floral crowns and a beautiful card from Australia

I have a very dear friend who lives next door and a couple of days before Christmas she
brought home some stems from a florist and called and asked if I would like to make some
floral crowns with her.
She for her daughter, and me for a couple of my granddaughters
who live close by.

I love how they turned out!!!

I have been wanting to do this for a very long time with flowers from the garden 

but never have gotten around to it. I will definitely make time this year!

We had a great time putting them together. I wish I would have gotten a photo of the one Sarah
made for her daughter. It was so pretty.
 These kept well in the refrigerator. In fact I took these photos after they had been in there two days.

I also want to share a beautiful package I received all the way from 

Australia. 

Most of you artists already know Suzy from 

Suziqu's Threadworks  and for those of you who don't, you can click

on her name and become acquainted with her. She makes so many beautiful

things in many different mediums, but really loves working in laces and fabrics.

I am so happy to have a beautiful piece of her artwork in my home.

Don't you love this beautiful paper that it all came wrapped up in?

She and I share a passion for roses and you should see her

gardens!!!

In the package was a pretty bundle of laces

for me to use in my own collage art.

Now for the beautiful card!

Isn't this the sweetest angel face you have ever seen?

Notice the beautiful floral crown of roses it wears in it's hair.

This card is precious to me for two reasons. Because it came from Suzy's hands

and because angel art is very special to me because of the syndrome my son has 

called Angelman after the Dr. who first named it as a 

specific syndrome. 

It's a bonus that it is wearing a beautiful crown of roses!

Thank you so much Suzy for this gift. I will cherish it always.

And thank you Sarah for the wonderful afternoon making the crowns.
We had such a good time doing this and hope we get together this
summer and do a few pretty rose crowns too.

I would  like to take the opportunity to wish everyone who reads
this blog a wonderful New Year and hope that 2015 is what we all hope
it will be for us.

... a Very Very Merry Merry Christmas to You!!!!!!!

From my house to yours-----

A Very Merry Christmas!!!

~~~sending hug from here~~~

getting started

...and so it starts

The last of my family flew out this morning and so out came the Christmas decor.

(We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with everyone of our children and their families.)

 

 It will take several days of staring at all the containers to get the creative juices flowing though. 

It's a pretty big mess around here,

but I like to take my time.

  Here's a few shots of things as I get them out. 

Thought I would make some little vignettes of some of the things as I decide what to do.

 

  

a few new handmade ornaments 

  

  

 

  

  

 

  

   

Bloggers-please read

I don't know if this is happening to everyone who has the comment moderation 

option on your blogs, but many of your comments aren't coming to
my e-mail which is where I usually publish and read them from 

and I wouldn't have known about it had I not read it on another blog.

Sure enough, I went to my  settings and to the comments and found that
 several of them were sitting in my 'awaiting moderation' section. I had missed
so many wonderful comments from some of you.
Most of the comments are coming through, but a few are not.
So then I started wondering  if that's why I keep getting a 'failure'  notice
on some of the comments that I'm leaving you who have comment moderation option?
Almost everyone who has it, my message comes back as failed,
but I think they may be sitting in your 'awaiting moderation' as well.

Everyone probably has already figured this out and I'm the 'late comer' to the
party as usual, but just in case you didn't know, I thought I would post it.

~~~~~hugs from here~~~~~