Girls Afternoon!

What do you get when you have a "girls only" afternoon to do a Christmas craft?

You get little carrot noses....

Styrofoam balls cut in half....

Fake snow....

Glitter snowflakes....

Glittered Styrofoam balls cut in half....

Laughter....

Smiling faces....

One determined little girl....

You get these cute little snowmen.

We made 41 little snowmen. Mom, Tabatha and I each got 13 to give to who ever we wanted to and Jerzie got to make 2 herself and hang them on her tree. We always have such a good time when we get together to do crafts.

Happy New Year!!

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2009!

Happy New Year!

Family Gift!

Every year Chris and I try to come up with something special to make our family that both of us are involved with. This year we made these snowmen. I did the stitcheries and Chris made the frames.

Chris made the frames out of barn board from the floor in our attic. We took the boards out to put insulation in. Then we painted them and he distressed them.

We made 10 of these all together. Chris cut out 11 frames just in case one broke when he was putting them together.

To my surprise Chris did a stitchery for me too. He sat and did one of the snowmen for me, put it in the "extra" frame and wrapped it up to surprise me on Christmas morning. Boy was I surprised. He did a great job.

Snowy Sunday!

Believe it or not we are having a thaw here in western New York. The thaw is causing damage in a lot of areas around us due to flooding. It got up to 60 degrees here on Saturday. The pictures we are posting are from earlier this month.

These birds seem to be having fun playing in the snow.

They were flying back and forth from the road to the field. We think they were eating the salt and sand on the edge of the road.

They were probably trying to find anything else they could eat too. There was a lot of snow at the time.

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Merry Christmas!

The next few days are going to be very busy for us so we wanted to make sure that we wished all of our blog friends a very Merry Christmas!

Special Ornaments!

On the top of our tree you will see this very special Angel. Gram made each of her children and grandchildren one.

Here are a few of the ornaments that Gram made through out the years. For as long as I can remember Gram made a special ornament for the grown ups and a different one for the kids and gave them to us on Christmas Eve.

Some were made of plastic canvas and some were made of beads, but all were made with Love.

To see all of the work she put into each ornament is amazing to me.

We look forward to seeing the lights sparkle off of the beads every year as we decorate.

As you can see, Gram used many shapes and sizes of beads. She used dental floss, fishing line and wire to string the beads into shapes.

We couldn't post all of the ornaments, but we hope you enjoyed the pictures we did post.

Snowy Sunday!

This weeks pictures were taken the last time we had freezing rain. It is horrible if you have to drive on it, but everything looks so beautiful after it gets done.

I really like the sunshine coming through at the top of this one.

The next 2 looked really cool to us.

The ice almost looks like it is magnifying the buds on the tree.

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