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I live on a farm ... — thoughts

Titles elude me at this moment

• art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • dogs • faith • family • farm • farm life • fingerless gloves • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • hat patterns • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • New York • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • scarf patterns • shopping • snow • socks • spirituality • style • thoughts • travel • vintage • yarn

Take a minute, if you are a knitter, and think about how many knitters there are around the world and then multiply that by some number that seems reasonable to predict how many hand knit gifts will be made this year ...

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The Advent of Santa

• country living • family • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • thoughts • travel • Upstate New York • women

Today I show you 17 Santas from my collection ... Christmas is drawing quite near indeed.  It snowed again, lightly, this morning and things are looking very lovely outside our many windows.  My favorite sight is looking outside the dining room windows and seeing the barn in the snow. It looks most Christmasey to me, for some reason. Santa, Day 16 is one my husband purchased for me in the Adirondack mountains, at the Adirondack museum, on a fall vacation we took a couple of years ago. This Santa also reminds us of our cottage and our times in the...

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The Bus Stops Here

• art • baby • Christmas • country life • country living • faith • family • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • Life • love • personal • pets • photography • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • travel • women

I was up very late this evening and into the wee hour (1:00 is just one wee hour and I went to bed right after this post which I did at 1:10 a.m. or so, so yes, singular "wee" hour) of the morning. There is a book project I am working on and there was a long, long wait while files uploaded and re-uploaded. While I waited I dreamed I was on a shopping trip in the city on a bus. In my dream I got off at each bus stop and shopped at the store right in front of...

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A wee bit o' magic

• art • Christmas • family • friends • gifts • home • inspiration • Life • personal • pets • photography • Photos • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • women

A Treasury I created this morning while window shopping on Etsy.

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The Advent of Santa: Day Six

• art • Christmas • country life • country living • faith • family • farm • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • gifts • Holidays • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • photography • Photos • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • socks • stockings • thoughts • women • yarn

When we were children, my sister had a santa that looked much like today's Santa. I have no idea how she came to have him, but I distinctly recall he belonged to her for some reason. I am holding a brand new give-away ... details further on in this blog. As the years went by her Santa hung on the family Christmas tree each year and when she became an adult and moved out, her Santa stayed with the family collection at my parents' house. I always liked him because he had such a wonderful, old-fashioned look. When my husband...

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