous post, which I may take to a little Antique shop to sell. Just have the hard job of pricing left to do

The desk space has a few cards yet to finish as well as the little tart tins. but had to call it quits.

AS Thursday is "THANKSGIVING DAY" here in the USA. and I had some preparations to do for it. I am almost ready for a long  4 day weekend with family coming to have some time off from city life and enjoy the farm and some family times.  So I've been cleaning, getting beds ready, games out, and planning food. Hoping to take the 3 grand kids to see Santa and a free movie. Our town is having a day for crafters and vendors and a niece will be here celebrating an over 30 birthday!!! And the weather is to be nice, hopefully no travel worries.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your WOYWW visits