Noel Noel

The poinsettias are thriving still. 

 I won the Joyeux Noel banner from Kimberly Hites. 

She stamped it beautifully. 

The wire deer was chilly so he got a scarf. 

The vintage green Noel letters are on the buffet.

 Really, I have done next to nothing in the house as CC

 had four appointments this week and I had one. 

The holiday traffic is enough to make one wish for

 anti-anxiety medication if one were so inclined.

This Christmas is the first one in thirty years I have not baked. 

It seems strange but I cannot get to it.

I hope you are faring better than I at your holiday celebrations.

Happy Christmas

Olive

Christmas Hearth

The hearth for Christmas as it stands today.

   Poinsettia's were added with a bottle brush wreath

 from Big Lots (two years ago). 

I placed a green bottle brush tree(from Marshalls)

 into some stacked funeral baskets. 

My hearth is always filled with funeral baskets. 

Freaky yes? 

I picked up the enormous empty frame at a garage sale for almost nothing. 

I may add bling to the deer head (from Goodwill).

 He is under consideration.

My freaky funeral baskets are getting harder and harder to find. 

That's a blessing really because I don't need any more.

CC and I have the Christmas tree decorated too. 

It was wonderful to have her home for a week.

 She drove herself back to her University yesterday without incident.

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Happy Christmas

Olive

Whimsical Field Stone Fire Place

A wire white tailed deer head.  

We think him rather whimsical. 

Up there on the stone.

My friend, Fancy, thinks we are crazy. 

She also thinks painting brown furniture is nuts. 

We agree to disagree.

The hearth was incredibly busy prior to these images.

 I had to remove a vast amount of clutter. 

I seem to have acquired many funeral baskets, cloches, and shoe lasts. 

The camera reveals all.

He is looking spiffy in the quatrefoil mirror. 

I paid ten dollars for our deer at Goodwill.

 If you like him be in awe of that price.

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I did paint the round coffee table yesterday. 

Oddly enough I painted it with black latex enamel.

 Now I am trying to decide if it needs a finish on it. 

Wax? 

Poly? 

Any tips on this as latex enamel is an indoor/outdoor paint are appreciated.

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I am traveling to the mountains to see our daughter CC in the morning. 

I will be spending the weekend with her.

 Joe will be here with the Fight Club(Shelley Puppy&Clovis Grumpy).

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joy and peace

Olive