Mother Nature's Delightful Surprise

If you had told me at noon yesterday that by 8pm there would be a six~foot tall snowman standing proud under the streetlight in front of our house....well...let's just say our little snow storm was a delightful surprise.

Thank you Mother Nature!

I hope that your early winder days are filled with with wonderful surprises.

Merry Merry Christmas

Wishing all of you and yours the Merriest of Merry Christmases.

 

And Now A Break From Our Regular Programing

I am just taking a moment to pause and breathe...live in the moment and all...

Have you seen the Valentine goodies in the stores?  Usually it makes me think how fast time is going by but recently when I saw a red, pink and doily clad display all tidy, uncluttered and SIMPLE...it calmed me...a kind of "calm in the middle of the storm"..now what the who~ha is that all about?  A wonderfully received pause to breathe and live in the moment.

I love me a simple holiday....Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentine's Day, The 4th...you get the picture....One day, simple gatherings, simple prep, simply wonderful!

So today before I jump back into the game~ola...take a peek at my "calm in the middle of the storm" going on in my sewing nook today.

Valentine folly...

 

Scrabble antics...

 

Ain't it the truth!

 

This puppy was feathered in a sweet ETSY Treasury today...

 

Everyone needs a key to a heart...

 

Ahhhhh...

 

I hope that you find a peaceful moment of "pause"...at least the "storm" is a cinnamon~y, cheer~filled, wonderfully Christmas~y one!

 

Holiday Tour de Waxwing Way

Happy holidays to one and all....with a thousand blog~a~licious homes participating in The Nester's Holiday Tour of Homes...I have decided that this blog party is the center of the Universe!  How lucky are we to all be invited...pretty stinkin' lucky I'd say.

So as I tip my fake~fur Santa cap to The Nester in thanks....I am opening my jingle bell donned door on Waxwing Way in good ol' Beaverton, Oregon to one and all....come on in friends and take a holiday peek~a~lou at my favorite pass time...holiday cha~cha~cha~izing our home.

Merry Christmas!

That's right....Merry Christmas...

 

Simple mantel...

 

Jingle ~ ing all the way folks...

 

Red tulle...

 

Poinsettia...

 

Gonna try....

 

Burlap pillow....they are EVERYWHERE!

 

Cluck, cluck, clucking in a holiday nest...

 

Enough said...

 

I think these Santas are having a pillow fight...silly Santas!

 

A layering of chairs...

 

Chirp!

 

Get me outta here!!!

 

Kitchen cupboard festoon~a~fa~cation...

 

Sweet pine~crowned Santos...

 

Frosty potpourri...

 

Time for a nap!

A long~winter's kind is long overdue...

Thank you for stopping by this jolly Wednesday in December....and cheers to you Miss Nester ~ I am sending you a virtual hot cocoa with an EXTRA cinnamon stick!!!

 

Ho ~ Ho ~ Ho~ing

Wanna see what ho ~ ho ~ ho~ing looks like on a Monday afternoon?

This....

And that...

 

A bowl of these...

And a mantel full of those...

With a bed ~ full of Santas thrown in for good measure...

How is your Monday afternoon coming along?

Whatever it is filled with...my hope is that it is merry!

Oh The Bazaars I Have Known

So I think that I have recovered from the madness that I create for myself when I craft my brains out for holiday craft bazaars...but let me be clear....I love every stink'n minute of it.  Yep, every glue gun burnt finger, glittered covered, car packing, early morning coffee drinking, like~minded people meeting, creative idea flowing minute of it.

Since I tend to be a "visual" kind of girl....let me share a peek at this year's antics...

Dicken's carolers set the mood...

You can see my daughter and I in the mirror...click, click, clinking away...

 

I love to decorate our space to within an inch of it's life...

The pillows were hung on a ladder with care...

In hopes that the customers soon would be there...

 

Pinecones...and some needles...

 

Antique doll bed layered with burlap and drop cloth pillows of LOVE...

I could climb right in and take a long winter's nap...

Ain't it the truth...

 

This "tree" is my favorite holiday doodle...

I constantly doodle this pine tree and any piece of paper at hand...

 

Behind the scenes...I can't stop sewing...

That pincushion is a tad scary!

This just about says it all...

Thanks for spending some time in my neck~of~the~woods

and allowing me to share a bit of my "happy place"...

Have a happy, happy Wednesday.

Friday Of Festoonment

Things are pretty BAZAAR around my neck of the woods.

No piece of cloth, strip of wood, acorn top, or clothespin is safe from my crafty festoon~a~fa~cation as I scramble around just hours before tomorrow's bazaar.

Wanna peek?

 I am a clothespin mod podging fool these days...

 If you know me...then you know I have a THING for drop cloth and buckwheat hulls....

If it is a disease....then I don't want the cure...

 This is a shot from last year's booth...

As you can see...I don't stay in the blue lines of my space...

that's me, always coloring outside the lines... 

This picture was shot at 7 am on a brisk December morn in 2008...love that sun!

 

 I think that I will make some more of these bad~boys...

I better get back to it...my bazaar mo~jo is on overload~o~rama...no more coffee for me!

If you happen to be in the neighborhood of the Garden Home Rec Center tomorrow and want to visit a charming bazaar...please stop by my booth and say howdy...I would love to meet 'cha!

Happy Friday my dear friends...