Beautiful Blessings - 9/20/15

~ The simple joy found in riding a carousel!

~ Enjoying donuts and apple cider as is tradition!

~ And of course, enjoying cotton candy!

~ Saying goodbye to the Fall Festival until next year!

~ Mom graciously giving me her iced tea after mine spilled all over the ground! <3 Thanks Mom!

Beautiful Blessings - 9/3/15

~ Enjoying a lovely cup of Lavender Sencha!

~ Sharing a graham cracker with my cat Ansel!

~ Untangling yarn to organize it and be able to use it!

~ Having God untangle my heart while I work on untangling yarn.

~ Feeling like a little girl in a candy shop when I see all the yarn we have!!

My Mice

I used some candy canes, that I mentioned here, to create the candy cane mice. I will have a total of 7 when I am done, but right now only 3 are ready. Aren't they cute??

Wouldn't you like to wake Christmas morning

to see him peeking out of your stocking?

Aren't the adorable? I said it before. This is the cute kind of mouse! :~D Tasty too! My cat Ansel, tries to convince me the other kind are yummy, but I don't trust his shifty character. lol

37 days till X'mas

Every Christmas season I always look at the Martha Stewart website for Christmas ideas. I saw these today, and I will be making some VERY SOON! They are absolutely adorable.


(Photo Credit- Martha Stewart)

These are so cute! Don't you agree?

How to make them:
Mouse How-To
On a photocopier, enlarge mice template by 150 percent; cut out. With a pencil, trace ears and body onto felt; cut out. Cut inner ears and a dot for a nose from felt in a contrasting color, cut dots for eyes from black. Glue the face and inner ears in place. Make slits in body for ears and candy-cane tail where marked; to make cutting easier, fold felt across center of slits, and snip. Slip ears through slits at front; then slide wrapped candy cane through body slits, tucking the end underneath the ear piece at the back.

(Credit- Martha Stewart)

I see working on this, this afternoon or in a few days! They would be cute in the Christmas stockings!

42 days till X'mas

Candy canes are so much fun!

Some fun decorations to make are chenille wire candy canes. We have a bunch we put on our Christmas tree.

We also have candy canes (candy ones) that we saved from last year from decorating.

And the big plastic ones.... those are the best. My sisters use those for EVERYTHING. Trumpets, horses, swords (when they think no one is paying attention) and more.

What candy canes do you like?

Columbus day

Happy Columbus day!

Last year to celebrate it we:

We left our socks out to be filled with "gold", "corn", and "spices". (Chocolate coins, candy corn, and spices!)

They were filled by the Nina,

the Pinta,

and the Santa Maria.

This year the ships couldn't make it due to the rocket NASA shot off. (Its as good as reason as any!)

Happy Columbus day!