Under a blue moon

Jack Frost

My PC is on the road to recovery.  It's not 100% yet but we've avoided last rites for the moment. 

I am a voracious blog reader and I check in with my Google Reader half a dozen times a day.  So it was kind of fun, after being offline for a few days, to log in and see 50 blog entries I needed to catch up with. 

Since I wasn't wiling away the hours on the internet I did manage to do a little decorating.

My benefactress gave me an assortment of vintage ornaments and I fashioned them into a wreath.  The pictures aren't really showing it but I lightly sprayed a green, faux wreath with white paint and then sprayed it with silver glitter to give it a frosty appearance.  But in the pictures it is reading grey. 

Speaking of frosty we had snow!  And I missed it!  I was down at my Dad's and of course the one time this decade it decides to snow I am not at home.  All I got was iced over windows that I had to scrape off with a credit card.  We are not equipped for the cold here.  I just saw a guy driving down the street with his head stuck out the window so he could see.  I should have told him the credit card trick.

More decorating to come this weekend.  I bought a little pre-lit tree for the table in the living room (Hi Rick!) and I'm going to set it up this week.  I'm thinking of a bird theme....

  

Monday's Musing

My PC issues have been brutal and I don't have access to any of my photo editing software, haven't been able to load pictures and basically have been just limping along with it.  I hope to have everything fixed and be back in operation by tomorrow night.

Thanks for haning in there with me.  
 

Friday's Favorites

Flickr Favorites

 

• I love these plant markers!  Why don't I ever think of these ideas...
• More adorable handmade stuffed animals.  They look like they have had a long and well-loved life.
• Fun, crafty blog and winner (in my opinion) of the best blog name ever:  Crap I've Made
• Awesome source for....well...just about anything. Ephemera, beads, minature reindeer, bottle brush trees, teeny plastic baby dolls, buttons....:  Paper Valise
• A site devoted to the fading art of calligraphy and penmenship.  Check out the lessons links for all kinds of examples and downloadable instructions.

Have a Happy Friday everyone!

(still working on PC issues - hope to have them resolved and resume normal posting next week)

Monday's Musings

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
~Paulo Coehlo 

(Note:  A moment of silence please, for my poor pc.  It appears to be infected with a particularly virulent virus and may not survive)

Friday's Favorites

 

Flickr Favorites

• Pretty wrapping idea from A Field Journal
• Sweet Japanese fabric and notions from Cotton Blue on Etsy
• I don't think I can bear the sweetness of these handmade stuffed animals.  I mean - look at their little faces!
• Grown up use of the old Summer camp lanyard.  You could do this in any color combination to match your decor.
• Beautiful style and fashion blog ~ {This is Glamorous} ~ great collection of pictures and links

 
 

Happy Thanksgiving!

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
 

Monday's Musings

Friday's Favorites

Flickr Favorites

I might need a bunny.  I wonder what Belle would think of that?

• Great idea for an inexpensive but super stylish chalkboard
• Going with the muted tones; love the shades of pale this Verity Hope wrap dress comes in - I can't resist a gentle, on the bias ruffle.
• Poetic Home, new (to me) blog with some great vintagey inspired vignettes.
• Still lusting after a pair of red shoes - I should just buy a pair already...
• I love this simple, organic tablesetting for Thanksgiving.  So soothing.

Have a Happy Friday everyone!

 
 

Mantel, part XVIII

My mantel has been in flux for a year now.  After the holidays last year it just didn't seem to come together, no matter what I threw up there.

When I look at pictures of other people's mantels I like the kind of layered, casual look.  Nothing too studied or precise.

But when I try to do that myself another side of me, a VERY symmetrical side, takes over and dictates that the mantel will be perfectly balanced - and further more - there will be none of that hodge-podge, stuff stacked up in front of each other business.

Very bossy, that symmetrical side.

Sigh.  What I need is a mirror, like this one (only painted white).  That would fill up the space better.  And then it wouldn't look so, so....repressed.

Someone snuck a Christmas ornament up there...

Don't tell old bossy boots.

 

 

Monday's Musings