Thoughts and Contentment

Some days that pass by , I ask myself... " who am I " now that I am traveling on my journey of life in my senior years... I have found myself very content to be at home on a daily basis after many, many years of hard work and many hours of survival mode... Now I find my wants to be minimal although I still love many treasured objects ... I find I can live just fine without every desire... I find contentment in every small treat at this stage of life.. Adding a little treat or treasure sometimes as small as a brooch can bring warmth, elegance, and romance in my eye... I love finding new inspiration that has been created on a small or zero dollar budget...
Today I am going to share with you my little socks I made at zero dollars... I free handed a pattern for the socks according to a half of a feed sack I had for a remnant after making a pillow... Of course you may remember the feed sack were given to me for all my summer projects.... I didn't use a sewing machine as I wanted these to have a homemade look so I just hand stitched around the edges... I took my fabric marker and added the numbers 1 and 2 and of course I am No2 so I also stitched a little lace and added a rhinestone brooch to the sock to blend with the rhinestone little bottle brush tree I posted earlier this week... This project took me about 45 minutes and will add some different eye candy for this years decorating... I use many of my same decorations but just move them around in a different way.... I have the rhinestone tree in the glass cloche... the greens and white twinkle lights and now the socks on the mantle.... I have plans of my mica snowman and mica snowballs to be tucked on the mantle yet and I will have the first area of Christmas completed......
If the weather holds today we will be golfing this afternoon with other couples for a couple hours and I will be searching for more inspiration to tuck into vignettes for my decorating for the holidays... Wishes for a wonderful day wished for you today...