making cards and wishing 2008

It's very cold here today, so I am sitting by the wood stove making Valentine's Day cards.

The top Christmas card was

one that I found in the writers box that I posted about before, I love the pink tan colors, so I used this card

as my inspiration for this year's Valentine's card that you see underneath. The pink ribbon is paler then it looks in the picture. I still need to add old bone buttons and vintage lace as well as a bow or rosette.

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's, our neighbor always welcomes the new year by firing a cannon, as I hear the bangs I make my wish for 2008......

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

and

A Happy

New Year

Still getting ready

I am so far behind on getting ready for Christmas, both trees are at last up and I am still doing the last of the decorating. So much has been going on here, my daughter totaled her car, she is OK , thank god. But we are down a car and have been spending a lot of time looking for another one. She commutes to college and works about an hour away so a car is a must have for her.

And we are getting a lot of snow, so it's really slowing me down as far as shopping goes...I will get done, I will get done, I will , I really will.........

But on the bright side I am getting my Christmas gift from my husband today, he told me what it is and I am very excited , I will take picture after it comes for a show and tell....

I took some pictures for one of my doll groups and decided I would share one here, this is JOY a doll by Wendy Lawton...what a wonderful happy face she has and it always makes me smile.............

I am also hoping to take some special pictures of a place that was in "Victoria Magazine"

many years ago, .... with any luck I will have that done by this weekend so check back later....

Christmas past

I love Christmas and as soon as it gets cold my head fills with dancing sugar plums. These are pictures of my dining room tree from last year. This is the second tree in the house, the first is a large 9 to 10 foot tree that is in our family room, that one always holds the ornaments that have been collected for years. Special ornaments that the kids received year after year.

But the dinning room tree is the tree of change, one year it held color lights and all hand made ornaments, strung popcorn and cranberries, paper and felt ornaments done by the kids. One year it was the world of

Santa Claus.

And last year the theme was pink, gold , and white, that was inspired by hand painted ornaments that I won on ebay done by Miss Rhea's and some vintage pink ornaments that I found at an estate sale. I plan on doing this pink tree again this year, I enjoyed it so much and my husband always put the lights on each morning so that my lighted tree would be the first thing I saw as I came down the stairs. And then my kids and I would sit and eat our breakfast before they went off to school ,the wood stove would be glowing keeping us warm and safe. I love thinking about Christmas past and so look forward to Christmas present.

Kate Hallow

I never put up my Halloween decorations until mid Oct.

I have a love hate thing with Halloween, I don't like scary things never did, all the horror movies on TV sends chills up my spine. I don't watch them , the commercials are even more then I can take.

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But I love the color orange, always have, in fact my husband had an orange car when I started to date him, I also wore orange a lot as a teen. So I enjoy the orange of this time of year. Orange makes me smile.......

This year I added a wonderful Halloween candy container to my collection she is KATE HALLOW made by Mica at Garb-oodles Soup. I just love her face....

OCT. BOOK

I have been working on my Oct. book, adding bits here and there...



The book plate is one that my husband had as a kid,










vintage velvet leaves page 3,

I love page 8 with the
old game tokens.

From my swap partner

Here are the items that I received from my swap partner

CampSusie, I love them all.... I am so lucky to have been the one to get the Oct. book, it's wonderful. I am adding a small item each day to personalize this great little book. This is something that I will display each year ....Thank you Susie for making this a great swap.