A LITTLE BIT OF THIS...

I'm sitting here all by myself, missing my daughter, but very proud of her. She is visiting a friend in the North Georgia mountains. This is a big deal for her to experience. She is autistic and doesn't spend much, if any, time away from me. She is 37 and I am so happy for her to have this experience. She is hoping to stay for months. We have to take it a day at a time. 

This is a heart that I made for Kaytie, the friend Sally is visiting. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Just something I love. This piece of pottery was made by a friend of mine and she gifted it to me. I've had it for years. It's a lovely piece, I love the color.

Now, just for you, a picture of my blackeye. I'm very proud of it. I fell at church and hit my head on the concrete. I had a cat scan (Which is required for the hospital to give anyone over 65). which was all clear. The blackeye lasted about 2 weeks. I wore it with a smile:

We may be in for some snow flurries this week - very excited about that. We haven't had any snow for a long time. 

I hope your day is bright and cheery. Thanks so much for stopping by.

GUILTY X TWO

 

Guilty x two.  Yes indeed. Just look at that face. That precious guilty face. The other day it was the popcorn strand she was eating. Last night it was DINNER!!! Dinner for FOUR turned in to dinner for ONE. And it was our favorite dinner - chicken pot pie. It takes all day and several steps. I could have cried, but instead yelled and scared the poor terrible doggie. The three of us got to watch the one of us enjoy a delicious meal. He deserved it, though. He works so hard. 

Anyhoo, today was spent driving my daughter to Helen, GA to visit a good friend of hers. She has hopes of staying for a long visit but she's not used to being away from home. Perhaps she'll stay long enough to feel like she's been on a little adventure.  We were so glad to get back home after being gone 4 hours - driving 4 hours. The pups were super glad to welcome us back home.

Hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by. 

GETTING RID OF CHRISTMAS BLUES

 Good Morning! How are you? Still got those blues? I might have a cure. It's a fun project and not costly. Yesterday my daughter and I took our Christmas Tree and decorated it for the birds. I think it looks so cute.  I would of had more strung popcorn but a certain someone ate half of it. Grrrr. Just look at that guilty face. That adorable, sweet, kind, mischievous, guilty face.  (Please excuse the mess, we're still cleaning up.) 

We strung popcorn and dried cranberries, cut stars out of bread and toasted them until they were crisp, and sliced a couple of oranges. We spread peanut butter on the stars and sprinkled with bird seed, I strung some very fine wire through the stars for hanging. Easy peasy! And cute to boot.

 It was so much fun hanging all these on the tree outside in the yard. Right outside the living room window so we can watch. I hope the birds will come.

I guess the popcorn strand looks a little lame. Perhaps I'll string some more, I have lots left. I hope you'll try this fun activity. It really does help get rid of the Christmas blues!

I'm so glad you stopped by. Have a lovely day.

colors

Colour

By Dorathea McKellar

The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,

Unknowing, day by day,

That their soft dyes have steeped my soul in colour

That will not pass away -

Great saffron sunset clouds, and larkspur mountains,

And fenceless miles of plain,

And hillsides golden-green in that unearthly

Clear shining after rain;

And nights of blue and pearl, and long smooth beaches,

Yellow as sunburnt wheat,

Edged with a line of foam that creams and hisses,

Enticing weary feet.

And emeralds, and sunset-hearted opals,

And Asian marble, veined

With scarlet flame, and cool green jade, and moonstones

Misty and azure-stained;...

Yesterday I went to the grocery store. When I was in the produce department I was struck by how beautiful it is. All the different colors, so bright and vibrant. It was a delight to the senses! My mouth started watering, longing for a nice apple or a juicy tomato. Instead I had a colorless bowl of chicken salad (it was really good, though!). Now I have a hankering for a big bowl full of all different colors of fruit; apples, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, bananas, strawberries, kumquats, blueberries, raspberries. Isn't it amazing how many colorful fruits there are. I never really thought about it until I ventured into the store.

Hope your day is lovely. Thanks for stopping by.

LITTLE CAT FEET

This cat doesn't seem to want to look out over harbor and city. He just wants to laze around, sleeping and eating. 

I hope you're having a wonderful New Year! Thanks for stopping by!

 

MORE CHRISTMAS BLUES

 It's true, I still am feeling those Christmas blues. Tried to sing Frosty the Snowman this morning and I couldn't remember all the words. I did the best I could, but Frosty must be crying sad frozen tears. 

We had a couple of visitors to the garden this morning. Their tails were so fluffy and pretty.

Finally I got my sewing machine back out and completed another piece for my current project.  

I still have a ways to go. But it's been fun getting back into it, (my son, daughter and I just had a mini-grammar lesson on the use of "into" and "in to":) . Hopefully things will go smoothly. These are not the easiest blocks as they have a lot of little pieces. The smaller the pieces and the number of pieces make for a difficult block. 

I hope your Chrisstmas blues are disappearing. Thanks for stopping by!

A SOFT WINTER DAY

 

" Flames have always been at the heart of it all.

Flames to sit around and read, a place for conversation.

A fire is a magical thing.

The fire lit, the mood changes.

There is much to watch in the flames.

The flames flicker and wave, float & soar...

as the mood takes them.

Sometimes the embers are more beautiful than the flames.

I could watch them for hours."

{Nigel Slater

A lovely day. Only three kiddos in my class but they were an energetic bunch and I had fun teaching them. We had big storms last night and I was expecting to be driving to church in the storm, but it was all over by the time I left, hurray! 
Later my daughter and I went for a ride and saw many beautiful clouds. I love the bare branches against the sky. Winter is beautiful in it's soft, pale way. 

I hope you're having a soft winter day. Thanks for stopping by.

POST CHRISTMAS

 Hello my friends. How are you doing? I think I have the "Post Christmas Blues". I want to shop and fill stockings and just do it all over again. But time is steadily moving forward and I must too. Perhaps I'll be able to move forward after I get the tree down. and the stockings packed away, but I don't want to do that until the weather gets drier around here. We are having several days of rain. We want to take the tree out into the yard and decorate it for the birds, but that must wait for the rain to move out. I love the rain so I'm not complaining. I can start preparing our bird ornaments in the mean time. I need to buy some cranberries, and pop some popcorn and make some seed ornaments. Doesn't that sound like fun?

I hope you are moving forward to the new year. It will be here soon! Thanks for stopping by.

 

I got nuthin' .

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Hellooooooo! How are you? We all survived! What a wonderful holiday this has been. On Christmas Eve I decided to try to set a nice table after all. I almost pulled it off, except I couldn't find my snow glasses. They look so pretty on the snowy blue table cloth. I have no idea where they are, I looked everywhere I could think of to no avail. Boo hoo. Still, the table looked half-nice;)

What a lovely Christmas day we had. How was yours? The day started very early for me as I didn't sleep much, if any, so Sally and i got up at 4:00. At 7:00 we woke everyone else up. I got many lovely gifts, but one of my favorites has to be my Trey Young Atlanta Hawks t-shirt! I love it so much! I'll be wearing it tonight for their game.

For the first time ever, my son cooked us breakfast. We had pancakes and bacon. Yum, he did a great job. Later we went to my brothers for lunch. That was such a nice thing to get to do because I always focus so much on us eating Christmas Eve that we have nothing to eat on Christmas day.  The rest of the day was spent pretty much vegetating.

I hope your Christmas was lovely in every way. Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

 Merry Christmas Eve dear friends! We've made it! I didn't think today would ever get here. It's been such a lovely season that I hate to see it come to a close. I have been on the ball every day, getting shopping done, wrapping presents, going to the coffee shop, and last but not least, going for our traditional Christmas Eve breakfast. We go somewhere different every year. This year we went to Waffle House. It's my favorite place because I love their hashbrowns. Not the most (if any) decorated space, but quick and yummy. 

One thing I didn't get done is setting a pretty dinner table. I really wanted to because I haven't the last few years. I had it all planned in my head, and I've got the traditional spaghetti dinner cooking, but the table is undecorated. sigh. Maybe next year! I've decided I need to get the table set days in advance. That would help a lot.

I guess that's it for today. I hope all your Christmas dreams come true. Thanks for stopping by.