Welcome...
We are so happy
to have you stop by
for a bit of
simple Christmas cheer.
There is nothing complicated
about the decorations this year.
We took down
about 20 or so boxes and,
maybe,
used 2 or 3 items
from each.
Maybe this will be the year
when the hoard collection
will be refined
and
wouldn't that be grand?!
Let me show you
how we are enjoying Christmas
this year
with a few pictures and
fewer words.
(After reading this post over,
you might want to be prepared
for more than
a few pictures!)
The Captain and Kai
left to buy dog food and
came back with this
gorgeous, huge
pointsettia.
The old gray mare,
dashing through the snow,
with the three Gingerbread boys and
their bounty of pinecones.
My dad
made the sleigh for me
many years ago and
I made the
wooden horse.
Here are two more
of the pillow covers
I purchased from Amazon:
Left, Merry Christmas, $2
Right, Have a Merry, $3.
I think
they are well worth
the price...
...and, yes,
I did put pompoms
on this other pillow..
much to the
Captain's dismay!
This is a pillow cover from
Miss Mustard Seed's Society6 collection.
I just love it
on the guest room bed and
it has inspired this
little vignette...
I made the
paper mache Santa
many years ago, and
the ceramic rocking horse
as well.
I showed the parlor mantle
in my last post
saying it was what
inspired the
tree this year...
Here is the tree
without the lights on.
My only regret is
that I sprayed it lightly with snow
and only managed to turn it
a sickly gray.
The Captain and I, both,
wish I had left it just natural.
It is a Noble fir,
about eight feet tall.
The smell from the tree
permeates the whole house
and is just wonderful.
But,
everything considered,
it does have
the most beautiful glow about it
when the lights are
turned on...
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I hope you enjoyed
the Cottage Christmas tour
and now I'd like to thank
all of you for your kind birthday wishes
for Jake,
and let you know what
he is up to now...
He returned
from Spain and Italy
and brought us this beautiful water color
of the Vatican.
I can't wait to frame it
and I have the perfect spot
picked out for it.
Now,
he is in Spain again.
The photo above
is one he sent
during his lay-over in Sweden.
Jacenda
will be finishing up her classes this week
and then they are off to
ride camels in Morocco,
and who knows where else!
They will be back home
just in time for Christmas.
Oh, to be young again!!
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As you probably have figured out by now,
we are doing some extended work
in the kitchen.
I said
I wasn't going to share until
it was all done,
but...just like I can't wait
until the Captain has
pounded the last nail,
I'm pushing him
out of the way
so I can start to decorate!
The photo above
is one that I took
a couple of years ago
of the large kitchen window
where I had the old slate blackboard
and my swanky swig collection.
Here is that same window now...
I am anxious
to have it done.
It is going to be
quite a
transformation.
...Judy...
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