Pretty Pinks in Mid Winter

This Christmas I didn't have much time to bake.   Soooooo last week while blogging I came across some decadent cookies and I can't recall where they were.  Its never too late to bake cookies...even if they are called Cranberry Noels.  Valentine's IS coming and why couldn't they be called Cranberry Amour. Maybe I could have used heart cookie cutters.

I kept them in my pretty thrifted enamel container on a paper doily.   I do adore my enamel containers. 
The recipe is Martha Stewart's Cranberry  Noels.  Its an easy to make cookie filled with cranberries and pecans with that nice buttery flavor and is so yummy especially with coffee.

This weekend was cold at 0F but we still didn't get any snow and that continues to be so seasonally unusual.  The last of my pretty amarillus bloomed.  The day I blogged that I hadn't had one for a long time my son Richard came over with one for me.  They are so beautiful.

I wanted something pretty for my handmade votives and tealights and over Christmas I thrifted for this brand new Partylite wall sconce.  It was just what I wished for and only $5.00.

Its glows so nicely beside the picture Geoff painted for me when he was just a young teenager.

Pretty pinks in mid winter make me think of the oncoming spring. 
Its been a lovely time....enjoy.... Judi xoxo

Cottage Projects

At the cottage the weather has been wonderful except for the look of rain yesterday and actual raindrops this morning.

  Everything is still and the leaves on the trees are motionless. 

 the water barely ripples...

 

 The birds continue to sing and its very relaxing. 

This week I've worked on a chandelier for Madeline.  I spray painted a black metal chandalier white that I had thrifted, covered 5 little shades with a pink polka dot fabric.  

 

From the Fimo clay I made butterflies and flowers and a striped caterpillar to slip onto the chandelier under the shades.

It doesn't look good in this picture because its hanging cock eyed from a ceiling fan just so you can see it better.  I have yet to finish up the shades and see what else I'll add.  I'll show it to you once its complete. 

  

I took down the 2 sconces at the cottage that looked like this....

and gave them a bit of a spray and now they look like this... much better...

I am truly in vacation mode.  What has your weather been like and what you you been up to this week? Enjoy....Judi xoxo