Little Christmas wishes under glass ~

After working on my fairy house for the last few weeks,

it was so nice to get back to a few smaller projects!

I invited a dear old friend over for a creative day in my studio

and we had an absolute BLAST together!!!

Tammy and I met at art school years and years ago.

With both of us being creative spirits, the ideas just FLY

when we get together to make pretty things.

Plus add in the laughter, reminiscing and love...

well, that's just the icing on the cake!

These sweet Christmas tubes are just a few of the results

of our wonderful day together ~

Sometimes you have to make a HOT MESS to make something beautiful!!!

Look at that crazy table!

These are SO much fun to make!!!

We also made a few botanical tubes that I'm finishing up ~

They are filled with little snippets and elements of nature.

Beautiful to display year round if you're a nature lover like me!

The Christmas tubes are listed in my Etsy store and

the botanicals tubes will be soon as well!

I hope you're staying cozy on this chilly December day

and thank you always, always for visiting me here!

Hugs and love,

Dawn

What a wonderful ending to our year!

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas!

Our family had a GREAT one!!!

We were fortunate to be able to have our family party

on Christmas Eve at Brad and Davey's gorgeous home

and it was absolutely beautiful!

The food was delicious and just look at our precious family!!!

We had two family members that weren't able to make

it to the party Christmas eve though...

David and Heather were at the hospital

having our third grandchild Owen!!!

We received a call from the hospital and rushed over of course!

Here are a few photos of our evening and a few of the house too ~

A beautiful gift to Emily from Chase honoring their sweet dog Lola

that passed away a few weeks ago.

Our delicious spread of food!

Brad and Davey's sweet cat Paxton!

Even he was in a festive mood!

I love this spot in their home.

It's the breezeway from the main house to the carriage house.

It's it beautiful?

One of the first Christmas gifts my husband gave me that I've passed on to Brad.

A sweet Christmas house on the silver tray...

AND SO...

we headed off to the hospital just in time for precious Owen to be born!

He had a few breathing issues and had to be hooked up

to oxygen but after a few days he was perfectly fine.

What a calm disposition he has and he was so bright eyed too!!!!

Welcome to the world sweet Owen!!!

We love you so very much ~

Heather and Owen!!!

A love like none other is a mother's love for her child.

Our son with his son.

What a blessing!!!!

Things are settling down now...

parties are over, gifts are given.

Now it's time for me to get into my studio and

TOTALLY clean it from TOP TO BOTTOM!!!

Plus I want to finish up decorating the guest bedroom.

I'll be sure to share my progress too!

I'm so very thankful for this life,

our family, friends and many blessings.

Thank you as well for stopping by to see what's

going on in my little corner of the world!

hugs and love,

Dawn

My Christmas wish...

A simple, sweet note this Christmas eve

to wish you a very Merry Christmas

filled with all that you love!!!

With many hugs and much love,

Dawn

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas!!!!!

I think of you always

and hope that you have

the most wonderful Christmas ever!!!!

hugs and love to you

my sweet friends,

Dawn

A bit of a white post...maybe low-color?

I always love looking at everyone's White Wednesday posts ~

I've never participated because I just don't have that much white

in our home....I tend to choose items

that are just about the color of dirt :)

Yes, that's right.

Dirt.

Because then, I won't stress when my guys choose

to eat,

waller 

or anything else

in, on or around our house :)

I did look back in my photo archives though and found

several low-color pics that you might enjoy ~

Old artwork

Old images

Magnolia Pearl's method of hanging curtains ~ I SO love this!

Old friends

Old string

My collection of white pottery

Light through old linens

Another goody I made a long time ago ~

Another old image

My first silver sugar dish pincushion

My grandmother's cherubs she left me

A beautiful Nativity scene ~

You've got to see these precious little creations that
Vicki of Rusty Rooster Vintage made!!!!

She bought my paper clay snowbird tutorial
and has fallen in love with paper clay!!

Look at the shaker top used for the snow lady's hat.....
They are just precious Vicki ~

We've just about finished our Christmas shopping and

I'm trying to finish up a few last minute projects...

I hope that things are slowing down for you as well

We all need enjoy each and every moment of

this wonderful time of the year ~

Have a great Wednesday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Christmas wishes ~

Seems as though when we were in our twenties
and our boys were so very young,
just getting Christmas ACCOMPLISHED was an amazing feat.....

I worked full time and having so many small children
was quite a handful but exactly what I'd always,
ALWAYS dreamed of
as well as my precious husband.

We shopped for all of the goodies on their Santa's list
that were "hot" and of course
those things were usually the things that every other child wanted!!!

So we were at the toy stores before they opened,
trying to beat the crowds
and gather these items that they dreamed of....

And as the boys have grown older, the job has grown so much easier for us,
but we will never forget the days when we hunted,
scraped and found those treasures they had their heart set on.

I don't think they will ever realize how hard we worked
to make these sweet little wishes come true
until they have children of their own....
and they have Christmas wishes of their own....

I can't even believe how fast they grow!!!!

Christmas always brings back the most wonderful of memories ~

Have a wonderful Monday my dear, dear friends,'

hugs and love,

Dawn