A Christmas Bath

 

Happy New Year Friends!

      Cannot believe a new year

is here already.

We both were in bed by 10:00pm

New Year's Eve. LOL

Here is what's been happening in my world.

Right after Christmas 

we lost a friend's wife to covid.

Bob fell off a chair in our storage room

and almost broke his neck.

He was inches away from hitting his head

on a cement statue he put in there on the floor.

His back is still pretty bruised.

My daughter ended up in ER the other day.

She has still been in pain and the surgeons

kept saying she had to work through it.

She went to her normal doctor and then

back to ER at his advise.

This time surgery to scrape an infection

which occurred near her bone.

She thought something was wrong.

She needs to get another doctor in my opinion.

Prayers for her on getting better.

This was her 3rd surgery now since

a week before Thanksgiving.

We spent Christmas Eve night

and Christmas day changing the gift store

from Christmas to Winter and Valentine's.

{more to come on that in upcoming posts}

I started creating bunnies for Spring.

{yes I have to be ahead of the seasons}

We got our first major snowstorm

with 6 inches of the white stuff.

Not a lot for those in Wisconsin though.

But a lot for us in one storm.

My nephews wife in North Carolina

got her wish for snow.

Not here in Michigan when they came up for Christmas,

but at home in North Carolina. LOL 

I had to already order my Christmas decor

for this year...or I would not get it by Christmas.

My themes will be more gingerbread,

red/green and a Nordic Christmas.

 

I hope you are not tired of Christmas,

because I wanted to share a few pics

of our bathroom.

Tied a bit of red velvet to my oil lamp.

Placed my lil Noel pillow

in with some rusty bells and  real chestnuts.

I picked these off the ground in my mom's town

one year when we went to breakfast.

They still look good after many years.

Another display on the other side of our sink.

My newest vintage Santa in here.

We sold these fun signs at the gift store,

So I took one home for myself.

The cabinet above our toilet.

I so love vintage Christmas boxes.

Back in the day you really did not need wrapping paper

with these festive boxes.

I created these peppermint candy sticks many years ago.

Kept one for myself.

I even made the wrapper and aged it 

with a stain spray.

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Another festive display.

Added another piece of velvet ribbon

with my cross stitch pillow in the basket.

Now originally I had my poinsettia bush

here in another basket.

When Bob fell, he dented in this 

vintage like pail.

Unable to sell it now,

no one was the wiser with me placing

my poinsettia in it.

It will stay home now with me.

Just glad Bob is ok.

While I am sure most of you have taken down

your Christmas decor, I plan on keeping

mine up until mid January.

Always have, always will.

Will then keep my greens up for Winter,

and add some snowmen.

Do you decorate for Winter?

Post Christmas Bath Blessings To All!

Janice