Play Like Talblesetting: The Place Cards...

Just playing around with ideas for place cards...at my "play like" dinner party...

The pretend meal will host the eight board members. It may be too hard to write their whole title on the chalkboard...so maybe just number the place and type their name on an old piece of paper.

An old door nob makes for a unique vase or place card holder...perfect tone for our neutral color scheme...and our theme, "An exemplary stroll stroll through winter"...memories old and new.

 

The plates of our old school were made in 1961.

  We also have these  whimsical little rust covered benches...this would be a good place to put their names.

We've cut,dyed, baked, and glued hundreds of these...Thankfully, the little ones have helped us!

Just because we are going with neutrals found in a winter wonderland, never fear their will be plenty of textures and bling!

If any of you have ever been on a snow covered mountain, you know it is quite Merry and Brite!

It needs a little "fluffing", 

but I'm liking the general idea...

for more of my play like tablesettings go 

here and here

And I'd love for you to see it in person!!!
Saturday, December 4th, 
11:00 ~ 4:00
Y'all Come, I'd love to see you!
 

May all your Christmases be white,

Lezlee

In His Hands

Tomorrow is Jeremy's birthday. 

Flashback:
January  2000 
 
Jeremy went on a skiing trip with his college group, Baptist Student Ministries. He was twenty years old. As he slammed out the door with  his friend, Zach, I turned to Judy and despaired, "I didn't even tell him bye!" Before he was down the road any ways, he'd returned, to give his mom a proper hug and good bye. Later, I'd wonder if God had granted me that final memory.

We were out of pocket, no cell phone, but when we got the news...we called the hospital to hear the Doctor explain, Jeremy hit his head on a tree, while skiing, and we should come to Denver. He'd had a seizure on the mountain,  been care flighted, and was in a  medically induced coma...no real prognosis, tests being run to see the extent of injury and whether surgery would be needed, as with most head injuries, time would tell.

Everyone was gathered at our home. Praying, packing, making arrangements, with no assurance  Jeremy would be alive, when we  arrived, thus our long journey began.  I vividly recall my pray of thanksgiving, in the midst of the unknown. Thank you God that you are not a God of fate, tossing us about, but a God that knows. A reassuring truth from God, when the world could offer none, keeping panic at bay during a stormy, over hour long trip to the airport.

During the plane ride, I continued to experience God's presence so strongly, flashing memories like old movies, of Jeremy's life...when he sat in the pastor's study and asked Jesus to be his Savior and explaining, to the preacher, that it meant King of his life...  Then, I pictured  strong hands cupped open, as if holding something fragile and precious, these words falling sweetly on my heart. "Lezlee, I know Jeremy is your son and you love him, but as much as you love him...I love him more! And no matter what happens to him...live or die, I have him right here in the palms of  my hands." I wanted to jump from the  seat and praise the Lord, but instead I turned and shared with William what had  happened. Then, I thanked God and begged God, all in the same breath, for loving my boy and assuring me no matter what, he was in His hands, while pleading... please God don't be preparing me for his death, but thank you God for getting us through anything...

That was the longest walk, to the emergency desk. Asking if, where our son was...

He stayed in the hospital a week, and had to take the semester off school, but has no lingering problems...other than an occasional ache in his shoulder...God loves us, regardless of what the earthly outcome might be, He is still God, no matter what!


I scribbled a journal, during my vigil, by Jeremy's bedside, that week. This was the last entry.




Blessed be the Lord, 
for He has heard the sounds of my pleadings.
The Lord is my strength and my shield, 
in Him my heart trusts,
so I am helped,
and my heart exalts, 
and with my song I give thanks to Him!

Psalms 28: 6-7




I was concerned about writing this post, knowing some of life's stories have endings I don't understand...endings that try to shatter our faith, but just as God showed me on that plane, He still loves us today, with an unimaginable love and desires to hold us in the palms of His hands...


In His Hands,
Lezlee

Play Like Tablesetting: The Goblet Cloche

Don't get too "Cloche" to the bear!

 His eyes seem to say, 

"Let me out, I want to go play!"

It fit right in the silver coaster...
THEN

~When Suzette set the bear under there 

we new it was perfect~ 

 May there always be a little rusty bling!

We're still tweaking it, but do you like it so far? 

"Clouching" Time!

(i know dorky, right)

Lezlee

Hey, Don't forget Mindy's Christmas Open House this weekend!

This little bear looking so perfect in his little habitat just tickles me pink...so I'm joining Holly's party!

" Play Like" Tablesetting...

       First Moma made dolls from bread dough. She called them "well-bread", later after some people were mysteriously eaten by insects, of some sort, she made them of sculpy and changed their names to "play like". Remember when we were kids and we always played like we were someone or played like we were doing something?  Well, I am going to play like I am having a fancy, over the top, rusty, crusty, blingy, totally unreasonable Christmas dinner...just like when we were kids, without the mud pie...maybe.  When explaining it to my sister, I used the grown up word, representation, lol.

Dinner Theme: Wishing You A Season Filled With Memories...                                                                  Old and New!

First the tarnished silver...

held in an old rusty bed spring. The base is made using a galvanized canning jar lid, with porcelain intact. A little nature, with a touch of bling thrown in.  Tattered layers sharing memories of "Prior Lives".

More of the "play like" table setting coming soon! 
A drinking goblet...

"Dinner Time" is 
December 4th, 11:00 ~ 4:00, 
Mabank Christmas Tour!


Making Mud Pies,

Lezlee


Sharing  at Between Naps on the Porch...check it out!

Fall Festivities in a Small Town

Mabank has gone all out decorating hay bales ~  

perfectly displaying what small towns are all about!

  Enjoy!

A black cat, but we are the Panthers, too.

This was an insurance company. They all go along with whatever business decorated them.

 a swimming pool company

there are more, but that is enough for now...I think you get the idea!

Mabank is all out festive, and I love it!

Thank you Marilyn Jones for all the pictures!

Falling for Autumn

Lezlee