Enjoy!
Monday, December 19, 2011
Winter Wonderland
is similar to lasts, but a bit different.
More snowflakes and vintage bottlebrush trees...
make for a glorious vintage Winter Wonderland.
Not all my snow babies can fit inside,
so nestled in pink garland keeps them cozy.
I love to just stare and daydream away....
I'm sneaking in a frugal Christmas gift,
hoping the receivers won't see it.
shhhh.....
I typed up my son's and wife's names along with their wedding date.
Cut them in strips and inserted them inside.
Using ribbon from their wedding I made a loop and bow.
Since this is their first Christmas together as a married couple
I was looking for a way to commemorate it.
Hope they like it ♥♥
♥♥♥♥
I also want to thank Tracie from Fishtail Cottage
for the goodies I WON
that were donated by Kristin from
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia!
Other posts you may be interested in:
One of a Kind Organization
As those of you who follow me know
I'm revamping my bedroom into a bed/craft room.
It's a slow process but I'm enjoying it.
Being of the new frugal movement, I am using what I have.
The women of the Great Depression in the 1930’s knew frugality.
One of their battle cries was
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
This have become my motto ♥
This gives me the opportunity to dig through my Treasure Pile
and use my imagination.
One tool I use all the time is my hot glue gun.
It had to be some where easily accessible with glue sticks at the ready.
I found some of our old feeders we used for the rabbits.
These two received the dry brush treatment in white.
The first one was the right size for glue my glue sticks.
I hung it on the wall by my worktable.
After emptying all my bags into the feeder,
there was still room left in the top for my glue gun ♥♥
This bigger one holds some larger items;
ruler, hammer, my small paper cutter, regular and extra large tweezers,
toothpicks, and some decorative cutting scissors.
So nice to have these at the ready.
This round feeder I painted and added some decals to a few years ago.
It holds my assortment of paint brushes in the center
and beading pliers, hole punch and a few other things
around the bottom.
These are all Handy Dandy and
very nostalgic to me.
♥♥♥♥
Sunday, December 18, 2011
My First Time" Sitting" on Santa's Lap!
We have wanted to go check out The Bass Pro Shop since it opened a few years ago.
We always hear people talk about how big it is, how well decorated it is and how cool it is this time of year with all the Christmas Decorations.
Now, to those of you who visit the Shop on a regular basis (like my Brother-in-law),
you can probably just skip this entire post. LOL
It's about 1 1/2 hour drive for us but let me say it was well worth it!
**Warning**
This post is picture laden and
very long,
so grab a cuppa drink, go potty
and I'll meet you back here. ;)
Walking up to the Shop is almost overwhelming with it's massiveness.
The Deer in front are made out of all antlers..so cool!
There are ponds and falls everywhere.
And look at their night lights.
Each one has a different animal cut out on it.
The archway at the entrance is covered in Moose antlers.
Seeing those Moose antlers took me right back to Kodiak.
Once inside you begin to see just how humongous it really is,
and all the festive Christmas decorations.
My eyes followed the Christmas Tree up and this is what I saw!
"Flying" geese!
and other animals up on ledges.
Was this a museum or a store?
More decorations and Deer up on rock ledges
With all the excitement M and I needed to go potty..
and am I glad we did!
It was amazing!
Old photos on the walls of women hunting, fishing
and doing all that outdoorsy stuff that we thought only men did in the olden days.
Yes these are the stall doors...aren't they cool??
Love this sconce
Even the door handle was special.
There is this huge tank that has Bass and other fish
and waterfalls pouring into it.
Looking down from above
Just about everywhere you looked there were
vignettes of animals in their "natural" habitat.
Can you tell we miss all these kinds of critters?
We'd see them all the time when we lived in Kodiak.
Did I mention it has a second floor?
From up here you can see the underwater mural painted on the walls.
Further down you can see Santa's Village!!
The kids played the cutest shooting game.
It was set up like a camp
with green lights all over
when the green light was hit
it would turn red
and an animal would pop up, or jump out.
C hit the outhouse,
the door opened to reveal a bear sitting reading a newspaper! LOL
they all had a blast
Look at this furniture!
Love it ♥
Dotted throughout the store were displays of Christmas Decor.
Upstairs looking down the arcade side into Santa's Village.
These lamps were throughout the shop.
Very dramatic.
Each had a different animal in the center
and the animals footprints around the outer circle
antlers surrounded the rim
More critters
When I first saw the man climbing,
I thought he was real and stuck! LOL
Just like fishing in Kodiak....
a bear waiting for you to catch a fish
Hey, the North Pole is here!
Not sure if you can see,
but there is a little Elf stuck in the upper window,
he's wiggling his legs.
Too cute!
The arcade games were free!
This hollow tree was in the kids clothing section.
M just couldn't resist
A General Store was even inside with the usual unusual items
There were some really interesting named condiments
My kind of dog!
Now that's a Milk can! It's huge!
Antiques displayed in the store
Gift items too
We all got our photo taken with Santa, they were free too!
T and Santa
C and I with Santa
C came with me since it was my very first time to "sit" on Santa's lap
M and Santa
We had such a fun time.
Most definitely a new Christmas Tradition.
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