Here IAM almost ready for THE FESTIVITIES just a few MORE stocking stuffers for THE ITALIAN!

I told him we would GO to the local CVS and spilt up and shop for each other!

He had GREAT SUCCESS evidently and I found NOTHING!

SO back OUT I GO TODAY!

HAD great success at THE GARDEN CLUB POP UP SHOP CHRISTMAS TEA!

SOLD MOST OF THE STUFF I brought and was HAPPY THIS WATERING CAN CAME HOME WITH ME!

We were set up in a patio on a rainy COLD DAY so I was dressed in LAYERS!

NO FLU BUG YET!

 

THE CHRISTMAS OUTING of the YEAR!

THE ITALIAN picked his TIE out of the boxes he has stashed under our bed!

I purchased this on the PONTE VECCHIO maybe 28 years ago!

It was a HIT!

BANKSY & WINSTON always the TEAM of being under foot when the Kitchen is in FULL SWING!

 

THE TREE BEFORE the ornaments!

ACCESSORIZED TO THE MAX plus a warm LAYERED LOOK that took me through a VERY COLD DAY!

TWO PINS to LOOK like ONE!

I have picked from a BEAUTIFUL OLD ANTIQUE TOP HAT the WINNER of the BOOK GRACIE wrote from my LAST POST!

ARABELLA, will you PLEASE send me YOUR ADDRESS and last NAME so I can send this off to YOU!HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY AS WELL…………….my email iolacontessa@gmail.com

THANK YOU SO MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS!

 

MY KITCHEN WINDOW into THE GARDEN with BANKSY’s BANANAS holding COURT!

I think a few of these Photos are showing SIDEWAYS AGAIN!

NO IDEA WHY!

It’s the computer’s FAULT!

When I view in the rough draft they are perfect!

When I go to PREVIEW they are sideways……..does anyone know why?

WELL,THEY ARENOT GOING TO RUIN MY SPIRIT IN WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 

THE BLOGGERS AGAIN!

A BIRTHDAY of a VERY SPECIAL WOMAN called for another GET TOGETHER at Chez Panisse in BERKELEY!

CAN YOU GUESS OUR AGES?

I’m NOT the YOUNGEST But the NEXT in LINE!

I DO ACT THE OLDEST!

These GALS HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY and drove for HOURS( MILES) to get here!

I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE LOCATION I know you had me in your thoughts!

 

Well, that is all I have for MY LAST POST of 2019!

I WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST HOLIDAYS with FAMILY AND FRIENDS and PETS!

WHAT will 2020 BRING?

FOR ME I WILL BECOME A GRANDMAMA!

CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT!

THANK YOU for being here…………..sometimes I wonder why I continue on but I know I have found a CAMARADERIE in a few of YOU and it’s OUR WAY of being connected!Life has thrown me some CURVE BALLS but there is NO WAY I AM LETTING THAT GET IN THE WAY OF ME HAVING FUN!

LET’s HAVE MORE FUN in 2020 !!!

TIME IS A TICKING!!!

XOXO

PS.DEB B, I got your CHRISTMAS CARD TODAY!

I’m THRILLED!

NOW LEAVE ME A COMMENT HERE SO I HAVE YOUR EMAIL!I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!

YOU WERE ALWAYS THE SMART ONE IN HIGH SCHOOL!

HOW MANY YEARS AGO WAS THAT?!!!

I’ll let YOU DO THE MATH!

XX

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!!!I HOPE TO MEET MORE OF YOU THIS COMING YEAR!