Month: December 2009
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Southern Blogversary!
Wow, Thursday, December 17th is my 1 year blogversary. One year ago, I had never heard the term blogversary! A little over a year ago, I had been thinking that I would like to have a blog. I had taught etiquette courses and I collect etiquette books and cookbooks and have a pretty good collection…
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Southern Christmas Visits
et’s do a little more visiting tonight with some of the family and see what kind of Christmas decorations they’ve got going on. First, we’ll check out an outside picture from Mama’s house. Verry pretty! Let’s go inside and have a look at their tree: Oh, and are those nutcrackers up on the shelf? Hmmm,…
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Southern Christmas Cookies
I love Christmas cookies and candy. They are fun to make and even more fun to eat. We can worry about the pounds in January! These are a couple of my favorite cookbooks for Christmas treats. Peppermint Meringues 2 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract 1/2 cup sugar 6 drops red food coloring (optional) 1…
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More Southern Christmas
In 9 days it will be Christmas! Can you believe it? I can’t. We have plenty of decorations around here, but, alas, no large tree. We love the large trees but we just have a little one this year. We love to visit with family that have decorations! Here is some more from Mama: It’s…
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Southern Reflections
Join Chari at Happy to Design for Sunday favorites and Charlotte and Ginger at Blogger Spirit for Spiritual Sunday and enjoy your Sunday This post is from December 29th of last year. At that time, I had recently lost my job. Something that I had never had to deal with before. It turns out, it…
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Southern Furry Friends
Today, for Pink Saturday, I want to show you a couple of special Christmas Stockings in our home. There are no children in our home, but we still hang stockings, and, we fill them. One of my favorite stocking stuffers was from my husband. The year had been pretty lean and we really didn’t have…
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Southern Home Tour
It is so much fun to see all the Christmas decorations. In the store windows, on the street, and in the homes of people we love as well as our own homes. When the days are short, it certainly brightens up not only the landscape, but our moods as well (at least mine)! It is…
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Southern Party at the Mansion
What mansion would that be? The Palace on the Prairie, the Marland Mansion in Ponca City Oklahoma. My mother and her husband, Chester hosted a party for all the church staff in the Kay Baptist Association at the Marland Mansion this week. Chester is the Director of Missions for the association. They have had this…
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Southern Holiday
What a fun week this has been. Seeing how everyone is celebrating Christmas! Something short and sweet (and spicy) tonight. Here is what is going on outside! I have more shots to share but, I’m trying to space them out this month. I’ll probably end up at the end of the month with dozens I…
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Southern Ornaments
An ornament party with Centsational Girl! Click to go to the Party Time for Deck the Halls with Thoughts From Over The Rainbow! – Every Tuesday It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time for decorating and baking and caroling and celebrating the birth of Christ! Today, I want to share with you some…
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Southern Christmas by the Fire
I’m finally getting around to getting a little decorating done around here. I started with this wreath in the kitchen. This wreath is decorated with an assortment of old pieces of silver flatware. The flatware is getting a little tarnish these days. There are also a couple of special ornaments on this wreath. If you…
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Southern Sunday Favorite
Join Chari at Happy to Design for Sunday favorites and Charlotte and Ginger at Blogger Spirit for Spiritual Sunday and enjoy your Sunday I’m not going back to far at all today for a favorite. Not far at all, Just back to last Wednesday’s post with pictures of the December sky. Earlier, I talked about…
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Southern Memories
A Christmas memory? Oh, so many it is hard to narrow it down. How about this one. Those are kind of peachy pink pajamas aren’t they Beverly? This was taken in 1967 (yes I am that old). From left to right that is my little sister Linda, my big sister Tammy and me with the…
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Southern Party!
What an exciting day! Marty’s Cloche Party at A Stroll Through Life and Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum and a first for me with Show and Tell Friday with My Romantic Home. Whew, this is going to be FUN!! I’ve been showing you pictures from my mother, sister and nephews homes this past week.…
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Southern Fireside Supper
It has been a really busy week and the weather turned sharply cooler today. Time to stay in and have a cozy supper by the fire for today’s edition of Tablescape Thursday. I started with a small table in front of the fire. So glad I got a red tablecloth. It has had so many…