My  great great great grandmother, Mary aka Me-Le, is now framed and hanging over my fireplce...I love seeing her every time I enter the room and I am soooooo BLESSED to have this photo of her! What heartbreaks and joy she could tell me about her life...I wish I could sit and talk to her for just an hour...

Goodnight my friends!!  

hugs, Jen

A few sampler goodes went out in the mail for Teresa's  In-Home Christmas Show this weekend...Oh, I wish I could go!!!

I'm busy working on Christmas Goodes!!

Are you anticipating the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season????

I don't like seeing seasonal candy out with the exception of Christmas candy....So, several years ago and last year I made these primitive candy boxes for that purpose...

The Goode Wife is a design by Pamela of Our Pioneer Homestead blog   
It is one of her freebies...

The sweet cabin is a Jenny Hoffman design of Country Rustic Primitives...

The Trick or Treat is my design....

Do you hide your candy or do you display it???

Some blues I bought weeks ago to save for my birthday as a treat to myself.....I've had them waiting patiently in the envelope til today...Some vintage pillow ticking, a sweet kitty cat, needle books, old early blues, and acorn of early fabrics...

2 wonderful Angela Hillstrom pcs...and one Schneeman acorn....

The sweet kitty was made by Alecia Maynard and I also got the vintage pillow ticking from her...

Along with my favorite Philosophy fragrance, cards, flowers, and lunch! Along with a phone call from Taylor... It's been a good birthday!

The LORD has BLESSED me with 47 years...I pray for many more!!

Until next time!! hugs, Jen 

 I'M SO EXCITED I COULD CRY!!!!! I have wanted to do this for so long and kept putting it off....Last weekend on Shutterfly they had a special and I chose the free 16x20...I had been wanting a big picture of my 3 great grandmother to hang over my fireplace....We only have a small photo taken from a tintype and don't always know how it will come out when enlarged... I had no expectations so I wouldn't be disappointed....Well, here she is in a 16x20 size.....Mary Polly Sitz Lankford..I've also heard her called Nellie....Her Native American name was Mele or Me-Le..From Monteagle Mountain (Grundy County Tennessee)....I have always been soooo intrigued by her and thought she had the sweetest face....It touches my heart to finally have a large picture of her and that she is not forgotten by so many of her Lankford descendants.....

Until next time~~hugs, Jen