Merryy Christmas

May this Christmas season sparkle and shine. May all your wishes and dreams come true and may you feel this happiness all year round.

Merry Christmas everyone

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Friday Finds - A spoonful of sugar

After watching Kim with her spoon I began to think that I should have a little silver spoon somewhere.  Digging deep into a drawer, I found my little spoon.  I've had it for so long, I have no idea where it came from.  Looking like it was probably a sugar spoon, I opened a package of cane sugar from Maui and this is what I came up with.

I didn't remember that the details in the handle were so ornate.

And of course the bowl of the spoon.

And a macro of the sweet fibers that give us the delicious cane sugar.

Hope your week was good and your weekend will be even better.

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My back yard.

A little something different for today.  This is a view of my back yard during a sunset.  A layer of Kim's kk_cherish was used with the blend mode of difference and an oilpaint filter.

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Such a busy week

You know how I told you last week we don't go to the city often, well last week was a little different.  It started on Friday when I helped my daughter set up and work her booth at the Royal Bison Craft and Art Fair.  My grandson also came to help so this was the easiest way to keep working and keep him safe.

And here's my daughter's table when we were finished.

It wasn't a large show but the people were in the mood to buy so she did very well.  The show was on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,so all three days were trips into the city.

Monday we took a trip back to the city to pick up a few things we needed and Tuesday I drove back in for a haircut (sorry no picture) and a shopping trip to Costco.  That's where I found this snow mountain made from snow collected from the roads.

Thursday was back into the city to pick up papers for work and to finish my Christmas shopping.

My favorite part of my days at home was doing Christmas baking.  I've alway said that if I wasn't so busy working I would finally do some Christmas baking.

Started with Acorn Squash Bread.  Not for Christmas, but I had half a squash that needed to be used. The recipe I used was from Eva Bakes. Definitely a keeper, moist and tasty.

First up for Christmas baking was sugar cookies.  I've never done these decorated ones before and not sure if I will again.  Next time may be sprinkles.

After reading a post of Kim Klassen's about food photography, I decided to try the Butter Tarts with a dark background instead of a light background.  I must say, I like it alot and will definately be trying this again.

It's Friday again and we're off to the city tonight to meet up with good friends for dinner.  Hope you all had a great week and thanks for visiting.

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The Perfect Christmas Gift

My daughter has told me that a child only needs three Christmas gifts, something they want, something they need and something to read.  I rolled them all into one and went Christmas shopping for a present for me.

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A busy week

It's been a busy week here.  We don't often go to the big city, but this week we went twice to pick up insulation for the garage and a little Christmas shopping. It's very cold here, but the highway was clear after last week's storm.

Still on the highway, but in the city there are massive power lines.  As ugly as they are, but cool in a certain way, we'd be a little lost without power.

Shooting out the window of the truck I happened to get a little burst of light while trying to get a shot of the snow mountain in the parking lot.

Back at home and back in the warm kitchen, we decided on roasted winter vegetables for dinner.  A little salt and pepper then topped with chopped garlic and scallions and baked in the oven.  Oh my, they were delicious.

My son and daughter-in-law gave me a new cookbook, The Complete Book of Bread & Bread Machines so I tried a new recipe, French Dimpled Rolls.  I lost the dimple during the proofing and baking, but they were so good.  The recipe can be found all over the internet if you google French Dimpled Rolls.

I hope you all had a good week and thank you for such a warm welcome back.

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I don't really know where to begin this post.  I took a look back and I made four posts this year, not very consistant.  I must admit, I have had a couple of rough years with the appearance of Alzheimer's in both of my parents, their move to a nursing home and ultimately both of their deaths in the past year.

This year I also lost my job, a job I thought I would be at until retirement, but that's another story for another time.  So many changes in two years, sometimes it's been a little hard to wrap my head around it all.

Good things have also come out of the past two years.  I now have three little grandson's, one four year old and two one year old's.  I am also employed part time, so I'm not sure if I'm semi-retired or semi-employed.

Time has started to heal and it's time to move forward.  I couldn't think of a better place to come back to, but with Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday.  She has been such an inspiration in my photography life.

Here's what I came up with for this week's Texture Tuesday.

I have a vase with bamboo sitting on the table and the sun was streaming through.  The first thing I thought of was using the lens baby with a star filter.  Not being close enough, I added a 4x macro filter.  The photo came out as I wanted with the unfocused light appearing as stars, but the backgound was a little boring, so I added a layer of Kim's autumnburst.  All was going well, but a little blank spot was calling out for an aligator from our trip to Louisanna.

If you've made it this far in the post, thank you for visiting me today.