Hello, December!

Wishing your heart every joy throughout this beautiful season~

Giveaway Time!

Giveaway time!

Greeting cards featuring my watercolor images~

Collection of ten cards.

Most of these cards are designed using my calendar images~

Another beautiful product from Legacy Publishing Group!

I added a tiny signature near my name on the back of each card~

Please leave a comment here sharing your favorite occasion to

give a card & your name will be put in the bucket to win these!

This giveaway is also posted on my Facebook page~

If you comment there, your name will be put in a 2nd time!

Hope your day is off to a wonderful start!

Palmer greeting cards~

Artist samples arrived yesterday!

Sharing photographs of two cards that Legacy Publishing designed

from my original watercolor paintings!

Both of these paintings will be part of my "Outside My Window" calendars, too~

Legacy products are so lovely!

We are very soggy here... do hope your day is sunny & sweet!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hearts give us warm fuzzy's...

Love shared...

I have several ways of storing my vintage Valentines~

These three recycled Dove chocolate tins hold one collection!

I slide these vintage love notes in the corners of mirrors...

I lean them against chalk boards...

Tuck them in frame corners...

Blue and Forget Me Nots are some of my favorites~

This art style is simple... beautiful!

Toss in some veggie messages...

For those of us who choose chocolate all day!

Handsome hearts...

Beautiful borders...

That little man is wondering where that heart boat came from!

Keeping his little arms behind his back...

"I'm not touchin' it!"

Sharing friendship and wishes for a day filled with love!

~Happy Valentine's Day~

Few More Vintage Christmas Cards...

Vintage Christmas Notes...

I love the little guy...
His sweet face n' toes~

I think our children tried this once!
ha ha ha...

The kids maybe even tried this!
ha ha ha!
Hope your day is filled with great memories...

Vintage Candles in the Window...

The soft glow of our jar candles don't
seem to compare to the sturdy, hard, waxy
ones my family used growing up.
Dripping a little on the plate to get them
to stand upright...
I had half the candle melted down the side
before I could get it to attach.
BUT!
With our three little furry, curious and mischievous
cats... the jar candles are much safer!

When I was growing up we also
put the plastic, oval based, vintage
candles in every window...
One year they'd all be orange...
The next red...
One very sad year~ they were blue.

Little plastic holly & mistletoe arrangements
were carefully placed on every end table...
The top of the television...
The dinner table...
The back of the toilet!
With candles in the center~

I always kept my candle from the
church service...
It was great to rub on the bottom of
my runner sled and toboggan for speed!

Pretty to drive at night...
Many homes put up loads of lights~
The cute air-filled characters~

I love the simple candles in the window...
I love that they are in style & hold meaning
throughout the year.

Vintage Christmas Cards...

One of my favorite Christmas traditions~
Christmas cards!
Vintage images... parchment papers...
I am somehow more familiar with these images
than the ones I see daily.

As a child... I remember
two red and white thumb tack cards in our
collect-all drawer...
The tacks were only used at Christmas time
to put cards up around the door frames~

I loved climbing through mounds of snow...
...winded,
...clumps of ice inside my boots!

But to finally reach the post box and discover
envelopes from family and friends!

Once opened and read through I was
given the honored duty
to find the perfect place for them...

I have collected vintage pieces for years.
Our family didn't save cards from
year to year...
These are just as dear~
Plus, they don't have the tack holes in the corner!

More to come soon...