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...

 

Multi Tasking On A Chilly December Day

So on this chilly, chilly December 2nd ~

While making this ~

 

And that ~

 

 And a bit more of this and that...

 

I noticed this....and I thought....no place is safe from the a touch of holiday fa~la~la~la~ness...

 

Found this little Santa mug at Michael's for a buck~a~cha~cha...

 

Fa~la~la~la~ness!!!!

 And now back to my bazaar~prep gone wild!

I think I have breathed in too much burlap lint...

I was thinking how cool the television would look decoupaged in burlap strips....

I need a burlap~sweet cloth of hemp intervention in the most delightful way!

Happy December my friends!