Friday, December 28, 2012

The Week Illustrated


Proud to say, I got the tree up and decorated on time, with ample time for adjustment and readjustment.




This year I tossed away the old artificial pine garland covered with artificial snow which I had used for the past 6, 7 years to line the mantel at Christmas. Then I had a problem: the mantel was bared and needed some covering. Buying another artificial anything seemed absurd since I just threw out the old one. So I came up with this idea, with material from right here this land of ours: 





What would you call the shade of blue that is the cedar berry? There's not another blue quite like it. I put the twigs in the mason jars. I make sure they have enough water to drink.



I have twelve of these to line the entire mantel, with the Nativity scene in the center. I don't have a photo of the center. What you see here is the right half of the shelf. The clock is a Christmas present from a friend in Texas. It arrived on Christmas Eve. 





Our cow Daisy gave birth to this little one, five days before Christmas, an early Christmas present:





I hand-painted some Christmas cards. The motif is an angel-like snow man, or a snow angel, as my friend Jan calls it. I sent these to just about five people. I didn't send cards to everybody this year. One reason is I couldn't find the cards I bought last year, which I liked; I looked in the stores this year, didn't see any I liked; I set out to hand-paint my own, and found out that it would take me the entire Christmas season to paint enough for everyone in my address book! 





I baked some mini loaves, put a bow on and gave them away to friends:



And I in turn received delicious treats from friends, not the least from my dear friend Jan. I should have taken picture when it was first opened but I didn't because I was a block head. The contents disappeared fast and furious. You're looking at the last one standing. I know both I and KDM are exercising our utmost social grace not to be the one to eat it.  



It snowed on Christmas Day: 




The next morning, our new calf looked like this: 



The clothes line looked like this: 



Pup the dog looked like this:




After excitedly taking a million snow pictures, I came in the house and drank some of this:





1 comment:

  1. What a lovely and festive home ~ I love all your decorations! Love the clock, too. And of course I want the whole world to know that I'm one of the lucky five who received a snow angel card!! Score! :)

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