And then it was January….

Hello there my dear friends <3

I hope you had lovely holidays.

Mine were a busy whirlwind, I literally just spun in the flurry and quickness of it all.

Travels and guests and travels and guests.

I thought I’d do a little holiday wrap up, an homage to the sparkle of Christmas of sorts.

And a clink clink to a new year.

I decided that the only way for me to truly love my Christmas tree was to fill it with only things I love, each and every thing. Not like, fillers here and just a couple things I love there, but to consciously only choose one and each thing I love to place on the tree.

I had a white tree that was then flocked, and in the end it made me very happy, as I can tend to be a reluctant Christmas tree lover in my own home.  So, I guess I now have found my peace with it all.  

It’s just like collecting treasures, only collect what you love, as they say.

But the sparkle, that’s my favorite part.

I keep up fairy lights (as most of you do too) year round, because of that lovely sparkly glow. But the holidays just seem that more magical.  Love the bokeh of that image above.

So, my tree was happy (for me) in the end and added a lovely measure of light and color that I shall miss.

The living trees will stay up until it is time to plant them.

I have two 3 footers and two 4.5 footers.

I have a tree growing at the country house that I planted 18 years ago, when it was just 2 feet tall, and it is now over 20 feet tall.

Well, I just let out a sigh.

A good sigh.

All the wonderful little things in life…

Growing trees, holidays, people we love.

Lovely meals and laughs, and a bit of drama of course too.

New year’s table in colorful hues…

And me giggling non stop after drinking some champagne.

It was like I had taken laughing gas, I couldn’t stop, it was bizarre 🙂

Gumballs for all, fortune cookies everywhere.

It was a lovely time, followed up by snow and pretty mountains.

A real treat in our desert lands.

We do get a real, albeit short, winter here because of the higher elevation.

From December to February.

I do have a little holiday blues just because I loved the excitement of the season. But I’m not crying in a corner at all, because I have so many fun things that I want to do next.

Sprucing up my décor…

Working on some paintings, and new sculptures on my work bench.

These things make me so happy.

It is sunny today and I am in my country house office.

I’ve been sending out very Valentiney orders, I looove decorating for Valentine’s, do you?

And, I’m planning my garden seeds and happenings at both houses for the quickly approaching spring.

Should I grow another vegetable garden in the land of endless gophers?

I’m just not sure.

It would undoubtedly have to be all above ground.

These are the things on my mind these days my friends.

How are you out there?

I miss us, here, in bloglette land.

Social media is easy and quick and you get to connect with people more easily.

Which I love.

But there is a sense of something I can’t describe.

Maybe because it all happens so fast, and there is so much to see and the whole place is so saturated with beauty that you spin in a sort of lalaland that sucks you in, and you’ve seen so much but still are left wanting and you don’t know if you are coming or going? How is that possible? I do not know, haha! Am I wrong? Do you get what I’m saying?

I enjoy it enormously, but there is something I can’t put my finger on…

What could it be?

I think my blog is home.

And home may be a place to be again.

Could that be it?

Sometimes you gotta go see everything so that you can come back and enjoy home again.

Create an appreciation within yourself, or something like that I suppose.

Anywho…

I best be off.

 

Love love love, from me!

xoxoxo

 

Happy New Year!

Magic and wishes and stars forever to you!

(insert a bowing curtsy)

 

Wait until you see the pics I’m taking right now for my next post…

If you love dollhouses, I’ll see you soon <3

 

 

ps:  I love when she turns into a flower about a minute in…