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Sir Rolly...Newest Halloweenie!
I am so in love with these colors!Luckily for everyone who knows me and despairs over my tendency to jump the gun on holiday crafting...some annoying dental issues have slowed down my crafting for the...
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Fall Fairy Garden!
A Fairy Forest...Fiery Fall Finery!Fall Fairy Garden...My first fall fairy garden...using grasses and fall flowers.The tiny stacked pumpkin "snowman" was from Joann'sI spray painted the tin cake plate...
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Halloweenies...Jacks Are Wild!
Wouldn't you love to find this old game?Jacks Are Wild!My favorite Halloween symbols are Jack O' Lanterns and Black Cats. I have so much fun creating the folk arty pumpkin heads out of paper clay...I...
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Falling into Halloween...2015 Edition!
Greetings!I am so happy to see that many of my fellow bloggers are starting to decorate for Halloween. Some them seem a bit apologetic about it. I am (almost) never sorry about decorating early. I...
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Holiday Preview...Christmas Characters From Vintage Tins!
Recent Tins.Found at Flea-ology...a local Vintage Fleamarket.I recently posted the picture of some tins I found at Flea-ology, which is held at my good friend Paula's home in Payson, Utah. Paula blogs...
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Die Schilling Zwillinge...and the Cookie King!
Snowmen for My Gingerbread Kitchen!Looks delicious! How I wish my name was Gretel!Die Schilling Zwillinge...und der Konig der Kekse!How'd you like that tongue twister? Die Zwillinge is German for...
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George and Shirley...40 Years of Adventure!
Happy 40th Anniversary!1975-2015This Friday, November 13, 2015 will be George and Shirley Hatfield's 40th Wedding Anniversary. We will be in Disneyland on that day...big shocker! We thought about...
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St. Nicholas Day...December 6!
St. Nicholas Day...This Sunday, December 6, is known throughout Germany and many European countries as St. Nicholas Day. Children in those countries put their shoes on the front step in hopes that the...
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Merry Merry Miscellany!
Christmas Crafting...Winter Fairy Gardens...Christmas Deer and Other Woodland Creatures.I'm still having a lot of fun creating little winter "Fairy Garden" scenes for Christmas. Several of them will...
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My Christmas Secret...Do You Believe?
My Christmas Secret!Shhhhh!...When I was growing up. I had a Christmas secret that always made me smile. Not the I-can't-wait grin of anticipation, but the cat-with-whiskers-full-of-cream variety. You...
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When Dreams Are Drowned...Saint Thomas, Nevada!
Vintage Vacation...Your trip into the past begins at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Las Vegas, Nevada.The turnoff is a dirt road just to the left after passing through the north entrance...
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"Jack Valentine"...and a Few Valentine's Treats!
Punch-out Valentines were my favorite!I loved Valentine's Day as a child. In school we would spend a day decorating old shoe boxes with construction paper hearts and stickers. We struggled cutting...
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Fun With Friends...Craft Day!
Beautiful Basket of Chicks!I think this is my favorite Easter postcard.Have you noticed that the longer one goes without posting, the harder it is to get going again? I had to literally force myself...
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Baby Dot...Vintage Baby Powder Doll!
Vintage Baby!I love the soft colors of vintage baby cards!When I was expecting my third daughter Sascha in the 1980's I was mad for all things Vintage Baby!I decorated her nursery corner with vintage...
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Mountain Monograms...U Ever Wonder Y?
Mountain Monograms!Pleasant Grove's "G" with Mount Timpanogos looming above.For as long as I can remember, the big white "G" on the mountainside east of my hometown of American Fork, Utah has been a...
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Route 66...A "Novel" Approach to a Vintage Vacation!
My Favorite Vintage Vacation Road MapI just finished reading a fascinating detective novel. I love murder mysteries that take place in interesting settings with a flawed, but fascinating protagonist....
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Vintage Vacation "Fairy Garden"...Yellowstone!
Yellowstone!I have been in love with Yellowstone since I was a little girl. My memories of the family vacation we took there are like an old post card... worn on the edges, a bit faded and in soft...
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Summer Crafting...Spice Tin Uncle Sam!
Spice Tin Uncle Sam!My crafting group is getting together later this month to create quirky Uncle Sams using vintage tins and whatnot for one-of-a-kind patriotic decor. I am still working on gathering...
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Summer Is A Circus...Up-cycled Stuffed Animals!
A Circus Without Animals...Inconceivable!And a circus without an elephant is just tragic!I have only attended a Ringling Brothers Circus once in my life. It was magical! The elephants were by far my...
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Last of the Red, White and Blue...White King Uncle Sam!
Uncle Sam inspires our latest craft group project.The Uncle Sam ProjectMy local crafting group met a few weeks ago to work on our Uncle Sam projects. The challenge was to create an Uncle Sam figure...
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