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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Out and About - December 2014


December is always filled with anticipation!  I love Christmas!  Even though I feel like the Grinch or Scrooge sometimes because I'm overly tired, overly busy, or overly anxious about what I hope to have happen I can't imagine a year without Christmas!  

This little bundle of joy has made leaps and bounds in her means of getting around.  She was rolling to a sit-up at the beginning of the month.  By the end she was crawling and able to push herself along on a little push car and wave goodbye!  This is a new feature I've discovered:  GIFs!  It stitches pictures together into an animation. . . .

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Deck the Halls

I've been decking my rooms with garlands decorated with fruit and birds.  I usually do my dining room in all white, but this year I decided to use the traditional colors of green and red.  I started with the dining room. . . .

Thursday, December 11, 2014

View Outside My Kitchen Window - December


With the wind howling last night and ice covering the branches earlier in the week it is beginning to feel a lot like winter. . . .

Saturday, December 6, 2014

A Tasha Tudor Christmas Celebration


In 2011 The Historic Odessa Foundation in Odessa, Delaware had a wonderful exhibit called A Joyful Tasha Tudor Christmas.  The curator did an excellent job of capturing the look and feel of a Tasha Tudor Christmas.  The exhibit was set up in the Wilson-Warner House (1769).  In several of the photos I will point out the items that are reminiscent of Tasha's home.

The creche in the bread oven, the tin oven, stockings hung from the mantel, the tea service, spinning wheel, loom-woven coverlet, lustreware tea set, and candles. . . .

Thursday, December 4, 2014

MD Chapter TTMS Christmas Celebration


The Maryland Chapter of the Tasha Tudor Museum Society's December Gathering was held at Dollie's Tea Room in Clear Spring, MD today.  Here I am getting ready to leave with my basket containing my handmade gift for the gift exchange and folders for the three new members joining us today. . . .