New Blue Jars

A few weeks ago, my wonderful Brother-In-Law introduced me to Pinterest.  While wandering aimlessly through the pages, I found a pin to a DIY craft blog explaining how to make blue jars with glue and food coloring.  I knew immediately why I've been saving a box of jars.  After waiting for them to dry, I took them downstairs with the natural light coming in the windows and noticed a rainbow on my husband's grandmother's baby high chair.  Se used this during the 1920's and 30's for her babies.

Something Old

Trying to finish the year off with photos of something old and the first thing that came to mind was the old sewing machine I have.  It was given to me many years ago by my Mother and Father-In-Law.

Christmas Luminaire

Thanks to my daughter and her Christmas decorating ideas I decided to make ice Luminaires for our deck railing  to light up on Christmas evening.  The idea was to place them in the snow that accumulates on the railing, but with the lack of snow I have to shovel the grass and place the snow on the deck.  First time I've ever shoveled the grass, but it was fun and I'll be trying it again next year with a few modifications.

A little perplexed

I made an animated gif Christmas card for my sister's business and I am a little perplexed.  It posts nicely on this blog, changing colors as it should.  I have resized it to a very small file for the web in hopes that she could post it on her company's Facebook page, Long Branch Trading as a Christmas card for her customers, but it doesn't look like Facebook will show a gif as animated.  She has a lovely gift store and lunch room and I highly recommend that anyone passing through Irma, Alberta make the stop for lunch.

Christmas Cooking

A friend reminded me today that I had to take a snack to the camera club for the Christmas Potluck snack so I baked tonight.

Celebrating Life

(with a cup of tea, a Christmas cookie and my daughter's china)

The theme last week of gratitude at Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday, has kept me thinking about all the things I'm grateful for.  My husband, my children and their families, my little grandson, my sister, my friends and even my job are some of the things I'm grateful for.  This week's theme of  "celebrate" would have been easy with the upcoming Christmas season and all the decorations and ornaments, but I keep thinking of gratitude.  One thing I'm most grateful for is the life I have to be able to enjoy the things I'm grateful for.  So after a first round of Christmas baking I decided to enjoy a cup of tea and a cookie and celebrate my life, after of course photographing it.  The texture used on this is Kim Klassen's dream.  If you mouse over the picture, you can see the before and after.

Saturday Morning Visitor

This year we bought a new bird feeder for the Chickadees.  The last one we had was made of wood and was in need of replacement after the deer chewed on it.  Careful consideration was taken in trying to find a place to hang it so the deer, cat and squirrels would leave it alone.

This is what it was meant to be used for.  Sometimes we have dozens of these little Chickadees flitting about to get their seeds.

This little guy showed up Saturday morning and asked if he could please have some seeds too.

He then let us know how cold it was outside with the blowing snow.

After climbing the house and making the jump to the feeder he felt quite at home and began to fill his little belly.