I know....still one week to go before we can say good bye to this sorry month. I guess along with everyone else...I don't like January. Try to keep myself from going into a real bad slump after Summer, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and then this. Cold, dark, rainy.....BOOORING. So since we are close to leaving it behind..I decided to nudge things along and pep up my kitchen window. Got my kitchen curtains back out this morning..aren't they cute? Got them off ETSY. So I ironed them and got them back up for spring, the little cup in the window with the lady and the rosemary branch was a Christmas gift from my dear friend, Julie Whitmore at ETSY. Her work is just charming. I have collected it for years..and I love and treasure every piece. The napkin holder with the strawberry on it is also from Julie and the tiny little chicken in the easter bonnet sitting in the napkin ring is vintage. As is the vintage pancake flour box. I got it when Julie and I were antiquing one day in Los Gatos.....maybe antiquing and spring aren't that far off....we can only hope.
Speaking of hope...you might notice on my side bar is a button from the wonderful and beloved Christina at Soul Aperture...one of my most favorite people and blogs. If January is getting you down too...go over there on Wednesday, January 27th. Christina is hosting a day of posting THE SIMPLE THINGS in our lives.And for each one that participates...she is donating one dollar to Doctors Without Borders...We're still here Haiti..as Christina would say. Be sure and check it out. It makes everybody feel better.....
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i spend these cold dark days dreaming of halloween and how to get ready of it for next year!
ReplyDeleteAll of this so charming and cheerful...THANK YOU. Those colours and cuteness warmed my toes.
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Dawn
The pancake flour packet is beautiful, absolutely love the tiny little bee :)
ReplyDeleteLove Morwenna xoxo
Boo-Hoo. Her button isn't working for me. And where is your button, am I missing it. Love,Love,Love your curtains. I will say goodbye to Jan. also, we haven't seen the sun here for about 3 1/2 weeks now..... Always a treat to visit your farm kitchen for some freshness and sun.
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Katexoxoxox
I love your darling curtains, and of course the Julie pottery-I'm a collector also. I'm finishing my Jan. in sunny AZ. but it has been rainy and cold!!!!
ReplyDeletei adore Christina!!! :)
ReplyDeleteand those curtains are just darling
Can I please add to the cheering section for those curtains? I'm so glad that Julie lady's pottery makes you happy.....
ReplyDeleteGood news; I saw a jonquil blooming on the way home. Absolutely first sign of spring, and I don't care if I'm pushing it!
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donkey in the pines
Yep...it makes me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY......
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Thanks. Found her site. Wonderful. Back to have a look around. She sure has an eye with a camera and delish words to match.
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Katexoxoxoxo
You would think that the first month of the year would be the most exciting and joyous but I agree with you, January is the pits. I think for me, it has to do with the fact that we have so much snow on the ground right now. It's hard to think about spring gardening when it is so cold outside.
ReplyDeleteOoooo, how springy!! I love it! I am weird, I guess, but I love January! It feels like such a wonderful hibernation month after the hustle and bustle of December. I get busy with cooking, baking, my knitting, good books and art and just enjoy the down time.
ReplyDeleteI love that you post your weekend menus - makes me want to come over for dinner again! Your desserts sounded especially wonderful!!
Off to check out your friend's etsy shop!! Love, Silke
The curtains are adorable and very cheerful. Thank you the bright splash of color!
ReplyDeleteThis January has been depressing for me. I was sick for more than half of the month. Spring can't get here fast enough for me.
ReplyDeleteThose curtains are adorable! I love them!
your blog is darling... just love it. and dont be blue... january is almost over... then valentine's day... easter...spring and summer!!!! x pam
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling ya on the January blues. Up here in Hamilton (Canada) it is cold, wet, rainy and grey. Yuck yuck yuck.
ReplyDeleteI'm also a big fan of Christina's blog, she is so lovely. I think I will participate.
Hello there! Glad you stopped by...I was actually thinking of you this morning...(hoping now that I have this fact straight in my memory), that you had only recently...back in the fall...lost your mother. So for sure, it has been a dreay winter for you...no matter the weather.
ReplyDeleteNow you have to love old January just a little....since I was born in it...well just one reason to like it...guess that is enough!
Also, don't forget that tomorrow is Bobbie Burns's birthday too!
"Green grow the rashes, oh!"
Hold on, February will be here in a flash!
I love your kitchen curtain fabric!!! So cheery.....
ReplyDeleteLove the curtains and the pottery! I'm with you --I DREAD January every year! Abolutely loathe every bit of dreariness about it. Sprucing things up with bright cheerful colors, fresh flowers all help to dispel the gloom! V.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, sister!!! Ready for spring and cheer and joy. Can't wait for Wednesday's simple things. It's always so much fun, and this time it's for such a good cause. Love that beautiful Christina.
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Gigi
I love the flour packaging, it is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind me mentioning this but your buttons are not linking to anything, try typing in the link http// reference in the information in the picture gadget. It is easy to do but not so easy to explain! Each page on the internet has its own http reference, find this at the very top of your screen, where the information loads. I hope this helps.
Thanks also for your very kind comments on my blog.
Kary, I'm in the doldrums, I guess, one month seems like the other since I lost my forensic nursing job...it will actually be a year Feb 20 that I have not worked. After 45 years as an R. N., I have never felt so useless - the financial disaster this forced retirement has created is overwhelming. The only good that has come out of it for me is blogging and the fact that I've written many more poems. I just did one about growing old which I thought was cute and I posted over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteYour page is nice and cheery, though, and has made me in a better frame of mind as I head to bed!
Ha! You crack me up. January is a pretty SORRY month!
ReplyDeleteI can't WAIT for spring! Thank you for all your support in my Julia endeavors :) It's amazing how much I've learned just after cooking five of her recipes!
Great post! I love the pics!!
ReplyDeleteWould also love your support on the ELLE DECOR window that I decorated for the Big Window Challenge this year with Apartment Therapy. Check it out at - http://www.bigwindowchallenge com. As we all know, AT doesn't make it easy, but you can vote TWICE a day. Once online & the other by texting "1" to 89800.
Your support means the world to me!!
xo,
Eddie
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy February. Just a short jump and it will soon be Spring.
ReplyDeleteJanuary has been a dreary month. First it stays below freezing the south for days and then rains like it was never going to end. C'mon Spring.
Stay dry. I know California has been getting a lot of rain too.
Just adore your window curtains! Need to get my house cleaned out really well, and then I'll be ready for spring. Will visit your friend's site this Wednesday. My sister had volunteered for Doctors Without Borders in the past. They are certainly admirable!
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Yeah January hasn't been the most exciting of months...still it has given me some time to move forward - albeit slowly... I now have a cold though so not so great...January is the month for colds... :( xxx
ReplyDeleteI am with you all the way...January be gone, bring on the February festivities! Personally, I will be happiest when I can get back into the garden and that will have to wait for much warmer weather around here. Your curtains are very perky, and yes, we need to do what ever it takes to make us smile. I hope that you have dried out from those storms.
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lol,I know there is much to celebrate on February!Pancake day soon or should I say,la chandeleur when you can eat crepe!Yummy!I don't really celebrate Valentine's day though but at the end of the month,there's my birthday,I don't mind getting old..well I say that now!lol
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week Kary :)
I don't like January either--maybe its extra 5-10 pounds that I gained from all of the wonderful holiday food, and I can't zip my pants, maybe its that I lost both of my parents way too young (51 and 64) In January, and maybe its because it rained 5 days last week...you're right, I am done with it!
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Oh, the Simple Things? Been there, love that. Thank you for the heads up as it were. It's nice to have things to look forward to, isn't it, Kary? I must tell you, it's not only January I want to leave behind but pretty much the whole year. Although, of course, we can't always go back. Well, then here's to brighter days ahead, and I did just want to tell you here how much you add to that. You really do! Those small things like little sweet comments every now and then truly can make a big difference when devastating things go down. thank you again. I raise my cup of brewed cheer to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteLovely, happy pictures! Thanks for sharing from one anti-January blogger to another. I am ready for the calender page to be flipped over!
ReplyDeleteStrawberries are such a happy fruit. You can't be around them with them conjuring all sorts of happy thoughts!
Warmly,
Nancy
I can't let myself think I'm tired of winter yet...we have a long ways to go! ha! One of my blog friends in Alabama posted pics of their daffodils blooming this morning! Oh dear...those are 3 months away for us! Love the photos you used for this post...charming!
ReplyDeleteHello, I am visiting you today on the wake of Christina's love. And how I glad I am that I got to visit with you in your kitchen, the heart and soul of a home. How lovely that you have surrounded yourself with the little things that make the day special. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteOh, I do LOVE your curtains! What a mood booster! I had stopped by before, but my computer was misbehaving and all your pics were not appearing--but now they are...yippie! I think January may be one of those months that we all kind of flounder around in... we try to take stock of the previous year, decide what to do for the new year, put away the seasonal decorations and putter around. Maybe it's just a month to prepare for the rest of the year... Yep, just a few more days of January and then I think we can begin to say to one another, "Spring is just around the corner!" Thanks for following along with my blog! Stop by anytime for a visit!
ReplyDeletei am in love with those curtains!!!
ReplyDeleteso long january!
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