07 Saturday Dec 2024
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Thursday, the wreath went up on the front door…
Friday, the winter cushions came out to brighten the space…
and I was really enamoured with the quote from my cards…
04 Sunday Dec 2022
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a few days ago my buddy arrived with a wreath and a huge container of poinsettias…
she took the bow off the wreath, added a silver ornament, and finally made and attached a new snowflake ribbon…
then she hung it up on the front door…
it looks great and very Christmas-y… she is very talented;-)…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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09 Wednesday Jan 2019
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in December we had a Random Acts of Kindness contest at work… we added berries to the wreath whenever we did something kind, or saw someone else doing something kind… at the end of the contest we sent a donation to a local charity…
have been thinking a lot about kindness lately…
from friends taking meals to support others…
to someone bringing me a cup of tea while I was deep in a project…
to the person who brought me my favourite lunch treat for no reason…
whenever I see frost on my garage window I remember the kindness of someone who invited me to their house not long after my beloved died… the frost on the window in their garage was stunning and I will always remember taking some pictures of it…
people are kind…
08 Sunday Jan 2017
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backyard, big girl pants, laundry, purple, quiet, sand dollar, snow, snowflake, widow, wreath
been a quiet weekend which was exactly what I needed as I move into a very full week…
yesterday the kids dropped by in the afternoon and did a few little jobs around the house… I think they actually got the furnace fixed… reamed out the pipe again and also melted any ice which may have been in it…
I’ve put away most of the Christmas decorations over the last few days except for the snowflake wreath on the front door…
it is just too pretty to take down…
also included this picture of the sand dollar wreath that just got rehung at the front door… it had a couple of broken pieces and while she was here my daughter repaired it and we put it back up…
going to have one of my decorator friends make a bigger purple bow to finish it off, lol…
the backyard is looking very lovely with the snow sculptures that the wind has made…
the stone for the waterfall has never been this covered up… there is a lot of snow out there…
took this shot a few days ago of the steps between the upper deck and the back door…
they are completely covered in snow…
doing laundry this morning, I was thinking of my mom who loved laundry… and could get any stain out… sadly, I did not inherit that love, or ability, lol…
cooked a few meals, tidied and relaxed…
happy for the down time…
28 Monday Nov 2016
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started the day with a picture of the front of the house…
just a dusting of snow on the ground…
the wreath looks wonderful… it took a lot of time and two people to get it just right, lol…
so happy with the freshly purpled door… looks lovely with the snow…
12 Saturday Dec 2015
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had an excellent sleep last night… been waking up between four and five and then not getting back to sleep… this has gone on for over a week… so, waking at just after seven was wonderful…
my daughter came by shortly after that and we went out for some shopping and breakfast…
her first time driving Shadow… here’s a shot just before leaving…
apparently she has never named a car… how odd…
although I am done shopping for Christmas, I was able to find a few additional gifts, lol… maybe I shouldn’t be leaving the house…
picked up a few fish for the tank… the young woman who helped me went out of her way to pick pretty ones…
you can see one of the bigger fish under the rock to the right… the new ones are very small, but they will grow and already seem comfy in the space…
this is a close-up of the newbies… they have very nice colouring…
one other thing I got for me was a cute tree from Rona, and a wreath for the front door which I had been eyeing and couldn’t leave behind…
half price sale, yay…
welcome…
herbiggirlpants 