CHRISTMAS

Christmas decoration pictures...not much else....
We still have little ones who come for Christmas so there's still the need for 'fun' decorations...and I like them too!

~ Kitchen ~

~ Hall and Bedroom ~ 

~ Dining Room ~

~ Family Room and Den~

~ Main bathroom~

I put several items on sale on my selling site

You can find them all here:

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/prim-needs.html

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Preparing for a show!

Good morning this last day of June!

I wish I could say summer was here but again the weather just doesn't cooperate - 

hot then cold and 'repeat'.  

Summer decorating here has been sparse - didn't put out as many geraniums this year as 

I usually do. I lost my mojo for some reason but that's not a bad thing...

less to take to the basement in the Fall.

We didn't do much for outside potted plants either and the few we did buy are getting pelted with downpours - I like rain for the flowers but it really beats them down.

I may change out some of my 'placement'of geraniums each Spring/Summer season but this one will always be in our long wood trencher on the dining room table - 

it is my favorite grouping.

Normally I would put real geraniums on this bench along with the birdhouses but couldn't find a potted one that looked nice - may have to assemble one myself.

I love this arrangement of flowers that we bought at the Mukwonago flea market a few weeks back.  When the sun is out it is gorgeous but the rain pushes it right down!!

Last week a very dear friend and I had a wonderful lunch and visit in our screen room -

I love this lady with all my heart.  We worked together for 20+ years and she's part of our 'former' co-workers  'luncheon' but this time I wanted it to be a

one on one with her and so did she.

She lost her 16 year old grandson on Memorial weekend in a horrible car crash that claimed his life and 2 of his friends.  The car hit a tree and exploded and they literally burned to beyond recognition.  Her heart is so broken and she needed to talk, so we did.

This community was so awesome - it pulled together for these 3 families - the high school held the visitation and funerals and the local food market donated the meals.....you have no idea what this community did for these families...it was beyond amazing.

I love you sweet Darlene Lemmon!!

Last month we went to the huge flea market near us and for some reason I was taken in by this beautiful pine box....it is actually a fruit crate

and I loved the patina on it and will use it at the show we are doing

in September as a display prop....isn't it great!!

For now I have it sitting in the dining room next to a cupboard and I'm putting my 'finished' penny rugs and other smalls in it for safe keeping for the show.

It does have one crazy screw in the handle that Doug will most likely take out and try and replace with something not so ugly....but I still love it anyway even if he doesn't get it fixed.

And this past Sunday we went to the same flea market and FINALLY bought a weather vane for our now, 10 year old screen room cupola - it's a weathered copper...

isn't she a beauty and just in time for the 4th...she flies high!!!

It was worth the wait.

All of this month I have been making canvas board prints for the September show.

These are two of them that we tried over our fireplace...a tad small for the space (16" x 20") so I am in the process of making two larger ones with an older looking couple (20" x 30").

So far I have made 14 different people.

Here are some of the ones that I have finished

These are the two I am making for us for over the fireplace as a 20 x 30 -

plus there is a pair in the 16 x 20 size for the show.

Even though their backgrounds aren't the same I still like them together.

Last week we celebrated our grandson Aidan's 9th birthday and tomorrow we will be celebrating our granddaughter  (his sister) Miranda's 4th birthday.

(Darren and MaryAnn's children) 

Here's the show we will be vending at.
I will post updates every now and then and when it gets closer
I'll hopefully have a list of vendors.

I can't think of anything else to chat about today so I'll say good bye for now and hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July!!!

A bit of Christmas

Like everyone else out there we have been busy with decorating for Christmas and baking cookies.

Being we are only having one party this year we cut way back on the baking.

For sure we will make the traditional 'cut-outs', fudge and toffee bars.

Not sure if we'll do anything else.

My orders have slowed down and I'm happy for that - 

my fingers just can't do what they used to.

But I am finally getting around to gettin these items posted on my selling page:

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/finished-punch-needlehttp://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/finished-punch-needle_30.html_30.html

You may have seen this one before - it was on a vintage bread board

but I re-worked it on this basket and I like it so much better

I did a second making of wool Christmas trees

The first 5 sold immediately - have a few left from the new batch

http://kmprimitives.blogspot.com/p/prim-needs.html

Christmas decorating was kind of a challenge for me this year.

You would have thought my heart would have been in it now that I feel good again -

last year I was less than a month after my back surgery when we decorated and I loved it...

this year, not so much.

Maybe because we 'switched things up' - and that threw me off some I think....I was going back and forth with this and that trying to get my head to say 'perfect' but it didn't happen so I just quit while I was ahead and said to myself 'enough already'...so this is all ya get this year folks.

We'll start with outside...we had the prettiest snow last week right after Doug got all the trees up in the corners - but we have nothing on the ground now.

But we are to get a good one during the night tonight.

~ KITCHEN ~

We found these sweet little orange cups in Ohio last month at Miller's Antiques -

wish we had bought more.

I filled them with fresh cloves and they smell so good!

~ DINING ROOM ~

~ FAMILY ROOM and DEN~

I didn't mention at the beginning of this post that along with cookie baking to 'eat' 

we also made Gingerbread men.

I'm going to put them on the kitchen tree to make the scent even better in the kitchen along with the oranges and cloves.

And I'd never be able to finish all that needs to be done without my trusty helper!!

Guess that's it for this week

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend

Karen