Sunday, November 28, 2010

Christmas pictures for me by my son to bring smiles

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While my oldest son was here for Thanksgiving he drew two happy pictures for me for Christmas time cheer.


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These are happy trees that ooze contentment and smiles for me.


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This one spoke to me for some reason---the red reminded me of Jesus's blood shed for me, and the green mountains spoke of the new and everlasting life we have in him. The branch reminded me that if we abide in him we will produce golden fruit.



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Together they just make for some happy Christmas pictures and they bring me much pleasure. PS. My son loves drawing cartoon type pictures....but he also does regular kinds. He loves doodling and his drawings are sometimes weird! I will have to show some of his other ones perhaps in the distant future. We will probably be moving in December and then I will have to change the title of this blog!

A walk on the beach

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I love this time of the year. We took a walk on Friday (after Thanksgiving--see my blog here :
for that). As you can see it was about to rain.

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I love the shades of gray on a day like this and the feel of the wind.
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It was nice to just walk and talk and discuss things as a family.
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I think the beauty of creation is such a wonderful gift, don't you!?

Friday, November 19, 2010

Cork wreath (unfinished)

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Well I have started a cork wreath--but we need more corks! We haven't always been good at remembering to save the corks. Plus some corks on the bottles are not cork! Anyways, I like the way it is going. I guess I should have wrapped the wreath first with something brown----but in person it is not noticeable---for some reason the flash or the picture shows the flaws a bit more. I left space for a big ribbon for hanging it, but alas I have no ribbons since we have been de-cluttering for a move! SOOOOOOOOO you see a bit of bare twine wrapped in a space.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Interesting things AND MOVEMBERHOOD

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I saw this pic in one of my mags ---a very interesting chalk wall. Here is a close up

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Interesting don't ya think?

I replaced my coffee table for the one in the forefront of the picture below. It makes me happy because it is an old wooden one. I should have taken a better picture of it. It is a pale yellow color.

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And last but not least....look who is in my kitchen:

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My oldest son hamming it up!! ha! HE HAS A MUSTACHE FOR MOVEMBER (NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING)--ITS FOR PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS.

"The Mo, slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.

Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days. "

Friday, November 12, 2010

wine corks

How do you like this little restaurant in Charleston, SC? Do you see what is in the window? Here is a bigger picture:
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Yup it is filled with wine corks. A nice Italian restaurant....with wine ;-)

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Do you remember 70's McDonald cups?

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These cups always make me smile. My girl friend and I got these back in th 70's when McDonald's was introducing their new breakfast the egg mcmuffin (I don't know how you spell it). These cups are so cheerful with their orange and yellow colors and the smiling sun---they are just plain happy!

Friday, November 5, 2010

Fall pleasures

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I happened to be looking through an old magazine and I liked the above picture. I like the look of pine cones with pumpkins.

So here is a bit of a pic of what I did.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Blue and Yellow

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I have to say that I just love blue and yellow together. I had one of these blue toile panels and had failed to purchase the other one.
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Thankfully I found its mate on Ebay! They shipped it the next day! WOW! These colors make me happy and I do hope to use them when and if we get to downsize to a condo. We should know by next week..........