Wow…I still can’t believe Christmas has come and gone and been almost all put away.  We still have some outdoor lights to take down but hubby has unplugged the lights on the white picket fence and the lighted snowflake icicles hanging from the gutters.  The only thing left lighted out front is the the up-lights [...]

  The hubby and I are not live tree people.  The first year together we bought a live tree.   Apparently neither one of us ever watered it and we both ended up with allergy issues.  Not one of our most favorite memories.  We’ve had artificial trees ever since. Three years ago when we bought [...]

When I mentioned (somewhere, I can’t remember) that I did my Christmas tree in copper and turquoise, the response was “Are you Arizonian?”.  Believe me when I say I’m really wishing I was in Arizona right now. Here in Ohio, the temp is hovering around 32 degrees.  Gives me a shiver just typing that.  Brrrr! [...]

I certainly don’t want to downplay the significance of Thanksgiving but I just haven’t been inspired to create anything decorative.  My creative juices are more focused on Christmas.  While I’ve held off as long as possible, I just had to share my recent project.  I’m very sure I’m not the first to start creating Christmas related [...]

Hope you are having (or had, depending on when you read this) a great weekend.  Here in Ohio it’s been sunny but cool, hovering around 50 degrees.  Time for another installment of treasures I’ve found at the thrift store. I stopped in my favorite church-run thrift store with just 15 minutes to spare before my [...]