Christmas Presents from dH

I know I'm going to make a lot of my friends jealous by posting these pictures, but they are just too lovely not to post! The box is actually an ammunition box that I am keeping jewelry parts and charms in. What I think is neat is that the knobs on each drawer look like little spools. Each drawer has two compartments -- the second picture shows only one compartment of a drawer. The last picture is of a lovely restored Victorian era frame that I may use some day to house a crazy quilt. Click on this picture to see the wonderful details of the frame. I just love them both.

Merry Christmas!

These are my granddaughters opening Christmas presents at our house. Cola has his new "chicken" toy with the cats like a lot better than his old "cat" toy! He once even had a "human" toy. lol! Oreo looks pretty handsome in his place under the Christmas tree. His favorite gift was the blanket that my husband got in his emergency car kit. He planted himself on the blanket and got some nice belly rubs too.

The Fourth on the 4th

Church was very nice this morning - the choir sang the first and this, the fourth verse of our national anthem. Isn't it nice? Maybe this is where the saying "In God we Trust" on our coins came from.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!