It's Beginning to Look alot Like Christmas!

The Clock is Ticking!

Can you believe another year is upon us? Where oh where does the time go! I remember my dear old MOM telling me when I was young, to stop wishing my life away becasue when you get older time will fly by! Boy was she right!

While I don't dislike a New Year, I don't like what it brings....

All of my favorite, deep rich colors, twinkly lights and memory filled Christmas Decorations get taken down and stored away until next year!

I will miss you dear old treasures! See ya' next year!

Merry CHRISTmas!

Giving and Receiving Part 2!

I have some many wonderful, generous, kind hearted and talented friends that I like to share the Christmas Spirit with by giving them a little something I love, that is homemade!

So, I packaged up 48 of these little cuties for each of them!

It's Christmas Tea, sometimes known as Russian Tea, Wassil, etc.

It's sooo good! It's an orange cinnamony tea that hits the spot on those cold winter days and nights!

I even gave the FED X driver one as he carried 6 large Longaberger boxes up my snow covered driveway last week!

When he returned today to carry two more boxes up my freshly snow covered driveway, he said "Man, was that tea good!", thank you again!

What homemade gifts or store bought do you like to bestow on your friends at CHRISTmas time?

Christmas Giving and Receiving!

It's better to give than to receive....of course that was said by someone who didn't receive this!

This oh so perfect primitive tool caddy filled with so many goodies, including local honey, a varitey of teas, bayberry candles, pomegrante lotion and D. Nau's world famous cinnamon sugar covered almonds and pecans! What more could a girl ask for!



Who needs Santa when gracious, kind hearted, ultra giving M. Nau presents this little beauty to you!



Thanks M, I couldn't have picked out a more perfect gift for me!

Hope, Peace, COOKIES!

My Annual Christmas Cookie Exchange was last Saturday! This is the 11th year for my exchange here in the bluegrass state!



There were 17 sweet and oh so Talented women who attended with 10 dozen cookies in hand!

The varities included cranberry shortbread, cranberry bars, Lynn's famous pizelle's, Aunt Mary Dillion's praline cookies, clothespin cookies, rootbeer cookies, white chocolate cranberry popcorn and oh so many more tasty treats!

They each departed with 10 dozen assorted cookies to enjoy during the CHRISTmas Season and a recipe book with each cookie recipe to make them throughout the year!

What are some of your annual Christmas traditions?

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Countdown to Christmas!

Christmas Throughout The House

To say I love Christmas would be an understatement! My grandfather was a huge Christmas Fan and he obviously passed the Christmas gene onto me! I remember we would get a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving when we had real trees and once they invented Mt King artificial trees the tree went up Thanksgiving night!

We would decorate the tree with loads of old fashioned glass ornaments that he and my grandmother had for years, we even had the huge old fashioned light bulbs that I still cant' believe didn't catch the real tree on fire, they got sooooo hot!

Anyway, I digress, in honor of my grandfather's love of Christmas and all that the season stands for (birth of our savior, magic in the air, giving, caring and sharing and so much more)I now decorate everything! My husband is afraid to stand still to long as I may just decorate him! For those of you who don't know him, he is the biggest Grinch ever....he tolerates Christmas at best, and my decorating makes him crazy. He thinks the tree is too bright, but that doesn't stop me, I just add more lights!

So, here it is in all it's glory!


I love Snowmen and have them everywhere! This is a snowman head candle from the store that I can't bring myself to burn but he glows when you do!


More snowmen on a shelf in the family room.

My seasonal wall in the kitchen....this wall changes with the seasons. After Christmas it will sport snowmen until March and then out comes the springtime treasures and so on and so on, season after season!

A shelf in the dinning room with more you guessed it snowmen!



A shelf in my kitchen window with snowmen and my collection of antique graters turned luminary!


Another shelf in my kitchen window. I get to look at all of the beauties when I am doing dishes!

Check it out, I really do have something other than snowmen! My primitive Santa's and one of my kitchen trees decked out in kitchen utensils and tools from sifters and rolling pins to mason jars and whisks!


What would Christmas be without candy! These jars are here year round, but the candy changes as do the punch needle designs on the front, crafted by yours truly.

My entryway, sorry, I forgot to turn the little tree in the corner on!

My family room! Sorry about the image on the TV. My husband was watching something and wasn't happy when I tried to close the doors on the armorie to hide the TV! The crooked tree topper is thanks to WII Fit and the numerous people who have been in my family room on the balance board causing slight movements and jarring of everything not nailed down

One of my newest additions. Isn't this the coolest door you have ever seen. A very kind lady gave it to me! We stained it, my husband built a stand for it and I adorned it for Christmas. It will stay all year, but it's adornments will change.

There's still more, a tree in each room, a hall bath filled with Santa's and a second floor with lots of treasures!

I hope you have enjoyed the tour! Now, it's time to start taking it all down, which makes me oh so sad. I think the house looks so empty and cold when it all gets packed away!