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Last Minute Gift

(pinterest)  "I thought I had Christmas all wrapped up.  I was wrong!" Five days before Christmas my daughter sends me this link.  http://www.thelittlegiggler.com/p/felt-snowman.html (thelittlegiggler.com) It connects to a blog that shares instructions for making this cute felt snowman. (was this a hint?)  She did say how much she would love to make this for her son.  Hmmm? Besides being really cute, the snowman is meant to be an interactive activity for kids.  With Velcro to help them stick, the parts can be removed and replaced.  Up the cute factor. I already know my two year old grandson is into snowmen.  He reinforced that the next day when he asked me to read Snowmen at Night .  This is a book with an appealing story and delightful illustrations.  Are you getting the picture?  Yes, I'm rapidly getting sucked into this snowman thing. (illustrator: Mark Buehner) So now we are down to 4 days 'til Christmas and I am strongly considering

Christmas 2012

Happy Holidays A friend of mine bakes batches and batches of cookies every Christmas and.....has the stamina  and talent to create these.  I am thoroughly impressed! I would love to hear what impressed you this Christmas.

The 2012 Christmas Tree

Because I'm still wading through the aftermath of renovation and not anywhere near the end of the redecorating, I took the sensible route and nixed decorating for Christmas this year. I hung a very simple garland on either side of the newly painted porch doors and... a couple more on the sides of the studio door.  Just enough to keep passers by from thinking Scrooge lives here.  A little snow would enhance the seasonal mood of this display and that could happen by Christmas, but I couldn't orchestrate it for this post. I do love to decorate for the holidays but this year it is just out of the question.  I am getting myself in the mood for Christmas by doing one small tree and absolutely NOTHING else inside. I found this handmade metal tree at a yard sale this past summer. The little washers are welded onto the rods as are the little holders.  The tree itself  pulls out of the stand and folds flat for storage.  Quite cute in a folk arty sort of way.  It leans

Impulse Buy

Blog posting has slipped in position with the beginning of the holiday season.  I have some posts in the works but until they are ready, I thought I would do a few short posts on the side activites that are consuming some of my time. One of them is not snoozing in this lounger.  However, the lounger is the subject of this post. While my sister was in town for Thanksgiving we did some shopping.  We popped into a mid-century resale shop called TFA. (The Future Antiques)   That is where we spotted this lounge chair. We could not resist taking it for a test ride. A push of the button puts it in the fully reclined position.  Super comfortable! I debated whether I really "needed" another chair while I rested comfortably in the busy store.  I might mention the owner plugged it in so the chair was giving me a gentle vibrating massage while I considered the color, where I would put it, and if this was just too impulsive. Just as I was about to pass, th