prairie mouse

last one for two thousand and eight

i just couldn't resist just one more post to see the old year out and the new one in especially when i have spent a lovely day and have photos to share.

my dear friend jules has a plum tree and it was us or the birds. we went and shook and picked and squealed as plums showered down on us.

we cut some of the branches and when we had got the plums we put them in an old milk pail - styling darling! then we started.....

washing and sorting then getting our pots bubbling.

till we had one whole jar to show for our toil!

and before we knew it, a bounty of sauce and sweetness. we called them threshold plums seeing as we are on one today.

happy happy new year!!!! xxx

merry merry!!!

it was a race to the finish line to get all 24 things finished for the advent bags. i loved making them but i found not ever being able to drop the ball really hard. december was not going to wait for me! 

we took them all down today, letting the angel have a little time with the rest of the line up before she was bought and whisked away into a stocking. thank you kay for letting me dress the window and playing in it for the month! i replaced the advent crew with a banner which will stay in store until after new year.

i want to wish you all a very happy holiday. its been another amazing year in this special community we have. the comments you leave me are not always answered (slack old tart i am!) but they are so appreciated. see you in the new year xxx

twenty four

twenty three

twenty two

twenty one

twenty

elsewhere in the grotto...........

prairie has been busy. how could she not pick up a needle with all the advent activity going on around here! 

and what is christmas without a little house. luckily for us there is a little shop nearby who bring in american food so when i saw the graham crackers i grabbed them.

it was all looking so pretty until a great big snake appeared in the yard. what?!! but then she added eyes and a sweet little tongue, a little snow friend and all was well again. (the other snow friend was my contribution)

nineteen

eighteen