My Field Days

  On a very hot and steamy August day in Houston, my sister and my niece had a Christmas craft planned for our family reunion.  I have this Reader’s Digest Santa made by our Nana… one of my truly prized possessions.  So it was a special treat to sit around the table folding those little […]

Oh what fun I had making this year’s ornaments.  I’ll begin here with thanks to my sweet G.  Without your help this year on the cutting and sanding, I’d still be working in that shop!   Love it when the sanding is complete and I can really start having fun.   First of all… the […]

Shondelle and Rondelle… these are happy, happy words in my Christmas vocabulary.  They belong in sentences like, “Please pass the salt and pepper”, but you say it like this… “I need the gold shondelles.” Oh my goodness!  How many times did my family sit around Nana’s dining room table strewn with beads and pearls and […]

It’s December!  I love this month for so many reasons.  If you’ve been reading my journal through the years, you know how much I love the “Holiday Happening” here in Portales.  It’s today… and I’m out of town.  But I’m there in spirit, and I’ll be looking forward to photos from family and friends. This […]

From the very first week in 2011, when we broke ground on the first project of the year, I knew what our Christmas gift would be.  It was a great pleasure to build a beautiful church building in Portales this year… complete with a lovely white steeple and wonderful stained glass windows.  I always love […]

From our barn to yours… Merry Christmas! ~

Some lifelong friends of ours moved into our neighborhood a couple of months ago.  I was out on a glorious winter walk this afternoon and stopped in to see their Christmas tree… and besides… I hadn’t seen their home since they got settled in.  There they were, cozy as you please, little grandchildren scurrying about.  […]