Vintage Christmas Monday!

I love these Mondays...where we share our vintage ornaments and decorations.

Today, I want to share with you the things handed down to me from Peppy, my grandmother.

Peppy passed on years ago so these decorations are the hardest to put away each year.
Each year I get emotional when I take these lovelies out.
I got my crafty fingers from her...

First is this sweet Santa pillow she made:




And these are my favorite...her amazing napkin rings....all by hand.











And just look at these sweet match boxes...she put little felt faces on them.


Peppy adored cardinals so I am going search for a vintage cardinal ornament or postcard to add to our tree.

(We already have one on the tree in her honor but I think it would be nice to have one that fit the era she grew up in.)

Merry Christmas Peppy! We love you!!!

Cookin' and craftin'

Whew! I'm ALIVE!

Between home, errands, work and holiday events, this week was nuts.

Curly Girl had a chorus concert Thursday night..it was COLD!


Then Friday she had a chorus field trip, along with a trip to the local mall...

AND her birthday the same night!

As soon as they walked in, they put on their slumber party socks I got them...



There is a LONG story behind this cake. To keep it short, the girls thought I'd ordered a "Dr. Seuss" cake so I just went along with it and pretended it was SUPPOSED to be tilted.

HAH!


This was the first year I couldn't get them to 'sit still' long enough to take photos so I'll just share what we did!

They all put their names on their aprons so I can't show them to you. But the aprons turned out SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!
It was soooo worth the effort of me making them.

We also made snow globes, bath salts, a Christmas ornament and Christmas bookmarks. I can't show the bath salts because of names...but here are the others....

a close up of the ornament....



thanks for the snowglobe idea, Lori!

They "cooked and crafted" until midnight then went up and sang their lungs out until 4:30 AM!
A few fell asleep around 2 (that was me, folks...)

Then Dean made chocolate chip waffles for breakfast before the girls went home.....


Curly Girl is 12 now so she got to sit in the FRONT SEAT this morning when we took one of her friends home...

Notice, she is proudly showing off the iTouch she got for her birthday.

so now I get to relax.... awhile....Ripstick Boy has a basketball game but it isn't until later tonight.

Friday Favorites!

Today I am busy with Curly Girl's 12th birthday party.
The theme is 'cookin & craftin' !!!

I've been prepping for this party for awhile!
So far, I've sewn aprons for them to decorate, collected jars for snowglobes and bathsalts...collected acorn tops, cut out bookmark fixins......

All that is left is to premake the pizza crusts and make the cake...then set the house up! (okay, so not anymore....now I'm off to a chorus concert she is in.....so much for pre making pizza crusts...oh, and I ended up buying the cake from a co-worker!)

Wish me luck!!!

Now...I leave you with this:

Here are some of our favorite Christmas movies!

I LOVE this one.....I laugh the ENTIRE way through it.




This is Dean's all time favorite (the cat scene makes me laugh til I cry)




We ALL adore this one........'he took two'



Oh! And a new favorite.....we HOWL at the who's your daddy scene and then when they say "Ewwwww! I'm your DADDY!"


we watch ALL the classics...















We watch this one at least TWICE!
It is the BEST Christmas Carol!!!
(Michael Caine rocks as Scrooge, sorry Jim, yours is a bit dark for us)



We love this funny guy ...and have all 3 of these...but this one is THE BEST...

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Simply a beautiful movie...



Gotta get me one of those 'lamps...'




A true classic!



And two that only Curly Girl and I can still handle...while baking cookies!






the kids can't watch this one...but it IS funny!



Okay.......what is on YOUR watch list?

Winners!!!!!

Remember this post with the little giveaway?

Well, we drew 3 names instead of 2!

.....here are the winners.......

Tulsi
AnneMarie
Country Pickins

Please email me with your mailing address and I will ship these out ASAP!

Thanks for playing!

here kitty, kitty

Leo and Suki are LOVING the Christmas decorations.......

Leo ON the Christmas village set up


you lookin' at ME? He loves the warmth the lights give off.


I'm the KING of the VILLAGE!!!!!!!!!!




oh, and under the tree...while I am STILL decorating it.

He sleeps on this felt tree skirt the ENTIRE month we have it up. I keep saying I need to make him a bed out of felt...I know he would use it, he is such a chilly kitty.



Suki IN the branches...of our FAKE tree.

Hhhhhmmmmm.......she must REALLY miss being an outdoor kitty.


and taking turn in the boxes....right now its Suki's turn! Later, Leo got in. I think Suki tried to WRAP him.....no luck!


And here.....oh, wait! How'd Mojo get in here????

show me some love, mama!

Vintage Christmas Things!

I have SO many vintage things to share....and not enough Mondays!
So, I had to come back and add to this post!

Here is a precious foil angel from Germany.
My parents gave her to me on my 9th birthday....so she is 40 years old! I ADORE her. She only has 1 minor tear on her dress, otherwise, she is in perfect condition still.


a bowlful of vintage glass ornaments topped with a vintage glass bird...

a few of the vintage ornaments on my tree. I love this one...it is much pinker in person!

and this rainbow one is my favorite......here is the outside:

and here is the inside:


a stag in snow...

and several sweet striped ones...sorry for the blurry photos!







Now....on to the 'elves':

Years ago, naughty ornaments were 'en vogue'....check this little guy out!

I won't say it...but I AM thinking it! heehee




AHEM.....moving on....... Years ago, we had some really cute elves on our tree. We also had some skiing gnomes on pine cones....SO CUTE.

I can't find the gnomes yet....but found some similar on eBay...like this one.

But I did find some little elves....they are so cute!







and here is the biggest elf of all!!!

The radio is busted and they don't make the little 'candle' shaped lights any longer.....but Santa still swings a mean hammer!

It hasn't stopped moving yet.....cause Santa's got work to do!!!

To see more sites participating in this series, click on HO HO HO!!!

...with sprinkles on top

Lori gave me the sweetest award!


I am to share some things that make me feel all happy and silly.

My family
our pets
reading
bookstores
hot cocoa from Starbucks
gardens
the forest
mushrooms
Christmas and Halloween movies
chocolate cupcakes
cooking/baking gadgets
yarn
buttons
fabric
scarves
handcrafted ornies
glitter
fairy houses

Thank you Lori!!!