Vintage Christmas Trees

My mom and christmas trees

in the 1940's.

more SNOW DAY fun

SNOW DAY!!

Remembering mom.......

She would have been 86 years old today.

A-DEP

My daughter showed me how to do this with my camera when we were decorating the tree. I set my camera on A-DEP and then rotated my camera back and forth.

Pretty cool, huh?

Happy FIRST Birthday Liam!

We love you

through and through.

We love your top side.

We love your bottom side.

We love your inside

and outside.

We love your happy side,

your sad side,

We love your fingers

and toes,

your ears

and nose.

We love your hair

and eyes,

your giggles

and cries.

We love you running

and walking,

silent

and talking.

We love you

through and through...

yesterday, today,

and tomorrow, too.

We love you Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti

Happy Thanksgiving

I LOVE Lucy!

My mind forgets things as I'm getting older, but I will always remember this episode from my favorite TV show as a child. If you are my age, you will remember it too!

For the rest of you, have a good laugh!!

Heart in a tea cup

The bottom of my tea cup!

Remembering Patience Fisher

My little friend, Patience Fisher

would be four years old today.

She went to heaven

after a pool accident

this summer.

Join me in praying

for her family.

1964 Apron pattern

I found this delightful pattern

in my mother's stash

and made one of the options

for a bridal shower recently.

The red fabric is from my mother

and the patterned fabric is Anna Maria Horner.

I made two really fun potholders

that matched the apron

and quilted them,

but forgot to take photos.

The last photo shows a peek

of the corner of one of them.

Very fun to do, but interesting to see

how pattern directions

have changed over the years!

Block Party Quilt Along Giveaway!

Over at Block Party

they're starting a quilt along

by having a giveaway.

Click on over to learn

how the quilt along will work

and to enter the giveaway.

I really want

that painted bird fabric!

Dewdrop?

Our school writing assignment:
Write a poem from a photo.

A shimmering dome
Of fragile existence
Condemned to slide
From its temporal perch.
A lost civilization.
Atlantis, on the back of a leaf.

by jane

Reluctant Reader Reads

FOUND Margaret Peterson Haddix Book Trailer

Book Trailers from COS Productions | MySpace Video

My eleven year old daughter is a reluctant reader.
THIS new series has totally captured her imagination.
The video gives a preview of BOOK 1 ~ FOUND.
BOOK 2 ~ SENT just arrived in the mail.
Guess what my little girl is doing on this cold, rainy day?
She is curled up in a chair READING!

Candy Bags

Followed this tutorial to make fun candy bags for my grandboys and daughter.

Happy Birthday Julia Ruth!

Happy Birthday to my firstborn daughter,
26 years ago today!
I am blessed beyond measure to call this delightful,
Godly young woman my daughter, sister, and friend!