Good Morning!

Good Morning Friends! I just love this photo above (I didn't take it) but I adore it! I did take this photo Sunday morning:

Beautiful cardinals. I love them. Did you know you will always see them in pairs? Husband and wife. Never leave each other's side.

So we had a big snow a couple weeks back. 27 inches to be precise. We were quite buried and although I enjoy snow, that was a little too much plus it made it a bit difficult for my husband to handle his job site in NYC.  We live an hour away and usually NYC gets less than us here on Long Island but this time they got equally bombarded. It's all good though! My front door sure looked pretty!

My Valentine tree is ready to go. Though I keep adding things we make to it. I didn't get to do as much this year but I am so pleased with this tree!

My son even brought back an ornament from his South Carolina trip for it. I think I'll either do St Patrick's Day next or skip right to Easter! Though I always decorate for St Patrick's Day too!

This is just a pretty image of one of the windows in my livingroom. I love seeing the snow fall!

Look at my recent acquisitions:

Pasta Bowl

Platter

I love all my rooster stuff! Can never have enough!

Oh, and I knew there was one more thing...I made a very cute button garland for my kitchen tree:

It looks prim and adorable!

Hope your day is wonderful!

Snowy Night!

The snow is falling and it's so cozy in my house tonight. This was a weekend of productivity! For some reason it has really taken me a while to get my house back to normal after the holidays. I made some changes ( I always do) and I did a good cleaning when the decorations were put away but I'm just getting it all together now! We also got a new area rug for the family room and hung up a new light in Caitlin's room. New fresh hay in the chicken coop and a number of small projects that were incomplete are complete! I also made a delicious chocolate chip coffee cake!

I got a three foot white Christmas tree for $2 at a 90% off sale today at Family Dollar! I'm so excited! I went in to buy cat litter and came out with a Christmas tree! I wanted white so I could do my candy tree and I think I'm going to redo my Valentine tree onto the white one too! Maybe tomorrow!

I was happy to see the snow today though! I don't want a great deal of it as my husband has a lot of out door work and a bit of traveling to do but a dusting is nice.

I'm making this garland of buttons. I think I might do a red and white one too.

this is not mine, but mine looks just like it! It's adorable. You can also hot glue the buttons on to the twine if you don't want to tie them.

Have a great night!

Christmas Week

Christmas was here and gone before we had time to blink! Wow that was fast! We had a wonderful Christmas -- hectic till it got here and then peaceful when it arrived. The colder weather is starting to settle in, and I'm happy about that cause it just hasn't felt like Winter or Christmas with it being in the 60's....that's not typical for us at all! Time to take out the afghans and quilts and snuggle.

Caitlin made a cool gingerbread house! We were happy we got to complete a lot of little projects before Christmas that we had planned. I did a lot of baking! I made nine different kinds of cookies and three different types of candy! I was baking all the way up to Christmas Eve day.

Here's Caitlin with one of her favorite gifts:

My son's favorite gift was the plane ticket we gave him for a vacation with his girlfriend's lovely family!

We enjoyed the holiday concert at school:

And seeing Santa:

I'm still enjoying all my decorations--not ready to take them down yet!

I am thinking of some Valentine crafts though......

Holiday Rush!

Good Morning! I don't know how it happened but a magical Christmas Elf just let me post on Blogger through Windows 10!!!!It's a Christmas Miracle!!!! I have hesitated blogging because of the trouble with the two programs rebuffing one another but today it's great :)

We've been busy here, like all of you I'm sure. Getting everything ready for Christmas~~~so excited. Caitlin and I made several batches of cookies--some our recipes and some that are my Mom's and since she is unable to make cookies any longer by herself, we made her recipes too! I actually did complete one of my resolutions from New Year's for 2015 and that was to be a better cookie baker and I did it! I make some good cookies, if I do say so myself!

Caitlin is doing peanut butter cookies:

These are my Mom's recipe for Butter Crispies:

We made crescents, horns, sugar cookies, and I also made Italian style cookies (two kinds) and I plan to make peanut brittle, and stained glass candy log and a few more. So fun!

We brought some to a Christmas party at my Godmother's house, and they loved them. With all the boys together and all the appetites, they all went fast! My Caitlin was the only girl! I'm happy my husband was home from his trip to South Carolina to make the party!

Here are some photos of my decorating in the kitchen/dining area:

Well, I think I'm gonna do some wrapping and then I'm off to do a couple of errands! Have a great day!

Hello December!

The last month of the year! Wow! That came fast! And it is going to go by quick too. I have so much to do and I'm feeling the pressure that it won't get done! But it always does! Always! Above is a little tree in the corner of my kitchen.

I love setting this little one up in a special little spot.

It brings me joy every time I see it. It radiates happiness :)

The little elves and mice are having a a party of their own!

And someone brought cookies!

 I went on a girls weekend trip to Lancaster! We had so much fun!

 Shopping, eating, chatting and wonderful scenery! And lots of laughing!

 Have a great day!

Thanksgiving Decorations & More

Everyone getting ready for Thanksgiving? 

 We are! My decorating is done. Compiling my the list of ingredients I need for the assorted things I am making. I'm a list maker!

There's always time for decorating! 

I've been out of the house alot lately with some special events going on. I recently did a craft fair and that turned out great.

Now I have to concentrate on sending out a few packages with some Thanksgiving/Christmas items in them. I had hoped to get them out sooner but I've been a little overwhelmed with appointments for my Mom, school activities, Girl Scouts and I'm going on a short trip soon.

Here's a look at some of the things I sold at my table:

I made Thanksgiving people with my pumpkin heads using Fall/Thanksgiving cupcake papers. I also made polar bears. This is just a small part of my table. It was very fun.

In between everything, I've been cooking up a storm. I had such a desire for meatballs yesterday so I fried up a bunch to have tonight --spaghetti and meatballs! The house smells so good...

Our Girl Scout troop went ice skating too last week. Caitlin is contemplating taking lessons. She really loves it. Her friend Ashley was giving her a helping hand and then Caitlin got the hang of it. She's only been ice skating a few times.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Fall! I feel like Christmas is here! Fall is going too fast!