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Think About Christmas: September 2007
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Sunday, September 30, 2007. The Special Gift of Christmas. South Hampton, Long Island was absolutely charming during Christmas. Karen could not wait to arrive at her mother's house for the holidays. The drive was a long drive from Princeton, New Jersey and it had started to snow. As she sat at the counter of the local coffee shop, she started to chat with the owner. She told him about Maria's fam...
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Think About Christmas: November 2010
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Monday, November 22, 2010. Ack in 2007, I started writing this Christmas blog. My goal was to share all things Christmas. I would like to update noteworthy things and continue to add to craft ideas, Christmas stories and all the things that make up this wonderful time of year. Since opening this blog, I have discovered so many wonderful resources and Christmas blogs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Enter...
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Think About Christmas: The Special Gift of Christmas
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Sunday, September 30, 2007. The Special Gift of Christmas. South Hampton, Long Island was absolutely charming during Christmas. Karen could not wait to arrive at her mother's house for the holidays. The drive was a long drive from Princeton, New Jersey and it had started to snow. As she sat at the counter of the local coffee shop, she started to chat with the owner. She told him about Maria's fam...
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Think About Christmas: The Fairy Lake Christmas
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Saturday, November 3, 2007. The Fairy Lake Christmas. If I were to give you my very best gift this Christmas, it would be that you enjoy a Fairy Lake Christmas this season. To see Fairy Lake in Fabric, click on the image. Labels: Fairy Lake Christmas. Oh, how I wish you'd had a camera! It's wonderful how these unexpected and serendipitious moments can modify the way we experience Christmas. December ...
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Think About Christmas: The Gift of Giving
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Friday, November 2, 2007. The Gift of Giving. Originally uploaded by bluebirdsandteapots. The most important life lesson that I learned was on the day that my mother returned from work carrying a beautiful doll. It seemed that her employer had received dolls for a nearby orphanage every year. Every employee was asked to take one home and make doll clothes and dress the doll to be given away. Those wh...
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Think About Christmas: Painting Santa
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I designed this blog to be home to stories, ideas, and Christmas artwork. I hope that you enjoy browsing. Thursday, November 1, 2007. In the same town where we board our horse. I have wandered through there so many times until one day I discovered the same chess set. Judi Vailancourt designed this and it is in her museum which is part of the workshop. Vailancourt has a Collector's Weekend every year in Sutton, Ma. They open their studios and allow you to paint one of their chalkware Santas made from ...
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For The Love of Old Books: Painting The Roses Red
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Painting The Roses Red. Painting the roses red. I do love painting, but I also love creating cards. I was working on more Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. And thought they would make lovely cards. So, I found a very Alice backdrop of aqua cardstock. I added each print to seven different cards, each one fits perfectly in this red gift box. I tied a white grosgrain ribbon on top and added a Painting The Roses Red. Print to a tag on top. Painting The Roses Red Gift Box. For the ...
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For The Love of Old Books: Master Musicians
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Saturday, January 1, 2011. This treasure will surely be a classical music lovers dream gift. Master Musicians, a book for layers, singers and listeners was written by J. Cuthbert Hadden. This volume was published in 1911 by T. N. Foulis Edinburgh. I love when the papers in an old book have jagged edges, and there is a lovely heavy brown paper boasting photographs of each of the fourteen illustrations of the great composers. A tissue page is protecting each bookplate. PREFACE by J. Cuthbert Hadden. Fabric...
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For The Love of Old Books: The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson. When I went to visit the Concord Museum, They had a replica of Emerson's Study. 8220;The Concord Museum and the Emerson Family have enjoyed a long relationship; Ralph Waldo Emerson. Attended the first meeting that led to the creation of the Concord Antiquarian Society ( now the Concord Museum).”. I stood there looking into all the details of the study and thinking about all the great people that Emerson had entertained in his study. The book was...
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For The Love of Old Books: LIttle Women Bookplates
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. I just love creating things about Little Women. I designed some bookplates using my digital paintbox and an Antique print by Jessie Willcox Smith dated 1923. In each package are 20 bookplates printed on fine art paper using archival inks. The enclosure envelope is a lovely powder blue, I added a white grosgrain ribbon and a MY ROBIN stamp to wrap it. Makes a pretty gift. Oh, but I just couldn't stop there. Which I found in Thoreauly Antiques in Concord, Massachusetts. For the love...