We finally had a nice snow. It snowed all day yesterday, Saturday, and today it looks like a Winter wonderland. I love a good snow.  In 1978 we had a blizzard that lasted a couple of days and stopped everything.  David was in the National Guard then and went out helping people get supplies and checking that they were okay.  I was at home with two little boys and a baby and we were snug as bugs. I have always kept supplies of food so we had plenty, but David  was worried about us and had some guardsmen bring us milk, which I really didn’t need, but it was nice he was thinking of us.
Anyway, it is sunny today and the snow sparkles  like it has diamonds in it and right now there are very little footprints in it so it looks perfect.  I probably won’t be getting out in it as I have no boots to wear.  I usually am barefoot or wearing stockings or crocs even in the Winter and David keeps telling me I need to get some house slippers and I agree and then I never do and complain because my feet are cold!
We had a very nice Thanksgiving.  There were thirteen of us at the table.  David and I made a pretty good dinner between us with chicken and noodles, ham, masked potatoes, home grown corn, scalloped oysters, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce  and rolls.  For dessert I made a birthday cake for one of our grandsons.  He turned 18 and I can’t believe it.

He is a star soccer player.  He has been on the  varsity team since he was a freshman. We have seen a few of his games. Not sure where he is going to college yet.

We sang Happy Birthday and ate cake and ice cream and I sent a big piece of the cake home with him.
See that game on the  table?  Dizzios.  You have to match colors on the tiles and it is a really  fun game.   This boy usually won every single game when we would play it.

This is his parents and younger brother who is one year behind him in school and is on the golf team .  His birthday is right after Christmas and I always make him a cake for it.
We finally got the house decorated for Christmas. We don’t put up a big tree anymore,just several small ones.  We just don’t have room any longer for a big tree. Probably because I keep buying furniture.  This year I bought an old cupboard to put my Santa Claus collection in.

A lady showed this cabinet on Facebook and I told her I would like to buy it so we went down to her store and got it and it is perfect to display my Santa’s.

There is a designer of fabric that I love, I believe her last name is Wrecker or something like that.  She came out originally with a fabric collection called “ She Who Sews” which I loved and then a Halloween collection and a calendar and this cute snowman collection and I just wanted them all.  I used some of her fabric to make these little hangings across the mantle.  Her calendar is really nice if you want one, I think Amazon sells them.  I keep thinking I don’t need more fabric and then she comes up with something different.  I guess you could call buying fabric is my vice. Not really a bad one when I can make something with it and then give it away.  David and I went through all the pillows I have made through the years and we ended up with three large trash bags full to take to our local charity shop  and a closet full of the rest that I change out over the seasons.

Here is our mantle with my collection of snowmen.  Funny how I always seem to end up, with a collection of anything.  Seems collections just mysteriously grow!

Speaking of Santa.  I have my very own living in our house!   I painted a picture of him as Santa.

It sits atop our fireplace mantle

 

Since our country is going to be celebrating its 250th birthday next year, I have been sewing some patriotic things. Some I can show. Some I cannot because they are gifts.

I have been making pillows.

Quilts.

And potholders.
I have so enjoyed sewing all these, but still have ideas for some other things  and then I was thinking of sewing  little flags and appliquéing them to a pair of my pants in a patchwork.
I joined a fabric collecting group where you get six fat quarters of William Morris designed fabric every month for eleven months. In that time I will have 66 fat quarters, enough to make a quilt.  William Morris was a textile designer in the  arts and crafts period.  He also designed wallpaper and this fabric is based upon that, I believe. His designs are so lovely, I cannot wait to see what a quilt will look like made from them.

My greenhouse is staying nice and toasty warm with our little gas stove we put in it.  I have to show you my poinsettia. It is several years old and is becoming a little tree.  In the Virgin Islands, where we have visited a few times, the poinsettias grow as trees and have dozens of blooms on them. Don’t think mine will ever get that big, but here it is,

Next Spring I am going to have to put it in a bigger pot.

Hope the holidays are going well for you.  I have everything almost completed and plan to keep the real meaning of Christmas in my  heart.  Read the book of Luke in the Bible.  It will give you a good picture of what Jesus is all about.  I hope you know Him.  God bless and if I don’t get here before, a very Merry and blessed Christmas to you.  Bye.