My Christmasy Kitchen!!

AlbaMoretz Mayıs 30, 2022

My kitchen is all dressed for Christmas!

I love my cozy little corner by the sink!

AND the fragrance of cloves in the little vintage tin.

I have a wreathe in every room......

....and a tree!

This one holds ornaments from my children's childhoods.....

all four of them! Summer, Jesse, Amber and Benjamin!

I love looking at each one. Jesse made the little foil drum when he was 5 or 6 years old.

The happy lion was Summer's ornament from 1976.

Amazing how old some of these really are......

seems like yesterday I was making a few of these!

I hang my 'Vintage' needlework on the cupboard doors.

This is the very first one I made back in 1968!

At that time Summer was 5 years old and Jesse was 2.

43 years ago!! I would call that 'vintage!'

(One year critters got into the attic and chewed up on this! I repaired it as best I could.)

This is THE most treasured hanging I have!!

Even though my house burned in 1983 - my Christmas decorations were stored in a place where the fire did not get to them! I lost SOME but not ALL!

I stitched this hanging when Amber was 5 and Benjamin was 2.

A mere 21 years ago......

I made this cross stitch in 1983 - the year my house burned.

We were in Colorado at the time and I had the needlework with me.

I love all these....

I remember this took me a long time!!

While not really a needlework - I made this big felt tree on cotton backing as an Advent Wall Hanging. When the kids were little I would tell the Christmas story day by day adding the appropriate symbol. The pieces are gone now but I still use the tree SOMEWHERE every Christmas. This year it is covering all my loose recipes and files!

This needle work holds special meaning for me. I was stitching it in the fall of 1989 when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I worked on it when I was waiting for tests and then later surgery. And then ANOTHER surgery when they found aggressive cancer in the nodule they had removed. Sometimes I forget I am a cancer survivor.

It took me 2 years to finish this newest one.

I worked on it the December we spent in Scotland and am glad it is finally DONE!

I rescued this lovely piece of art from a thrift store.

SO much time went into doing this I was crying in my heart that someone cared so little about it! I need to properly frame it. I say that every year. I think I bought it 10 years ago!