It’s been mentioned here that Stately IPB Manor’s favoritest Christmas decoration is Boomer’s 12 Days of Christmas wall hangings. Before either Schnookie or I was born, Boomer worked with her mother to make this felt/bead/sequin masterpiece:
Each day of Christmas has it’s own felted oval, strung on four length of ribbon. My earliest memories [...]
There are three things that simply make Christmas for me: the tree, Boomer’s 12 Days of Christmas (both of which will be documented here soon, I promise) and spice cookies (which will be documented here… NOW!)
Our family has a lot of cool things going for it, but one thing we’re completely lacking are [...]
We have a nosy across-the-street neighbor who loves nothing more than telling us all the things we’re doing wrong with our house and yard. And in the unlikely event that she can’t think of anything unkind to say about our home maintenance and upkeep (always under the guise of trying to be “helpful”, mind [...]
We were raised by a handicrafter, so the single most cherished part of the entire Christmas extravaganza for us is our needlepointed stockings. For a certain type of stitcher, needlepointing a Christmas stocking is an essential part of your life experience, so Boomer naturally made us all stockings when we were kids. We [...]
Many years ago, when I was just starting out as someone who “likes to cook”, Pookie suggested I buy “The Daily Soup Cookbook” while we were browsing at a Barnes & Noble. She explained that Daily Soup was one of her favorite places to eat in the City, and she wanted me to make [...]
Immediately after publishing the first post about my Christmas stitching I commented on how lovely our mantel looked with it’s advent caledars, creche and Christmas bear. “Heeeeey, wait!” I cried, “I stitched that Christmas bear!” So here’s what I forgot on my previous post:
This was done up as a model in my favorite [...]
Christmas is without a doubt my favorite time of year. When I was little, my father wouldn’t let my family start putting out Christmas decorations until Christmas Eve; here at Stately IPB Manor we make up for all those lost years by putting all kinds of decorations out starting December 1st. There are [...]
Well, it’s that time of year again — the twinkling lights are up, there’s advent calendar glitter all over our living room, and the stockings are hung on our bookshelves with care — it’s Marshmallow Season! December is, at stately IPB Manor, a bacchanal of Williams-Sonoma’s peppermint hot chocolate, and that hot chocolate is [...]
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