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lustre…

02 Sunday Dec 2018

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for the last few years a dear friend has come over to help me with the Christmas decorating…

I’ve always loved Christmas but since the loss of my beloved it has lost a bit of its lustre…

this year I’ve been working away on my own to decorate… I decided to try some different options… took me a few weeks but it is done now…

have put my tree collection in the dining room where my pottery usually lives… and even passed along some pieces, yay for me;-)…

put up a new tree with purple and silver decorations and hung up the glass balls on either side of the picture above the sofa…

put the snow people up the stairs…

got a garland going along the ledge in the dining room… final piece was to put the glittery trees on the fish tank…

still might have my friend come by to check it all out…

then going to go through the rest of the Christmas boxes and maybe pass some decorations along to others…

there are the reindeer, the snowflakes, the nativities, the angels, the santas…

stairs…

12 Tuesday Dec 2017

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last night, as I was going down the stairs, I thought of my beloved… he loved Christmas but sometimes the decorations got the better of him…

he really disliked the various collections that would end up on the stairs…

following his heart surgery, where they took veins from his leg, he wasn’t as steady as he used to be… if you were walking and came upon him from behind you might think he was tipsy because of his gait…

walking was difficult and he only had one speed that worked for him…

so stuff on the stairs could cause him to lose his balance… but that didn’t stop me from decorating, lol…

here’s how the stairs to the second floor look this year… snow people and trees;-)…

he did enjoy shopping and always found many things for me… I miss that…

calling…

10 Sunday Dec 2017

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early this morning I went out for a hot tub… for the last few days the temperature in the tub has read 104 so I’ve had a few excursions out there…

I don’t usually have the phone when I am in the hot tub, but a bird was calling and I wanted to record the sound so my birdwatching friends could listen and identify it… it was a beautiful morning and besides the bird there were a few squirrels flitting about…

a bit later I ran out to get some grocery shopping done… perfect timing because the store had very few people in it… took quite a few trips to get everything into the house…

got all the stuff put away and prepared for my company to arrive…

my dear friend, who I haven’t seen in ages, came to help decorate for Christmas… we had such fun…

while I was hanging some ornaments in the dining room window caught this little guy on the rail of the front steps…

once we were done my friend headed home and I put all of the unused things back into the bins and carried them downstairs…

certainly was a full day… and the house looks wonderful…

let the celebrating begin…

dinner…

14 Sunday Feb 2016

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had a lovely time yesterday decorating the living room and dining room for Valentine’s Day dinner with the kids…

  
ran out to two different grocery stores in the cold and was home in just over an hour with all the goodies I needed…

instead of steak and lobster, which is our usual special dinner, I decided on a roast with a lobster salad… that way no one would have to go out and bbq the dinner, as I could do all of it inside…

prepared everything today and even had time to sit and read for a bit before the kids arrived… dressed in red, lol…

  
followed a new recipe for the roast which was a little rare, but we finished some of it in the microwave for those who like it a bit more done…  
came out very well… although the little boys weren’t fond of the lemon dressing in the lobster salad (another new recipe)… which was odd because they love lemons…

then we had chocolate mousse cake for dessert… it was a big hit…

  
this is one of my favourite recipes, but I haven’t made it in a very long time… still delicious… I was very good and only had a tiny slice… the boys all had two pieces… they really liked it, lol…

  
our Valentine bracelets…

glitter…

06 Sunday Dec 2015

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excellent day…

found the cookies I’d been searching for… got a glittery outfit for an upcoming event… and spent a wonderful afternoon with a friend while we decorated the main floor…

  
so nice to have someone to work with and bringing another eye to the project…

having lived here for over forty years it had become a bit ho hum to put out the decorations… having a designer’s view brought new life to the space…

  
my Advent boxes have taken on a more prominent place, even though they are in the same space, lol…

put George’s stocking in the drawer in the living room table… I think this is a great place to display it and feel his presence…

  
as she was leaving my friend noticed all the glitter on her face and laughed as she described being covered in glitter the whole of the Christmas season when she had her shop…

as the afternoon has turned into evening and it is dark outside it is even more beautiful… I love the glitter of the lights everywhere…

  
these trees drop sequins and glitter everywhere… they go into a special bag so as not to distribute glitter throughout the whole house…

the kids came for supper and brought me cherry surprises – cookies our dear friend and neighbour made every year for our Christmas dinner…

after they headed home I spent time sitting in the living room enjoying the space, and listening to A Jann Arden Christmas while writing my post…

feeling peaceful as we move into the busy days of the season… happy my shopping is complete and the parcels wrapped… just need to add some ribbon to finish them off and see how many I can fit under the trees…

  
anticipating many gentle moments as I remember so many special Christmas seasons with my beloved… 

preparing…

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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spent the day in my jammies…

had a lovely time preparing parcels, listening to the Christmas music of Neil Diamond and Michael Buble…

wrapped parcels went by the tree…

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might add a few more ornaments as I go through the remaining boxes, but it looks pretty good…

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the coffee table looks exactly how I imagined, but still needs more purple balls… with any luck I will find more as i go along…

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the little boys helped me decorate the stairs with trees when they arrived for supper… things are sticking out a bit more than usual… it would make George crazy because he didn’t like stuff taking up space on the steps…

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beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

trees…

06 Saturday Dec 2014

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it was beautiful outside today…

got some lovely shots of the sun rising…

caught the red sun at just the right moment...

caught the red sun at just the right moment…

just a few minutes later the colours changed dramatically…

just a few minutes later...

just a few minutes later…

was in the computer room and had to take a picture of the trees outside the window… the hoarfrost was absolutely beautiful…

through the computer room window...

through the computer room window…

heading out to do some shopping, I had to stop the car and get a few pictures of the trees on the street covered in hoarfrost… still have to check how the ones I took with my Nikon came out…

hoarfrost down the street...

hoarfrost down the street…

I was trying to get a shot of the snowflakes on the windshield, but that didn’t work with my phone, lol…

ended the day putting up a small tree in the living room and started putting on the ornaments… this year I am trying to do some of the decorating differently and am having to choose what I will put out and where I will put it which certainly slows down the process…

after all that discovered that the light in the bedroom wasn’t working and changing the bulb didn’t fix it… gave up and will deal with it tomorrow… I did see a lovely table lamp on tv tonight that might look very nice…

there were a lot of trees in my day…

decorating…

08 Sunday Dec 2013

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didn’t leave the house today…

spent a lot of time watching Gordon Ramsey cook Christmas dinners… yum… couldn’t drag myself away, lol…

bubbles in the window...

bubbles in the window…

also put up some decorations… I’d seen something on Pinterest and had wanted to try it and had fun hanging up some glass ornaments using the idea…

through the window..

through the window…

broke one in the process, but was very happy with the outcome… it also reminded me of the special time we had at the Champagne Bubble Party this summer because I was using the clear glass ornaments that we hung all over the garden to represent bubbles…

moved the Norfolk pine into the window but not sure if I will leave it there…

stuck cover on hot tub...

stuck cover on hot tub…

never did get out to try and open the lid of the hot tub… maybe after work tomorrow…

been thinking of the importance of family and how blessed I am with the wonderful family that I have… George would be so proud of all the kids…