DECORATING TIME #2

 Hello dear Friends!

Every year I look forward to

getting out my angel

collection.  I don't buy anymore

now as I have plenty.

They are certainly some

of my favorite decorations and

are predominately by Nicol Sayre.

At couple years back, I made the

Ephemera Nativity piece

below left.

What's not to love

about decorating

for Christmas?

More to come......

BAKE A LOVELY CARROT CAKE

Yesterday I baked a Carrot Cake.

I had been sewing downstairs and

at about 3:30 pm I thought I'm 

going to quit and go bake something.

Do you love to bake?

As you can see the cake was quickly

cut and enjoyed after dinner.  

Several pieces went to Senior neighbors

and slices were frozen for another

day down the road.

This cake is really so easy to make and

requires 4 cups of grated carrots, 4 eggs,

1 Cup vegetable oil, 2 cups flour,

2 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking powder and

1 cup chopped walnuts for the cake

body.  Always mix the dry ingredients

 first and then add the eggs and oil.

We are talking 350 degrees for

baking 30 minutes in a regular oven

or 25 minutes convection oven.

The icing was wonderful too and easy.  

1 pkg 8 Oz cream cheese, 4 Tb butter, 

1 3/4 Cups of Confectioners Sugar, 

1 tsp lemon juice and 1 tsp vanilla

 all mixed together and then another

 1/2 cup walnuts sprinkled on top.

This week I had fun making some little

Ephemera Thanksgiving cards:

To me the Canadians have a better

situation in that they have their 

Thanksgiving in October and move

on to decorating for Christmas.

I also made an ephemera Thanksgiving

medallion for my kitchen

window:

We had a rainy night and now

a very windy day so staying in

seems quite delightful.

DECORATING FOR CHRISTMAS #3

On this 3rd day I am sharing

just a few more decorations. 

I love getting out the Ephemera

paper ornaments:

I see I have issues with my blog on all

 my old posts and in the sidebar below.

  I am guess that is related to when I

changed my blog link address back a few years ago as I didn't want to pay for a

 domain name anymore in retirement.  

  I love technology but not some days! 

 Maybe I will work on that this winter

 when things are slower.

I hope you are enjoying this season

of decorating and baking and crafting.

I have been enjoying trying some new

recipes and pulling out quite a few

past Christmas recipes.

Of course, some snow would sure

make things more festive here.

In all these years, I have never

made the candy called Christmas

Peppermint Bark.  I definitely

want to try that one this year.

DECORATING FOR CHRISTMAS #2

 

It's always a happy time when the

red transferware comes out for

Christmas.

I was never a red person but I have to say

collecting red transferware has sure caused

me to love it.

Fresh greenery is always so wonderful:

I have shown you these same decorations

over the years....

Last year I had fun making

some Ephemera paper ornaments

and I hope to be able to do some more

tree ornaments this year but where does

time go when one loves to sew and bake 

and do crafts?

When I was young I never left the

furniture in the same spot.....maybe

I need to think about that again!

Just like many of you,

I love Christmas books:

And another Collage:

A REAL PIONEER WOMAN IN BOONVILLE

 I have shared several posts about a town

 west of Columbia called Boonville and

 a town east of here called Fulton.

Today my husband and I went over to

Boonville to the Visitors Center.  The

town along the Missouri River

 is now 200 years old. 

When we ride over to Boonville , I usually take photos of the old Victorian and Edwardian homes and their gardens. 

 I have posted some of these before here on

my blog but today the with the colors of

the leaves - everything was aglow:

I took these photos from in

inside of our car.

I always admire this Bed and Breakfast:

It looks like it has a new name 

and a fresh new look.

What I want to share about now

is the fascinating story about the

real life pioneer woman who

first settled there.  Her name was

Hannah Cole.  I have read all the

documents I could find about her on

line and I am in awe about her

personal quality of endurance.

Hannah was actually originally from Virginia as I also am.  Here is her story if you would 

like to read all the many details about her.  I would not have made a very good pioneer woman myself because I don't like to be cold.  How this woman raised 9 children

without a husband is absolutely amazing.

A few weeks ago I was on a crafting roll

and created some Ephemera for a few of the history centers in nearby towns for them to sell.   Here are the ones I made about

 Hannah

Cole for Boonville:

No photo was ever taken of photo but that

is a photo of her youngest son,

Samuel, when he

was old.  

I have visited Roslyn Heights before

and taken photos so I made these

for them:

These were for our Boone County

History and Culture Center and depict 

one of the first families who built

 Maplewood House here

in 1877, the Lenoir's.  their

daughter, Lavinia married Dr. Frank

Nifong who founded the local

Boone Hospital.

And lastly this was one of the ones

I did for the

Churchill Museum in Fulton:

It always feels good when

 something

is done. 

MEDALLIONS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY, TEA ROOMS AND FOR FUN

The last few weeks I have been working

at making some paper ephemera medallions

for my Bernideen's Tea Time etsy page.

I have 2 large ones and 6 small ones done.

I hope you can check them out.

I have spent a lot of time on these.

Some are Valentines, others are

Queen Victoria themed and others

are French - Eiffel Tower themed.
I am sending this one to a sweet 
young friend in Colorado Springs:

And this one will go to another former customer

and friend who lives in Woodland Park, Colorado.

She will be very surprised to hear from me: