Hearts and Candy and Kisses and Blessings

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craft, crafts, DIY, free printables, Holiday, printable, printables, Valentine, Valentine crafts, Valentine Day, Valentine's Day

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I’ve been trying to think up something neat to do for City Boy — I have begun to decorate the house, since time’s-a-wastin’ for that.  But Frank is not much for appreciating interior decor per se.  One would think that after 20 years in the Navy he would really enjoy the finer things that he missed all those long periods of time shipboard.  But no.

So, I have to just decorate to my own taste and hope that, over time, he will grow to like it.  He already has come over to my side on a lot of things like that, but still has a basic decorating instinct that gravitates to the style of the inside of a battleship.  I try to work around it.  And now I’m trying to come up with things I think he’ll really enjoy.

But, first things first.  I’ve found some really neat printables that will make really nice projects (and they’re free!).  Here’s a few that were featured on the Makoodle site.

This printable comes in two sizes to be compatible for framing, among other things.

It downloads in a 4X6 and a 5X7 size for framing, or cutting up and using in projects.  The download version of this can be found here.

Something else ultra-cute that I found on Makoodle were these sweet Hershey Kiss Labels, also free.  If you don’t have pre-made stickers (she tells you where you can get them), you can use a circle punch to make them into circles after printing them off.  

The download for these can be found here.

And if you want to put your candies in little bags, here are some cute bag toppers to download and print:

So, in no time a person can make all sorts of sweet little Valentine gifts for everyone on their sweetie list.  

Rebecca, from The Crafted Sparrow, designed a couple of sweet Valentine printables.  One is a subway-style print for framing and crafts that comes in three color choices, shown here:

These can be downloaded separately here.  And the other irresistible Valentine printable from The Crafted Sparrow is this simple multipurpose little gem:

You can download and/or print it from here and do a variety of sweet projects with it!

That’s all the project hunting I’ve done so far, but there is so much to be found either online or out and about around town that the sky is the limit as far as Valentine projects go!

In talking about heartfelt love, my friend Karen posted a video of a tiny baby capuchin monkey with a heart full of love that belongs to one of her former students.  It is so heartfelt and sweet and will just melt YOUR heart!  I just had to share the link to the video here.  Please give it a watch if you get the chance, and listen carefully to what the little girl is saying at the beginning (she is whispering and hard to hear).

And another couple of pictures of Frank’s daughter Becca’s Precious Baby:

And, Frank’s youngest son Daniel has a baby girl as well, so I will be posting some pictures of her on here soon, just in time for Valentine’s Day.  A baby is the purest symbol of love, and around Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to show off all those sweet little cherubs.

Have a wonderful day today and be thinking of hearts and candy and kisses and blessings!

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Rustic Swag

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Christmas, Christmas decor, Christmas entry table, craft, crafts, DIY, DIY swag, entry table, grass swag, Holiday, holiday decor, holiday entry table, natural crafts, nature crafts, rustic, rustic swag, Swag

Christmas is over for another year, and it always looks so bare around the house when the decorations are taken down, doesn’t it?  We get so used to it all over the month or more that we have our houses all gussied-up.  And it’s really bad when there are some bare spots in your decor even when the holiday decorations are up.  That’s where I found myself before Christmas, even though we’d been living here since February.  Still a lot of bare spots that needed a little decor.

While I was decorating, I decided to take care of one of those spaces that looked bland and bare, so I decided to make a swag.  We have an entry table with a picture over it, and I have always thought it looked like it needed…something.  Ever since the Fall decorating had begun I had wondered what to do with it, and finally decided to put a swag there.

Our entry table is a modern one that has been purposely distressed, so a rustic type swag was what I was looking for.  Several shopping trips later, I still hadn’t found anything that screamed “Take me!  I’m the perfect swag!”   Finally, after the Christmas decorations were all up, I decided to make one.

Back to shopping I went, looking for materials.  Being frugal (cheap), I just couldn’t bring myself to pay a huge price for each component of a long swag.  Finally, I remembered my Fall foraging trip that City Boy had taken me on, the one where I gathered all the Fall foliage.  At one point, we had gone into an open field and I had cut a big bunch of overgrown field grass.  Most of it had gone to seed, but I managed to clip most of it without the seed head.  It was above the knee, less than waste high.

Once home, I hung the whole bunch upside down in the garage, and then forgot about it.  And so, once I remembered the grass again, the swag in this picture is what I ended up with.  

If you are not into rustic, collecting grass in the Fall is probably not something it would be of benefit for you to do.  Dried grass is always going to look rustic.  Well, maybe if you spray-painted it silver or gold it would look more updated — I’ll have to try that and see.  I’ll try anything once.  Almost anything.

Here are the things I used to create this rustic grass swag:

Scissors, twine, long dried grass.

This is another weed that I had drying at the same time the grass was — I didn’t have a full-length picture of the grass.

Gather the overgrown grass in any field that hasn’t been mowed in awhile.    I used scissors to cut it off as close to the ground as possible.  Gather a huge bunch — remember that it will seem like much more when it is in its live state than when it is dry, so gather more than you think you will need.

Tie the bottom of the bunch of grass with some twine, leaving long ends so you can tie it around something to hang it upside down.  Let it dry for at least several days; longer is even better.

When ready to make the swag, separate the grass into small bunches that are about the density you want your swag to be.  Lay them out on a flat surface so you can work with them.  I laid mine out on the floor.

Use the twine to tie the bunches together, overlapping the end of one bunch with the beginning of another.  Leave stray blades of grass loose from the twine to give the swag a more natural, full look.  Continue this process until the swag is the desired length.

Shape the swag to suit what you are using it for.  I did some bending and shaping before I put the swag up, and then did some touch-up shaping after I had it in place above the picture over the entry table.  For the purpose in the picture, the swag is resting on the picture with nothing else holding it up, but for other purposes it would probably need to be tacked here and there to the wall.  

I have not tried seeing how this would look on a mantle or a table, but if I make another one or move this one I will have to try that and see how it looks.  

Here are a few pictures I took while in the process of making the swag:

Grass spread out on the floor made it easier to work with

Beginning of the swag — two bunches tied together

Close-up

Third bunch ready to be added on

Third bunch added on, tied off, twine cut — I think I used seven or so bunches altogether for this swag

The finished product.  I did fluff this swag up some after I took this picture because I had it too squared-off.  This swag can be made shorter or longer — as long as there is overgrown grass available, a swag can be made.

 One of these days I might do something rustic with the other weeds that are still hanging out in the garage (unless City Boy has thrown them out thinking I was not going to use them).

Rustic isn’t for everybody, just like ultra modern isn’t for everybody, but I enjoy it any time natural things are used in home decor.  The materials are all around us, we don’t have to spend a lot of money making things from them, and best of all, nothing gets wasted.

If you get a chance, go on a nature walk and get some ideas for things you can use to make your atmosphere pleasant.  There are so many things, especially this time of year, that are laying out there dormant or dead that can be brought back to life by your creativity.   So let your creative juices flow out of every pore, and have a blessed day!

The Week After Christmas, And All Through the House….

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Christmas, Christmas dinner, Family, Holiday

Recovered yet?  Hope you all had a very merry Christmas to recover from!  Whether you spent a peaceful or active day with yourself, one, a few, or many friends and relatives, Christmas is a time to celebrate, and there are a million ways to do it!

City Boy and I had a gathering at our house with the Willingham side of the family.  It’s the most crowded our tiny house has been since moving here in February, and was such a wonderful way to spend the  holiday!  My son had driven up Christmas Eve and spent the night, and the rest of our guests appeared around noon.  Much as I’d like to say everything went off without a single hitch, I can’t.  But everyone seemed to be having a good time eating, laughing and visiting, and some of us were better than others at Christmas trivia.

During the festivities, a guest had gone into the master bedroom to use the bathroom.  I didn’t let it bother me since I knew most of the guests would use the main bathroom, and went into the master bathroom a little later to check and make sure everything was still spick-and-span.  

A little piece of paper remained floating in the toilet, so I flushed it just to be tidy.  To my dismay, the toilet stopped-up.  So, there I was, right before dinner Christmas day, house full of guests, madly plunging the toilet hoping to lessen the amount I would have to mop up from the floor.  Relief came as it appeared catastrophe had been averted and the toilet was unstopped before anything had hit the floor.  And, in addition, it was out of earshot of any of the guests, so no one need ever know.  

Just as I went to wash my hands, I looked up and noticed that someone must have gotten ready in our bathroom that morning.  It looked like a deer had been gutted right in the bathroom sink.  Some sort of goo was sprayed completely over the whole bottom half of the mirror.  Thank goodness most of the guests were using the main bathroom, I thought.  Someone yelled for me right then and I pulled the bedroom door shut and made a point of forgetting about it until after everyone had left.  Later that evening was when City Boy let me know that he had encouraged everyone to use the master bathroom since that bedroom was where all the coats were.  

???  We have a coat closet, which he had put extra hangers in for when he took everyone’s coats.  And who cares if, for some unknown reason, he decided that flinging the coats on our bed would be better — we still had a fully functioning main bathroom that was closer to the guests.  So, now everyone just thinks I stink at cleaning bathrooms because the really clean bathroom went unused.

After dinner I drove a short distance to pick up a couple of guests that don’t drive, and when I got back a few of the guests had helpfully loaded the dishwasher full of dishes and had them washing.  People in my family are so helpful, and can be counted on to always lend a hand!  But someone didn’t realize that sterling silverware that is many years old does not do well in the dishwasher.   I am hoping that when I hand polish them one at a time all the spots will come off.

Telling about all the mishaps is much more entertaining than saying, “Everyone came and had a wonderful time,” so that’s why I tell about them!  But, the reality is that none of the mishaps really mattered that much.  After all of the aforementioned ones and one broken goblet, it still was all worth it.  I absolutely loved seeing everyone and visiting, and would do it again in a heartbeat!

Lately blogging time with me has been a few-and-far-between thing.  City Boy not only does some work-related business on the computer, but also does most of his schooling on the computer at this point.  

Recently his laptop suddenly bit the dust.  Very little warning, just fell asleep and never woke up.  It was a hassle for him, since all of his school stuff and work stuff was on it.

My computer not only had to fill the void, but he decided it would fill the void long-term to save him the expense of purchasing a new laptop or fixing his.  See, I don’t have my own income, and Frank originally bought my desktop computer for me.  So, I can’t hardly, in good conscience, tell him to get his own.  That said, he is on my computer most of the day and evening, leaving me time to do what I need to do during the wee hours of the morning.  I’m old, and those hours are not conducive to lucid thought for me.

As time passes, hope springs eternal that I might have my computer back full time.  Until then, it’s going to be hit-or-miss with me as far as computerland goes.

This picture was taken the night before Christmas while I was setting up the dining area for the Big Meal.  The picture isn’t as good as the real thing, since my photography ability is sadly lacking, and I wasn’t done setting up.  It looked very nice when I was done, though, and I threw some sheets over the whole thing to keep everything dust-free overnight.

Frank’s Christmas rug is not very visible, and I should have taken a picture of it.  He got it after Christmas one year when it was the very last one left and kept being marked down until it was about 90% off.  He finally couldn’t resist, and this is the first year we used it.  The rug depicts Santa and his sleigh flying at night in front of a full moon.  It’s a bit much for me, but he likes it and it is a nice looking rug.

And one more thing I thought I’d mention that was neat — Mom got a digital camera for Christmas.  It’s her first ever!  My daughter gifted her a nice one and Mom is nervous about how to use it.  I told her that I would help her with it — I knew she would need help when she asked me what kind of film it used.  Her brother, my Uncle Bud, has been a photographer and camera buff for as long as I can remember, not to mention working as an anchor for an NBC affiliate for years, so he knows some things about cameras.  He sat with my mom and patiently showed her the ins and outs of a digital camera using the one he had brought with him.  I am so excited for Mom, and hope she gets a lot of enjoyment taking lots of pictures!

I have missed being in Blogland and keeping up with everybody, and I’m hoping to be able to carve out more time to be online.  Pretty soon it will be a brand-new year, and I hope your 2012 closes wonderfully and is the start of a great 2013!

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Christmasaholic

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Christmas, Christmas fanatic, Christmas tree, Holiday, Humor, Merry Christmas

Have you ever wondered if you go too far when it comes to celebrating Christmas?  Are those many Christmas “traditions” you hold so dear cause to wonder if it’s all too much?  Maybe you’re really into Christmas but don’t feel like you are any worse than anybody else….but then, you wonder if maybe you’re just deluding yourself.  How do you know if you are a Christmasaholic?

Here are just a few symptoms of a died-in-the-wool Christmas fanatic for you to consider if you are seriously afraid you might be over the edge.  Even if you are part of this group of over-doers, do not worry — there are a lot worse clubs to belong to!

You may be a Christmasaholic if:

• You have a decorated tree in every room of your house, including the bathroom.
• You do your weekly grocery shopping and come home with candy canes, chocolate covered cherries, Christmas cookies, chocolate chips, almond bark, M ‘n’ Ms, nuts, cake, pie, sweetened condensed milk, marshmallow creme, assorted candy for stockings, and candy kisses.  Oh, and a loaf of bread
  and some lunchmeat.
• You finish decorating the outside of your house and people compare you to the Griswalds — just as you always dreamed they would.
• Your kids greet guests at your door with “Welcome to Santaland,” followed by an eye roll.
• Your dog wears fabric antlers from Thanksgiving on.
• Your clocks all count down advent instead of regular time because no other time matters.
• Your electric bill doubles every year during the month of December.
• Your children are forced to answer the house phone with “Merry Christmas and God bless us every one!”
• Members of your church congregation ask you to sit out in the lobby during worship service to keep from being a distraction because you jingle too much.
• During December your family members all wear sunglasses in the house — no one wants to get tinsel blindness.
• No one can ever find the cat until after New Year’s — once is all you’re ever going to get Kitty to wear the antlers.
• It’s tradition to drag out the same fruitcake every year — the very same one Aunt Margaret gave you ten years ago, and it’s still even in the same box.

What turns a regular Christmas celebrant into a maniacal holiday monster?    Who cares?!  If you have one of these in your household, enjoy it — you only live once!

How dull would life be without the occasional day to set aside for celebrating?  Pull out all the stops this year and have a wonderful Christmas!

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The Season of Peace–Take It Calm and Slow

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Amish, calm, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Holiday, Holidays, Missouri, peace

 

This time if year all we hear about is the rush, rush, rush and the busy, busy, busy aspect of the season.  All the peace and goodwill that is supposed to be part of the Christmas holiday seems to go right out the door, and is replaced by total madness.

A fellow blogger published a post recently that talked about staying calm, and it gives pause for some thought: when was the last time you heard of a person relaxing their way through the holiday season?  There must be somebody that does this, but most of us have never met any of these people.  They would have to be saints.  Or live on a sandy beach with gentle breezes wafting all their cares away.  Right?

The above picture was taken by my friend since childhood, Kay, who lives in the country further north of me in Missouri.  She doesn’t say where she was going, although it was probably to work, and she doesn’t say if she was in a hurry, although it’s a safe bet that she wasn’t wanting to dawdle.  She took this picture through her windshield, probably with her cell phone, and posted it with the caption, “Sigh……..Why me…….Rght in the middle of the road…..”  and the first thought that hit me was, “Yeah, I know just what you mean!”  Having lived in a rural area of SW Missouri where a large group of Amish had settled, I’d had my share of trying to slowly follow a buggy down the road when I was in a hurry.

Since the gentlemen in the above picture were out on a cold day and were kind of huddled, there is a chance they did not hear the car pulling up behind them.  Some of the Amish are kind and will pull off the road when they can to let vehicles pass by.  Others don’t seem to be bothered if there is a line of traffic behind them.  They are not in any hurry, and don’t particularly care if you are.   

How do people who get in no hurry ever get anything done?  And yet, they do.  Some farms in this sect were massive, and took a lot of hard work to run.  

So what’s the answer as far as us getting what we need done and doing it calmly and not at breakneck speed?  And, as far as this time of year, what’s the secret to having a calm holiday season and still getting the things done that are part of having a great Christmas?

Maybe, like apparently with the Amish folk, it’s about doing what needs to be done to live, enjoying family and friends, and then letting the rest fall into place whatever way it does.  Not that I would advocate what a few others have posted on Facebook and other places every time there is a major holiday.  You’ve seen them — the “You should be ASHAMED to be celebrating the holidays while there are so many starving children around the world!” or “How dare you celebrate a holiday that is evil!  You should be ashamed!  ASHAMED I tell you!” posts.  

I’m into Christmas shopping, gift-giving, family dinner eating, gift receiving, cider swilling, etc., just as much as the next person.  But for the sake of our health, mental and physical, and for the sake of just experiencing peace and joy, we might need to learn to reign it in a bit.

Maybe some of you out there have different ideas about how to enjoy this holiday season without ending up frazzled and tired.  Hit us with your ideas for how we might make this the most joyous, peaceful, calm, happy celebration we’ve ever had!

Blessings to you as you celebrate this season of giving and happiness!

 

 

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Home For Thanksgiving

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Holiday, Thanksgiving, Turkey Day

Greetings!  I hope you all had the most fabulous Thanksgiving!  

Now, with one holiday over, Christmas planning is well underway for most of us.  Does it seem too soon?  This year has passed in the blink of an eye!  

We had a very intimate Thanksgiving at my parents’ house.  And my son was here for a few days to celebrate with us!  My baby boy!  

L-R– me, my son Joel, Mom, my husband Frank (aka City Boy), Dad

Joel drove up from Arkansas since he was able to get a few days off of work.  It was disappointing that my daughter was unable to make the trip, but her doctor has made it clear–no traveling.  But, it curbs the disappointment somewhat knowing that soon we will be able to enjoy a new Christmas baby!

Dad is just a little more than a year away from being 90–I just can’t believe it!  I don’t think either one of my parents are ever going to slow down!

City Boy and I have a blended family–between the two of us, we have eight grown children and 13 grandchildren, with two more on the way.  Our Texas family get-togethers with Frank’s family were usually quite large, so this Thanksgiving get-together was pretty quiet in comparison!  It was peaceful and fabulous, with a lot of really yummy food–after all, it would not be a holiday without that! 

Again, we hope you had a great Turkey Day, and that you are gearing up for a fantastic Christmas season!  Peace and blessings to you!

Blessed Thanksgiving

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blessings, Holiday, hope, renewal, Thanksgiving

As this year winds down to a close in a little more than a month, we are preparing for Thanksgiving.  Some are traveling, while others are preparing the menu, and still others are getting their houses ready for a large number of friends and family members.  There are even some people who will be spending Thanksgiving alone.  

For everyone out there, however you spend Thanksgiving, there is something or somebody somewhere out there in this great big world that is a positive light in your life.  Some of us have to think about what that might be, while others can name it without any thought at all.  And then for a lot of us, it may be many somethings or somebodies.  

I know it is such a cliché at this time of year to say ” It’s Thanksgiving!  You should be thankful, regardless of your circumstances!”  And I’m really the last one that should be saying something like that; I have spent a few depressing holidays alone myself, and I have also had many happy holidays with large numbers of family and friends in which I celebrated the bounty of the meal more than I did the blessings that had come my way throughout the year, or the enjoyment of being around people I love.

So what do we do if Thanksgiving rolls around and we feel we have nothing to be thankful for?  When there just doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel, we just want somebody, ANYbody, to reach down and grab us out of that dark hole we feel we are in.  

The thing is, the light is there.  We may not be able to see it yet, but it’s there.  And that’s the thing, no matter what our circumstances, that we keep our eyes on in times when we just don’t feel like we have the strength to even keep them open.  Nothing stays stagnant forever; things are constantly changing and evolving, and our lives are no different.  No matter what our circumstances, the fact that they are about to change in some way is almost certain.

So, right now, I am asking you to count on things changing for the better.  Whether you are already in wonderful circumstances and keeping a positive outlook that they will continue to be wonderful, or you feel you are in that deep dark hole and looking for that bright light off in the distance, know that you can choose this Thanksgiving to be a time of renewal and rebirth for you.  

Choose now that things are going to change for the better for you.  Choose to be thankful in advance for a bright future.  Decide now that living with a grateful heart feels so much better than living with a depressed one.  It may sound easier said than done, and you would be right about that.  It takes work to think in a hopeful way when your mind, body and heart are so used to being downtrodden and hopeless.  

But think about that bright light in your life out there somewhere that we mentioned earlier.  That bright light tells you that your life is obviously capable of having bright lights, so you can be determined to have many of them.  And we’re not talking about only the big things; even the smallest blessings can be a light in your life that brightens your days.  

This week, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, my fondest wish for all of you is a happy, peaceful day, rich in blessings and love.  For those of you who are traveling, be careful and have a safe trip.

Blessings to you, and have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

 

 

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The Bountiful Tightwad

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Centrepiece, fall, fall decorating, Gourd, Holiday, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving centerpiece

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, I wanted to change-up my dining room centerpiece to something more, well, bountiful-looking.  Being frugal, I first looked around my house to see what was here that I could use for free.  Well, no luck.  It is a contradiction to make something look bountiful while being a tightwad.

On a trip to the store for a few ingredients for supper, I passed by some bins of gourds and pumpkins outside the store.  Well, maybe.  Inside were about ten cartloads of what was left of the Halloween stuff.  I don’t do a lot of Halloween decorating, so I kept walking until I got to the last several carts.  Jackpot.

There was a bunch of Fall stuff on sale.  Oh, goody goody!

So, here are a few things I found that perhaps a lot of stores around the nation have on sale this time of year.

Combined with the leaves and berries in the centerpiece I was already using (behind all my sale stuff in the picture), I made a decent bountiful centerpiece for $9.

Your style of decorating for Turkey Day may be different than mine, but whatever way you decorate, now is the time to go grab some of those Fall decoration items that a lot of stores have on sale if you want to make something really thankful-looking.    Be creative.  It is as easy as layering decorating items in a container in any way that looks good to you.

For a point of reference, the things I used, layered in this order, were:

• A platter thingy found in the Thanksgiving section for $1.
• Three bags of mixed gourds for $1@.
• Two containers of prepackaged Fall ornamental fruit and foliage for $2.50@.
• The waxed leaves and wild berries I had already been using on the dining table for decoration.

In the past I saved one bunch of gourds for years, which surprised me.  I figured they would have rotted, but they just dried.  Maybe I was just lucky with that bunch, so I will see if these gourds dry and keep as well.  It is even more delightful to a frugal person when they get out of having to buy the same thing year after year!

If you have Fall-ish stuff already on hand that you like, creating a bountiful Thanksgiving display will be even easier.  Either way, a harvest centerpiece doesn’t have to be complicated to look good.  I am no decorator, so if I can easily make one, anybody can.  And it doesn’t have to look cheap–only you need to know that it really is.

A funny, sweet lady and great blogger came up with the fitting title for this post, so if you get a chance, you might enjoy giving Cindy’s fantastic blog a look, here.

Have fun whatever you do, because this is the perfect season for it!  Have a blessed week!