Several Unexpected Things Before Bedtime The Old Sinclair Station in Elberta, Utah at the crossroads December 2020. This is the old Sinclair Station at the crossroads in small-town Elberta, Utah. Someone has recently adopted the old building and fixed it up. Grass has been planted and a fence built. …
Grandma Took the Time Fast approaching is the Christmas Season. Reminders of Christmases Past are sweet and touching, especially when a little girl is wearing a Christmas tree on her head and Grandma’s apron around her neck. Spread throughout this blog are some of my favorite pictures of ways that …
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS We grown-ups can talk about The Twelve Days of Christmas all we want to. Twelve means absolutely nothing to excited children. Children understand Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning and little else. They are not as silly as we are. We drag things out …
Here are the little beardless gnomes who live in their own playset. I made the hats on my sewing machine and they were easy and fast. I did have to sew on the bell by hand. I could have been very fussy about the painting but I wasn’t because they …
” Joy to the World, THE LORD is Come. Let Earth Receive Her King.” My globes and chalkboards were posted on All Things Grandma over a year ago. They weren’t in a Christmas setting then, but this year they are. Some of the globes are “altered” and some are exactly the …
journal entry: As I continued to prowl around for Bristle Animals for my new Christmas Nativity, I found two very angelic raccoons. Perhaps they didn’t look very angelic when I found them with their black masks and shiny, black eyes, and bushy, striped tails, but, by the time I added …
journal entry: We know there were shepherds watching over their flocks by night when the Angel of the Lord came before them and made them sore afraid. I don’t know how much those special lambs understood about their role in this wonderful, real-life Christmas play, …
journal entry: I took my time. Isn’t that what we tell children to do ? My vision was a Nativity made up of Bristle Animals. First, I had to find them. That can be a trick. Then, I had to bring them to life. Bristle Animals can bend. They are expressive. …
journal entry: Perhaps you read the post for “Toy Bags and Teeny Tiny Cars”. If you did then you know that after the two little boys I mentioned get through playing with their VERY FAST little cars, they will be tired. One can snuggle up with robots …
journal entry: Here is another CHRISTMAS SECRET ! DON’T TELL ! I know that posting these photographs might spoil the fun for the grown-ups but it keeps me current. This blog is, after all, my journal of things I like to do. These little toy bags were fun and …
