Happy New Year 2017/2018

Happy New Year dear Friends.

May 2018 bring you all that you wish for. 

May you be happy, healthy and prosperous. 

I thank you for your visits.  

Happy New Year, 

Gina 

Don't want to be left behind...

want to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.

Thank you for your visits,

Gina 

Easy and quick Christmas decorating ideas

Gather a few oranges, lemons and apples.

Add a few greens.

A few cloves.

Unpack old friends.

Don't forget to hang a few ornaments outside.

Fresh roses save the day.

What is Christmas without candles.

A glass of Glühwein makes the spirit bright.

It's not too late to paint a few glass Christmas ornaments. 

Hand painted wooden hearts and hand painted glass Christmas ornaments inside glass vase.

 A chair...provides color for an otherwise empty corner. 

If  the top of the cabinet needs a little color.

The older, the better.

A pomegranate makes the difference.

 Bring a little sunshine into the scene.

Pomanders last a long time.

Life Saver Garlands are favorite decorations.

A Putti here and there.

Acorns add an unusual touch.

And I love Orchids and Hellebore for Christmas.

Soon it will be Christmas. 

Thank you dear friends for stopping by.  

I appreciate each and everyone of you.

Gina 

https://betweennapsontheporch.net/
https://normandylife.blogspot.ca/2017/12/mosaic-monday-66-tis-season.html

Irresistible, No?

Hand painted with original designs.



Cotton drawstring bags that hold all kinds of treasures.  

Available for only a Song in my Etsy Shop.

Do you collect flower seeds, do you dry your own herbs, do you make your own soaps, do you make special jewellery, do you like to give lace handkerchief's? 
They all fit into this special little bag.  

So perfect for the Holiday Season.  All available in my Etsy shop

Or come to the Spring City Art Gallery on December 1 and 2.  



Just in time for Christmas giving, little cotton drawstring bags to hold small treasures and gifts.



In lovely sepia tones.



And in grey and white.

And in many colors.

They're only $3 each.  So, hop on over to my Etsy shop  
 before they're all gone.

Have a great weekend my dear Friends

Gina

So delicious and so easy

My very special Squash Bread Recipe

This is a Lakota Squash, any winter squash will do. 

Squash Bread Recipe

2 cups of cooked squash

3 eggs beaten

2 cups sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup light olive oil 

3/4 cup chopped nuts
1 cup of almond meal (optional)

1/2 cup golden raisins

Mix all ingredients

juice and grated zest from one lemon and one orange

Mix together

Add 3 cups of flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda. 

Mix by hand with wooden spoon until all ingredients are 

well incorporated. 

Grease 2 loaf pans 

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes and reduce heat to 300 and bake another 15 to 20 minutes. Test with toothpick.  

This is the bread to bake.  It is foolproof. 

Squash bread freezes well. 

Recipe also makes great tasting muffins. 


Bake something and have fun.

Gina

https://betweennapsontheporch.net/
http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/

Using our Pond as launching pad

Wild Geese gather first

They fly in every morning. 

I don't know where they spend the night.  

All day long they go back and forth...to the plowed field, and then again to the Pond. 

This happens every year.

One day, they all fly away. 

And then come the wild ducks.
Hundreds of them.  They will stay all winter.  

Sheep don't have a choice.

  These yearlings don't know that they are supposed to mind the dogs. 

And that confuses the dogs AND the sheep. 

I know that you know where you are going 

Gina