Off to a fresh start!!

I want to make this a healthier time for me and mine.  With all this good stuff I'm going to try my hand at Homemade Washing Powder.  Are you doing anything out of the ordinary for 2011?

I made this a few years ago.  Every year a ball or two falls off, but everybody likes so it goes back up.

I finally got the tree up.

I wish I had the light that goes with it.  Next year I'll have different color balls.

ho! ho! ho!

I love Santa ornaments.  Do you have a favorite kind of ornament?

What could it be?

Could a memory be so obvious?  This tree was in my husbands home when he was growing up.  I found it in the clean up and wouldn't let it go into storage.  I remember this kind of tree in my childhood.  Did you have the same tree?  The tree with all its shine and the smells that came from the kitchen.  Now these are my memories.

Whew!!! I made it.

What a birthday!   My camping/junking trip got rained out.  So I did the next best thing.  I found an indoor spot. I found a few things.  Now I have to figure out what to do with them.  The  muffin pan goes with my other kitchen junk.  The little green vase? Oh, well it's green, that's enough.  A Life magazine from the week I was born has great illustrations.  A bunch of fringe from a bedspread and a ribbon of, I think, tatting.  Any ideas on what to do with that?Tthanks Vicki and Karen for the good wishes = }

The Big 50 eve

I turn 50 tomorrow, the 13th.  My camping plans were shot down due to rain, so I'll stay home and be lazy.  At my house that doesn't mean the same as some people.  I think I'll go junking instead.  What would you do in this case?