This New Year

stillness

solitude

beauty

love

This new year... most of all

I wish you peace

Ebay & Etsy Shops COME TAKE A LOOK

An art deco glass trinket dish, currently on etsy.

Queen Victoria & King George Coin bracelet, earliest coin dates
1896, three pence coins. Currently on etsy.

Lovely bracelet with turquoise beads, on etsy!

These great, enameled laboratory dishes are on etsy.

Beautiful butterfly seed bead embellishment awaits a crafty etsy-er.

Circa 1941 or 42 syrup decanter on etsy.

The lovely hand mirror above, dated 1891, sold.

Treasured forget-me-not stick/collar pin from Victorian era, on ebay sold.

These salt and pepper shakers, marked ITALY await you on etsy, too!

ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE (unless otherwise marked) and for sale at my etsy and ebay shops! Please click on link to the right for etsy shop.

My ebay user ID is: THANKNUKINDLY

Please visit my shops often as I am adding items regularly (I am on winter break) and would love to see you there!

Holiday Wishes From My ELF Family

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Would You Mind, Santa?

Santa, would you mind dropping this down my chimney on Christmas?

Okay, I Decorated A REAL Tree, Too!

* that's a lotta cookies! *

* my great-nephew Ezra helps decorate cookies *

So, I decorated a tree and COOKIES, too!

We also had our family combined Christmas/Thanksgiving this weekend.

It's been a busy but great week!

I Decorated The Tree Today!

Well, yes, I did decorate A tree tonight.

A 3 and a half inch tree, that is!!!

LOL

Guess I better get on it, since Christmas is right around the corner!

(out to the garage I go...)

He's 19 now

This, is Matt.

This is MY family.

My boy is now 19, as of last Tuesday!

My, how time flies!

I remember taking the picture of him in the penguin suit, all nine pounds of him.

As if it were yesterday.

His whole world ahead of him then, and still today!

I love you, Matt!