Snowflake

 Snow flake

I had a nice little surprise the other evening 

when my neighbor girls came to my door

with this beautiful snowflake

they made out of paper for me.

I hung it on my kitchen window

to enjoy while working there.

so simple so thoughtful so meaningful!

thank you girls for the gift of

a snowflake!

love and blessings

ruby

 Joy to the World!!

love and blessings

ruby

Oh Christmas Tree

This year I decided to get a white 

Christmas Tree

Its 6ft tall

I have it setting in a old galvanized

bucket

the gifts I wrapped in brown paper and tied 

with a white sheer bow 

 or in white freezer wrap paper with silver ribbon

and a bow made with the freezer wrap 

The ornaments are either crystal

 white

 or mercury

 Silver

 and the crystal star shines at the top

It is rather simple, but that is how I like it!

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas Season!

Blessings

Ruby

love and blessing ruby

Christmas

                               Christmas  Are you ready to Celebrate the birth of our Savior?

I have the house decorated

the shopping is done

the baking not so much

I don't do a lot of that.

I enjoy eating it just not making it.

Hope you are enjoying the season as much as 

I am. 

Jesus is the reason for the season!!

blessings

ruby

3 of my sisters and I are headed

to Columbus Ohio to the 

Country Living Fair.

Hoping for a beautiful day

with the sun shining and a

cool breeze.

Who knows maybe I will see

you there.

love and blessings

Ruby

 

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

 I had this Boring  mirror to use as a full length

Mirror in the hall way.

 I was on the search for a more unique,

something with more character, not boring 

mirror. This is what I found.

  It has some neat details which I like.

luv the patina on it too.

and the refection of the bedroom.

from boring

to this.

And I can still use it as a full length mirror.

love and blessings

ruby

Extra large bag

I had 3 pair of old blue jeans laying 

around and this flowered piece of fabric in my 

stash of fabrics.Want to see what I did with them?

My niece gave me this pattern to use.

McCall's M6297

This bag is 15" W and 13" L (excluding handles)

with inside pockets.

and outside pockets.

I took the jeans pockets of the old blue jeans and sewed

 1 onto the front and 1 on the back of the outside for added

compartments. I also added the Levi's label

at the top. ( didn't want anything left unused.)

plenty of room for everything.

love and blessing

Ruby

Grocery bags

Do you ever get tried of the pile of plastic bags?

 I know I do. But I like to have some around

to use for this and that.

Well I found a clever way to down size my pile

and store them.

take your bag and flatten it out

next fold it in half

then in half again

now start at the bottom and fold up the corner

like a triangle

keep folding till you get to the top

now tuck the handle into the opening part of the triangle

see how easy that was.

now my pile looks like this

so much easier to store. and so much neater.

from this

 to this

so quick and easy 

every time you come home from the market

fold them up and store them. 

love and blessings

ruby

Recycle

Is this called recycling?

Today I cleaned out my husbands

lunch box (which by the way he usually does)

and I found all these little baggies

6 to be exact.

So I decided to wash them all w/ soap

and water and since it was such a gorgeous day out,

sun shining breezy and in the high 70's

I decided to hang them out on the wash line to dry.

 hopefully they will dry nicely and he can reuse them.

I LIKE THAT ! any thing to save money.

 Have you ever washed out your baggies and reused them?

would love to hear from you.

love and blessings

ruby

Canning

 I have been so busy lately

 on my days off I've

canning and freezing vegetables from

my garden which I am very grateful for.

 I've been canning hot peppers

 Tomato juice

pizza sauce

 its such a good feeling and

 so nice to be able to go to my shelves this 

winter and cook up something for supper.

I pulled my onions and garlic and laid them out  to dry.

 Don't think I'll have to buy any for a long time.

I like that!

hope your summer is going well

and your garden is giving you lots of goodies

like mine is.

love and blessings

ruby