Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland!

After a night of howling winds we woke to this.

What started off as a dusting
has turned into 3+ inches


The view out my art studio window.

Looking out the great room windows.

On the patio

I love it when the trees are

heavy with snow!

We had a white Thanksgiving last year,

and it looks like we will have one

this year too!

***

Blessings~LillySue

Look for Rosie Pink Cheeks!

Welcome to my

Cozy Christmas Cottage!

Grab your cuppa and a slice of Holly's

homemade banana nut bread

and I will give you a peek!

**

Click on photos to get a better view!!

**

Here is my freshly painted white hutch.

I have a few of my cheerful Annalee figures here.

***

Such a happy fellow!

I bought this apothecary jar this year.

I love how it looks full of glass balls!
***

I prefer Snowmen to Santa
This is one of my favorites!
***

More Annalee's on my banister.
A kitty at the bottom, two mice and
then another very happy elf!
***


Gotta have some red mittens
***

I finished making this finally...

It is a plate rack I bought at Goodwill

which I spray painted red.

Some plain large white letters

I got at Michael's and decoupaged some

of my favorite scrapbook paper on

and some Christmas greens.

I had the blue bird ornament handy

so I tucked him in there!

***

I hope this helps spread the

Christmas Spirit

around today!

**

I have actually not been blogging much

the past few weeks. I had a bunch

of projects to finish up and

actually got most of them done,

WhoooHoooo!

**

Now I can work on making

Christmas gifts etc..

Have a wonderful weekend and don't

forget to visit

Beverly for lots more

Pink Saturday posts to see!!

****

Blessings~LillySue

My Pink Hat Girl

It all started early....

Actually from the moment of birth.

She arrived in this world and they popped

a sweet little pink jersey hat on her head.

Before long, she had graduated to

Traditional pink hats

in soft baby pink.

Floppy hats in bold magenta...

Hmmmm, Plastic??

Sporty!

Outdoorsy!

Sweet...

Cozy!

Warm and fashionable....

Au natural...

Silly!

Functional....

Flirty!

***

Can you tell we love hats??

Thank you for stopping by......

Make sure to visit Beverly for lots more

Pink Saturday!

***

Blessings~LillySue

Pink Saturday~Work With Me Here...

I apologise...

I know I am stretching it here..

I am ready to put my fall decor away

but I had not posted any photos.

These are my new

Anna Lee fall mice....

Notice their sweet little

PINK

ears!!
One of my daycare littles decided punky

needed a treat. I cracked up when

I found the ice cream cone there like that!

This is actually a cornucopia.

See the pink in Mr. Turkey's tail?
These are vintage candles.
I was so tickled when I found them since
my Grama let me set her Thanksgiving table
with an identical miniature set of these
when I was a little girl.
***
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Visit
Beverly at "How Sweet the Sound"
for lots more
Pink!
***
~Happy & Safe All Hallows Eve~
Blessings~LillySue

Must Be Close to Halloween!

Holly would like you to meet

SEAMUS

He asked for a cigar but we explained

that this is a non-smoking

establishment

He does look cool with a candle burning

inside of him though.....

It makes his face

GLOW!

Happy carving at

your house!

**

Blessings~LillySue

A Squeek of Inspiration!

Here is Holly

with our two ratty girls.

Bella is on the left and Sofie on the right.

We only had Sofie for 2 weeks before

she passed away from the respiratory

infection she and Bella both had

when we got them from Petsmart.

They were just babies and so cute and fun.

Holly made this using Sculpy and some of

Lucky's fur.

Lucky keeping an eye on Bella


Benny not getting too close to the cage
since Bella bit his nose.
Bella never bites unless you stick your
finger (or nose) between the
bars of her cage.
She has never bitten anyone who
opens her cage and takes her out.
She loves to climb on your shoulder and
tickle your neck!
She is lonely now though....
I just am not sure about buying another
one after loosing Sofie...
***
Blessings~LillySue

Sisters Harvest Faire 2009

Holly and I visited the

~Sisters Harvest Faire~

It was a cool, crisp Central Oregon day!

Don't you LOVE those hand felted

bags? I think I need that pink one....or the red one!

**Click pics to make bigger**

This is Debra of

Artmask

She makes awesome leather masks.

Holly found one style she likes and may

order one for the

Faerieworlds Winter Celebration Ball.

This is Zeus of

~Zee Art Glass~

He had amazing hand blown glass pendents.

Holly found one with a mushroom suspended in it.

I bought it for her and hid it away for Christmas

...Shhh!

Too bad he has NO website

There were lots of great booths






Love bird houses!


Holly strolling



We saw some great ceramics.
Holly is actually taking a ceramics class
in high school right now.


I found more of a favorite lotion.
It is all natural ingredients and smells great!
Kat's Creek Goat Milk Products
Make sure if you order, you get the
"Clean Breeze"
Scent!


They had some live music as usual.
It seemed to be a popular event this year....
I hope all the vendors did well!
****
~BTW~
Holly is pretty much over her bout with the flu.
Jesse is still coughing and blowing but is
over the worst of it.
***
We are working hard on finishing our
Great Room Redo today....
I hope we will be finished by midweek.
I would sure like to share all the improvements
we have made. It has been tons of work, but
it will be worth it!
**
Blessings~LillySue

Bakery Dreams

Don't you just love

Family Circus

by Bill Keane
**

This is one that hit home with me.

~Bakery Joy~

How can you stand in a bakery and not

feel warm and cozy.

Choosing a treat.... looking at

everything displayed. It can be a

very hard decision!!

I feel so sorry for the children who have

never had this kind of experience.

The bakery counter in the supermarket

is just NOT the same as going in

a little local bakery.

A lot of the espresso shops have a goodies

display. It is a little bit more like a bakery.

****

Holly & I

Have a dream

**

She does want to continue her art studies after

graduation with the hope of becoming a

Cinemagraphic Sculptor.

She wants to help create the creatures and costumes

they use in making movies like they

do at Weta Workshop.

But...in addition

***

We both love to bake.

*

One day....

We want to own an

Artsy Bakery-Espresso cafe

***

We want it to be a place where just walking in the

door makes you feel good. You can check your

troubles outside and leave the rest

of the world behind.

***

Besides having wonderful homemade treats,

it would be filled with a magical assortment

of artist's work displayed and

available for sale.

***

We want it to have an old world, Tolkien inspired,

Bag-end /Shire

Middle Earth atmosphere

**

It will seem like there are actually elves

baking in the kitchen.

***

As you finish brushing the last bit of crumbs

from your lap, you will blink and

wonder if that was a faerie

you just saw fly off with

part of someones

cinnamon

roll.

***

At this point....Holly is a sophomore in high school.

We have several more years to collect and perfect

our recipes. I have worked as a barrista

in the past, so I can whip up

magnificent mochas.

**

We actually hope to travel for a year after

she graduates. We want to visit

England and Scotland

For some reason it feels like home in my

heart there, and I have never even

been before!

**

We also want to travel around the U.S.A. in a RV,

visiting lots of festivals and taking art workshops.

We love to meet folks and share stories.

**

Right now we are just trying to figure

out how we will finance it all.

My wise Granny Ruth always said...

"The money will come"

And you know what.....

She was always right about that!

***

Blessings~LillySue

Nurse Mama is on the job!

This is how we started off our weekend.

I don't know if it was Swine flu, but she sure had

all the symptoms.

Lucky gave her lots of support.

He loves a warm, soft spot and she was toasty

with fever!

After several days of chicken soup,

Odwalla juice and rest...

She started to perk up a little!


She has been fighting this for
about 3 weeks now. I think the antibiotics are
helping since she ended up with a sinus infection too.
She still has a while to go till
she will be totally well, but she was
up for a ride to get a smoothie.
We decided to make a quick stroll thru the
Sisters Harvest Faire
They had
lots of fun booths.
I will share that tomorrow.
***
Thank you so much for praying
for my Holly!
*
Blessings~LillySue

Prayers from Pink Pals

Look at those sweet pink cheeks....

Today they are pinker and her nose is very red.

I am afraid Holly has the, the, the....Swine Flu!

Fever, sore throat, headache, achey, blowing, coughing

UGH!

She had a bad cold two weeks ago...

She finally started to feel better

so I sent her back to school. She went for a week

and started to feel really bad again.

We figured it was a sinus infection and got her in

to the Dr.They put her on antibiotics

for her sinus infection but she just kept getting worse.

She had one episode yesterday

that almost had me calling 911....

she was coughing and could not get the mess

to move up out of her wind pipe

and she started to panic because she couldn't breathe.

Yikes!

I dosed her up good with guaifenesin which has

helped. She is on antibiotics for the sinus infection..

I don't believe it helps the flu much......
We would certainly appreciate your prayers

that she would recover soon and that

the rest of us won't get it.

***

Thank you so much!!

Blessings~LillySue