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hoar·frost
ˈhôrˌfrôst/
noun
noun: hoar frost; noun: hoar-frost
{Google definition}
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We got quite the Hoar Frost a few days ago and I had to drive around and snap some photos. All these were taken while I had my body firmly planted in my jeep. :) ENJOY! |
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A burst of color in the middle of winter. |
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How is the weather where you live? I would love to hear about it be it warm or cold. :) Blessings~ |
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...have absolutely nothing in common except that I took pictures of both today. ha! {or maybe suitcases full of paper-whites?? How fun would that be!} |
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I love this bench that I purchased over a year ago from a dear blogging friend. Isn't it amazing??? She is so uber talented and I just love her shop and all her goodies. I have told her that it is a good thing that I don't live very close to her shop or I would be in trouble! I am also thinking as of late with all the vintage suitcases I now own I should be traveling!! :) |
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PAPER-WHITES I decided to plant some paper-whites today. Oh, I know everyone else is way ahead of me. But...I love a bargain and a bargain these were!! Marked wayyy down since it is after Christmas so I purchased a few and got to planting. |
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I'm kinda messy...shh, please don't tell anyone! |
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Three containers all planted up and ready for these babies to GROW! |
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Wouldn't this be a fun way to give these as a gift? I have always hated to throw out the pretty cardboard containers that some of them come in so today I made tags out of them. |
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I would love these every year as a gift because it brings such a bright spot of spring to the cold winter days. |
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I took a break shortly after I planted all my bulbs...a gal has to keep up her strength you know. Yummy!! Do you plant paper-whites? I would love to hear about it. I am not so sure about Amaryllis...I have some planted , but they don't seem to be doing much. Time will tell. I pray that each of you have a wonderful rest of the week and that abundant blessings fill your life! Blessings~ |
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With a new year comes the need for a new calendar. I usually purchase a Paris or Italian themed one, but wasn't finding any that I liked so I looked on Pinterest for free printable calendars. |
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and made my own! |
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I found this free printable calendar from Lemon Thistle. All I had to do was download and print it and wala. A calendar in the making. I love the simplicity of it, but I wanted to take it a bit farther. |
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I got out a gray cardstock and glued some lace to the bottom of it. |
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Along with some words that are "calendar appropriate". |
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I have had this quart mason jar just sitting around with hundreds of sayings to use and they are even double sided! |
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So out they came and I sorted some ones out that would work on a calendar. |
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I can use a glue stick and add a word or two to a date anytime I want to. Yes, the words are a tad bigger than what they should be , but who's looking?? lol |
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I added some lace and a vintage pants hanger and my Jeanne D Arc style calendar was born. |
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I have a lot of this lace that I found at the Goodwill on the original spool several months ago. I thought it was perfect for this project. |
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This photo was my inspiration for my calendar , but I tweaked it a little. You can make it your own with special little touches. |
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I love this book that I found the inspiration calendar in. It is a Jeanne D' Arc Living book. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! How is your new year going thus far? So far we have had to put two new tires on the jeep (unexpected expense and with the last two weeks being three day pay check weeks...ugh) and hubby just went out to leave for work and he has a flat tire on his vehicle so he has to use the jeep...always something...but we are blessed! |
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What is a girl to do when her hubby gives her a gift card to Marshall's for Christmas?? {She found out right quick!} She heads for the nearest store and spends it! lol |
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I had seen these spools of ribbon and trim in TJ Maxx and Home Goods before Christmas and loved them, but did not purchase any. I was trying to be good and I am downright proud of myself :) |
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I also picked up this gray throw. With everything half off you can get twice as much.. WIN, WIN!! Blessings~ |
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It is a rare day when all the grands are here at gma and gpas house at the same time so we tried to get a few pics while they were here for the holidays. There was NO snow {which I REALLY wanted for pics} and it was cold and rainy. I had visions of many different poses and it just didn't work. We were lucky to get the ones we did. Underneath all the kiddos there is a gorgeous white bench, but didn't get any of that showing either. I still dream of the pics I wanted to take...hopefully someday. |
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We got all the kiddos in the pic except the little guy in the front. His daddy would stick him in the picture time after time... just as we were getting ready to snap the photo. lol |
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Too cute and so amusing. We got numbers 6 and 7 mixed up so they will probably be traumatized for the rest of their lives every time they look at these pictures! ha! |
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1.Allysha 2.Jon 3.Annika 4.Keira 5.Joshua 6.Ainsley 7.Kanaan 8.Daniel and baby 9 is missing. Her mama was sick so they stayed home. |
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What a CUTE bunch of kiddos we have in our family!! I love them all and miss them terribly already. |
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Do you grandparent long distance? Our oldest son and his family live about 2 hours from us, our daughter and family live 3 hours from us, but our youngest son who did live about 20 minutes away now lives in North Carolina. 13 or 14 hour drive straight through. It has been a hard adjustment, but we are surviving. PaPa swooped up Ainsley as soon as she got here! The night we said our goodbyes to them was heartbreaking. We had just finished Christmas at my moms and Ainsley was eating more salad {what child eats more salad??} and I was sitting beside her. She looked at me and said in a shaky voice, "Grandma I won't see you for a long time"...I replied, "I know , but we can write and we can call"... yea ,that didn't work. Again, in a shaky little voice "Grandma, I won't see you for a long time"...I picked her up and she started crying. That was it for this grandma. I cried right along with her! She has never done this before so she must be getting old enough to realize exactly what is going on. I held her for awhile and she and I cried together. {in front of lots of other family members}. I finally handed her off to grandpa and she cried some more. She was still crying when they left and when she got to her other grandmas house. Oh the hard knocks of childhood and life. We miss those two little gals to much. We used to be able to just drive over and visit them on the spur of the moment, but not anymore...and life goes on. How do you grandparent long distance? Do you do anything special? I would love to hear about it. Blessings and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! |
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