a cozy chat...

 ...with a friend or two.

Happy Spring to you all.

Em

Christmas at Rise and Shine Farm

Hello friends...

Here are some pictures of my Christmas at home.
I hope you all had a wonderful and joy filled Christmas!

My very first Gingerbread House.

I also made wreaths and wrapped lots of presents.

Cousin Olive knitted this adorable stocking for me with my name. ♥

Miss Fanny gave me these Christmas Goodies in a little box she made with separate compartments for each kind of cookie! 

She also made this Pomander that smells divinely like cloves! 

Ah! Christmas to me is made up of mostly smells. :) Fir trees, spices, warm cookies, oranges and freshly fallen snow...

Miss Fanny also made me the Nativity Christmas card, above, and this adorable rose hip garland which I have placed on my tree! Thank you Miss Fan!

After I take down my tree it will go at the top of my kitchen hutch!

The view from my armchair...

Here are five more Christmases if you would like to see more Christmas pictures as well as a video we made {click on the 2012 link}.

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2010

Christmas 2011

Christmas 2012

Christmas2013

I would love to hear about your Christmas too, leave a link in the comments!

I am thrilled for this new year! I hope we shall all be able to meet very often. (Oh! Is that a Mr. Willoughby-ism? Well, it must be a Jane Austenism anyway.)  :)

Thank you, my faithful readers. Until next time...

xo Emaline

Best in Show

I love Summer and everything about it. These cheery tomatoes are from my garden... yes... they are real. 

I wish you could taste them. Nothing tastes better than homegrown tomatoes.... well, almost nothing. :)

Hope your Summer is wonderful!

Emaline

tea...

Let's 'ave a nice cuppa tea.

♥Em

Hop, skip and a jump...

Hello Friends! Happy Spring! I hope you are all enjoying the turning of the world as much as I am! I forget how much I miss the smell of flowers during the Winter that when Spring finally comes it feels better than ever it did!

Today, I filled my entire house with flowers.

And did some Spring cleaning. 

I took this the day after Christmas so you could see the chaotic destruction my house was in! The only thing omitted from this scene was a gigantic Christmas cactus that needed quite a hair cut and had no place to sit except right in the middle of the floor!

Everything looks and smells clean and fresh!

Do you approve of my newly established dining parlour?

I got a rolling pin for Christmas! Something I've been dreaming to have!

I hope this has been enjoyable for you as it certainly has for me.

I would LOVE to know what you've been occupying yourself with of late.

Please tell!

All my Love,

Emaline

ps So sorry about the coloring on the photos. I have just looked into it and I think it will be fixed after this. Yay!

Christmas Greetings!

Hello Dear Friends!  Merry Christmas!!
I am so happy to be here again! It's been ages and I have missed everyone so!

I have been busily baking, knitting, making Christmas presents and decorating my house for Christmastime!
I would love to know what you've been about since last I was here. Please, do tell!

I would not wish to detain you long from your Christmas festivities... But I thought I'd share a little of my Christmas with you!

 [I sprinkled Formica snow on absolutely everything!]

[Pewter angels from my Brother-in-Law's Grandma]

[I made a star for my tree that looks just like the one my Mama always puts on the big tree. It is just a cardboard star covered in tin foil with a hole for a light to poke through. It is one of our many Christmas traditions.]

[Kitchen utensils from Marmee!]

  [See my new bunny from Mabel?]

 [This pretty gingham table runner belonged to my Grandma.]

 [my new elephant bush]

[This card from my friend Miss Fanny just about sums me up]

 [The tea kettle is always on at my house. Would you like a cup?]

 I hope you all have a most joyous Christmas and a Happy New Year!

All my love,

Emaline