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The Christmas Story in Candy
My daughter plans to present the “Christmas Story in Candy” when we have my brother-in-law’s family over for a Christmas get-together this weekend. She will put each kind of candy (enough for everyone to have a piece) in a festive Christmas bag along with the corresponding Bible verse. She will ask each person to read one of the verses and…
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Vintage Christmas Radio Shows
Our family has been enjoying listening to a wide variety of Christmas episodes of old time radio shows this year. It seems that the “holidays” are so politically correct these days that it’s almost an effort to remember the true meaning of Christmas. The old radio dramas and comedies from the “golden age of radio” take us back to a…
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Christmas Goody Bags
Last year my daughters started a tradition of making holiday goodies for Daddy’s co-workers and other friends. We covered boxes with wrapping paper last year, but this year I found these fun “lunch bags” at Dollar Tree, and that simplified things greatly!Each bag contains a popcorn ball, a baggy of Chex Mix, and 4 or 5 cookies. The popcorn balls…
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Vintage Hankies
I like collecting small vintage items, so when I came across this bundle of old handkerchiefs this summer I decided they would be a great start to a vintage hanky collection! I have enjoyed looking at them and using them for decorating. Some are printed and some are embroidered. I was especially fascinated by the tiny Pluto child’s handkerchief.I remember…
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Happy Pumpkins!
Personally, I’m just not real crazy about Halloween, but when you have little kids you can’t exactly ignore it all together. I was happy to discover The Pumpkin Patch Parable several years ago, when my children were quite small. It has become a “Halloween” tradition at our house. It is the sweetly-illustrated story of a farmer who raises pumpkins. When…
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Tea and Cookies for Fall
When the weather turns cool and crisp, nothing says “cozy” to me like a hot beverage! I have decided that hot beverages are my “comfort food.” I like coffee, tea, cocoa, apple cider… and I like cute mugs! I splurged the other day and got a set of 4 pumpkin mugs just to celebrate the season.Later, I found Pumpkin Spice…
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Crochet Hook Collection
For Show & Tell Friday, I thought I’d share about my collection of crochet hooks. Now, I ask you. Does any one person really need this many crochet hooks?Of course not! But I love having them, anyway. The bottom row is of steel crochet hooks for working with thread, from size 00 to size 14. The upper row is of…
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My “Pioneer” Nook
When I was a new bride in the mid-1980s the country style of decorating was in full swing, and I loved it! But like all styles, we got tired of it and moved on to something else… and now you mostly find decorative items in dusty rose and country blue, and all the ducks and geese collecting dust in the…
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Vintage Radio
As a long-time fan of Old Time Radio shows, I’ve been wanting an antique radio for years. I didn’t care whether or not it worked. I just thought it would be neat to have one. I’ve seen replicas that are very cool (and also spendy) but they usually just have a regular modern radio or maybe a CD player inside.…
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“I Remember Laura” – Heirlooms
The afternoon light made plain the gilded titles of the books on the whatnot’s lower shelf, and glittered in the three glass boxes on the shelf above, each with tiny flowers painted on it. Above them, on the next shelf, the gilt flowers shone on the glass face of the clock and its brass pendulum glinted, swinging to and fro.…
