Animals Running Amok

Good evening sweet blogging friiends.
There is a legend that says on Christmas Eve
the animals can talk.
Well, a few have popped into my Christmas decor...
wonder what they are thinking?

This is my new candle table.

Seems this snow bunny hopped on and made himself compfy.

Then I caught this sweet lil mouse nibbling on some berries.

May the Christmas magic stay in our hearts all year round.

Magical Christmas Blessings To All!
Janice

Snippets

Good evening sweet blogging buddies!
Its been a bit since my last post.
Mr & Mrs Santa
aka Bob and Janice
have been busy lately.
Busy with our store Christmas open house
which was a huge success.
Busy with buying presents for our family.
Busy attending parties.
Its been a hectic week.
Are you finding there are not enough days this December?

Here are a few snippets of my holiday decor.

I took a pear and added cloves to it entirely and placed in a bowl.

Placed this fun lil snowman in corn husk wreath.

He was a presnent from granddaughter Mikayla.

Added poinsettias and green eucalyptus to my zinc pitcher.
can you see santa peeking out the basket?

Wreaths on the doors to our red cabinet with red mittens.

Gingers greeting folks in our kitchen.

More to come....

Snippet Blessings To All!
Janice

Christmas Open House

Good evening sweet blogging friends.

A big thank you to those who wished me

birthday blessings.

We plan on going to dinner for my birthday tomorrow...

well maybe.

Tomorrow is our Christmas open house at our store.

For those of you who are able to attend,

we will have discounts on select vendors,

a holiday scavenger hunt for store gift certificates...

and of course cookies and refreshments.

Hope to see many of you there for our

"Shop on Brodaway"

holiday event.

Below are some of the goodies we brought back from

our Florida trip.

These will be offered for sale at our holiday event.

Collection of vintage and antique yellowware.

This starburst 2 gallon crock.

A fun little table.

Wrought iron table.

Early red firkin on top.

A measure.

Noodle board.

Covered yellowware bowl and another breadboard.

Grain measure.

Flax winder.

Flax comb with wood box.

Well bucket.

Blue bucket with paper label.

Candlestick phone.

More goodies as well!

Once again hope you all can stop on in.
Our Holiday hours for tomorrow are
11:00am to 8:00pm

Back Porch Antiques
500 Broadway St
Marine City, MI  48039

Holiday On Broadway Blessings To All!
Janice

Post Birthday Post

Good evening sweet blogging friends.

Yesterday was my 50 ish...56th birthday.

We celebrated quietly at home.

Bob made me dinner 

and even bought me a cake with yummy butter cream frosting.

Here is another bit of my Christmas decor.

This year I decided to do a mini arrangement in our hall.

Just a simple Christmas tree in a firkin,

with a blue slip jug tucked in back.

Then added these two beeswax goodies.
An old world Santa and tree.

Keeping things a bit simple this year.
According to Bob though...
6 trees is NOT normal.
Oh but honey it is when you use to have 8 at her other house. LOL

How many Christmas trees do you put up?

Making Merrie Simple Blessings To All!
Janice

Back To The North Pole

Good evening sweet blogging buddies.

The jolly ole man himself arrived to our home

the other day.

He popped out of this suitcase

directly from Florida.

Although he was not happy to be back in the cold weather,

he knew Christmas was right around the corner

and he needed to get back to the North Pole. He He

This vintage circa 1940's jolly ole elf
was calling out to me....
please please take me home.
I could not resist as I thought he would fit
perfectly in with my silver decorated tree.

One of my horses all decked out for the holidays.

These two snow folk will greet you as you walk into our kitchen.

North Pole Blessings To All! 
Janice

November CupboardScape

Good morning sweet blogging buddies.

It is almost December and I forgot to post

my November CupboardScape.

So here it is...which I have titled

"Give Thanks"

I am thankful for friends and family.

To my wonderful hubby Bob who puts up with me...

er maybe he should be thankful for me putting up with him. LOL

I am thankful for having a great job 

and a store that is doing good.

I am thankful to God for giving me the talent

to draw and create wonderful goodies.

Plus I am thankful to all of you

you follow me on this journey of

ever changing posts.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

What do you have to be thankful for?

Thankful Blessings To All!

Janice

PS: I re-sized my Frolic pattern to fit better.

It might be easier to copy and print now. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Good evening sweet blogging buddies.

Hope you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving with friends and/or family.

In the spirit of giving,

I created this small cross stitch design

which I would like to share with you all.

This is a Christmas design called

FROLIC

DMC colors used for this design.

White: reindeer belly

Black: reindeer eye and nose

Red 498: Frolic

Brown 838 reindeer body and tree trunk

Green 500 christmas tree

Tan: antlers

I hope you enjoy stitching up this quick and easy Christmas design!

Please share your creations with me if you can.

I would love to see what you do with this.

Happy Thanksgiving Blessings To All!

Janice