Gemstone Colors for Your Christmas Tree!

 Is it Christmas yet?!!  A 5-minute video that whets your appetite for Christmastime.

Decorating hint: gem 💎 tones + sparkle ✨+ gold = awesome 🎄 tree!

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FYI: Setting the Table for Holidays

Timely How-to Tips for the Upcoming

 Holiday Season 

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The Nutcracker: Only 83 More Days Till Christmas 2021!

 Nutcrackers, recently.

84 days to go (as of October 2, 2021)

The Nutcracker-themed cookies

MacKenzie-Childs Nutcracker Pillow

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Oh, Christmas Tree & the Skunk

 A poor skunk made a mess  out of our Christmas tree while it was stored in our outdoor shed.  The creature became trapped and spewed out its aroma far & wide. Bye, bye artificial xMas tree.

Below is our new birch-branch wall Christmas tree.  It can only accommodate  about 10% of our total ornaments; and I have yet to take out our really nice ornaments from storage.  However, I am beginning to like❤ our tree-- space saver, natural, reusable, simple, affordable -- yay!

Samples of other wall trees:

Wall Christmas Tree

A Saviour is born!

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Hobby Lobby: Giant Red Velvet Poinsettia Flower

 Whoa! This over-sized red Poinsettia  caught my attention as I hurriedly made my way to Hobby Lobby's WC. It so attracted me that it remained on my mind and I decided to purchase it a day later. The fake flower's presence in the midst of our rather dull-looking plants instantly made them a part of our Christmas decor and festivities.

Velvet Poinsettia, large

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My Agnes Rathonyi Art Collection Increaseth

Summertime had my sisters sending me pictures of our fave Canadian Artist's various works during a yearly festival which they were attending.

 I texted about this little piece of original art which had my favorite shade of green in it. 
Alas, I was told that it was bought by someone else by the time my Sibs got around to inquiring about its price and availability on my behalf.  Darn. 

I had a feeling that one of my sisters had purchased it for herself as she also likes the same shade of green.  I was right --- she did purchase it -- for ME!!!!  It was my belated Birthday gift which she gave on Christmas eve.  I was beyond stunned and happy.  She and her hubby are soooo generous. Praise the Lord!  Here it is on our Art Gallery wall.

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MacKenzie Childs: Cool Moose & Nutcrackers

My 3 youngest children have indulged me. First was this gorgeous pillow for my birthday -- my first ever purchase of a Nutcracker-related item.  Then, came my next Nutcracker item (placemats) to match.

pc: Hester & Cook

Finally, this very cool MC Moose was bought for me & hubby as a Christmas gift again by said kids. The Moose pillow which I bought for myself while on sale, matched this AND the Nutcracker pillow above.

pc: Neiman Marcus

pc: NM

pc: Horchow

MC Moose, Standing

Nutcracker Pillow

Hester & Cook Placemat

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Christmas 2019: Nuts for Nutcrackers

Went  a little crazy for cute Nutcrackers this year.  It began when my children bought me a MacKenzie-Childs embroidered Nutcracker Brigade lumbar pillow for my birthday in October (it has since been sold-out at their web site).  I then bought Nutcracker disposable paper place mats by Hester & Cook for a dinner here at home. We attended my friends' party for her granddaughter which had Nutcracker as its theme. Party favors were Nutcracker cookies made by the ever-talented Ashley.  I purchased Nutcrackers at 50% off at Hobby Lobby, yay! 
I saw Nutcrackers everywhere! The only thing missing is for me to watch the Nutcracker Ballet by Tchaikovsky live and in color. It's been years.

my friend's collection on display

Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier... While nearly all nutcrackers from before the first half of the 20th century are functional, a significant proportion of modern nutcrackers are primarily decorative, and not able to crack nuts. - wikipedia

Other than the MC pillow, my  personal favorite is the black Nutcracker.  He is dressed as a kingly Magi.  His outfit is beautifully & vibrantly colored. He was the only one of his kind at the Hobby Lobby store. 

pc: Hester & Cook

pc: Facebook

In him was life; and the life 

was the light of men.

John 1:4

Nutcracker Brigade Pillow

Nutcracker Doll

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