Quote of the day

Saw this quote today --- LOVE IT!

"There is enough on the planet for everyone's needs,
but not enough for everyone's greed."
--- Mahatma Ghandi

All I can say is Yikes again!

Wow, can it be December 14th and I haven't posted in two weeks?!?! Yes, it's true . . . Yikes!

'Tis the season to be BUSY!!

Well, here's a look at our GORGEOUS tree!

Yikes!

Yikes! December already!! How did that happen?!?!

Yikes!! Better get shopping! : )

If you want some great ideas about things to make for the holidays, check out One Pretty Thing; it has lots of wonderful ideas every day.

Thankful

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

(My thanks to Stephanie Ackerman at Homegrown Hospitality for this lovely gratitude saying!)

Happy Thanksgiving

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends,
the old and the new."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

that other holiday. . .

You'd never know it from the television commercials, but there is a holiday between Halloween and Christmas. And now that my Halloween decorations are finally put away. . .

I thought I'd show you some of my decorations for that holiday-----THANKSGIVING!
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Most of the decorations I have I bought at various craft shows throughout the years:

The scarecrow on my mantle was made by a neighbor who used to do a
craft show every year. . . .I have a LOT of things she made, and I'm sad she doesn't make
her crafts any more.

I couldn't resist this cute Indian Corn decoration. . . I got it at the Carlsbad Faire a number of years ago. It is SO clever!

I love the look of these cloth pumpkins on my dining room table.

This is the one decoration I made, just a few nights ago. . . I already had the frame, and I just
used some of my scrapbooking paper and letters to make this-----I love the way it turned out:

So, what are you thankful for?
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I'll be sharing some thankful thoughts next week.

A wonderful day

I went to my friend Holly's house for a 'birthday tea'. . . a tradition she started many years ago to help me celebrate my birthday. She moved to Minnesota for the last few years, so we haven't been able to get together. But she's back, and she invited me over to her house for tea. Her youngest son was sleeping when I got there, but luckily he woke up before I left--- he was born in Minnesota, so I had never met him before today. Her middle son was just a baby with pudgy cheeks when they left, and he is a beautiful kindergarten student now. Her oldest, a daughter, is just as precious as I remember. I remember when she was just a baby, and Holly and I would go out for coffee or lunch, and the waitresses always came over just to see this beautiful child, with her striking blond hair. Here's a glimpse at the cuties:

How lucky I am to have such a great friend as Holly, and how thankful I am to have her back in California so I can watch her kids grow up!

Hope you had an equally wonderful day!