Baby, it’s cold outside!!  This polar vortex is something else.  Is it sub-zero where you are? During the long winter months I am always looking for projects to do with my little ones indoors.  I know you are too.  This diy paint could not be any easier (2 ingredients).  It washes easily off surfaces…

Happy new year, my dear friends. I couldn’t be more excited for a fresh and beautiful new year.  How blessed we are to have this gift of new beginning.     Here is to your most lovely year yet!

Let Earth Receive Her King!

Advent Music, Hallelujah by Cloverton

I believe by JJ Heller

This song and accompanying video are arguably more suited to Easter than Christmas, but I couldn’t NOT share this with you. Maybe you’ve already seen it. I think I could watch it one thousand times.

via Pine needles fall from our Christmas tree, scatter about the wooden floor. I sing the praises of my three year-old as he “sweeps,” scattering bits and pieces under the rug and to the far corners of the room. This is our first Christmas in our new home.  I desperately wanted it to be memorable-idyllic. …

Today I have a lovely little round-up of Christmas cookie recipes for you!   And, of course, some baking music for you! “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem”    Peppermint Crinkle Cookies via  Bakers Royale Red Velvet Snowflake Cookies, via Created by Diane. Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies, via Parent Pretty. Oatmeal Cranberry Sandwich Cookies via Two Peas…

“For the Beauty of the Earth,” by Barlow Girl from The Nativity Story “I’m going home [for Christmas] to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards.  There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I’ve heard harps swept by the fingers of rain and…