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Look What Arrived in the Mail!

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Are you familiar with Vintage Lizzie? If you aren’t, run right over to her blog and website! She has a shop on Cape Cod (already I am jealous) and she is so talented. I got to know her through Elyse, who has visited Lizzie’s shop and shared it with us in her posts. So – Lizzie had a giveaway and I won! Yesterday, in the midst of this awful cold/sinus yuck and dealing with a mistake made by the tax people in NY State, this package arrived:

Let’s see what’s inside, shall we?

This gorgeous stocking, made by Lizzie, with her own line of fabrics; UrbanGardens Textiles. Look at the detail in this beautiful stocking.

This is the prettiest stocking I have ever seen – something tells me I will be leaving this out all year long.
Lizzie made these sachets (with UrbanGardens Textiles) – filled with lavender:


That sneaky Lizzie also included some wonderful treasures:


I knew this next beauty was coming, so I just had to buy a little tree – you will see why.

Lizzie made this reversible tree skirt for a feather tree. Isn’t it lovely? I don’t have a feather tree, but I do have this sweet white tree from Michael’s.


Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Lizzie, for such a generous giveaway. You are a treasure, indeed. I love everything – a pink lover’s dream come true!

O Christmas Tree…You are Hard to Photograph

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Boy, I am not a professional photographer – that’s for sure! I remember having the same trouble last year. I just can’t get a photo that truly reflects the way the tree looks. These are pretty good, but the colors are more vivid, the lights are more sparkly – you know what I mean. I took these last night as I tweaked the tree’s final look. Pardon the television – our tree is in the den, and our house is tiny. The lights around the window were my husband’s solution as to what to do with the end of the final string of lights.


Here it is in daylight. After gathering vintage ornaments for several years, we’ve reached the point where 95% of the ornaments are vintage and the rest are ornaments that were given to us as presents or are from my younger days. I hadn’t realized how I had unconsciously created my favorite palette of pink and aqua until I looked at finished tree. And the clear lights really add brilliance to the ornaments. We love it.

I tried this one with the tripod – which was one of the recommendations I read during a google search. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough yet about f stops and shutter speed to do anything more with these!





This is the ornament that is always put on the tree by both of us. It is our Winston ornament. Winston was our first dog. He left us too soon, at only eight years old, not that many years after we moved out East. We miss him everyday.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of the tree!

More Decorating

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The tree is decorated…the saga has ended, thank goodness. I have to say it is the prettiest one yet. Clear lights have made a huge difference in the look of the tree. Now I am in the midst of the ‘how do you get a good photograph of the tree?’ dilemma. No matter how I try, the photo doesn’t do it justice. So if you can hang on a day, I will have some photos to share with you. I’m going to mess around with the camera and see what I can come up with.

You know my ‘wrought iron thingy’ that is on the table in the kitchen? The pumpkins are gone and this is what I’ve done with it for the Christmas season.


Simple, but pretty, I think. Have a wonderful day.

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