Merry Christmas 2024!

Merry Christmas 2024!

Merry Christmas 2023

 

Christmas time in the city

Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas 2021

Our tree was foraged from the fence line with my sisters when we were together on the farm earlier this month.
Janna got the big tree. Beth is holding the one I have at our house.
No ornaments this year as it is propped against the window in the pot.

Merry Christmas 2020!

A Merry Christmas from the Dykstra Davis family in Chicago. 

mitten garland

My sister Janna made the most delightful garland from our childhood single mittens we wore and lost the companions.
Mom had kept them because, well, Mom kept everything. 

Merry Christmas 2019

Christmas Eve

Vignette by my sister Beth

Merry Christmas 2018

Merry Christmas 2018

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas 2016!

Merry Christmas 2015!

visiting my quilts (and my family)

A wonderful Christmas season in that I was able to spend time in my mother's and both my sisters' homes. And, was able to visit my quilts!

Merry Christmas!

 In the aftermath of opening gifts.

AND, the An Extravagant Welcome quilt is installed! Two years after it was completed...
My uncooperative children, standing in front, are not impressed. Watch soon for detailed photographs.

Christmas 1959

Christmas in the Little House, Henny, Lynn, Janna, Leroy.
Farm north of Hull, Iowa, 1959.
Note the most wonderful curtains ever, this time in color!
We still have the tin barn.

neighbor gifts

One delight of living on LeClaire are the neighbor gifts--little somethings special we treat each other to for Christmas. This year we are giving these cute jars of Inglehoffer mustard.

Merry Christmas from Puerto Vallarta!

Merry Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas from Chicago!

Merry Christmas 2010

neighbor gifts

We awoke to a beautiful snowfall. Our block looks fresh and bright. Seth is off delivering our neighbor gifts. I found these adorable Mrs. Meyer's cleaning supply kits, in the Iowa Pine scent. I included one of my hand knit dish cloths.