Evening with the Girls!

I was feeling festive this year

so I had a few get togethers

with my friends to just sit, relax

and do something fun. At one we

made tree ornaments and at

one we decorated horse tack

I organized all the supplies that

I thought we could use.

I have collected a bunch of supplies

over the years, for projects I want to

make.  You find the best deals at summer

yard sales. They practically give it away!

Since I have limited space I put

 the supplies on TV trays.

I also collected many

ornament ideas from Pinterest.

I printed out the pictures for the girls

to look at when making them.

Then I had some snacks and food.

These were the horse inspirations

I found on Pinterest

This is a decorated horse bit

for non-horse people.

We had a fun time.

chatting....

sharing stories

snacking on good stuff.

Murphy had to be there...

checking everything out!

It was a great time!!

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And everyone got

to go home with a masterpiece

they made.

My horse shoe door hanging

made from one of

my horses shoes. 

So host a fun

 gathering with your

friends or family and

create a fun holiday

memory for yourself! 

My Christmas Home Tour

 

I love Christmas! I love

the warmth of the

lights.  They just make

me feel warm and cozy.  There is

nothing I like better on a cold

winters night than being in my warm

house, with my husband

 and critters.  I love lighting candles

and plugging in a few yummy

holiday scents in my scent warmers.

Can it get any better?

Just sharing some of my decorating inspirations

in the hope of passing  along my

Christmas cheer to you!

 

 

I fill my planters with evergreen

branches of different kinds.

To me this looks so much

better than a big empty pot sitting there.

You can buy them at Christmas

tree lots. I usually pick mine, but

this year our tree's needed a little

trimming so we saved that till the end

of the year so I could use the branches.

 

 

I add some light to the ones on my porch.,  I don't go crazy with

lights outside.  Just a little to warm it up. 

I prefer to see them inside where I am!

 

 

I love lanterns.  This year I redid these

old yard sale lanterns and painted them all the

same color to match

 

 

I filled the bottoms with small pinecones

and glass dollar store bowls to hold my candles.

 

 

 

 

 

When you walk in the first thing you see is our stair case.

This year I added lanterns

 

 

Last year I was given battery operated candles.

This year I found a use for them on the

staircase in lanterns and I have no worries about

them being knocked over.  They even have a little

remote for easy ON and OFF. 

 

 

To the left is our tree. 

 

 

Cheap little plastic stars that I dressed up

to hang on the outside of the doors. 

 I love my nativity set.  My mom

bought it for me one year at Sam's Club.

I built the barn myself out of

scrap wood and sticks I gathered

in the woods.  

 

 

 

The other corner in the living room is

dedicated to Santa!

Here is a crazy fun fact I just realized.

 that big plant sitting to the right of the

picture on the stool under the hanging stars.

 I dug that plant out of the garbage when I

started my first full time job at 19- I felt bad

for it.  It only had 3 sad little leaves.

So now it is- 30 yrs. old and so much bigger.

 

 

A close up of my Santa's on the mantel.  A few of them

I made.  I put together all my garlands, trees and sprigs

myself with things I've collected and like.

I love the child like magic of Santa!

 

 

This is my favorite handmade Santa.

I molded his face, hands and boots with polymer clay.

 His beard is lambs wool.  I dipped in a diluted glue mixture

and I wound them around knitting needles to give the

curled look. His clothing and accents like his toy

sack are all hand made and hand

sewed by me.  

 

 

This is the entrance to my cheery

kitchen.  Can you guess what my

favorite color is??? Yes it is red.

I took a risk when I painted

the dark dingy cabinets red but

they held up well and I'm still not tired

of them.  You will notice a

lot of green in my house too.  I think its my second

favorite color. I like all earth tones actually.

My least favorite colors are orange & blue.

So none of those are in my house. 

 

 

We got rid of our formal dining room to make our living room bigger.

So we just use the little eat in kitchen area.

 

 

I store extra dishes in this side board cabinet

I always display seasonal plates & plaques on it.

 

 

The Santa plaque I made.

I plan on making more next year to sell. 

 

 

Something different I did this year.

I put some Christmas Bunny

Statues under my cloche

with snow, a tree and lights

 

 

I think they kind of go well with

this  Christmas Bunny plate I made

I am wondering if these would sell...

What do you think?

 

 

 

This is also new.  I made pottery snowflakes

and hung them on the doors.

What do you think of the snow flakes?

 

 

My bedroom.  I am so grateful for this lovely

place to be warm and cozy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes even the big buns get a bit of

Christmas cheer and some lights in

their little room.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed visiting my

home.  It's not fancy or pretentious.

Just a warm cozy home

filled with many of my

self made creations, things

and animals that make me happy

and course lots of love!

 

Merry Christmas! 

 

 

 



Adjusting to life without Finnegan...

 

Since Finnegan is gone little Henley has
 no buddy to hang out with during the day.
Her and Finnegan would always sleep by
each other.

 

 

Although Taz is in the room with her all day snoozing

on the bed he doesn't want to be friends

 

.

She tries to go up to him and make friends

and he is just growls at her.

There are no worries about him hurting her

as he has no teeth or claws on any feet.

He's pretty much defenseless- poor old guy.

In case you don't know... I had to have his

teeth removed due to the teeth attacking the gums. 

It was very painful for him.  He came with no claws
when we adopted him at the humane society.

 

 

I feel bad and have let Henley have supervised time out

in the livingroom.  The girl buns seem to

want to chew on my fairly new carpet, so

it's off limits to them most of the time.

 

 

She gets to come out on the weekends.
 

 

Here she decided to hop upstairs

to investigate where the big buns live.

After about 30 minutes she usually hops back

to my bedroom on her own.

 

She likes to spend her days in a cat house under my bed.

   She's has always been the best potty trained bunny

.  She even took it upon herself to use the cat litter

 boxes by herself even though she

has her own bunny litter box in her little kennel area.

 

I think Henley and Taz are adjusting to Finnegan

no longer being with us.  I would say

Henley misses him more that Taz. 

 

 

 

 

Taz is all about himself ... He is now very demanding

for extra cuddles, attention and playtime.

 

 

So now we will be a one cat household

and Taz will be loving all the

extra attention.