November 2011

Hello everyone!
I Hope all of my American friends enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I’ve been working on a few Christmas projects as I begin to” Deck the Halls”
I started by redoing my Christmas “buckets”, these were a real favorite from last Christmas and I still get questions/comments about them. I’ve changed them up a bit this year!

This year I’ve used bigger oval galvanized buckets. They’re new so a little shinier than I wanted but I love the shape. If anyone knows how to weather these up a bit I would love to know.

This is one of the two buckets that flanked the fireplace from last year.

This year I filled them with birch, pinecones, and mercury glass which is what I’ll be using for all my decorating this Christmas.
I also added some cinammon sticks wrapped in brown satin ribbon and this lovely faux white pointsettia flower.

The twig lights add a lot of sparkle.
Many people have asked where to get these lights and I’m sorry to say that I don’t know. I got them from a booth at a Christmas show last year and unfortunately they did not sell them this year. One reader said they’ve seen them on Amazon. I’ve seen something similar at garden centers as well as the home depot.

They look so pretty flanking the fireplace all lit up!

I’ll be adding a bit of cedar to the buckets once I get my greenery this week.

My daughter is in the midst of repairing some drywall in the kitchen ceiling and should be sanding today.

I want to make sure it’s done before I continue with “Decking the Halls” lol.

Thanks for stopping by,

be blessed!

Hello everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying and are revving up for the season that is about to come upon us!
For my American friends, you’ll be gearing up for Thanksgiving, but we Canadians have long since celebrated that Holiday and are looking forward to the craziness and hustle and bustle of Christmas! (Well some of us eh?) lol.
In the meantime…
I Just wanted to share with you my beautiful yellow ware bowl that I found at value village last week.

I found this little beauty peeking out at me from the back of a shelf. At 13.5 inches wide who could miss her?

I thought this must be a reproduction yellow ware bowl otherwise what would it be doing here selling for $4.99?

I grabbed it before anyone else could realize the colossal mistake they made by walking past this lovely lady and knew right away that this wasn’t any reproduction!

It was a genuine T.G. Green, Gripstand yellow ware bowl from the 1930’s in perfect shape!