My Ever Changing Rooms

Past photos of my home are proof I am constantly changing things around. My mom always said I would move the tub and toilet around weekly too, if I could figure out a way!

I made the quilt with embroidery and cross stitch and

the patchwork squares are about 1"x1".

The dolls at the top of my hutch were brought to me many years ago from the North Pole!

Way in the back, on the bottom shelf of my hutch, is my Little Red Riding Hood flip doll- the Grandma and wolf are hiding under her skirt when you flip her over the other way. I love her! She was from Santa too.

The photo in the big gold frame has a great story !

First of all, I found the frame ~without glass~ many years ago at a yard sale and paid only $2. I knew some day I would have the perfect use for it once I added glass. I did. The photo of E. and A. when they were little girls was taken in matching dresses of luscious velvet fabric in a rich color shade of purple with embroidered , lace edged bib collars. The best part... though this story became very long and rambling...

I bought each of the matching dresses at separate garage sales and they were even the right sizes for my girls. I couldn't believe it. It's like the dresses were waiting for me to find them. I don't think I paid more than a couple dollars for each. It makes quite a fun display impression, with the big frame and their purple velvets, especially since the story is one of serendipity.

It's Snowing At My House

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Anyone who knows me can testify that every year from Thanksgiving thru Valentine's Day

it is very FLAKY around our household!!

That's because I am just a crazy person that should be analyzed

when it comes to cutting paper snowflakes.

This year the snips of white paper are flying in every direction just a little early because I have decided to list my paper snowflake creations on my Etsy shop.

Be sure to watch for their arrival there.

This is a sample {above 2 photos} of the flakes that came off my scissors the other day in one sitting. I had to show them to you...if only to cool you off in this hot August heat!

I have always loved to cut flakes. I have cut them and saved them from year to year for 15+ years now. [I know there must be a diagnosis for this.] I used to save them in the pages of my old dictionaries I collected...but then, well, thousands and thousands wouldn't fit anymore. Now I keep them in a vintage red & white tin bread box I found thrifting. Now the kids know it only as "the snowflake box"; I doubt they even know it is a bread box. I cut them all by hand and sometimes I don't even know what they will look like until I unfold them.

I even have special very sharp, very pointy snowflake cutting scissors. The kids know they are off limits to them. What a mean Mommy I am.

These (below) are some past photos of my home.

The kids also cut snowflakes too and I save them and hang them too--even the ones that look like round doilies!! They are always amazed at their own progress from year to year...being able to cut them more detailed.

I hang theirs and mine together.

They are all magical.

Mine always have 6 distinctive points and are never round like a doily.

This (photos above) is my big living room window- floor to almost ceiling height. The flake hanging process had not yet been completed ...there are still windows showing!!!!

Note: I have since taken down the unattractive white valance curtain!

I hang EVERY WINDOW solid in the whole house and have been known to decorate other surfaces too.

The leaded diamond windows are in my kitchen at the front of my house. The red & white valance curtain is really more of a true red than this photo shows.

This (bottom photo) is the mirror on my wallpapered wall that I painted to match the wallpaper. It almost camouflages into the wallpaper. You can see if you click on it. You may also see the mirror in other "Curious Corners of my Home" posts.
I have more~ even better ~Flaky photos to share with you

and I will...as I come across them.