Winter Crafting and a Bit of Snow

paklaat August 23, 2022

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

I want to mention that since Blogger changed to a new format for posting, if you can click on each picture if you care to enlarge it......

Merry Christmas to those celebrating Russian Orthodox Christmas Day Today......

We have a large population here in NEPA of descendants of Eastern European Immigrants and many of them still celebrate what is known in this area as "Russian" Christmas.....

It usually occurs within a day or two of the Catholic Church's Feast of the 3 Kings or Epiphany which is January 6th.....

Many in this area still do not take down their Christmas decorations until then......

Since the Catholic Church officially celebrated Epiphany on Sunday, January 3rd, this year, I started the change over from Christmas to Winter/Valentine's decor in and outside of our home......

I call it a change over because I do not take down a lot of my "Christmas" decorations and Trees especially those that can be used for Winter decor.......

I wanted to re-work the Winter wreaths that I made a few years back for the front porch.....

This is one of the 2 wreaths.......

I decided to take this wreath apart as I had wired 2 wreaths together to make it.......

This is the other wreath......

And now this is my "new" Winter wreath for the front door......

I made a new bow from 2 different ribbons I already had, shopping my craft stash......

I also freshened up the paint on this metal sign.......

I painted these cardinal ornaments that Joe bought for half price after Christmas......

I also added some large pine cones and other greenery picks to add depth......

Here is what it looks like on the front door......

And this is what the other wreath now looks like......

I made another bow out of the same ribbons I used for the other wreath.....

And I wired in 3 of the pine cone stems that I took off the original front door wreath.....

I re-positioned the "Let It Snow" sign that used to be held by a resin Penguin that broke apart a year or so ago......

I had enough ribbon to make one more Bow that I used to top off the Tree in the corner of the Front Porch .........

I re-purposed the ribbon that I took off both wreaths and made new bows with it.......

I hung one from the Front Porch light.....

Made a bow with just one of the ribbons for here......

And I switched out the center bow here on the railing for a new one........

I stuck to one of my Goals for 2021 that unless absolutely needed, I will not shop for anything new......

Joe bought the cardinal ornaments in 2020.......

I am sure the Amazon Delivery Guy was very confused when he actually delivered something to our house and not my neighbor's the other day......

My son, Joey, gifted me an Amazon Gift Card for Christmas and while re-working these wreaths, not one but 2 of my Full Size Glue Guns broke...

I had them for many years.....

So I thought that was a good opportunity to look for a nice industrial strength Glue Gun and I had Joey order this beauty for me......

I like the stand..........

That you can detach the cord and that it came with 12 glue sticks and 3 finger protector shields....

That it has an off and on switch and that you can set it on 80 or 120 watts.....

And that it has a copper nozzle...

Can't wait to use it......

I still have $23 on the gift card so I will be looking for something else to buy.....

Sunday, we got about 4 inches of snow mixed with ice so Monday morning, I could not resist taking pictures of Nature's Beauty!!!!!

My front yard......

Nothing prettier than Snow sticking to the Trees.......

That morning, we went to leave our Grand Puppy Faye out as Jim and Danielle were at work......

While playing with Faye, she lost another tooth!!!

I am holding it in my hand and YES, it was no easy feat for me to get up off that floor after playing with her!!!!

Since we now have a Grand Puppy, I had to come up with "Grandparent" names......

I never like the traditional names that many in our area use so I looked for inspiration from my Blogger friends from all over the Country.....

Since I always like to pride myself at being different, I decided that I will be called "Mimi" , breaking a 3 generation tradition of being called "Grammy"

And Joe will be called "G Pop"!!!!

How cool is that!!!!!

I loved some of the names that you have chosen for yourselves even GiGi, Duchess and Doll!!!!

I took a few pictures on the 2 minute drive back to our house.......

This is the view from Jim's front door......

I took this picture in our car, looking ahead at the hill that leads to our house with the mountains behind my development.......

The mountains with snow on them , shrouded with fog......

Our Court......

These are the woods on the one side of our row of townhouses.....

I love SNOW and so far, this Season, we have had more snow then last year with the possibility of more predicted on Tuesday!!!!

I have already changed over our Front Porch and Yard from Christmas to Winter decorations which will stay out until at least the beginning of March.......

I will be sharing more in my next post.......

So I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

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