The first commercially produced Christmas card was created in London in 1843, at a time when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol and Queen Victoria was introducing German Christmas traditions to the British populace. The popularity of Christmas cards grew throughout the mid-nineteenth century and spread to both sides of the Atlantic. Imagery on Victorian [...]
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Sitting in the dark
Listening to silence
Lights from the Christmas tree
Illuminating the room
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a blessed Christmas and wonderful New Year…
Peace & Love,
Jill
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Phone rings
Sweet
Hello
Breakfast bar
Bellies
Full
Grandma’s car
Speaker
Phone
Check balance
Papa’s
Giftcards
Giggling girls
Sitting
Waiting
Aunt Jilly
So
Silly
Mimicking voices
Burping
Crapola
Searching site
Highspeed
Internet
Laughing still
Singing
Jingle-bells
Balances checked
Twenty-five
Ten
Unknown lingo
Venti
Bold
Bye Aunt-Jilly
Gotta
Go
Drop-off babies
Starbucks
Ho
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Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Carnival, annual festival marking the final day before the Christian fast of Lent, a 40-day period of self-denial and abstinence from merrymaking. Mardi Gras is the last opportunity for revelry and indulgence in food and drink before the temperance of Lent. The term Mardi Gras is French [...]
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Two of my favorite things to collect are boxes and jewelry, and although I’ve always stashed certain pieces of jewelry in different boxes that are kept in various places throughout the house, I’ve never had a real jewelry box…until now!
One of my favorite things to do and fondest memories of when I was a little [...]
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