08 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, ghosts, halloween, hunt, memories, moments, pumpkins, spiders, thanksgiving, widow
recently I went through the Halloween and Thanksgiving boxes…
I went on the hunt for pumpkins for Thanksgiving and ended up putting out those as well as Halloween goodies;-)…
pumpkins, witches, ghosts, and spiders, lol…
glad to have set things out as I haven’t done that for a few years…
31 Tuesday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, decorating, decorations skeletons, displays, fun, ghosts, halloween, moments, October, photos, pumpkins, scary, snow, treats, walk, weather, widow
I’ve been collecting photos of Halloween displays since the very beginning of October when they started popping up on my walks in the neighbourhood;-)…
here are some that I enjoyed🎃…
decorating for Halloween has certainly become a popular pastime…
the very tall skeletons were cool, but I kind of like the happy displays, more than the scary ones, lol…
the majority of these were taken before the snow landed (and hasn’t left) which has since curtailed my walks;-)…
06 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, grouped, happy, hearts, memories, moments, plants, shelf, widow
hearts are turning up all over the place…
hanging in the front window, and looking so nice when the sun shines through them…
on a shelf, grouped together…
next to a plant to enjoy in the bathroom…
even on a shelf in the kitchen…
they make me smile…
05 Sunday Feb 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, celebrate, decorating, donation, family, health, heart, Life, memories, moments, remember, stairway, virus, widow
been doing a little decorating for February…
it is Heart month and I dug out the hearts from various spots around the house and put them out…
the stairway came out quite nicely;-)…
every time I go up or down the stairs, I am reminded of my beloved…he dealt with a number of heart issues over his last few years…
he had been in good health, until a virus caused serious cardiomyopathy and later he had a quadruple bypass… all of that before he was finally taken with a heart attack… his father also died from a heart attack…
this month I will be making a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in celebration of our wonderful life together…
04 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, drawers, February, living room table, love, moments, red, seasons, widow
emptied the living room table a few days ago…
today I brought the LOVE letters down and put them into the squares…
it looks okay, but I am not sure if I am happy with the result…
hmm, may need something else added in…
the orchids look quite nice on it although the O kind of gets lost, lol…
02 Friday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, Christmas tree, decorating, embroidered, friend, friends, getting ready, happy, main, moments, snowflakes, tree, widow
the main tree went up… and I even put one into the dining room…
a dear friend came over and decorated the one in the living room…
she did a great job, as always… especially since I didn’t contact her until noon once I decided that was the day, lol…
I brought up many, many, boxes of ornaments which we went through and decided on what to use this year…
once she left, I worked on the dining room tree and put most of the leftovers back downstairs…
in the morning I put up the snowflakes and put away the last bits and pieces…
I was especially happy when I found my embroidered snowflake picture…
which may have been hiding for a few years;-)…
30 Tuesday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, decorating, fluffed, fun time, moments, pottery, snow people, tree, widow
spent a busy and productive day recently…
added ornaments to the drawers in the table… they look good…
spent a while deciding on where the tree should go this year… for the last few years it has been in the window, but I felt like it was time for a change…
dug out the tree and set up the space for it… added extra lights and fluffed the branches…
next I brought up the bin of snow people… after some thought I emptied some of the squares in the dining room wall and added the snow people… it was fun deciding which ones went together…
took the pottery pieces that came off the shelves and put them into the bin… it was very heavy, so I slid it into the den closet… it will be safe there and saved me from trying to carry it downstairs…
found purple, silver and clear ornaments and listened to Christmas carols as I added them to the tree…
02 Tuesday Nov 2021
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amethyst, big girl pants, blessed, decorating, moments, table, widow
decided it was time to change the items in the drawer on the living room table… it is divided into four squares…
I took out the gardening books, summer kids books and cards I’ve received over the last while…
as I thought about what I would like to do with it I realized it was too soon for the Christmas display…
I came across my L O V E letters and thought they might be a nice addition…
I used them… reorganized and left items from my Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers envelopes… had a magazine I haven’t finished reading as well as a few sticker puzzles I want to finish… added a few amethyst pieces and some hearts and was done…
01 Monday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, covering, decorating, friends, gathering, living room, moments, plants, purple, widow
this week our group is moving indoors as it is cold outside, so I have been getting the living room organized… another chair has been added so that everyone has a separate place to sit…
a few days ago I spent some time covering a black and white chair so that it fits better in the living room…
it didn’t come out perfectly, but I am happy with the outcome… it is purple, after all…
side tables were moved, pledge applied, plants resituated, cushions replaced…
can’t wait for my friends to see it…
20 Friday Nov 2020
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ambiance, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, cold, decorating, fish, Friday, friends, Google Home Speaker, happy, memories, moments, music, remembering, trees, visit, widow
spent a wonderful hour in the living room decorating the Christmas tree…
the fish were swimming around happily and there was Christmas music from Spotify blasting on my Google Home…
I missed my decorating buddy as she always does an amazing job and we have great visits while we are working;-)…
once I was done, I sat and read for quite a while, enjoying the ambiance…
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