Tuesday, December 31, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

I wish you all the 
best year yet!
Health, Wealth, Happiness,
 Contentment, Joy, Love, Peace, Hope!


Another year..........

2014 is almost here in the USA.


Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas Friends.

Merry Christmas old and new friends.
Many happy and healthy blessings 
to you all.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Keeping Christmas All Year Long!

 I try to do this every year.  
How about you?


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Full Moon

From the other night.
The Cold Moon  12-17-13


May your light shine full.


Thursday, December 19, 2013

For those in need of healing.

For anyone in need of healing of either mind or body, or both, I hope that you will find these words from today's Daily Word helpful.  I love the sentence "I am created of God."   Not by God (although I believe that to be true), but actually a piece of God.  Or at least that is how I read it.  :o)   Good Blessings to you today.



Friday, December 13, 2013

12 days until Christmas

12 days until Christmas. 
 Are you having some fun?


Monday, December 2, 2013

Just Be Glad!

Beautiful postcard sent to my Grandmother Rachel around her 21st birthday. Postmarked Mar. 26, 1921. From Shorty.




Saturday, November 30, 2013

End of November

The last day of November already?
I trust everyone had a wonderful
Thanksgiving Day filled with
gratitude and surrounded with
family and friends.  We did.


Postmarked  Nov. 19, 1908

Hello Anna!
Received your welcome postal but
 was disappointed in not hearing that
 you were going to come or not.  Look
 on the other side for your Tom cat.
From your loving friend, Dora
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was going to ask, do you think
the animal is a tom cat, dog or
kangeroo, but Dora seems to
think it is a tomcat !  



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on the internet too.





Saturday, November 23, 2013

Autumn waning

Can it really be almost a month
 before Christmas?  And then 2014?!


A few "last of Autumn" photos 
before Christmas.



A couple of weeks ago we had
 hundred's of pelicans come through 
for a couple of days.  This is the
 tail end of one of their visits.
If we could figure out how to transfer
video to youtube we got a nice video 
of them in the cove, splashing and 
feeding on the fish.



Beaver Full Moon  11-16-13
I took this looking East, out our
 dining room door.



Sunset 11-17-13



A cheery yellow custom button bracelet


It's beginning to look a lot like
 Christmas, in Northern California
that is.


Postmarked November 25, 1918


"Dear Esther,  I am sorry you will 
not be down for Thanksgiving.  Hope 
you have a happy one.  Aunt Sever
 and Mr & Mrs Cross and the little
 boy are coming over. 
 love and kisses Salina M."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And details for my blog
 giveaway HERE



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Turkeys and perfect days.

I was planning to decorate for
Thanksgiving, but decided to start
 Christmas instead.  I unpacked
my vintage turkey collection, but here
it sits on the sideboard.  LOL

Today was beautiful here at the 
cottage.  I am enjoying this mild
 November weather.  We do need
 the rain, but I am in no hurry.

It seems like I am working on 10
 different projects at once and I hope
 that one day one of them will be done!

AND Giveaway details HERE
on how to win this vintage pin.


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

An idea for Thanksgiving

Has anyone else seen this on facebook?
I don't know how I found it, but I 
thought it was so clever. 
 You could use so many
different veggies too.


Sunday, November 3, 2013

Buy Handmade

Isn't this a pretty reminder
to buy handmade and help
support your artist friends
and small businesses?
Please feel free to share it.
From Debbi Oeltjen over at


Giveaway details click HERE
Only 18 new followers to go.


Thursday, October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween

Hope everyone had a fun and safe
Halloween day and night.
We only had about 13 kids, but the 
weather was perfect!   Next stop,
 Thanksgiving!

My pink pumpkin with a touch 
of silver glitter. 
The little dressed up ghost is
Mona and from Jeannine at

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Giveaway details click HERE


Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Levitating book in Halloween dining room

Last year's Halloween party
Dining Room
Notice the levitating book to
the left?  Levitating Made Easy


Three Witches from Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Round about the cauldron go; 
In the poison’d entrails throw.  
Toad, that under cold stone  
Days and nights hast thirty one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got, 
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.  

     Double, double toil and trouble;
     Fire burn and cauldron bubble.  

Fillet of a fenny snake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake; 
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, 
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,  
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, 
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing, 
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 

     Double, double toil and trouble; 
     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 


For giveaway details please
click HERE .

Monday, October 28, 2013

Halloween is coming !

There’s a goblin at my window,  
A monster by my door. 
The pumpkin at my table 
 Keeps on smiling
 more and more.
 There’s a ghost who haunts my bedroom,
 A witch whose face is green.
 They used to be my family, 
Till they dressed for Halloween. 
 --- Sandra Liatsos 

Last year's Halloween
party - Living Room


Giveaway details click HERE


Pink Witches and the Phantom of the Opera

A pink witch for Halloween
with pink roses on her broom !


Autumn Song

These are the days of falling leaves,
The days of hazy weather,
Smelling of gold chrysanthemums
And gray wood smoke together.

These are the nights of nearby stars,
The nights of closer moons,
When the windy darkness echoes
To crickets' farewell tunes.

--- Elizabeth-Ellen Long


The Phantom of the Opera from
 last year's Halloween party.

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For giveaway details click HERE

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Purple button bracelet and Dracula

A new button bracelet
 in purple & black glass,
plastic and wood vintage buttons.
Measures 7 3/8 inches long
$ 17.00 includes shipping.


From last year's Halloween Party 
 Dracula / Bela Lugosi


Sunday, October 20, 2013

Every day is a fresh start!


When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and
whispers, 'tis near Halloween.
--- Author Unknown


Click HERE for giveaway details.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Funny leaves, faux coral bracelet and a full moon.

Our leaves here in Northern California
are starting to turn and fall.


Vintage faux coral bracelet  $ 22.00
Measures just over 7 1/4 inches long.



Full moon tonight. 


 Do you think Mark Twain's 
quote is true?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everyone is a moon and 
has a dark side which
he never shows to anybody.
--- Mark Twain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Just 19 more followers and I will
choose the winner of our 2nd
giveway!  Click HERE for details.


Tuesday, October 15, 2013

2 giveaways, my blog and facebook.

I'm still having my giveaway for a
button bracelet over at my facebook 
page too.  Click HERE for details.

And my blog giveaway HERE
Please share, 21 more followers
and I will pick a winner of this
lovely Coro vintage pin.



Friday, October 11, 2013

Halloween Countdown

20 Days to Halloween!
Are you ready?



Giveaway details  HERE