Thursday, December 25, 2008
Baby,it's cold outside!
I wanted C to have something special to wear for our trip up north so I decided to knit up a whole set for her along with a matching snowman :) Here it is!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Oh so cozy!!!
Gingerbread smells in our house...
to eat with some tea in our special winter time tree set. It's ridiculous but this set of matching bowls,plates cups etc makes me so happy and feel like a real 'grown up' LOL. we have a modge podge of hand me down plates all year round until we get these out. I swear food tastes better when its on matching plates!
The view out my window from my rocking chair the other day. I had male and female blue jays, male and female cardinals and a chickadee all there singing to me, how PERFECT!
knitting c's hat for her 'baby it's cold outside' set. I will post pics of the completed set soon. I haven't taken a pic yet.
I feel like a boring old 'granny' but my favorite spot in the house is in my rocking chair with some knitting. I have some wool coming my way to make cushions for it,as well as some cushions for the girls' rocking chair.
to eat with some tea in our special winter time tree set. It's ridiculous but this set of matching bowls,plates cups etc makes me so happy and feel like a real 'grown up' LOL. we have a modge podge of hand me down plates all year round until we get these out. I swear food tastes better when its on matching plates!
The view out my window from my rocking chair the other day. I had male and female blue jays, male and female cardinals and a chickadee all there singing to me, how PERFECT!
knitting c's hat for her 'baby it's cold outside' set. I will post pics of the completed set soon. I haven't taken a pic yet.
I feel like a boring old 'granny' but my favorite spot in the house is in my rocking chair with some knitting. I have some wool coming my way to make cushions for it,as well as some cushions for the girls' rocking chair.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
More Winter Decorating
Preparing for the first day of winter,tomorrow.
I'm back to knitting like mad. I somehow lost one of C's cupcake mittens and have to knit another one so her hands are nice and warm. I finished up her special outfit and I'm working on a couple last minute things for the girls. Phew!!
How could anyone not love this face?
Snowman star and 'golden' walnut in our kitchen window:
Our little Norfolk pine tree. We had to put it up on a table to stop the animals from eating the decorations. We still have more tangerines to cut up and more acorns to felt to fill the tree up a bit more.
Kitchen counter:
K's favorite decoration, our wintertime pyramid.
I'm back to knitting like mad. I somehow lost one of C's cupcake mittens and have to knit another one so her hands are nice and warm. I finished up her special outfit and I'm working on a couple last minute things for the girls. Phew!!
How could anyone not love this face?
Snowman star and 'golden' walnut in our kitchen window:
Our little Norfolk pine tree. We had to put it up on a table to stop the animals from eating the decorations. We still have more tangerines to cut up and more acorns to felt to fill the tree up a bit more.
Our tangerine ornaments on our tiny Charlie Brown tree,along with our popcorn and cranberries garland...that took forever to string!!
Our felted acorn ornaments.
Our felted acorn ornaments.
The top of the girls' kitchen:
Kitchen counter:
K's favorite decoration, our wintertime pyramid.
Friday, December 19, 2008
wintertime decorating
I've been taking a million pictures as the girls and I decorate our house. So I don't kill you all with all those pictures at once..here's a few to start out!
Pic from another one of our favorite wintertime stories 'the Golden Key'
K's transitional (it has a little bit of autumn and a little bit of winter) nature table in her room
A beautiful transition print given to me by my dear friend and cyber twin ;) and mistletoe from Lizz at Zoloonaturals.
Since we are pretty broke,decorating is more focused on frugalness. You can't get any more frugal than free tree branches your neighbors cut off their Christmas tree and left out by the curb!
Another beautiful print given to me by my dear friend and cyber twin.
Our advent spiral..K has added some additions to it as you can see!
Sledding fun!
Eskimo scene:
a peak at our star money decorations. This is the canopy to our playstands. We hung up a starry night playcloth and I drilled holes into some wooden stars,threaded them with fishing line and hung them from the canopy. They are just like the stars falling from the heavens in 'Starmoney'
Pic from another one of our favorite wintertime stories 'the Golden Key'
K's transitional (it has a little bit of autumn and a little bit of winter) nature table in her room
A beautiful transition print given to me by my dear friend and cyber twin ;) and mistletoe from Lizz at Zoloonaturals.
Since we are pretty broke,decorating is more focused on frugalness. You can't get any more frugal than free tree branches your neighbors cut off their Christmas tree and left out by the curb!
Another beautiful print given to me by my dear friend and cyber twin.
Our advent spiral..K has added some additions to it as you can see!
Sledding fun!
Eskimo scene:
a peak at our star money decorations. This is the canopy to our playstands. We hung up a starry night playcloth and I drilled holes into some wooden stars,threaded them with fishing line and hung them from the canopy. They are just like the stars falling from the heavens in 'Starmoney'
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
St. Nicholas Day Part 2
Finally part 2 of our St. Nicholas day adventures. Between the problems uploading pics on my computer and getting ready to go up north I haven't had much time to spend online lately. If I owe any of you an e-mail,I apologize. It will hopefully be coming soon!
Here are pictures from the 2nd part of our day,celebrating St.Nicholas Day with Tiffeni at Kinderhaus Toys.
It was a blast,even better than last year! (Way to go Tiffeni!!)
Here is the tree at Kinderhaus we helped to decorate:
All the kids shoes by the fireplace.
K digging through her goodies:
C crawling all over the place:
Lastly, a much overdue pic of the sweetest present St. Nicholas brought for K at our house. I meant to post this pic in St.Nicholas Day Part 1. This amazingly gorgeous Gnome, pictured here in K's barn guarding it from the fox like in her favorite book "the Tomten and the Fox" (We still need to buy that book! Someday!!), was handcrafted by zooloonaturals at Etsy.com. You can see Lizz's blog in my blog list Red Dirt Mother She is a wonderful wonderful,talented soul with an equally wonderful and amazing family. Her husband made this wooden gnome by hand!! Thank you so much Lizz for this beautiful creation. Our whole family is enjoying it and treasuring it.
I hope to be back with another post soon. Until then everyone stay warm!!
Friday, December 12, 2008
St. Nicholas Day Part 1
I still can't upload pics on my computer so it's a pain in the butt right now to get pics on the blog. So with that news I am posting the 1st part of St. Nicholas Day right now. I will post part 2 as soon as I can.
The night before..the girl's shoes by the door, filled with hay and carrots for St. Nicholas' donkey:
After St. Nicholas' arrival:
K as a mermaid:
We got out the winter books and K enjoyed reading with Daddy:
Here's some other pics I had on my computer to post.
K's knitted hat and matching mittens:
Pics from around our home:
K at play being a Native American:
The night before..the girl's shoes by the door, filled with hay and carrots for St. Nicholas' donkey:
After St. Nicholas' arrival:
K as a mermaid:
We got out the winter books and K enjoyed reading with Daddy:
Here's some other pics I had on my computer to post.
K's knitted hat and matching mittens:
Pics from around our home:
K at play being a Native American:
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