Merry Christmas

Have a beautiful Holiday Season!  May you be blessed with love and peace!



 I just posted probably the last item I will get done before Christmas. 

To view go to May's blogs and pick "kids Stuff"

Yea for Christmas

I Love Christmas!!!!  Today I sold some of my darling, if I may say so myself, furniture for some very deserving little "mamas".  This will be the first furniture for one little "mommy" and the finishing touches on a playhouse for three others.  A month or so ago, I sold a kitchen set to an old friend's daughter for her little ones.  Who would have ever thought she would grow up and be a mom already...she was just a baby when we met!  What a fun Christmas morning!  This is why I do it and it makes me happy!  I hope they love them as much as I loved doing them!


To see all the furniture, garden decor, accessories, and kids stuff, please go to May's blogs and choose the section you want to view. 

Just in time for Christmas

I have had such a great weekend! 

On Saturday, we had our annual tea party.  Affectionately called "The Tea Party".  This is a tradition that we started 16 years ago with the three sisters and our niece.  Over the years we have added three daughters-in-law and we are still going strong!  In order to be a "member", you have to either be born or marry into the Joe and Joy Oviatt family.  It is a gathering that we all look forward to every year.  It is always held on the first or second Saturday in November and for us it is the official start of the holiday season.  We have traditional tea sandwiches, tea, hot chocolate, cider and yummy desserts. It is fun sometimes to the point of hysteria, emotional, heartwarming, and brings us all closer together as time passes.  The official motto is just like Vegas...what happens at the tea party stays at the tea party, and no "boys" allowed!  And believe it or not the men in our lives respect this day as much as we do.  It is just so much fun, I can't even explain it.  Everyone should have a TEA PARTY!

Then.. on Sunday, I got some fun items done just in time for Christmas for the little "mommies" in your life!

To see these items, go to May's blogs and choose "Kids Stuff".

My workshop

I have the cutest workshop in the world.  My Gar worked on it all summer and made it perfect!
It looks like every girl's dream cottage complete with scroll work and a little patio. Here are some pictures from the process.

I missed pictures of the "cement" part, but my husband and my two sons worked so hard in the very hot sun!  Then came the framing....

Then the siding...

The wrokbench went in about this point.

The paint....

and the decorations!

How lucky am I?  ...and if this fruniture refinishing doesn't work out...the perfect playhouse for me!!