A Tour Is Just What The Doc Ordered...Cha, Cha, Cha!

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

~ Emerson

Welcome, welcome blog friends...being a gal that does not like being late...I wish that I could offer a platter of fudge and a homemade cup of spiced cider and show how delighted I am that you stopped by to say howdy!

I do have a pretty good reason for my tardiness...which I will chat about on a later post...but to make the upcoming story short...{can you do that?}...the doctor asked me what I do for relaxation...."blogging...duhhhhhh..."

So take a sip of your imaginary hot cider or whatever...its imaginary...and step inside our home in the Pacific Northwest. It has been snowing all week...Heaven!

Thank you Julia for hosting the merriment....you are most definitely the hostess with the mostess...and then some!

Welcome.....yep snow fall in the Northwest...ALL WEEK...Yipeeeee!

Cool ~ ola!

The next morn...if this doesn't make you want to decorate and share with guests...nothing will!

The reason...

One of my many Santas sitting tall to greet you...

A drawer full of tiny Santas....love it...

Snowman stool of joy...

Not just for banisters anymore...

My buddy...

I needed a 'pop' of color upstairs...I think this did the trick...

Fake~ola poinsettias...

Christmas goose...

Simple garland....

More goose love...

Santa in the living room....getting ready for a long winter's nap...

They're everywhere...

More simple ~ dimple garland...

The best napping couch on the planet...padded with Christmas cheer...

Ye 'ol tree...waiting for bows and more tinsel...

Our newest ornament honoring our Gus Henry....sweet boy we miss everyday...

Favorite Christmas chair...notice the spindles...Santas everywhere...and then some...

Dining room vignette...

A closer peek...ho, ho...

Santos Christmas gal...

One of my favorite collections...old carved spools and buttons...

Wreaths....

More...

My husband gave this baby tree to me our first Christmas we were married...almost 29 years later....it still doesn't have a chip or a crack....just like our marriage...blessed for sure...

Child's chair with wreath in Family room...

Reindeer in the Family room....

A bowl of reindeer and bells...delight...

Powder room...

Yep, I decorate every room...

Not even a pig on the wall can escape the festoon~ment of a wreath...

Angel babys...

Gloria...they are singing...even without mouths...a Christmas miracle...

A sleigh of snowmen and women in the Nook...

My main snow~dude...

Snow tea anyone???

Check out this amazing potpourri...it is called 'Frosty"....notice the corn~cob pipe and mittens? Baby bowls of cinnamon sticks, juniper berries and whole allspice fill the air with yummy goodness...

Christmas cow....holy cow!!!

My Mom gave me this little Christmas Mouse years ago...I place it right above my kitchen sink and look at it all season...and smile...all of the childhood memories you and Dad filled my heart with...I'm blessed for sure.

Thank you for coming by I have enjoyed sharing our home with you....the fun continues with Julia over at Hooked on Houses...she is the greatest and this tour has been amazing...

Merry Christmas!

I Am Decking Them Halls...

Fa, la, la, la, la...la, la, la, la!

So we were vendors at a local Park and Rec bazaar last weekend...it was fun....even with a tooth ache that I have been dealing with ever since....it was still a beautiful and memorable day with my girls....here...take a gander...

Dickens Carolers...Fa, la, la~ing...

Drop Cloth pillows...filled with buckwheat hulls...

A closer peek...

This tree pillow and it's brothers were very popular...

We starting setting up before dawn...and then....{angels singing...} here is the sun streaming through the windows....glorious!

A bit of this, that and the other thing...

The gals...

This one....was in the middle of working on a 30!!! page paper for her class but still joined in the festivities for a spell...

And the other one pretty much ran the booth on her own...it was fun to watch her...as I have been dragging her to these bazaars since before she could walk!

And a good time was had by all...

So back to decking these halls....I will be joining Julia over at Hooked on Houses for her Holiday House Tour beginning Monday the 15th.....THE 15TH!!! Yikes...better step it up 'round these parts...I can almost hear Santa's reindeer being attached to his sleigh!

Smiles ~ Ramona

A Bowl Of Bells ~ Simple Delight ~ Silly Gal Am I

Getting a tad goof ~ balls around here of late...with my bazaar just two days away....yikes...I am on overload! And then some. I craft in the heart of our house....the kitchen/nook area...always have. Even when I have a craft room....I tend to sew and craft where the family is....told ya, silly gal am I.

So I have pieces of pillows hanging here there and everywhere...waiting to be filled with buckwheat hulls and, of course, love. Bird houses to be sanded and snow~gals patiently hanging about waiting for twig arms, baby carrot noses and crazy, crazy curly girly hair...after all, where would a snow~gal be without crazy, curly girly hair? Nowhere, that's where!

Just hanging 'round...

That about says it all...

I heart me a lot of tree pillows...

Clothespins standing at attention...

Ready or not....it's a coming...

...by the way...I am NOT ready!

I just had to share this....the simple sights of the season

really do give me lots of smiles...today...a bowl of bells did the trick!

Have a wonderful Thursday...gonna be windy around here....that

should help with my crazy, crazy, curly girly hair~do that

I will be sporting....just another way of looking at bad hair days and

having a good 'tude about it!

Smiles ~ Ramona