Mamaw's Place

12/17/15

My Christmas Decor...

I have been decorated almost two weeks, but just now slowing down enough to take pictures.

I love my snowflake Pyrex. I want to try to find more of it before next Christmas.

My Charlie Brown Tree.

My wine rack decor is some of my favorite with the aquas and reds.

I got the little bird house and S & P shakers at yard sales.

My dishtowel my friend Stevie made me that started my whole aqua/red obsession for Christmas in my kitchen.

I made this little display a couple of years ago. I love these type of Santa's and snowmen.

Some people do most snowmen some mostly Santa. I am a Santa kind of gal.

My sister-in-law made me the middle and right pillows over 20 years ago. I absolutely love them still.

My brother made me this corner shelf that holds my pencil Santas. I need to find me some more of them.

Mom made me this little Christmas mouse. Every year my granddaughter Shelby tells me there is a rat hanging on my wall.

Two of my favorite Christmas items. My grandson Garret made me the tree when he was only around four years old. My mom made me the deer over 30 years ago. The tea cup is a recent gift from my friend Kristi.

My little basket of poinsettias was bought for me by Mamaw Eden when I was 5. That makes them 54 years old. They are the first things I set out every year.

One of my most prized Christmas pieces because it has My Grands listed on Santa's list. I love this.

Snoopy in his favorite hat. My niece Makenzie fell in love with him when she came to visit. She is only two. She "borrowed" him to spend the night at the hotel when she is down. But she did bring him back.

I made the little basket in front of the fireplace out of chicken wire when I was only 19 or 20. Me, mom, and Mamaw Eden got together and made them one day.

Some of my favorite figurines in one of the book shelves my daddy made years ago.

My jingle bell door ringer from Old Time Pottery. A new addition to my Christmas this year.

I love my table setting. The bowl is full of pine cones my granddaughter Alexis picked for me.

And I love my tree. I am an icicle queen so there is a lot of icicles on it.

There you have it. Christmas at the Keefer house.

12/16/15

Pinterest success...

Well, I saw a cute idea for a Christmas stocking on Pinterest. So I thought I would try it. You buy some pretty slipper socks and fill them with stocking stuffers. (I couldn't show you that process since it is a gift for someone.)

Next you cut off a length of your favorite ribbon.

Criss cross the top of the socks.

Tie a knot in the ribbon around the criss cross.

Then simply tie a bow around the socks. I think it turned out cute.

After I got done fixing it, I stopped and fixed me a hot chocolate with marshmallow cream and grated a candy cane on it to create peppermint hot chocolate. It was delicious.

12/15/15

Weekend wrap up

Well, I just realized I wrote a post about my weekend and forgot to post it. So here you go, my weekend wrap up.....

My weekend started off great with a wonderful dinner at Blue Moose in Pigeon Forge. We had a family celebration for my birthday and my children's birthday. I got some wonderful gifts. This warm nightgown and fleece shirt. They were both super soft.

My granddaughter Alexis made me this hand ring holder. of course, she painted it red because she knows that is my favorite color. She did an amazing job. I told her she could paint my nails like.

Hanging on the hand was my new JK by Thirty-One floating heart necklace I got.

I also got these adorable ornaments. Each one has the name of one of the family. I love them.

My granddaughter Shelby drew me this picture. She said it was Papaw Al looking down over Kodak (where we live).

I took three of the grandchildren home with me for the whole weekend. I did some shopping Saturday with Colby while Alexis went to a friends birthday celebration and the oldest one, Garret, hung out at the house. On Sunday, I brought the other two grandchildren home with us after church to celebrate my birthday. I am not sure how, but I was able to talk them into a selfie with me. Very natural relaxed photo. Even if Alexis did give me bunny ears without me realizing it. Cracked me up when I saw that.

Sunday evening I went out to eat with my sister-in-law Tammi, and niece Sarah. Then we went to church for old fashioned Christmas carol singing around the piano.

It was an awesome birthday. I have been so busy I forgot post on Sunday or Monday. But I am really blessed to have had such an awesome weekend.

12/12/15

A couple of laughs today...

A little something to make you smile....

I have to post this one every year. It just cracks me up.

I had a great evening yesterday and off to enjoy an awesome day today. I'll give you update on my Weekend Wrap Up on Monday. Have a great weekend.

12/11/15

Friday Foto Friends

Joining Jeremiah-2911.com for Friday Foto Friends.

I finally decorated the tree last night. One of the first ornaments to go on are the Shiny Brights that belonged to Allen's grandmother. I love these old ornaments.

Here is the finished product. It is funny that even though it has a ton of red and green lights and they are very noticeable, but every photo the blue and purple ones are the ones that photograph the best.

And here it is with the lights dimmed and the fireplace is on.

Have a fantastic Friday.

12/10/15

Happy birthday to my children....

The best day of my life...ever was the day I gave birthday to my beautiful twins. An unexpected blessing from above since I didn't find out we had two babies until I was in the delivery room. I would not trade that experience for anything in the word. They are so much alike in so many ways and totally different in others. Even their looks are not the same.

One light hair and one dark hair. Both absolutely the most beautiful babies ever.

Both with quirky little personality traits that made watching them grow up a life full of lots of fun and laughter.

There is still lots of fun and laughter every time we get together.

They continued the great joy they give me when they provided me with a wonderful daughter-in-law and son-in-law. But my proudest moments have been when they have provided me with 5 grandchildren to love.