No snow on the ground here.  Love the little Dutch card of the man painting the side of the house.  It reminds me of a mural-painted garage in Damariscotta Mills that I always wanted, the one with the cute cape-style house and the apple trees.  This may end up being a short winter at this rate.  No complaints here!

Donna gave me a great journal with black pages for Christmas. I'm using it as my "glue book" for January 2012, a book in which I will glue collaged images each day. Here's my page from January 1.

Celebrating our family Christmas today with Barbie and Wayne and my nephew Sam!

More Vintage Cards to Welcome the New Year

Some vintage New Year's Greetings!  Found these on Google images...will share more this week!

A New Post (finally!) November 16

Jamie Shaw and my son Andrew Clemons were here in Maine from California for the last week.

Some highlights of their visit with me:

brunch at Bintliff's Cafe, Portland

a trip through the old Wellington Road neighborhood

a visit to the log cabin in the woods, crossing the One-Mule Bridge

brunch at Slates, Hallowell

hauling Christmas trees out of the woods with my dad

Scrabble. crossword puzzles

pizza and Utz chips

"camping out" in my tiny living space

the visit and class at Your Maine Stamper

some of Andrew's cards

dinner at the A-1 Diner, Gardiner

Portland Head Light and Fort Williams Park

Two Lights and Kettle Cove

lunch at The Good Table, Cape Elizabeth

browsing the shops in the Old Port

This was Jamie's first visit to Maine.  Her list of things to do included eating apple crisp, blueberries, and lobster.  She and Andrew also spent a day at Acadia and a few days with Andrew's dad in the Bangor/Chemo Pond area.

I'm planning a trip out there (Santa Monica) in the early spring and hopefully they'll come back here for a visit in July.