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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Scarves ..Birthdays ..Football and Christmas

Good Morning !
I hope you all had wonderful Christmas celebrations ! Christmas decorations stay up here until New Years day at least :) I have still been crocheting my favorite infinity scarves from this pattern ..My daughter has a lot of these scarves but wanted these 2 colors..Pale grey and pale rose ..When I make these for my daughter since she likes them smaller I use a J hook ( I crochet a little loosely ) and instead of chaining 160 I chain 140 .. They wrap twice around her neck and are still full ..

You can see some of the other scarves I have made here .. here and here

Today is my daughters 27th birthday ! Happy Birthday Chelsea !

Two weeks ago we got the best news for our football playing son ..He was at a Junior college in California last semester hoping to scholarship out to a D1 college to play football..On Monday December 15 San Diego State offered him a full ride scholarship to be their punter ! We couldn't be more excited for him !!

He signed his letter of intent to play sitting at our dining room table :)

One of my favorite photos from Christmas eve..

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Christmas Home Tour 2014

Come on in !
The front porch is decorated with a vintage blow mold Santa ..a DIY santa countdown.. A burlap ..decomesh and white light garland..

On the front door ,the wreath has a thrift store silver frame ,painted with chalkkboard paint. The message on the tray is written with a paint pen..to look like chalk. The wreath is also made from decomesh and burlap.

When you come in the front door you can see the wreaths in the kitchen windows ..2 trees are in the foyer and the little one on the table by the door ..

The owl tree and the Merry and Bright tree in the basket .

The living room has the big ( real) frasier fir with all the family collected ornaments..

Also in the living room is the new flocked tree..

Flocked wreaths hang in the living room windows from burlap.

The Christmas Village in the living room ..with the Santa Tree and the gold tree.

This year the Christmas Village surrounds two trees in the living room !

IN the dining room the hutch , buffet and table are all decorated.

The ice skate tree sits in the corner of this room.. A book page wreath hangs in the window.

In the kitchen the galvanized tiered tray sits on the table.

The candy cane tree sits in a olive bucket.

The cookies are baked and decorated ..

The seasonal chalkboard with this months theme..

In the family room the mantel over the fireplace holds a chalkboard message and all the handmade stockings..

Another bookpage wreath , more chalkboards,and vintage goodies are on the side tables.

The 4 foot snowman tree

The scrapbook tree and the big snowman tree all are in the family room

The last of the 4 trees in the family room is the Americana tree..

I haven't shown you this tree yet ..it is the only tree upstairs and it is in the master bedroom.. It is tree # 13 ..Its standing in a vintage wood crate. It is decorated with DIY sweater ball ornaments, red ribbons for garlands...aqua painted plaques with glitter and red words.. a lantern and a little camper ornament from Target . Pearl sprigs are aslo used to bring in some white.

The wood shapes came from Joann Fabrics. I used them for our Halloween mantel last year and just painted over the chalkboard paint. I use red puffy paint to write the Christmas sayings and sprinkled them with glitter. I got styraphome balls from Walmart for 48 cents each and used some thrift store sweater sleeves to make the balls .They each got a red ticking stripe bow on the top .

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Christmas Cookies 2014

The cookies are baked and decorated .. So happy to be finished ..:)

Love the trucks with the trees in the back..

I used alot of aqua again this year ..ove the red ..white and aqua

Lots of double decker cookies..

Gingerbread houses and gingerbread men..Chocolate sugar cookie snowflakes..I use Debbie Fields recipe for the gingerbread and also the sugar cookies.. I made one batch of gingerbread and 3 double batches of sugar cookies to get this amount. The chocolate cutout cookies are from Martha Stewart and I made one batch of them.

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas In The Family Room 2014

Seven days until Christmas ! Today is Christmas in the family room..

I hung the book page wreath over the side table

There is a chalkboard on a thrifted silver tray .. Pedestal plated with Dollar Tree ornaments ..greens from the Christmas Tree and a strand of white lights draped over the whole table.. ..a vintage scale with a Dept. 56 Santa

On the chalk painted buffet..There is a book page tree ..a pedestal plate with thrift store putz houses...mason jars with Christmas lights ..a lantern with lights and greens .. Country Cottage Needleworks Silent Night framed on a thrift store sweater in a thrift store frame..Those sparkly reindeer came from Gordman's this year ...Aren't they pretty !

The view from the kitchen ..the mantel and the snowman tree..and the Scrapbook tree.

The mantel with the Home for Christmas Chalkboard, an all the cross stitched stockings..

This snowman tree is made on a 4ft tree.. I used muslin and stuffing to make the balls for the tree...This year I cut a piece of plaid homespun for the scarf and made a bow for the hat..There is one strand of lights draped on the branches..