Hello my friends!
I'm back home again after a lovely visit with my sweet Mom and Dad.
It is very hard to live so far away from them. I'm very thankful that my brother lives close by
And keeps close tabs on them.
While in Louisville we enjoyed a lovely dinner out with Bobby and his family.
We ate at Mimi's Cafe. One of my favorite restaraunts!
The section we ate in was decorated like New Orleans.
The food is always delightful and the muffins there are incredible. As my daughter says ...enjoy a muffin as big as your head!
We sandwiched our trip to Louisville with 2 quick visits to Indiana. What a treat to see my daughter "candy bar" and her husband and my new little grandson! how I loved being able tto spend precious time holding, singing and rocking my darling little guy!
Of course a blizzard was on the way and my husband needed to be at work so we ended our vacation a day earlier than planned. But... we made it out before the storm and safely back home once again.
I didn't do my usual decorating this year. Knowing we would be out of town for Christmas it seemed logical to skip it. Especially since in November we went through most of our decorations and gave away a ton of things. Now, I am having some fun shopping the after Christmas sales and refurbishing my stash of decorations! I bought 3 sweet Victorian style homes for the fireplace mantle.
They are pastel in colors and have accents of snow and glitter that gives them a sugar coated look!
Yummy!
One of my Christmas projects this year was to make a tabletop tree for my good friend Jan.
She has her beautiful kitchen decorated with birdhouses. So I made her a little tree full of little clay
birds and birdhouses.
I do not know if you can tell but the roof of the bird house is copper.
I had so much fun making this and Jan seemed to really love it and placed it on her
buffet in the dining room.
I hope that you had a wonderful, beautiful Christmas
& I wish each one of your out there a very Happy New Year!!
All for now!
Hugs :O)
Mary
