MY SNOWMAN & SNOWMAN FROM SWAP

THIS IS ONE OF THE SNOWMEN I MADE FOR MY HOUSE. He is sitting on my fireplace mantle. He is a cutie and I call him Cutie. He made me smile as soon as I placed his little blue bead eyes on his face.
I'm having way too much fun making snowmen this year. :-) I have more Snowmen & SnowLady but that will be another day. Scroll on down past Cutie and see the SNOWMEN I got from my SNOWMAN SWAP Partner Debe.

Snowmen made by Debe S. Debe was my Snowman Swap partner. I love them!!! They sure do make me SMILE :-) And I know they will make you SMILE ;-) too. WOOOOHOOOO!! I received my Snowman - Snowmen I should say from my Snowman Swap partner Debe. THANK YOU Debe. I love them. I love the old/Victorian look snowmen. I love the coffee stained or old coffee stained drag behind your truck look. WOOOOHOOO The chocolates are yummy. Think I will not share them with my hubby Ken. :-) This swap was soooooooooooooo much fun. Debe is a wonderful artist. Thank You Vivian for hosting the Snowman swap.

Everyone look at the WONDERFUL Snowmen Debe made.

Love & Hugs
Fran

CHRISTMAS TREE & /ORAMENT SWAP

This is our Christmas tree in our living room. It's 9 feet tall. This is the tallest tree I have ever had except for when I was a kid growing up. Back then we had real Christmas trees. We lived on a farm so we would go into the woods and cut our own. This is the orament Shashi made for me. We were partners in a Orament swap. It was lots of fun and I love my orament Shashi made. It's beautiful. Thank You Shashi. It will hang on my Christmas tree every Christmas.
Of course I had to buy the new Starbucks oraments. I bought 2 Starbuck cups oraments last year BUT this year the Christmas cup came with a bag of coffee orament. I had a cup of the Christmas blend tonight. I LOVE STARBUCKS!!!
I will post more pictures tomorrow. I have to finish decorating inside. I had to stop decorating inside today and go outside and help Ken decorate outside. The weather was beautiful today in the low 60's. Doesn't feel like Christmas here.
Love & Hugs
Fran

THANKSGIVING & SNOWMEN

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !!

Here's a few pictures of some snowmen oraments I made for our Christmas Tree. I'm making more. My daughters want one. I'm also in a Snowman Swap but I can't show that one yet. :-)


SNOWMAN BOX I MADE - You can stash goodies inside.
SNOWMAN ORAMENT I MADE
COLORFUL SNOWMAN I MADE

WISHING ALL A HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! We will have a house full tomorrow. Two of our daughters and 4 of our grandkids will be over. My hubby's sister and her hubby will be over.
I can smell the turkey cooking now. YUMMY YUMMY!! My hubby Ken cooks the turkey early on Thanksgiving Morning. Sure does make the house smell YUMMY!! Brings back childhood memories. I was raised on a Turkey Farm. My grandfather owned a big farm. We had regular black turkeys and we had white turkeys. Nothing prettier than a field full of white turkeys.
I have a scar on my leg where a turkey spurred me. We were vaccinating the turkeys and I had to hold it by it's feet and one foot slipped out of my hand and spurred my leg. OUCH!
OOOOO! but those were the good ole days.
HAVE A WONDERFUL TURKEY DAY!! GOBBLE GOBBLE!!
Love & Hugs
Fran

BEAUTIFUL SKY IN LAS VEGAS

These pictures were taken around 3 P.M. one afternoon in front of my house. This is when the California smoke was coming in to Vegas along with the unsettled atmosphere in our area. We do have some beautiful cloud formations from time to time due to the atmosphere in Vegas. The Rainbow is from the atmosphere not from having rain. We had NO RAIN and we HAVEN'T HAD RAIN IN A LONG TIME. Really pretty sky isn't it? ***** When you click on the pictures you will see a helicopter flying by.

Love & Hugs

Fran

NEW CAMERA & PRACTICE PHOTO

I bought a new camera BUT don't know if I want to keep it or not. The booklet with how to's don't tell too much how to's. I DON'T LIKE instructions that don't tell everything about something. Right now we are trying to figure out how to make the pictures smaller when I crop them in the program. YES, I stayed with Kodak camera because I have the program and it works great EXCEPT for the new pictures are LARGE!!! I'll post one here and see what it looks like. Nice size photo here BUT click on it and see how LARGE it is. :-)

Love & Hugs

Fran