New Coffee Maker

When Sarah, our daughter, had her baby shower this Fall, a friend of hers used a coffee machine to serve the guests. I had not seen one like it, but fell in love with it. (I don't even drink coffee).
It had the ability to heat water and give you a choice of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. You make your selection of what they call a K cup, insert it and press the button and in a few seconds you have your drink.
I have so much company but never make coffee. (My guests fix their own) smile. I thought this would be a great way to give a choice to whoever is visiting. My hubby went out and bought me one for my birthday last month.

It's by Keurig. He bought a little turn around to hold the variety of drinks. You can get different flavors of coffee and teas.

You just open it up and put in the K cup you have selected and it brews in seconds.
The turnaround.

Come join me for some cookies and tea, coffee or hot cocoa.

I know we have to watch our calories at this time of year so I wanted to pass this little tip on to you.

TO ALL MY DEAREST FRIENDS I'M SO GLAD I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS!
The correct way to weigh yourself:

I can't believe I was doing it wrong all these years. WE MUST SPREAD THE WORD. Never take life seriously; nobody gets out alive anyway

Emma's Birthday

I can't believe 9 years has passed since our first grandchild was born. It was a joy for me, being in the delivery room, to witness my first born giving birth to her first child.

She was such a delightful baby. She had a winsome personality and loved to make you laugh.

Here is a baby pic of her.


She always likes to pretend and once she sets her mind to it, she

can put herself into a roll and make you believe the part she's playing. She's got a sweet protective side and is a good big sister.
She's looking so grown up out on the town to meet "The Little Mermaid", Jodi Benson.

She's a good student. She always had a book in her hand while we were visiting in CA. A couple of mornings I came downstairs and she was reading the LA Times. No kidding!!! I told her she probably didn't need to be reading that. (smile)

Here she is behind her school desk.

With much love----HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!!!

Twas the night before decorating
And all through the house
Boxes were piled and scattered
And scared even a mouse! (And anyone else nearby)!


Enough of my poetry, already. I like to keep the tubs in the garage and bring them in one by one as needed. It helps keep my sanity. I use green for traditional Christmas items and the blue for my snowmen. All my decorating is done now. Shew! It's a job, isn't it? You want everything just right, especially if you are posting pics. ( We put so much pressure on ourselves, don't we?) smile

I thought I would start by showing the Santas that I have painted over many years. Some are in acrylics and some in oils.

The next two, I used a special mallet to create the wood grain look.

This one is opens up to tell a greeting.

The next few are small but cute.

I love how jolly this one looks peeping through the joy.

The next three are my favorite and most detailed. I even loved doing all the little toys. Click on pictures to enlarge for details.

I used Dap caulking to create the fur and beards with and xacto knife. The oils on this takes weeks to dry.

The green on is a European Santa.

The red is a traditional Santa.

This is a Scandanavian one.

Thanks for taking the time to visit today. I'll post some more on another post.

New Award

Connie at http://connie49.blogspot.com/ has given me this sweet award and I want thank her very much!

So here are the rules: Copy and paste the rules and instructions in your post. When posting on receiving the award, make sure you include who gave you the award and link it back to them. Post five winners and link back to them as well. Post FIVE of your addictions. Add the award image. Let your winners know you gave them an award by leaving them a comment on their blog.

Here are five addictions in no particular order:

1. Family--I always need to be in touch

2. Chocolate, especially dark

3. Ice tea--I usually have it once a day

4. Shoes and purses--you should see my closet

5. Keeping things neat and orderly--I guess you can call me a "Neatnick"

I want to pass this on to:

All my wonderful blogging friends who are kind enough to visit. You deserve it!

Table Scape Tuesday

Susan is hosting a Tablescape at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/2008/08/tablescape-tuesday.html
Be sure to stop and see all the lovely tables.

It has been fun decorating for the Christmas season and sometimes stressful. You girls know what I mean, I'm sure. Trying to get everything just so, so for company and for blogging. (smile)

I thought since the table was set for company I would take part in the Table scape today.

This is the dining room in our home. I love candles, Christmas ornaments, and my little decorative jewels. Another angle.

This is a grouping on the buffet.

One Santa I painted at the end of the buffet.

Thanks for taking a peek and have a great week.

Turkey Reflections!

We had a great" Turkey Day"!

We had dinner with our son-in-law's family. His sister had just moved into her first house and invited us to be part of their celebration . Her husband, baby, parents, sister and family, brother and family (our son-in-law and daughter) and hubby and myself were there.

The dinner was wonderful as well as the company.

Of course, we got to spend the day with our grand son and new grand daughter. We passed her around a lot and gave them both lots of kisses.

This is Sarah, Joe, Jonas and Ivy Louise. Mother and baby are doing great!


I hope you had a wonderful weekend and rested to start another busy week. Thanks for stopping by.
Until next time.

By the way Connie over at http://connie49.blogspot.com/ is having a giveaway in honor of her upcoming 5o th birthday. Be sure to go over and take a look at it and her blog.

Thanksgiving Decor

Hi Everyone,

I can almost hear all the hustle and bustle going on at every one's house right now. It's a busy time of the year, for sure.

The cooking, shopping, Christmas card letter writing and all the daily chores are keeping us hopping, aren't they?

I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and may you enjoy the day with family and friends reflecting on all that we have to be grateful for.

I just wanted to share a couple of things I have painted that I set around at this time of year. They help to make it a little festive & fun.

A set of chunky pilgrims. Maybe they had too much stuffing.

Another pilgrim couple. The woman is carrying the pie and he has silverware in hand, ready to dig in. Soooo typical. (smile)

This is a shot with candles that are really too tall for them.

I think my favorite is this scarecrow. His expression and the saying on the sign says it all.

Thanks for stopping. See ya all next week.