h a p p y New Year !

A happy h a p p y New Year !

To my sweet friends Down Under, who are in 2011 right now

and off course to everyone, in every little corner of the world

New Years day = a Brand New Day

a Brand New Day ~ the WIZ

playing over and over and over again today

a JOYful New Year, lovely ladies !!

xx

You're a dear !

Thank YOU

for visiting

for following

for leaving a comment

Thank you for uplifting my days, every day

It means a lot to me

You're a dear !

xx

Heading up to 2011

Seasonal Snapshots

Christmas Season snapshots from around the house

Wishing you all

the merriest of Christmases

filled with

Magic

inside

outside

inside out

Everywhere !

xx

Season Sprinkles

Sprinkles sparkle in my vases and are

swirling around my floating candles !

'May you be truly blessed to always glitter with a radiance

that shines from deep within you'

Barbara Becker Holstein

xx

Walnut ornaments

Jacqueline, go here, came up with this amazing idea

transforming walnuts into the cutest ornaments

I ordered 7, our 6 initials and one with a heart

they will stay out year round

Thanks so much, sweet Jacqueline, for these lovelies wrapped up oh so pretty

Have a happy last-week-before-Christmas !

What are you up to this week?

xx

Cinnamon pouches

I made these pouches filled with

the flavor of the season

Cinnamon

using

cinnamon

fun fabrics

pinking shears

ribbon

beautiful beads

*easy peasy*

Have a Joyful weekend, lovely ladies !

Ice Cream of the Season

....

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough

And have yourself an Ice Cream of the Season now

xx

Christmas Craziness

Don't let lady Christmas Craziness hit you !

*Picked up lots of lovely wrapping paper

*Checked my table service

*Completed my matches

*Bought my favorite Christmas chocolates

*and a white cotton tablecloth + pretty colored textile markers

to write down a realistic wish for 2011, next year we will add a wish for 2012

and we will talk about past year's wish

It's going to be my newest tradition

I would love to get to know some of your Christmas traditions

xx

Warm-hearted

If you want someone to feel warm,

you dress them in a warm color

and put a warm light on them

and you get the picture

Sometimes,

all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story

* Colleen Atwood *

May we all have a warm-hearted holiday season !

Christmassy M&M's

a Warm welcome to

the first pack of M&M's limited edition in our home

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design,

it reinforces it

Pierre Bonnard

xx

* Lady Foxglove Spires + S *

* Monique + G *

* Elyse *

please send me an email so I can get the chocolate letters up and in the air !

xx

Project cake

Another cake

The recipe is easy peasy

a cake pan full of water

a sprinkle of cranberries

two nights in the freeze cold

the freezer will do too !

I used some boiled water to get it out

Just have to find a way to keep the candle burning a little longer

Have a great great weekend !!

we will be celebrating Sinterklaas

xx

Sinterklaas vs Santa

Sinterklaas has left our country

he delivered some extra chocolate letters

I will pass these on to some of you

just leave me a comment on this post

I believe Sinterklaas is only celebrated in Belgium

and the Netherlands

It's a celebration for the little ones among us

Every year on December 5th

we celebrate his birthday with lots of little presents

which he brought all the way from Spain in his steamship

{actually these are bought by all the moms and dads}

A chocolate letter, the first letter of everyones first name

is a tradition at Sinterklaas

xx

Now we are awaiting Santa to arrive ....

Wishing you all a Jolly new week !

xx

S N O W

Snow outside

Snow inside

Brought the inside snow outside for this shot

Sssh, don't tell Mark

I baked this cake for everyone in the office

had to put it in the snow for a sec

Haven't heard anything yet though

I cannot without my Nordic Ware

the platinum collection cast aluminum Bundt bakeware

Anyone can bake a perfectly pretty cake using this amazing tool

Off now for another snowy coffee

Keep warm my friends !

xx