Gift Guide: Leather Lovers

 

Leather Lovers can find leather coats, chaps and bags just about anywhere.  I tried my best to find unique items made of leather for ones to enjoy! 

 

1  this handmade leather cuff has a secret inside pocket for notes or money.

 

2.  a blog favorite of mine, a beautiful mess, posted this cute DIY for kiddo leather pouches.

 

3.  isotoner leather gloves lined with cashmere sounds just dreamy.

 

4. paper source hand tooled leather journal looks old but it far from it.

 

5.  any man with more than on watch needs a fancy place to store them.

 

6. this is actually a vegan leather pillow.  they think of everything!

 

 

Gingerbread Houses

Wow y'all... I would like to say first off that this is my 500th post! 

Dang I've had a lot to say over the last four years! 

 

Anywho... we had just the best time decorating our gingerbread houses this year!  There were fourteen houses decorated in all and I hate to say that I don't know what I was thinking that day because I did not get a picture of every one's houses.  Poo.  I was looking back through pictures and thought "wait... where's Kristen's... and Jessica's?"  Oh well.  We had so much fun and had tons of construction supplies to decorate with.  Here are some pics of the process and results.

 

AND... Chocolate Explosion results!  This house smells amazing.



Weekend Adventures A Great Turkey Shoot

Well, I am here to report the best turkey shoot at Sleepin' Bear Lodge and Farms that we've had to date.  The 7th annual shoot was put on Saturday, November 23rd, which is a week or so later in the year than it is normally held.  We had a cold, windy day but that didn't stop the shooters from coming.  I don't have an exact head count but I would venture to guess around a hundred people were in attendance which is the most we've ever had.  Over five hours we shot thirty two lines, between shotgun, rifle, pistol and skeet shoots.  That's a bit over six shoots an hour.  We had fantastic helpers there all day from the firing lines, pay line, behind the scenes and food crew.  Which speaking of the food.... we had regular chili, dove chili, BBQ soup, jalapeno cornbread, regular cornbread and desserts!  If you left hungry it's your own fault!  The raffle tickets gave way to three guns given away, two air guns and one 410.  Folks won so many turkeys, Boston butts and country hams that we ran out which is a wonderful thing!  Y'all, we had a mighty fine day and I'm not sure how much exactly we raised for the children's hospital but we gave it our finest shot.  Thanks to everyone and if you weren't there, well we missed you!!

I was too busy to take many pictures.  Here are a few of the ones I was able to snap.

 

2013 Gingerbread House Plans

Each year my family gets together to decorate gingerbread houses.  My Mom and Dad are the construction crew and the grandchildren, myself, a couple of sisters and aunts are the decorators.

A couple of years ago, we decided that this would be our Thanksgiving afternoon craft.  You know, when the boys are all passed out from the huge meal and there's only football on TV. 

 

We all bring candy supplies and have a grand ole time.  Some of us... me mainly.... feel better if they have a plan in mind before the decorating begins.  This year I came up with two themes for myself .  I decided to go with Chocolate Explosion!  I am so excited!  I have Coco Puffs, mini Snickers, mini Reeses, a chocolate Santa.  Here are my inspiration pages and pictures. 

 

 

 

I love all the inspiration that can be found in books and online.  Crazy ideas!  Mine seems to always end up sloppy but it's all so much fun.  I will print out  my inspiration page to carry along with me so I don't get sidetracked.  Here's my inspiration and house plans from last year.



Weekend Adventures: Bellbuckle 2013

You had to have known this was coming!  We had an awesome trip to Bellbuckle Tennessee to the huge craft fair put on my the Webb School.  Some of it put on by the Webb School and over the years it has overflown into including the entire town and we love it!  There were tons and tons of booths.  We mainly stick to the junky ones and boy did we find a new fave!  I had my usual turnip greens and white beans just as soon as I could get to them.  We had wonderful weather. 

I'm just going to hush and let the pictures say it for me. 

 

 

 

I love to take tons of pictures so I can go back and look at them later to notice things I overlooked then.  Oh and for the lovely Bellbuckle memories!  Seven of us went this year in two cars.  I think I can speak for us all in saying what a great time we had!