O Christmas Tree

Hope everyone is on schedule getting 

your home all decorated. 

I have one tree up and 

front porch almost completed. 

The reason I am behind is that  another

 friend  and I have been helping

 another one of friends 

decorate her home for a Home Tour in 

the committee were we live. 

Hope to post photo's soon.

This is going to be just a quick post of our 

living room tree, better pictures to come.

Thanks for stopping by

Hope to be posting soon!

Christmas Check List

Shopping Done

Gifts wrapped

Dinner planned

Candy Made

Now a little pick-up & of course a  table setting!

Checklist will be complete!!!

Plan to relax while I wait for 

 family to arrive later  tomorrow.

Then as our Christmas traditions we will attend

Christmas Eve Candle light Service together. 

To remember the true reason why 

we celebrate Christmas!

Just a little humor from TEXAS!

Secret Santa Loot!

I joined Suzanne Coloradolady in Secret Santa , 

I have to first apologize for not posting sooner.

 I had camera difficulty, I finally was able to download the photos.

 I want to THANK my Secret Santa for all the neat items that I received. 

Because I'm so late I am going to just show you all the neat things I received. 

WOW!!!!! what a surprise I got when I opened this package.

 I do know that she has got to be a mom cause this package was well packed. 

This is the beautiful wrapped packages that I found.

 I was patience and made myself take pictures before I torn in to them.

The first item is a tatting snow flake ornament.

 Then I unwrapped 6 antique gift tags

 Then there were these individually wrapped cone items. 

 What to my surprise I found Pine cone candles

 Next was a ornate picture  frame, and 

this is the card that was included.

 I knew when I saw the wrapping that this

 next package had to be DISHES. 

Yes to my delight two beautiful salad plate size

 red holly plates.

 LOVE THEM!!!!!

 Now for the soft and squishy package I had no idea what this contained. 

She has to be a quilter for this is a beautiful handmade pillow.

 This is a craft that I have yet to tackle and admire anyone that has this talent!

 As I said in the beginning she knows how to pack as you

 can see all 15 items came out of that small box.

 I have already found a place to 

display most of the items as

 you can see below the 

plates found a home immediately. 

The candles found there way to my mantel and

 the gift tags are also being used.

Thanks again to my Secret Santa, 

I fill that she had know me for ever,

 as she really sent me all the things I like. 

Again I apologize for being so late and posting.

Thanks to Suzanne for all her hard and putting up with late posters like me!

Merry Christmas

 to all as I don't think

 I will get to post again before Christmas.

Tables of Love

This is a post that I never seem to have posted from Christmas 2011. So I thought I would join
Christmas in July please don't miss it!

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This year at our church the Woman’s Ministry hosted a church wide Christmas banquet. In the past the WM held a Christmas brunch for the women, but we decided that this year we would include the men folk.   Since I am on the WM committee I was given the responsibility of arranging for 11 ladies to host and decorate tables for the banquet.  I had such a wonderful overwhelming response of volunteers that I did not have get to host a table myself.  Since this was a Christmas banquet we only ask that they decorate for Christmas. The variety of china, pottery and decorations really made the night magical. We had a great time of admiring the tables and enjoying fellowship during the Christmas season.
The entertainment was provide by a men’s quartet, which I am kind of parcel too, as Big Jim is a member. This was their first official performance other than singing specials in church service. Our pastor is also a member and told the audience that they were only ask because they
perform really cheap.

We did give them dinner…………..but they were great and got a standing ovation!

I hope you enjoy our magical night!

This was our entertainment.

Big Jim is in the white swaeter.

We had a great time of fellowship.

Please leave a comment Y'all

I am joining

http://betweennapsontheporch.net/lots-of-new-old-tablescapes-to-enjoy-the-203rd-tablescape-thursday/

http://www.stonegableblog.com/2012/07/christmas-in-july-blog-hop.html

 

Is Christmas Really over?????

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas

I know that my family and I were really blessed.

A  month ago we began to

 plan

 decorate

 cooked and cooked

 visited the relatives

 attended the parties

but I hope that all remembered the true reason for the season

To celebrated the birth of

Jesus Christ.

Our day  began with a wonderful breakfast and

 then off to church.

Our family arrived and the gift exchange began.

(For some reason my pictures are not available of my living room. But found this one on how I image that every ones living room must have looked on Christmas morning)

As we begin the count down to the new year.

 I hope everyone is safe and plan to enjoy bringing in the

 New Year.

Let the count down begin!!!!!!

Glad you stopped by please leave a comment

 Y'all

Have a bless day<;)

Secret Santa Gift Arrived

Today was a fun day! My door bell rang about 11:00 and there was my Secret Santa box! I joined other bloggers in 



Thanks to Suzanne for hostessing the Secret Santa Soiree.

Of course I had to run and get the camera

 but the anticipation was killing me.

Yes it was a BIG BOX, what could it contain?

The return address was from right here in the big state of TEXAS........OK I know open open open!

 Oh it says fragile does that mean dishes?

Finally I found the scissors and look at all the goodies.



Lovely Card

Gift #1

Warm Fuzzy Socks

Gift  #2

Cinnamon Spice Candle

Gift #3

Bright Red Towel

Oh! but there are still so many round gifts to open

 and this what I found.

Gift #4

Africa

Italy

Ukraine



Denmark



Czechoslovakia



Sweden



England



United States

Holland

Spain

Poland



Germany


Yes there were 12 plates with images representing 12
 different countries.  What a great Secret Santa I had.

One more gift there were also a set of cupcake baking cups.


This is a photo of all the goodies that were in my package.

The plates are already in there NEW home
 in my hutch.

Don't they look GREAT!!!!!

Thanks to SS in Teague Texas,
what a wonderful treat and surprise.

If you missed Secret Santa with Coloradolady mark your
 calendar so you won't miss out next year.

Thanks for dropping by, please leave a comment.


*******************Merry Christmas****************