'TIS THE SEASON - THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE KITCHEN...

  

Christmas time
 when all of the candles shine...

Christmas time
 when all of the treats are sweet...

Excuse Me - please...

Could you tell us
How to get - how to get to:
Gingerbread Street?

With sincere apologies and thanks to:
Sesame Street

'Tis the Season

 when all good little boys and girls 

are asking the same question 

and it is not

 a hard question to answer...

...just follow Rugby and Robin

and your nose

 from the dining room

 leading into the kitchen,

 all dressed up with the sights and aromas of the holiday season 

with love,

 from our home to yours.

Welcome to 

the Christmas Cottage Kitchen:

Now that you have seen what is new

 in this year's Christmas Cottage Kitchen,

 I will lead you around the room 

with very few words

 as everything you have seen before,

 but I hope that you will be

 as excited to see it all again 

as I am to show it to you. 

 I truly have to say 

that if I only had one room to decorate,

 I would love it to be the kitchen.

"I wish we could put up 

some of the Christmas spirit in jars 

and open a jar of it every month."

Harlan Miller

Some excitement

 at Holly Farms this Christmastime...

 ...if the Cottage

 and the little red kitchen stove 

had babies 

they would look just like these

 sweet little holiday cottages 

that I found on Antique Farmhouse. 

 The minute I saw them 

I knew it was

 a match made in Christmas heaven...

 ...it even persuaded 

the little elves from the 1960's

 to come out of hiding 

and hitch a ride on a Christmas chick

 all the way 

to Gingerbread Street. 

Of all the Santas in my world 

this is my favorite.  

Except for the real one, of course. 

 He has been broken 

and pasted back together again, 

but then so has the real one! 

They are each just a little stronger for it.

 

"Twas the night before Christmas

 so sayeth the book,

 not a creature was stirring, 

excepting the cook."

Author Unknown

I think this is
 my all time favorite Christmas project. 

 The painting of this little house,

 as if it were made of gingerbread,

 brings the biggest smile to my face 

every year when I see it

 for the first time.

I hope you enjoyed 

your trip to Gingerbread Street 

and I look forward to being back next week

 for the grand finale of the season.

  Hope you will join me then.

...xxoJudy...

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