A wee sneak peek!

This wee handful of bears will be listed over the coming weeks!! Oh, there are more too! I've been a very busy chickiedoodle.....

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

Ringing in the New Year!

I wish you love, health, happiness and laughter in the New Year! Oh, and wealth! Lots and lots and lots....of each!! Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

Let the merriment begin!

I finally found my Christmas spirit!! A little trip to see Santa Claus helped heaps.....

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

It's beginning to look a little bit like Christmas!

It's taken me awhile but I'm getting there!! My Christmas tree, which is usually up by the second week of November, is finally up and decorated with all my glass ornaments. At some point yesterday I finally just started adding ornaments and stopped overthinking the whole thing. And you know what? It looks just as pretty this year as in years it's taken days to get everything just so. I'm taking a note of this! I still have all the rest of the decorating and rearrangement of furniture to do, but having the tree done is the biggest step. From here on out I can kind of putter about. Life is good!

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

Some sweet things to come!

Here is an example of the sweet things to come from being housebound by injury and illness. In every idiotic thing to happen to me over these past weeks....a silver lining! These bears will be listing one at a time on my website....providing I can dust off the cobwebs that is. *wink*

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

Macey, Bears, Halloween and things that go bump!

Our sweetest princess on the planet, Macey, is 6 months old already!! Can you believe it?!! She certainly keeps this Nana busy as she crawls, pulls herself up to furniture and is already sidestepping to get to what she wants. At the rate she's going, it's entirely possible that she'll be walking before Christmas. We all know how quickly a walk turns into a full on run. Yikes!!
Okay, so it's been a month since my last post. Besides the sweetest princess on the planet keeping me busy I have actually been working on bears. Don't fall out of your chair now! I know it's been forever and a few days since I've produced anything new. A little whimsy and a bit of traditional. There will be more coming as soon as I can sit longer than 20 minutes at at time. More on that in a minute.
Another fun thing that's kept me busy was planning a Halloween Party. We've never hosted/had one before. Oh, my, goodness.....what FUN!!! It was so much fun we're going to do it again next year!!!

That kind of catches you up to today....and the "more on that in a minute, and the things that go bump part of this post. I fell down stairs on Tuesday. Yup. Boom, bump, crash. Cracked my tail bone and bruised a few ribs but I'm on the mend. The lesson I learned: Always have a free hand to use the hand rail. Dummy me had her hands full, slipped and wheeeeeeee, down I went. There was also a SPLAT. Almost an entire cup of coffee all over the carpet, walls, hardwood. Ouch and oh, the mess!

Many people have told me it takes weeks if not a couple of months to recover from a tailbone injury. BAH! I don't have time for that. I'm already going stir crazy. There are only so many magazines to go through and television is BORING. I need to get back to work!!! Like my granddaughter, I'm a girl on the go!!

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta

The smallest of details....odd and quirky.

An Ouija board as a table top.
A 1920's party shaker tucked into a vase of roses.

Pillows with tongue in cheek quips.

A single printed luggage tag hung on a door knob.

Artwork (Danita) playfully displayed just around the corner from a glittery spooky house. It's the smallest of details in decorating that I enjoy. Odd and quirky to be sure but nothing to scare you out of your bloomers!!!

Oh, and the fabulously spooktacular critter in the chair? That was made by Art Rogers, Chatham Valley Bears.

Warmest bear hugs, Aleta