Living For Christmas Part 2

Hello friends.

Hope all is well with you.

Here is the second half of our living room.

Antique blocks with a Santa I made.

One of my antique Santa's with reindeer.

My second antique feather tree with antique

cotton spun fruit ornaments.

Again I was unable to find more 

to add to my tree this year.

I chose to place my latest Santa here.

Santa topper on my third and last 

antique feather tree.

This tree has vintage cotton spun bells on it.

 Finally a lil display on the side table

by our couch.

In other news,

driving home from work Monday,

an elderly lady had gone into the marsh.

Her front end was in the water up to her

  front door.

The rest of the car was in mud.

Fortunately for her, the water level

is much lower than normal in the marsh.

She might have been submerged if higher.

I found out later she was alright.

Yesterday I turned 67.

Yes it was my birthday.

Bob took me out for dinner.

I had Mango Chicken Tacos.

He had a Fat Slim Ham Sandwich...

similar to the Slim Jim's that Big Boy has.

73 days to my 6 week sabbatical...

then I have to report back for one week,

then retirement. YAY

My boss called to wish me a Happy Birthday.

She then said,

"You could give me a birthday present

if you said you were staying"

I laughed and said "NO"

I know she will miss me. 

Saundra asked what the round piece was

from my last post.

This is an antique riser.

I purchased this at an antique show

years ago.

The dealer told me it was an early lazy susan.

That is incorrect.

It would have been used in a store to elevate

a display the shopkeeper wanted to show off.

I chose to elevate this display.

Now I must get my butt to work now.

 

Thank you again who comment.

I so appreciate each and every one.

Re-Living For Christmas Blessings To All!

Janice

Living For Christmas Part 1

 Hello friends.

Next up is half of our living room.

My prim Santa...

In his very own sleigh.

Am disappointed that the nose on

my Arnett Santa scraped off.

Now I have to find the time to paint it.

Do you notice another character?

Ever since my grands have been little,

I hide elves for them to find.

Another Arnett Santa with my leather deer.

This antique feather tree has a small

collection of vintage chenille Santa's. 

Except for this one glass antique one on the left.

The other corner of our living room.

I even added a candle and small wreath

next to our crock lamp.

Our red curtains are actually red throws

that I attached to clips on a rod.

I purchased these years ago at 

primitivestarquiltshop.com

This is the same online shop I purchased

our coverlet for our bed.

In other news,

the big snow storm was a dud.

It did snow, however the rain came in.

Then yesterday it did snow some more.

Not enough to cover the grass though.

Other parts of Michigan got it much worse.

We did test my mom for a UTI.

She does not have one.

Her hemoglobin has gone up to 10.

This is better than it was.

Hopefully she will get better.

It is in God's hands.

Thank you to everyone who commented

from my last post.

I appreciate each and every one of you

who take the time to comment.

It means so much to me.

You all are the BEST!

Living Christmas Blessings To All!

Let Christmas Begin

Hello friends.

With Thanksgiving over,

it's onward to Christmas.

From now until mid December sometime...

I will be posting every other day

as I always do for the Christmas Season.

Today starting with my 2 mantles.

Hope you enjoy this year's tour of rooms. 

In other news,

Thanksgiving dinner was a hit.

My sister did not disappoint.

The food was delish.

If you went home hungry shame on you.

No one went home hungry...trust me.

It was nice seeing my kids and grands

all together.

We caught up on things.

We all sat together at the table,

including my mom.

However my mom did not interact with us.

She just focused on eating her food.

Very odd, but it is what it is.

She is still lashing out at my sister.

Does not want to do her home therapy exercises.

Lied to me saying she was doing good,

when I know she is not.

Even after dinner asked her to show me a few.

I knew she was cheating on doing them....

because the ones I asked her to do were

the same ones I had to do myself when

I had my frozen shoulder issue.

I did call her out on it.

She did not lash out at me though.

I also told her if she does not want to help herself,

then she would not be going back to her home.

She had out patient therapy yesterday,

and lied at the questions the therapist asked.

My sister told me what happened.

I have no idea what should be done.

It is so hard because I love my mom...

but if she is giving up then who knows what

we should do.

We are planning on having her take

a dementia test in January.

My sister now thinks she may be getting it.

Guess she needed to see for herself.

Looks like some snow is moving in today.

Anywhere from 3-6 inches.

Tundra will like it.

Let Christmas Begin Blessings To All!

Janice

 

 

November CupboardScape

Hello friends!

It's Turkey Time

for my November CupboardScape.

 

Turkey Trot by Notforgotton Farm.

Thankful Quaker 

Okra on the left and my dead turkey on the right.

I created him years ago.

Turkey feathers

Dried Cow Peas on the right.

GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!

In other news,

hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving.

We will be celebrating with my family.

Will be watching our Detroit Lions

annual Thanksgiving game...

and we hope they beat Green Bay.

{sorry my Wisconsin friends}

Will also watch the Detroit parade.

Our weather is predicted to be cold but dry.

Then the Wintery mix comes in over the weekend.

Pre Thanksgiving Blessings to All!

Janice

Friday Finish

Well I finally fully finished more items.

Some that I finished stitching back in 2023.

One of those older stitches was

 this pattern by Bent Creek.

Thankful Quaker.

I took out the fork & spoon motif,

then added the year.

Replaced the heart with another leaf.

Stitched on 32ct Buttermilk linen.

This piece had some green in it,

while not being a yellow color.

Just wondering if it was mislabeled.

The fabric on the right will be the back.

After cutting out both pieces,

I placed both pieces together

with right sides in.

Pinned all around.

Then stitched all around.

Turned right side back out an stuffed

with fabric pieces for that old lumpy look.

I finished Turkey Trot last year.

Just framed it a week ago.

This one was stitched on 35ct Old Salem linen.

Then I wanted to finally finish 

another piece I stitched back in 2023.

The patten is Wee One Santa 2022 

by Heart In Hand Needleart.

Stitched on a mystery cream linen.

I changed Santa's coat to a red instead

of the called for Pink.

I do need to fix the corner on the right I see.

The bow on the present was also suppose

to be stitched in pick.

I opted for the darker red of the Santa.

Then some of the pink flowers were changed 

again to another red.

Santa will make his debut in one of 

my Christmas displays.

The turkeys will be featured

in my November CupboardScape.

Stay tuned.

In other news,

Bob and I went out to dinner with our friends

last night to our fav Italian restaurant.

I had Chicken Parmesan over angel hair pasta.

Bob wanted their Jambalaya.

We both liked our food.

Our friends both had Baked Spaghetti with

big ole meatballs.

They liked theirs too.

We usually go out to dinner with them

once a month, but we had not gone out

to dinner with them since July.

With my mom's issue and with them

trying to get their house ready to sell...

it was hard for us to get together.

We did make a date for December though already.

It was nice catching up.

Speaking of my mom,

she is giving my sister a hard time.

She is supposed to start using her right arm now.

She is refusing to use it and do her therapy.

Screaming at my sister like a kid.

I dont know what is going to happen...

but she needs to do her therapy.

Well need to get my own work done.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

I know I will.

Friday Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Maker's Monday

 For today's maker's Monday,

I wanted to create something for

my one faux Christmas tree.

I purchased these wood circles

from Hobby Lobby and asked Bob

to drill a hole in the top for me.

Taking DecoArt Salted Caramel paint.

I painted the circles.

Then I chose these DecoColor Paint pens.

I wanted to paint some designs on my wood circles.

Can you guess what?

Well the yellow bled.

I was not a happy camper.

I wiped it off and re-painted the orange.

Again it bled. Ugh

So I went over this in black.

It will have to do...

but so disappointed in this yellow paint.

The black was perfect.

So I continued with my designs 

that I drew out just in the black.

This is our last name.

Am sure you know now what I am creating.

Well if not, these are meant to mimic

redware plates.

I did 3 designs and 3 words.

I painted 6 and did keep the messed up one.

Using this white and gold cording.

Tied at the top for an ornament.

Cannot wait to get these on

 my Christmas tree now.

Of all of my art classes I took...

I hated painting.

I would rather draw than paint,

so this was out of my comfort zone a bit.

Not perfection, but good enough for me.

In other news,

Early Sunday morning 

our security cameras at the store

caught someone walking around with 

a flashlight in the dark.

The time was 3:45am.

No it was not a ghost.

It looked to me like a police officer.

Bob thought it was a security guard

of some sort...

but why would a security guard be in our store?

Also why would anyone be in there?

Well Bob called the police to report it...

it turned out it was a police officer.

He spotted our side door open.

He went in and walked around to make

sure no one was in there,

plus to see if anything looked awry.

Upon finding nothing wrong,

he closed our door and left.

Bob goes out the front door,

but parks by the side one a bit farther back.

He swears it was shut.

I told him it was possible it might

have been not fully shut and with

the high winds last night, it opened.

We dont have a camera at that door,

because it goes into a little room

with another door that 

then goes into  the store.

However if  anyone else had come in 

we would have caught them too...

as that is where the camera is,

along with others all around the store.

Thankfully we have great police officers

in our town.

Bob thanked him many times.

Redware Blessings to all!

Janice