BEEN READING!

And oh "The Miss Read Books" my all time favorites! Hadn't read this one before!

I enjoyed this book so much! Thee book and the snow encouraged me to do two new Redbird Paintings!

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These are written by the seasons. So I re-read them in the current season!

I Love Love Love Gladys Taber Books! This book  is written monthly  so it gets re-read  monthly!

I just finished Jan's "Come Rain Come Shine" and loved it! This is the book before that which I'm thinking I read but not for sure yet!

Loved Loved the Notebook! Can't remember whether I read this or not! Oh well a second time is fun too!

I will never forget "The Shell Seekers"  I haven't read this yet, but soon!

This is my favorite magazine! The next issue is out the first week of February

And reading the Spring Seed Catalogs on the computer! . Have to have these Nasturtiums for sure!

Love these "Happy Girls" in the garden and in my salads! Hope you worked in some reading too! I was sick for about a week so this was my bonus!  Happy Reading Friends! You might enjoy my other blog also: wwwmcreatesdailyblogspot.com

PANSEYS AND VIOLETS

Little 5'x5' Pansy Painting! My new choice of canvas for 2016!

 

 Violets-  My February Birthday Flower. Mother bought this box of soaps years ago for my Birthday. It is one of my very favorite things from her.

Darling little Thimble Dolls from Avon. I believe sister  Judy found these for me.

Darling little lace hat with Pansy card made for me by friend Hope years ago.

I love old flower corsages and millinery flowers

SISTER JUDY'S PRECIOUS HOME

I had fun recently sneaking around Judy's house taking pictures while she was resting recovering from surgery!  This is her cute little reading corner in the kitchen.

 She loves her collection of white stoneware and displays it here and in the family room.

Judy has little candles all over the house

We love our collections and this china cabinet is great for displaying some of hers!

This pretty old buffet  with part of her hat collection sits in the living room.

She had this old family trunk refinished years ago and uses it as a coffee table in front of her sofa.

Mother & Daddy bought this piano for us girls  to use while we were still in school.

Judy is great at displaying her treasures!

Beautiful Sparkly pins!

Her Family Room is decorated in bright happy colors. With lots of Raggedys too!

She is always finding something fun to display in this room!!

 We both love this old print by Floyd Newkirk!

Judy recently got this cute heater for her family room. It not only puts out the heat but has the flame of a fireplace too! She enjoys it especially in the early mornings while she has her coffee in her recliner.

The sun was coming in so bright I didn't capture this cozy sleeping area the way it really looks!

Her cross collection on the front door off of their old home! That's another story in it's self!

More pretty bright color!

Judy has been fortunate to gather quite a collection of this beautiful polish pottery!

I brought our dog Tasha ( in front) with me since I was staying for awhile and she had fun with Judy's dog Victoria. But I sure couldn't get a good picture of the two of them together! Hope all is well in your world right now too! You might enjoy my second blog: www.mcreatesdailyblogspot.com  also.

IT'S GREAT TO HAVE A GRANDSON YOU CAN LOOK UP TO!

Maurice's childhood friend recently posted a picture of him and his grandson who was like 7ft.! So Maurice wanted me to do the same thing with our tallest. Well It just didn't have the same impact so they tried some humor!

Our Christmas Gathering was much smaller this year than years past. But we still enjoyed our time together with Grandson Aaron and Salena and Doggie Squirt from Montana, Son Paul and Grandson Davey from Overland Park, Kansas and Grnd Daughter Jackie and Grt. Grandson Eli and of course our doggie Tasha. We ended up seeing some of the extended family through the holidays as my sister Judy was hospitalized and some of the family was there.

Eli had so many gifts to open we decided to hid his bike for last

It was a little tall and frightening!

But along with a little help he got on a took off!

Maurice has had to fill the bird feeder every 3 days, now with the snow more often!

He just leaves the step ladder out .

One of my creative projects for the new year is painting small canvass paintings. I got some canvasses for half price and will get more next time I'm in Overland Park. Ks.  My wish for all my Blog Friends is  A Very Happy, Healthy and Fulfilling New Year for You and Yours!  You might also enjoy my 2nd blog at www.mcreatesdailyblogspot.com

CHRISTMAS IN THE AIR

41st Year for Homemade Christmas Cards!

We added Icicle Lights this year

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The Toy Soldiers are back  on guard !

This years Christmas Painting for our cards.

225 of these in the process of being done!

My Xi Iota Sigma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi posing for our Christmas Picture

I was sharing my clock story with a blog friend earlier: This clock hung in the fellowship/gym area of my home church for as long as I could remember. Then a young boys Sunday School Class started using it to store their pencils in.After I married I decided to ask the Church officials if I could maybe buy it as a keepsake for our home. They said ask the boys  teacher if it was O.K. with them I could have it!  He said get us something to store our pencils in then you can have it! So I decided to make them a replicate out of a cigar box! He was happy and so was I! That was bout 60 years ago., and it has chimed  in our home every since!

This is the picture of our church like it looked then.

We were the target of some unkind treatment this last weekend!

The tables have transformed from Thanksgiving to Christmas! I love my collection of Jim Shore Santa's given to me as gift thru the years by my  friend Karen Grimes. Hope you are enjoying decorating and entertaining too!