The Christmas spirit ~

If we can get through the busy schedules and the shopping frenzy,

the Christmas spirit is such a beautiful thing.

Caring and thinking of others....being more thoughtful....

I've always wished we felt this way all the year through.

I went through all of my past scans and decided to offer these to you again,

you may have them already or maybe not ~

Print them out in the photo program on your computer and size them

the way you want them. Wrap a gift in plain kraft paper and then glue one

of the images to the top of the package...tie with twine and it's done!

These aren't really Christmas images but beautiful to me:

OH! Lisa of Tarnished and Tattered is having a sweet Christmas giveaway!!

A gorgeous cone filled with wonderful treasures...

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Be sure to visit my last post to comment on my Christmas giveaway too!

Wishing you a wonderful Friday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

A few of my favorite things...

It was such a busy weekend around here!

We went to my sweet mother-in-law's birthday party

and enjoyed being with the entire family ~

I dug around in my old photos to find a few that I

thought you'd enjoy today...

just a little Monday inspiration, more peeks at what I love

and to share how even the most humble of trinkets

can sometimes really be a treasure!

When we returned home after the birthday party Saturday night,

you will not BELIEVE what we came home to...

The empty field across the street from our farm house and the woods on it

had burned to a crisp!!!!

Folks told us that sparks from a passing train ignited the fire and

it being so dry here, it was just a short time and the field was toast.

I'm so very thankful that this happened across the road

and not on our side!!!!

Too, too scary...
Thank you Lord for Your protection....

Wishing you a beautiful Monday sweet friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

It's the last day to enter my giveaway!

Thank you all so much for helping me celebrate

four wonderful years of blogging this week!!!

If you've not entered yet....

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to comment and enter to win my giveaway ~

Giveaway ends tonight at 6 pm EST!!!

A few images for you to use:

Have a wonderful Friday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn