Christmas in 1000sqft

Christmas is 6 days away! Are you ready? 

I am. All of the gifts I give are handmade.  They truly come from my heart.

For our family it is not about the gifts, it's about the

Reason for the Season!

I haven't posted lately, but today I wanted to share my Christmas tree with you all.

All of my decorations are after Christmas sales.  I have wonderful memories of me and my girlfriends shopping after Christmas.

The reindeer were found in the gift wrapping section, but they work great on my tree.

The glass birds cost me 45 cents,  what a deal!

I stuff all kinds of things in my tree.

The reason for the season!

Joy unspeakable joy!

I have a thing for tree's.

My tree topper is to heavy for my tree so I just laid it at the bottom along with this adorable snow man.

I have a sprinkling here and there.

Love this little tree.

My wreath is hanging over my buffet.

I love all things mercury.

I'm trying to grow paper whites,  can't wait till they bloom.

My tree sits on top of a dresser in my living room.  So there you have it 

Christmas in 1000sqft.

Merry Christmas friends.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.

To My BFF, I'm sending my love and prayers to you and your family.  May the Lord give you courage, 

strength and endurance.

Linking up to From My Front Porch

See you next time for more of my life in 1000sqft.

With all my heart,

Yolanda

Lilli's Wedding Day

On November 3rd our Lilli got married. 

She was such a beautiful bride.

Waiting with anticipation...

1st look!

Vow's were spoken.

Traditions upheld.

Kiss your bride!

The wedding party.

The flowers.

The first dance.

Lord I ask that you would take this couple into your hands.
  Help them Lord to keep firm in the commitment they just made.
 I pray that you give them Patience,
 tolerance and understanding as they begin to adjust to married life.
I pray that they will respect each other,
open their hearts to give and receive forgiveness.
that each may be to the other a strength in need,
 a comfort in sorrow and a companion it joy.
All these things I ask in your holy and precious name,
Amen.

Blue Party

My  daughter was planning a small dinner for her hubby's 32nd birthday, and asked me to help her decorate. She wanted to go with the color blue, we did it in a weeks time and all for under 20 dollars.

The scrap book paper was on sale at 4 for a dollar and we spent about 3.00 dollars.

I decided to make a quick pennant banner.

 I wrapped some cans for the centerpieces and made some paper pinwheels and stuffed the cans with shredded paper.  I already had the fabric for the runner, so it was a quick sewing job to make it the right length for the table and it was a done deal.

Jessika already had this sweet chalkboard so I used it for the gift table.

This is my version of subway art.  We used this sign on the dessert table.

We decided to do an Ice cream social for dessert.

It was all very yummy and the kids really loved making their own sundae.

Happy Birthday Eric!

May the Lord give you the desires of your heart.

Stay tuned for more of my life in 1000sqft.

With all my heart,

Yolanda

Having fun

Hello Friends,

I know it's been forever since I've posted anything.  I have been spending time with the grand kids they stayed with me for a week so you can just imagine all the fun we had.

I forgot to share my 4th of July pics with you. We were supposed to go over to my daughter's house but the plans changed at the last minute, so thank heavens for dollar tree they had slim pickings since it was the 3rd of July, I spent 3 bucks so not bad, and a good time was had by all.

At The Lake

The week after the 4th we headed over to the Lake for a picnic.

So peaceful.

Lot's to do.

Teddy was there too.

There were so many picnic benches right on the bank of the lake.

John's taking his fishing pole next time.

It was a good day for togetherness.

If your ever in my neck of the woods, visit Lake Skinner. 

There's lot's to do, boating, biking, camping, fishing and pets are welcomed.

37701 Warren Road, Winchester, Ca.

Well that's it for now stay tuned for more of my life in1000sqft.

With all my heart,

Yolanda 

 

Celebrating Jeena

My daughter Jeena graduated last week so I threw this little gathering for her, as I stated in my previous post we couldn't decide on what to do or when to do it so, we decided to just do something for the people who were going to her graduation. 

The menu consisted of:

Turkey & Ham sandwiches

Pasta Salad

Ambrosia Salad

Cup cakes

Marshmallows

I made the garland with some leftover  yellow, white and black fabric and I also used some tulle I had.

Had to have cup cake toppers.

I used this sign over the dessert table which I forgot to get a pic of.

I used my potting bench to set up the sandwiches and salad's

I decided to use my tea cart for the drinks I made lemonade and Ice tea.

I set up the chalk board so her guest could sign it like a year book.

I put the sandwiches in this and put the labels on.

The Lemonade

Woo Hoo, there's my jar the cost me 75 cents.

I put lot's of apples and oranges in the Ice tea.

 a must have- the marshmallows look so sunny in yellow!

 Hung the garland on the potting bench window.

So here is the setup sorry about the pic's but I was trying to be the hostess with the most-ess and I was busy doing this and that so the pic's are towards the end of the night.

The drink station, the white dish is were I put the ice.

I wanted to share a pic of my chair all painted up.

This was the chalk board at the end of the night.

GRADUATION

They're getting ready to throw their hat's

Yeah! officially graduated.

Graduating with honors.

Congrats Baby Girl!!!

May the Lord bless you and guide

 you, may he give you the desires of your heart.

Stay tuned for more of my life in 1000sqft.

With all my heart.

Yolanda