Things are finally slowing down....

The gifts are finally all wrapped!

I always put it off but when I'm finished I'm so glad!!

My parents will be coming into town this Thursday

so I'll most likely be cleaning the house,

changing sheets and making sure everything

looks beautiful ~

I hope you're ready but if not,

don't stress....

you will finish what needs to be.

Beautiful images of the Nativity....

I've shared with you before ~

Wonderful vintage cards that I've scanned,

wouldn't they make beautiful tags for gifts?

I have a sweet friend, Sandy of Peridots Garden
and she's having a giveaway!!!

She's offering a beautiful necklace that she created ~

I just love giveaways ~ and if you'd like to stop by and enter,

just click HERE!!

I hope that all of your Christmas preparations are coming to a close as

we all anticipate our families gathering in ~

because that's what really matters,

being together.....

Have a beautiful Wednesday sweet friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Treasures from the other side of the world....

When I see an package from Denmark,

I just KNOW it's going to be something WONDERFUL!!!!

Sweet Dorthe of Den Lille Lade sent me several
precious gifts that she made!!

Her artwork is beautiful and this heart and tag just

took my breath away!!!!!!

Thank you so very much my dear friend,

You are incredibly talented and have such a generous heart ~

I just love my gifts!!!!!

And what an honor!!

Porch magazine featured some of my artwork in their

current Holiday Issue!!!

And one more tidbit ~

I have two one little snowmen ornaments that I made left!!

They won't make it to you before Christmas but you can

enjoy them next year and for many more years to come ~

Price: 12.00 plus 5.00 in the US

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday dear friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Imperfection....

I have to admit something to you.

I used to be hopelessly obsessed with everything being

absolutely PERFECT!!

My home, my children and whatever was around me ~

Needed to be clean, pressed and without blemish.

But as the years passed and

the boys grew older,

I had to back away from this perfection thing.

Five children will definitely make you realize

that you can't do it all wonderfully, perfectly or

have your home be that way!

So now it seems I embrace imperfection.

I find myself saying,

"If it's not scratched, dented, chipped or stained

it doesn't belong in this house because

it's a coming!!!!"

I search out tattered treasures ~

Try to rescue them and turn them into something new ~

Embracing their flaws and addi a few touches here and there.

Wrinkles, stains....no matter ~
the beauty of surviving time is wonderful to me.

Lost, forgotten but then found and loved...

this is the beauty of imperfection ~

You'd think with so many flaws these things wouldn't be loved....

Sometimes I feel like these tattered treasures are so much like ourselves.

We are all so very imperfect.....

But we are truly loved by our Lord in Heaven above....

even with our many imperfections!

And the proof??

He sent his precious Son, Jesus Christ to this Earth

on that very first Christmas day so long ago ~

And Jesus sacrificed His life to pay for our imperfections

so we could live in Heaven forever ~

It's so good to love imperfection....

Wishing you a blessed and happy Monday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn