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What a beautiful Snow Day....

          So we loaded up the car with tobaggons, snow boots, gloves, jackets, and $$$ and rode the lifts and went tube'n. 

     

 

4 new toboggans....$81.00

2 pairs of boots..... $50.00

1 new jacket..........$30.00

4 lift tickets............$44.00

4 tube rentals.......$65.00

parking................$5.00

lunch....................$50.00

The above look on these faces...........Priceless

P.S....on the ride home My husband said, "Girls I hope you enjoyed the day cause the next time you come up here you'll have a boyfriend to pay for it so he better be rich."

Which they responded,  "Dad!!  We are only 8 and 10!!!"

P.S.S. on the drive home, the eldest complained of having a headache and the other said she felt nauseous.    So then, he said.  "Flat-landers".  Overall we had a great time and it was worth it for the whole family to have a quality family time..

One of My favorite things.....

  I never tire of watching it.  If it is shown on TV....you bet I'll be parked right on the sectional.  It was on last night, I stayed up until midnight until it was over.  It is such a classic.  I love the costumes, the scenery, the characters and I love the puppets here.  Mama...has the cutest face with her purple hat, she must be part of the Red Hat Society.  I think the girl puppet looks like our Milkmaid ornament, the one who drank too much eggnog on Christmas Eve.  I kept thinking.....Wouldn't it be so neat to have a river right up to your house where you could row up in a boat and jump out and be in your backyard.   I have some many favorite parts in the movie, I am partial to  the park scene when Liesel sings with Rolph, "I am 16 going on 17"   and they dance in the Gazebo.  When I was young I dreamed of being proposed to in a Gazebo like that. I also love that part when father sings Edelweiss and when they sing "A Few of My favorite things"........ I must be a romantic........What is your favorite part in the movie, I would love to hear it?

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas...hope yours was filled with family and friends and Santa was good to you.  

2 more trees in the house.....

  Madison has a Ocean Theme tree going on....lots of sea stars and bubbles and blue fish.  I think I should of maybe found an old fishing net to cover the bottom  of the stand. 

  Li'l One has a doll theme going on in her tree.  It matches her room.  Her bedding is of doll dressess and you can see in this photo to the left some of her antique dressess on the wall.  She also has a few fairies on the tree.  And as you can see....ahhh...I had to get the Milk Maid from Anthropologie.....well...it was 50 percent off!!!   How could I not....Here is a close up of one of the fairies, she has strawberry slippers on. 

 

  Here is the Milkmaid under the tree, I thought you could see better.  In making it real......I ordered this online and I think next time I will make sure I go to the brick and mortar store because I think she looks like she has had too much eggnog and passed out in a snowbank.   Her make up is smeared....maybe there is more to that Milk maid story...maybe more like a French maid.....that hussy.  Anyways...my point is you could pick out a better crafted ornaments seeing them up close and personal.  She was my favorite of all of the ornaments the had at the store.  Also I think my daughter pink is a little too bright and if overwelms the ornaments so you can't really appreciate them.  I don't think that it is the same for green tree.  Maybe we should see if we can find a white tree  or a very soft baby pink tree.  Typing out loud here...

One of Three

We have three Christmas trees in the house.  One for the main living space and the girls each have their own.  I'll take some pictures of their trees tomorrow but I did manage to get some shots of the main tree.......once at night and another during the daylight hours.. {click to enlarge any picture}

 I have three sets of ornaments....One is all Victorian, all whites, silver, golds and a bit of rose pinks and creams.  Those are my favorites.  Second I started collecting all Country/rustic snowmen and lastly Santa's........

This year I picked up a fake tree at a garage sale in the summer for ten dollars well my husband is not at all a fan of fake trees but I thought I could put it in the front room and put up my Victorian ornaments on it and get a real one for the family room and do the Santa's on there.  The fake trees branches didn't sit right at one part it kind of left a big gap.  I probably didn't put it together right but hubby would complain every day how awful it looked so finally I took it out and a lady who was selling Adirondack benches was driving by and I stopped her I was interested in her benches..I'll show at another post what we got..it was my Christmas present.  My husband asked if she wanted the fake tree, we had just came home and the real tree was in the back of his truck.   Well she took it for her daughter.  He was happy, me not so much.  Because I had my heart set on my Victorian tree this year...nope I got out voted by the family........

  Here is our new addition to the clan...is he not the cutest?   I got him at Gary's Island.  I don't know if they have them across the country or not.  I love his grass skirt.  To make me feel a bit better I added all my German glass glitter ornaments that I got last year to make the tree sparkle a bit.  I rather like the look. 

 Now here she is glowing at night...I wish I was better a taking nighttime pictures...I know you need a open aperture and a tripod to keep the camera from shaking but that is too much work for me...

 I see we have a big puka with the lights....not my department...so me no fixey.

gifties...

I had this post ready to go last night but somehow I lost it...

it's so cold outside...how about some.............................................................

                                      Snowman Soup!!

 

    The girls made these bags for their classmates at school...aren't they cute. 

                                            Snowman Soup

                          Snowman soup will warm the heart,

                     Hot cocoa and marshmallows, that's a start.

                        A Candy Cane will make it just right

                           To keep you warm all winter night

I made these Santa' waistlines for the Neighbors and the colleagues I work with at school....I loved how these turned out.  I filled them with my Chocolate Oat Bars ...Yum-O!...

 

They were so simple to make.  I just used a paint can for about 1.50, red felt, velvet ribbon and I got the bling bling santa buckle from this this fabulous website  where I get a ton of inspiration from.

Baby it's cold outside!! So I need one of these.......

  We don't have one...isn't that sad?......I'm not picky....I'll take this one too...

 I could see myself curled up on the red striped chair and ottoman with my cup of Joe..

 

or this white li'l piece of heaven with a cup of tea...told you I'm not picky...

  I'll even take this crusty old fireplace.....with a nice cup of warm spiced cider.....

 or drinking some wassail by this one...(don't even know what wassail is)...but I'm sure it's good next to this fireplace.....It's so cold here in Calif...and we are so bundled up....I really wish I could light my fire...maybe in the next house.   In the meantime I'll live vicariously through my blog....my imaginary world.  Hee hee.

Snow Villages

Speaking of Villages...we were at Disneyland yesterday and at Downtown Disney they have a store...called Studio 54 and they have the cutest snow village. ( took these last year)  You can click to enlarge any picture.

  Isn't that tram the cutest and the waterfall...not sure there would be a waterfall in the Alps?  

    Would you like some HOT chocolate after a spin around the rink?  Here is a replica of the Flatiron building in New York.  I think the architecture is really neat.  I'd love to get this piece for my snow village...but my village is out in the country or small town.

 

MIA

Sorry I've been Missing in Action.  It is not because I have been decorating for the holidays like everyone in blogland and MY neighborhood.  Mr. Christmas lives across the street...He has a wreath on his car and lighted garland up on the suitcase rack...His house is lit from head to toe, he wears a cute sweater vest with a wreath on his lapel..I think he is in the wrong business I think he should be working at the mall as one of the Santa's passing out Candy Canes!!!...NO...I'm way behind.  I finally put together our fake tree I got last summer at a yard sale for 10 bucks.  The girls had a great time putting it up last night but hubby is not fond of Fake trees SO ....WE WILL PICK UP a real one this weekend for sure.  I've been working non stop since Thanksgiving and I'm also taking classess to CLEAR my teaching credtential with the State of Calif.  So I've either Iv'e been at school teaching, coaching soccer or studying for my classess or trying to catch up on laundry..we won't go there...which explains why all my plants have died and the weeds have taken over the flower bed.  I need a wife!!  But...to get me in the spirit...I'm drinking some EGG Nog..would you like some? and listening to George Winston...his December CD...love that CD if you don't have it, it is a must during the winter months, so calm and serene.  I light some candles and just enjoy the stillness for a moment.

But to get me in the mood to start decorating...I need to remind myself what I did last year....Lots of Wendy Addison glittered words, Tinsel Trees with silver and blue.

  Here is my favortite snowman who sits on our front porch and says Welcome..to all the visitors....

  Our favorite snow village...I think this is the girls' favorite of all the decorations.  I think I may take a different approach this year and add some hills with lights underneath like Alicia did.  My is my Mother's collection as our many of our decorations in the house.

 

 

Yes...I definetly need new snow...see it doesn't even cover the sideboard completely..I think I have a mouse that is messing up my snow....two mice..yes..with brown hair.

  My favorite wreath idea  from Heather Chadduck of Cottage Living fame, she used Magnolia leaves on hers  I just buy whatever premade wreath I find, last year it was boxwood, the year before plain old pine.  Here is my grandmothers vintage silverware and then I added pearly/sparkly frames with pictures of my Mice.

 

 Not sure I'll do this arrangement this year.  You can see the wreath hanging on the outside of the window The ornaments are really pretty, cracked glass in cream and silver AND they are on sale right now from Southen Living at HOME.   I'd like to get another set.   I like to layer my bulbs in the Southen Living Estate Candeliear whis is also on sale too!!!   Here it is.  I'd like another one of those for my "one of these days I'll have a porch/deck" to hang my candilears from.  I can see two on each end of the long Teak table. 

  Allrighty then lets get busy....I've got lots to do.  Now...don't mention the baking and Christmas cards and gift to be made...better go grab another Egg NOG I'm getting a headache!!!