December CupboardScape

Well friends,

we have come down to the finale

for my 2025 Christmas tour.

I sure hope you enjoyed this as much

as I did putting it all together. 

Today is also my final CupboardScape for the year.

All about the gingerbread.

To make these yummy cookies,

you need a bowl, measure cup and flour sifter.

Of course it also helps having the cookie cutter.

A handmade ginger I made eons ago.

It resides underneath my antique shoofly.

A shoofly was used to keep bugs out of food.

Here is a close up of that gingerbread man.

Paired with some faux muffins.

Rolling pin also needed.

The larger gingers I made years ago.

This metal gingerbread I bought at

Hobby Lobby.

It was red so Bob painted it for me a brown.

Then I added a different fabric ribbon and raffia.

Hung up this vintage striped stocking.

Also this ladies striped stocking.

Finished off with a bonnet,

and included two pitchers.

All on my pine cabinet here in the 

heart of our room...the kitchen.

I don't often show this angle,

but the screen door leads into

our keeping room.

When we found this old screen door,

I asked Bob to hang it here

because it remined me of the screen door

my maternal grandma had on her farmhouse.

I use to love slamming that door.

You can also partially see our stove.

In  other news,

I mentioned we were going to dinner

 on Monday night.

Santa greeted us at the door.

The entire ceiling looked like this.

It was so festive in person.

They played Christmas music and the ambiance

was just magical. 

They even had a Santa hat on 

each of the barstool chairs.

Bob had their famous Chicken in The Rough

broasted chicken,

while I had fish and chips.

So this will be my last post until January.

I want to wish everyone a 

Very Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year!

I will continue to read everyone's blogs,

I just need to focus on the next two weeks

taking care of my mom.

I just hope all goes well.

Again I want to thank all who comment.

It is most appreciated!

Keeps me going believe it or not.

See you in all next year my friends.

Seasons Blessings To All!

Janice 

The Heart Of Christmas

We continue the tour to our kitchen.

In our family homes,

the kitchen is always the heart.

A simple arrangement on the table.

When family comes over I switch to my 

Christmas tablecloth.

View looking in to our living room on the one side.

More egg carton Santa's.

With a little bit of Santa cheer.

Now the other side looking again into our living room.

Decided this year to add a display

on top of the white cabinet.

I normally don't do anything here.

Added in some poinsettias and lights.

Stockings on the peg rack.

The blue cabinet holds our crockpots.

Yes we have two.

Bob uses one to cook chicken for Tundra

our spoiled Samoyed.

The top of this cabinet also is where I keep my

glass coffee jars filled with flour,

 sugar and brown sugar.

Inside all of my baking utensils and pans.

In other news,

It reach a balmy 18 degrees yesterday.

Going outside now,

the snow crunches underneath.

Lots of going on this week.

Dinner with friends tonight.

Wednesday dinner with

 my daughter Michele.

Also with Mikey and Mikalya; the grands.

It is my belated birthday dinner.

Michele was sick on my birthday...

but now Mikayla will be back from college

for Christmas break so will be nice

to see her too.

Thursday I have my final work party.

It will be bittersweet for me seeing everyone

one last Christmas party.

We all work in different locations, 

so we only get to see one another via

conference calls and our Christmas party.

Friday my mom is coming.

She will be staying with us thru New Years.

She may get kicked out of therapy

as she is still refusing to do anything at my sister's.

Am hoping she cooperates with me.

She is withdrawing which is not good.

Well off to work.

Hope everyone is enjoying 

the pre Christmas season.

Only 10 more days. 

Heart Of Christmas Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Oh Tannenbaum

 Or I should say...

Oh Tannebaums...as in two trees.

First the living room one.

You will only find an assortment of red mittens,

gold and silver ornaments on this tree...

along with  few gold doves and handmade red pears.

Decided to add some unusual items 

underneath this tree. 

Like this bowl filled with flax.

Which I almost forgot that I did hide one more elf

here for the grands to find.

At night it is so pretty in here.

Not sure if you can tell, but the lights

are red and white on this one.

With the lights of the tree and around 

our door frame...the only other light

we use is my second Ott light so I can stitch.

There are also more lights with the other

door frame and of course the tabletop tree

from our hall.

It is wonderful.

The second tree has blue and white lights.

More handmade gingers, stockings,

hooked redware plates.

There also are gingerbread cookies,

but those were purchased.

Plus a few silver and gold ornaments.

The white mittens my aunt made me

years ago. She has since passed.

I cherish all of her mittens she made me.

Even some of the red ones on my other tree. 

Underneath this tree I placed my prim winder.

Close ups of some of the items.

At night it is pretty in here too.

We trade off our nights in both rooms.

Tonight will be this one.

So you will find Bob laying on the couch,

while I stitch in my chair.

We will have the electric fireplace on.

it will be warm and toasty for us while

watching tv after dinner.

In other news,

we went out to dinner Thursday evening

with Bobs daughter and her husband.

We went to a Mexican restaurant that I found

out about 50 years ago.

It is still owned my the same family,

and the food is still wonderful.

Second generation is now running it.

Heather and I had their 3 chicken enchilada dinner.

Frank her husband had this huge taco salad.

Bob had the combo plate.

Tostada, taco, cheese enchilada and mini burrito.

Our dinners all included refried beans and rice.

Speaking of the mini burritos,

I started my kids out with their mini burritos.

It was just the right size for a lil kiddo.

Then of course my grands were introduced to them.

Its a family tradition for us too.

Today you will find me stitching,

watching some Christmas movies,

and stitching.

 Tannenbaum Blessings To All!

Janice

Keeping Up With Christmas

 

This is what I call my

unconventional Christmas colors.

Lots of orange, yellow and blue for this room.

A paper angel on top of this fabric tree.

Teddies and more children's shoes.

Sitting in here has a calming effect for me.

This mustard Child's chair use to be the one

Michael sat in when he was little.

Am loving my heritage wall now

especially here at Christmas.

My sister liked it too and wondered

how I got some of these to look so old.

Told her it was the fabric (linen) choice.

Remember the ornaments I painted.

Here they are on another fabric tree.

My friend Ruth made both fabric trees for me.

In addition to the redware, I included

white and tan chenille candy canes that I made,

gold bulbs, tan/white mittens & pears.

This chenille Santa star on top.

I placed two wreaths inside my trencher.

Added Santa in the middle,

 then two fabric pears I had sewn up

inside each wreath.

This Santa was holding a cake crock,

so I added two more cake crocks to 

the left of this display.

The mustard child's chair use to be

the one Mikayla would sit it 

when she visited gramma.

Bob made the tree from an old door.

Tobacco sticks all around.

He sold quite a few at the store a few years ago...

in all sizes and even some painted in green.

Sorry about my Ott lamp being in the way.

This is where I stitch.

In other news,

yesterday morning I started my drive into work

with snow, then sleet, then freezing rain and then rain

by the time I pulled into the parking lot.

When I left it was the same thing except vice versa.

It finally stopped snowing.

More to come today they say.

Welcome to Winter in Michigan.

Bob told me before I left work that it was

52 and sunny at our house.

I told him it must be in his dream.

Also yesterday when I came home there was

a strange car in my driveway.

I stopped my car in the street and walked up 

to it and the person said-

"are you the homeowner?"

I said "yes" and "who are you?"

He was the township building inspector.

He needed to inspect our privacy fence 

we put up in August.

A little late I said to him...he replied that they

were behind on inspections.

I told him he sure picked a fine time to go out.

Anyway the fence was fine and passed.

Again thank you to all who comment

on my Christmas tour posts.

I still have a few more.

Keeping Up With Christmas Blessings To All!

Janice