Holiday Crafting and Assorted Stuff

You are probably all familiar with assorted stuff.  You find assorted stuff if you open the box of decorations and say, “Oh, no.”  Things are missing or tangled.    How did that happen!   I can’t imagaine.  So I have no choice but to invent.  My brain cells for inventing has been occupied with editing.  I’ve turned to the lovely folks at Pinterest for suggestions. This beautiful example of what to do with bits and pieces comes from a blog called Very Merry Vintage Style.  http://verymerryvintagestyle.blogspot.com/2011/12/make-christmas-centerpiece-with-vintage.html   Go there and you’ll see detailed photos of how they made this centerpiece.  It really makes me excited.  It’s funny how attached we get to the bits and pieces of our lives.  When you can put them together and makes something really new and fun, it’s like growing from the old into something new and better.

Food too is very important.  Yes, it nourishes us but sometimes it just makes us giggle.  I’ve had years of being involved with very complicated recipes.  I’ve built a cookie tree.  That was a lot of work believe me.  I’ve started to look for the easy, and I appreciate the people that embrace that philosophy.  There’s a talented lady by the name of Louise Igoe over on Pinterest who posted the wonderful strawberry snowmen.  I’m guessing that all you need are strawberries, whipped cream (I’d use Cool Whip or a similar brand), and dark frosting for eyes.

I’m overly fond of snowmen, snow angels, snow forts, ice palaces, messages in the snow.  One of the most romantic thing ever done for me was when my husband went into the yard and made a giant heart with our names in the middle.  He used the crop circle method of stomping down the snow knowing I would look down on it from our balcony back porch.   Looking straight at the yard, you wouldn’t have seen anything.  It could only be seen from above.

Tis the season to get your assorted stuff together and love them all you can.  That includes the people in your life.   Do you have any ideas to share about what you’ve done with bits and pieces? Fun easy recipes?  Dear holiday memories?  I would love to read them.  Please, feel free to post them in the comment box.  If you have photos you would like to share, please, send them to onlyladyknight(at)yahoo(dot)com.  That’s me.  Be sure to put Nights of Passion in the subject line.

-Susan

Susan Hanniford Crowley

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