Christmas Eve with the Chickadees

And after....

signed, the willow

The Holidays 1

How were the holidays?  

We took some time to make a gingerbread house. Since "some" time equates to very little time, we bought a kit.  See above.

 This is how ours turned out.  Not sure that the icing is real icing as the instructions read "knead the frosting until it is the consistency of toothpaste."

It was an afternoon of giggles as we gave the gingerbread man and his snowman that lived in this humble abode some bulging eyes!


signed, the willow

We put the tree up

Unfortunately, we copped out of the sea creature theme this year.  And I'm starting to wonder what everyone puts on their tree to "tie it all together". In the 70s we used garlands. In the 80s, we pulled out the ribbons.  In the 90s, feather boas got tossed on our trees.  Somewhere the beads came out again.

We're a full dozen Christmas trees into the 21st century and I still have ribbons on my tree.  Help!

Here's what the internet consensus says.


Reclaimed wood:

Source: flickr.com via Molly on Pinterest

Au naturel:

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post its:

Source: decorology.blogspot.com via Ashley on Pinterest

What about this?

source:  Etsy * The Doll City Rocker


Outdoorsy:

source: Design Sponge

Love this one!

Source: twoheartstogether.com via Bethany on Pinterest

tulle and burlap?

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Source: poppytalk.blogspot.com 

So, I'm thinking of starting this now for next year.  Maybe I'll do my baking now for 2012 as well.  Yack.

signed, the willow

Art and the Written Word

I've always been a fan of text and art together.  To me, it's how art makes sense.  Art Journaling.

Source: sarahearn.blogspot.com via Darrell N Karen on Pinterest

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Source: flickr.com via Rowena on Pinterest

Source: artistjournals.tumblr.com via Rowena on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Rowena on Pinterest

signed, the willow

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Bloglovin

Every week there's a new curious tool to use on the internet.  Pinterest, Klout, and Bloglovin.  I would love to meet the genius people who create these wondrous and necessary tools on the internet.  Remember the days where the internet bored you to death and you felt as though you'd seen it all?  Yeah!  Those days are over.  Now we need ways to navigate our ways through the piles of bookmarks and links we've collected.  A tool to refine the blogs.  A tool to tell us what's new and what we've already read (even though we've probably already forgot).

Here's how pretty Bloglovin looks:

Here's how pretty, I don't look:

signed, the willow

Spinning

My blog came to a pause when I came down, spinning down, with vertigo.  My head is constantly tilted to the left.  My eyes are suffering from nystagmus and I keep  the gravol and a trash can close by.

Maybe it's a testament to my crazytown life that I'd end up with a spinny symptom of something else that's wrong with my head.

Stay tuned,
willow