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Hello Again,
I just have a couple of photos today. Ashley will be back in a few days and I can ask her if we took all
the pictures or if she just missed a couple over the
emailing.
The first one is (and you can tell I took it) from
Brenda at The Rusty Thimble. It's one of her Santa
Make-Dos that she posted earlier in the month on
Etsy:

Great, I cut off his hat. Here's Brenda's photo (much better). He is mounted on a vintage beehive bobbin and his wool Christmas tree has a big rusty star tree
topper. He's got rusty bells on his coat and the tip of his hat. This is Brenda's photo of the Snowman makedo that I purchased. He's (she?) has a big rusty bell on the end of it's green wool army blanket hat.
When I received the snowman in the mail, the box and the makedo is covered with all of this wonderful sparkly mica. It's so pretty in person.

Here's my photo on the mantel (I don't know why I
subject you to this terrible photography):

 
The rest of the pictures are going to be from Brenda's
Etsy Shop.
These are ornaments I bought for Ashley and Tim's Christmas tree:
                         
Our Santa has a red wool cap but otherwise he is like this one. His beard is curly sheep's wool.
                         
A Santa head ornament with tea stained face and wool hat and sheep's wool beard.
                         
A prim black Santa Ornie with white button eyes,
a red painted hood and coat trimmed in faux fur.
He has a pinch-stitched nose and flax beard and
rusty bell on the tip of his hood and a jute rope belt with tiny pine cones on the ends of the belt.
This next photo is also Brenda's from her Etsy Shop.
 
My ornie is not quite like this one. I have a green
polka dot print with a dotted ruff but mine also
has a bow under his ruff made from white tape
measure ribbon with green numbers. It's adorable.
Thanks for the photos, Brenda.
I had sent Sheila of Seasons of Thy Heart blog some
bittersweet for autumn since it reminds her of her
time lived in New England. She graciously sent me
this in return (I know I got the better deal!):

Sheila is known for her trademark "rusty can" florals and she has a process for doing the rust and then
applying the 'vintage' labels with a special layer over that (I don't know how she does it but they are awesome!). Here's a close-up of the can:

See the little strip of homespun tied around the lip of the can? It had an awesome special prim tag with it
but Nana Glen Oaks said she remembered doing
'something' with it but what that is she doesn't know
(ok, she gets a pass for being almost 86). I'm still
peeved tho. It was very pretty.
I'm going to close up for now. I hate to say it but I'm
fighting off another cold.  Just going to make supper
clean up the kitchen and get into my chair and watch
TCM if it's a good nite, otherwise it'll be Netflix.
Mr. Glen Oaks finished the rear shocks and replaced a shackle on the right rear. He came in soaked to the
skin and shivering. Poor bubba, he ate bacon, eggs and English muffins and is doing his office work now.
He's so easy to please.
Stay Prim, girls
Susan

    Thank you TheGraphicsFairy for the vintage image

I SAID I WASN'T....

Ok, you knew I was gonna post before midnight, didn't you?
I couldn't help it, look at this:

The tree is from Karen at Sew Many Ways. Adorable or what??? She used a galvanized tub for the bucket that looks
like Santa's coat. Read about it HERE. She has a tutorial
for the Santa ornaments HERE. They are in the photo right
above. The tutorial for the peppermint candy garland can

be found HERE.
OK, I'm going back to my reading list...
Susan

vintage graphics from magicmoonstudio and vintagecatnip

MY GIVEAWAY WIN AND SOME TREATS I BOUGHT

HoHoHo, it's a happy week here in Western Massachusetts.
Here's my fabulous giveaway win from Steph at
Front Porch Primitives.

 He's on his way to Massachusetts and Steph says he should arrive next Thursday. I hope he likes it here.
The cutest thing is that Santa can come out of the little pocket and I can put anything in there for the different seasons or occasions. Isn't that cool?


I also did a little shopping the other night at The Rusty Thimble Etsy Shoppe.
Here's what I couldn't resist:

This OOAK Santa Makedo from Brenda was my first choice. I had to grab him before someone else did.
I think he's going to my Ashley (Shhh! don't tell) or
maybe these ornaments:

This is Brenda's Santa Head Ornament. His beard is super curly little sheep's wool curls!

This sweet guy is similar to mine, he's in a green herringbone and cream tweed stocking and his hat is  Christmas Red and his chenille candy cane peeks out of the stocking like the one above.

 Finally, this is Brenda's Primitive Santa Ornament. I love his coat and hood, she painted him and he's slightly stiffened but flexible. I don't know what she did but I love the way it looks and feels. Isn't his little black face with the button eyes sweet?

The "boys" are busily working on my roof,
gosh are they SUPER efficient and GOOD!
Mr. Glen Oaks is a master carpenter so I know
if he's impressed, there's something really
special going on with this crew. My son-in-law
(Happy Birthday, Timmy!!) works for the owner
of this company, and he's a good friend of 
Ashley and Tim's. So they've replaced the ridge
line, the trusses, joists, built the roof and have the new shingles installed. They aren't quite done, but the
roof is going to be finished tonight, I imagine. We
went with the new architectural shingles, they mimic
the look of the weathered cedar shakes on the antique
homes of Cape Cod. Plus, they have a lifetime limited
warranty so the shingles will be here longer than I will!
I think we're going to go with white for the house and
either dark green or black shutters, doors. I know it's
really common and not terribly inventive but the 
antique Capes and Colonials just look so sweet to us
in those basic colors that I think we'll be happy with it.
This house was built in 1932 so it isn't exactly an
antique Cape but I think it's going to look adorable.
Of course that won't be done until early summer of
next year but it's something fun to look forward to.
The replacement windows that the previous owners had installed are white so you can't paint them and
you basically have a funny looking house with white windows, a different trim color and then your house color. I am in no position to replace windows so this is the most efficient and cost effective way to give us an almost "new" house to go with our new roof.
The inside/upstairs will be torn apart for probably most of the winter. Since hubba is the only one that can work on the house (I used to be able to do things like paint, cut, measure, etc., but since the 4 surgeries I'm pretty much out of the picture) I'm figuring that it will be quite a while before it's done. I want him to take his time and not be stressed out,
I'm not one of those people that has to have everything done as soon as possible and have the house back together. I have a lot of patience so we're going to work together one room at a time and go from there. I'm so excited!
I know I haven't posted any pictures for you like I promised to have vintage Christmas/Holiday images for you, they are on my laptop which is still at the computer hospital.I think I'm getting it back tonight or tomorrow. If I can I'll go on the vintage holiday images website and see what she has for us. I know the Graphics Fairy has been posting some great Father Santa and Christmas postcards/vintage images and I always visit Karen's blog when I can.
So I might be back later with some images. Make sure you visit Our Pioneer Homestead. She's doing 12 Christmas Holiday craft tutorials starting yesterday.
Make sure you visit if you can if you love colonial crafts.
Warm Holiday Wishes Everyone!
Susan