tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47535327987577559832024-02-07T04:47:34.867-05:00A Cottage Near The WoodsTessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-66930665545835198892013-12-18T07:38:00.000-05:002013-12-18T07:41:51.477-05:00Do you sometimes, get a "feeling"...?
(First icicle, the other morning...)
But it's a lazy snow, that's falling this morning (Wed.). The kind of snow, that you hardly notice, against the grayness and snowy-cover of the early day. Then, it's pace seems to pick up. No longer do the flakes seem to fall in slow motion. Now, they have work to do! Laying another blanket on the cold earth.
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ThisTessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-79361923044870833022013-12-17T08:34:00.000-05:002013-12-17T08:34:41.128-05:00Full Long Nights Moon...
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Tonight is the Full Long Night's Moon...
"The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon – December
During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at
their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before
Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the
midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the
Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-33960989037074332522013-12-15T10:41:00.000-05:002013-12-15T10:43:49.302-05:00Yes, we got snow!!!
Yet another Christmas themed "cozy" mystery! Great Series! But it should be read, from the beginning. Each book has a different mystery, but the cast of characters continue. And you get to love them. :-) Here is a link, to a marvelous place, which gives the List of these books, in order.
Yes, we got snow!
Sat. the bird bath fountain Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-15834182192816073122013-12-14T08:47:00.003-05:002013-12-14T08:47:30.401-05:00Snow comin'~~~"Party-Party"~~~Old Times
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Saturday Night
Snow likely. Low 16F. Winds ENE at 10 to 15 mph. 8 to 12 inches of snow expected.
So, that's our weather forecast for Sat. night. Looks like the Snow Faeries will really be active tonight. :-))
(Btw, I really don't like "blinging pics," but it is kind-of appropriate, for this post.)
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Our Christmas parties duties are over now.&Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-50655793602860457492013-12-13T10:17:00.001-05:002013-12-13T10:17:56.898-05:00Finding Photo Ops~~~Snow~~~Quotes~~~
More picture taking fun... It's too cold to go out and take pictures... So I am left with what I can "imagine," inside. :-)
Yes, this is of outside. But taken, just opening the patio door and aiming the camera OUT. ,-) Put the inside Halloween pumpkin... Out back. I can keep taking pics of it, as it goes through the winter. Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-28831264182045634222013-12-12T09:13:00.000-05:002013-12-12T09:13:02.519-05:00Snow?~~~Santa, are you listening?~~~
A perfect bit of snow, is on the pumpkin. :-)
"Mrs. Jeffries And The Merry Gentlemen"
by Emily Brightwell
Isn't that a cute cover? And this is another cute entry in the "Mrs. Jeffries Mysteries" series... A very Seasonal "cozy" mystery.
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Will we be in for a real winter snow storm, in "my neck of the woods", this coming weekend...? Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-1354957312462739252013-12-11T08:33:00.002-05:002013-12-11T09:17:30.330-05:00Here and there, around the house... PLEASE WATCH!!!
PLEASE WATCH THIS!!!!
I guarantee you will have happy tears in your eyes, when you do!!!!!!!
Candle, on kitchen island...
Looking at doorway, from den, into front room...
Over kitchen table, into hearth room wall...
Looking at door, from kitchen, into den...
Den window, looking at evening star...
"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - eachTessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-75625096422349421112013-12-10T10:05:00.002-05:002013-12-10T10:05:33.034-05:00"Yes Gabriel, there will be a little train, around "Pop's" Christmas Tree..."
We seem to have the perfect Holiday Time Snow.
Just enough to cover a bit.
But not so much, to disrupt much. And since it's stayed c-o-l-d, what little we got, has stayed. Making a pretty cover... I really love to have a bit of snow cover, at Christmas/Yule time.
Today is hair trim day. I think I will "abandon" the Pixie cut, and go all the way (Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-68673499125624013592013-12-09T08:49:00.004-05:002013-12-09T08:49:34.798-05:00Pie...Snow...Quote...Header...Pondering...Etc.
Mincemeat Pie
But did you ever see a Mincemeat Pie, like this????
I didn't feel like making a lattice top... So I took a champagne glass and cut out some holes, in top crust. -giggles- Ho, ho, ho...
This time we did get some snow. And now, some sort of precipitation is falling.
"The days are short,
the weather's cold,
by tavern Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-41211932727821591922013-12-08T09:37:00.000-05:002013-12-08T09:37:07.589-05:00This and that... On Dec. 8th...
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Have you ever made Mincemeat Tarts? I make Mincemeat Pie for my husband. But would like to try Tarts, sometime... They look so cute.
The weather report missed, for Fri. night. They said we could get 1-3 inches of snow. Nope. Just a little. And it's all gone, by (Sat.) afternoon.
My 2014 calendar came... That was a good thingTessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-37333774571707820872013-12-07T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-07T07:00:00.160-05:00This and that, from Friday...
More faerie lights!!!!! :-))))))
Actually saw geese going over, Fri. morning. But, typically, I didn't get good pics.
Dairy, in a glass bottle! Which you return to the store, for your refund. Isn't that super?!?!? Actually, this is "1/2 and 1/2", which I got in the Healthy Living Store.
Yes, I'm *unnecessarily* happy, over Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-52852428683129593252013-12-06T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-06T07:00:09.583-05:00"...the French plums blushed in modest tartness..."
Susan Branch knows "WHIMSEY." :-) I took photos of pages, from my copy of her "Christmas From The Heart Of The Home." Susan knows whimsey. !!!!!!!
And of course, everyone knows she is a very, very, very talented artist. Not only with her art-itself, but with personally writing, all the copy in her books.
-happy sigh-
My husband is making me Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-23146245102955878962013-12-05T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-05T07:00:01.351-05:00In need of warming... :-)))
My sleepy little Mouse, which I've had for a long time. Awwwww, I think he is just so cute. And he reminds me of a favorite Christmas Time book....
"Mr. Willoby's Christmas Tree."
This may well have been a book, which I first learned of, on the old tv program "Captain Kangaroo."
Now there is "an old chestnut." ,-) Yes, I'm so "olden," that my kids watched "Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-81256697364104251092013-12-04T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-04T07:00:01.842-05:00Blogging theme questions...
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Searching
again, for blogs which love/display magical thinking and whimsey and faeries,
etc. Really the only one I have found, which balances out all these things... Is Cielo's. I first found her "The House In The Roses" blog, and loved it. She has moved and now writes in "The Here And Now" blog.
Faerie lights
Her way of Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-89067008686806751452013-12-03T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-03T07:00:01.775-05:00Reading... For wishing... For courage to do... What we wish for... :-)
Commenting in a friend's blog, I was reminded of the book "Unplug The Christmas Machine." I've had it for years, and think it's marvelous. It helps one be *brave* enough to buck-the-trend, of this Holiday Season.
The trend which is constantly being pushed on us, in adds, and tv, and in magazines, and news papers, and in stores, and in the Mall, and even the radio... Buy, Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-11920828250569361632013-12-02T09:31:00.000-05:002013-12-02T09:34:31.077-05:00Dec. 2nd... Some old... Some new...
I so loved some of these Christmas Holiday store displays, downtown... That I use these photos, again and again. (Sorry, to anyone who has seen them before... -grin-) I really have to take photos of downtown, this Season...
These first two pics are of a down street toy store, called "Geewillikers"... (And it's an example of taking a photo, withTessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-29864768425913910772013-12-01T10:26:00.000-05:002013-12-01T10:27:41.334-05:00December 1st... About the Celebration...
Some decorating done... Even the mantle (above) isn't fully done, but it looks colorful and bright with Faerie Lights.
The collection of hand-carved Santas... Which my husband has made, over the years. Wooden decorations are nice. They won't break, over the packed-away-time. :-)
I love sweet old fashioned Christmas illustrations!
This post is Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-74517228628179278072013-11-29T09:24:00.002-05:002013-11-29T09:24:59.832-05:00The Day After Turkey-Day...
Hope you had a delightful Thanksgiving!
Now!
Today!
The Day-After!
Nope!
Not 'Black Friday' Sales!!!!!
No!!!!
It's bring down the Christmas decorations!
And put away the Thanksgiving decorations!
Yesssss!!!!!!!
Here, anyway...
:-)
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Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-91553686017499412052013-11-23T11:46:00.000-05:002013-11-23T11:46:44.802-05:00For a little while..................
Periodically, my back pains me. When this happens, I can not sit at my computer for long.
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I have to sit in my med. recliner, with ice pack on my back. If I deal with my back, this way...... It will cease hurting. If I don't, it will continue to hurt.
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So I apologize ahead of time, for not being able to read and Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-54474146730978892012013-11-22T09:43:00.001-05:002013-11-22T09:44:06.702-05:00"If you didn't know how old you are, how old would you be?"
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I love Doris Roberts!
I want to be this active, and this feisty, when I'm 88!
Wow!
Please read more about Doris Roberts by clicking here...
Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-60897984110654976882013-11-20T09:31:00.003-05:002013-11-20T09:31:59.291-05:00Old fashioned~Pretty~~~~~And Spoiler Alert~
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Isn't that lovely? It's called "The Lady Of The Snows" by George Henry Boughton. It is the cover art, on the latest 'Victorian Trading Co.' catalog. They know how to gently get someone "in the mood" of the Season. :-)
I say "gently," because they simply display beautiful items. Mostly old fashioned looking items. Not the glitzy Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-81031414302734559892013-11-19T09:22:00.000-05:002013-11-19T09:22:59.645-05:00No pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No new photos today...
So I put more into my "Sometimes I Write" Page.
"Stepping outside the box?"
For, if you want to look.
No pressure.
Only if you want to.
:-)
Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-89030894194970697012013-11-18T09:04:00.000-05:002013-11-18T09:04:17.275-05:00Excited... :-))))))
Above, is the Apple Pie I made for son-next-door-&-family, on Sat.
I'm so excited. Found that I can pre-order a Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving!
My next door daughter in law loves Pumpkin Pie, but she has to eat G/F, as I do. I always make her a Pumpkin Pie, and she will just eat the filling. Neither of us, can eat the old fashioned crust Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-43539269099181291602013-11-17T09:08:00.001-05:002013-11-17T09:08:54.329-05:00Just, a link...
Today, I don't have a *real* post.
I simply say that I added to my Page of "Sometimes I Write"...
Continuing yesterday's musings, on The Holiday Season and Celebration.
A hint... Today I search for OUR personal choice of the perfect Holiday Season and Celebration.
:-)
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Tessa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/09449615143140825274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753532798757755983.post-6612838584705215972013-11-16T09:02:00.000-05:002013-11-16T09:43:36.506-05:00Book...Decorating...Question...
Another delightfully illustrated book, by Elsa Bedskow. Oh these drawings make me want to draw some, just like them... Myself.
My Header (the silhouette) is from inside this book..
I finally finished decorating my mantel. And a good thing that is. It's close to Thanksgiving. And when it gets close to a holiday, I get *antsy* to change decorations.
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