BEEN A BUSY MONTH!

This month has kept me quite busy with getting orders out
and getting the house set for Christmas.

Earlier this month I started making wool garlands

and I had such a response for them.
I made them in shades of greens and shades of Ivory.

I will be making them throughout the year to get a supply for our next years show.

I'm showing a few of my customer's pictures of how they displayed theirs.

I also made up a tree in a painted box and added some mini ornaments/garland

and one of my newest punch needle designs.

I sold this one about 5 minutes after posting it on my business page

and orders for 5 more for next year.
If you ware wanting one let me know so I have enough supplies.

I do however require upfront payment to secure it

as the supplies are expensive for this one.
$70 plus shipping (shipping to be billed when it ships).

If you are like we are here, we won't be having our family gathering.

It's sad but it's for the best and we are making the best of it.

Being we don't want to gather in a 'large' group we have taken each family alone which we have found isn't all that bad. It's a lot of one on one instead of 16 people

trying to keep up with conversations and active children.

Last night our youngest son/family were here so
we could give our two grandchildren their gifts and then we ordered pizza.
Us with Emily and Joe

Tonight we went to our oldest sons/family for the two little ones to open their gifts from us and we took Italian Beef from a fantastic Italian restaurant.

(Miranda and Aidan)

(Aidan being silly with his new soccer ball - it came semi-inflated 😂)

We have two more to go, one on Christmas Eve and another early Christmas morning.
So it started out to be quite a busy week so far!

Doug and I will be going to church Christmas Eve and then we will spend
Christmas day alone, and we are okay with which surprises us
that we feel that way - maybe we are just getting old!
We'll celebrate with a standing rib roast!!!

We didn't put out all our décor this year and didn't even put up the main tree.  We are using the one we normally have in the screen room.

Thank you for visiting 

Have a wonderful 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christmas Past!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.

We had a wonderful one here at the Martinsen's - a house full of 16 of us!

The dinner table was out to the longest it will go and a table added to the end -not sure what we'll do if we add any more people to the family...right now we're good. Emily and Joe are in college and the other 3 are still in grade school so I think we are good for a few more years yet.

I took a few pictures of the house and had posted them on FB but thought I'd put a few here....

First I want to share my 'redware ornament' tree.

All last month I was painting them when I had time that is - I'm not totally happy

with them because it was my first time making them so in the next couple months

I want to make more and concentrate better on the designs.

I made some large plates as well to put on a shelf.

Here's the start of them....

Kitchen

Hall

Den

Dining Room

Family Room

Bedroom

Bathroom

Back Porch

Sorry there were so many pictures but I wanted to do just one Christmas post!

The week before Christmas we had our annual Cousins Christmas at our house.

We had a great time enjoying many different drinks and feasting on lots of appetizers and then

dinner of scalloped potatoes and a nice juicy ham with lots of sides

plus a couple different desserts.

I didn't get good pictures - sorry...

Last Thursday we went to our two grandchildren's Christmas program at their church school.

They all did such a wonderful job. Always fun listening to the different grades preform.

This was taken at their house just before the program.

Thanks so much for hanging in there for this long post!!!

Hope you are looking forward to the new year like we are - possibly a vacation someplace warm, at least we are thinking on it anyway - let's see if we do it now.

Blessings to all of you

Karen