Beautiful Christmas BITS and BOBS

HELLO, EVERYBODY....
I'm sorry that this is such a long post...
So many things to take photos of here at this wonderful time of the year...
Everywhere I look, I see FESTIVE.

My sweet blogging bud, AUDREY, that owns TIMELESS TREASURES blog,

showed us her BEAUTIFUL 

CHALK BOARD on her beautiful 

CHRISTMAS MANTEL.....

Well, SURPRISE...SURPRISE...
it isn't a CHALK BOARD
after all.

It's a FREE PRINT from
KELLIE of
NEST OF POSIES.....
and Audrey had it enlarged.

I really, REALLY love it and wanted one, too.
Since we are in the middle of packing to move.....

I didn't want to make a LARGE one right now so I just did

the original size that I had a cute little SILVER colored frame that would work...

NEXT YEAR, I will do a really BIG one...

aren't they so adorable.

Go over to NEST OF POSIES and you can have one, too.

 As for the Golden Deer...
I think I won him in a package giveaway a few years back.

He's glittery and full of Christmas bling.

 ...doesn't it look JUST like REAL CHALKBOARD...?
I am sooo impressed and tickled with my little version of it.
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I must be CRAZY because, here in the midst of getting

ready for CHRISTMAS....

and packing to move...

I STILL

want to go.........thrifting. 
what's wrong with me...?? 

 Not sure WHY I liked this little snowman sign....

but, I did, so....I bought it at the thrift store for $2.00.

LIVE   (to the inch of your life)

LOVE (as if there's no tomorrow)

LAUGH (til you almost p your pants) (ah ummm...i said p)

BUT....

gone are the days when I can just be satisfied with things the way they are...

Oh, Yes....I've been hanging out too long with

TALENTED PEOPLE who live in BLOGLAND.

Ya'll have put ideas in my head...

crafty ideas, at that...

So, I decided these little snow guys needed some SPARKLE....

some GLITZ.....

some pizaaazzzzzz....
and, for the first time in my olden life,
I DISCOVERED
GLITTER PAINT....

I put a little on their carrot noses...

...and a little on the board and grapevine

It took on a greenish, sparkly, STRICTLY
CHRISTMAS
look.....

:)

...tied a little BLACK and WHITE checked ribbon on it and..
 

I'm in LUV  ♥

I've loved Santa's boots forever but have never had one...

so, of COURSE, when I saw this with a tiny tree in it,

I said, "This is too cute"....

I promptly placed it in ....the POWDER ROOM, with my little
birdie candelabra .....
with the little battery candles that glow and flicker just like
REAL CANDLES. ♥
Oh....
and there's my 2012 SUSAN BRANCH calendar in the background...

 "The air smells of frost. The house is making the soft breathing sounds very old houses make at night." ♥    Gladys Taber
and we ALL know the HEALING POWERS of a 
Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Tomato Soup !!!
:>)
I ordered and received my 2013 SUSAN BRANCH calendars 2 months ago...
if you want one, you order them on HER BLOG 
and you should order right away because she sells out sooo fast.
Someone told me that SOMEtimes you can find her calendars in the mall.

The FUN thing about ordering the 2013 calendars early was that if you
ordered 2, she would throw in a 3rd for free.
Yahoo...one for daughter
one for daughter*in*law
and one for myself.
Gotta love it !

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I love finding food or drink that is delicious and telling YOU about it, 

in case you didn't know.

AND, in case you didn't know about 

BOLTHOUSE FARMS MOCHA CAPPUCCINO....

be SURE to try it....ummmmmm sooo good ♥

LOVE is when your hubby goes to the grocery store for bread and milk and comes home with not ONLY bread and milk
but
A bright red COCA*COLA
and a BIG HERSHEY BAR because he knows YOU love them.

He is such a sweet sweet man.

I am blessed.
I just hope I am good enuf for him.

 XOXO bj

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