At the Top..

And there you are..almost at the top...you did it..
Now..stand still...enjoy the view..place your hand on your heart...and hold it..its beating just for you..

Wishing you a wonderful beginning of a wonderful New Year..see you there..in 2012..!!

With love from The Hilltop
T.D and Company.

Resolute resolutions...

A resolution...
1. the act or an instance of resolving
2. the condition or quality of being resolute; firmness or determination
3. something resolved or determined; decision

Are you making a list of New Year resolutions too....

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things”

And put on top of your list....TO BE HAPPY...



Art-Johannes Vermeer.

To the end of a year....

Lets travel calmy and strong to the year's end..even when the winds are fierce....because the new year will be a wonderful place to enter...

It is not down in any map; true places never are...



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Caress the ocean

Touch the ocean gently
Carry a bird so light
Returning from places covered in snow
Fleeting air of winter
Far away your echo is leaving
Castle in the air
Turn with the wind, swirl around, use your wings
In the grey dawn of the rising sun
Find your way towards the rainbow
Spring will unfold

Touch the ocean gently
Put down the bird so light
On a stone on an island inundated
Fleeting air of winter
Finally your breath is leaving
Far away into the mountains
Turn with the wind, swirl around, use your wings
In the grey dawn of the rising sun
Find your way towards the rainbow
Spring will unfold

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Back to the North Pole..

Well...we shipped Santa back to the North Pole...

But there's still an Elf wandering the Hilltop..check your bathrooms...

A quiet day..

I didn;t do very much today...just sat there...talked to the birdies...telling them all about my wonderful Christmas day's..,

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

- Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden ―

Merry Christmas..!!!

Merry Christmas....and thank you very very much for being there.....Stay warm and stay happy..with love from all of us..T.D and Company..

**Appelflappen**

When you open this post my dear reader and friend I am baking **appelflappen**....In a few ours our house will be filled with family....together we are going to celebrate Christmas...so,in these few quiet minutes before the fun begins let me wish you a wonderful wonderful Christmas...God bless us, everyone.....




Art-Appledumplings-George Dunlop Leslie

Home for Christmas...

Its getting very busy on the Hilltop...al the fairies are coming home for Christmas...

And lets not forget the Gnome;s...now you see them.....


Then you don't....!


As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is..

Please watch this little video full screen..its adorable...especially the chicken..:-)

*To yourself...

*To yourself...a very important note on your Christmas- to do- list....

*I'm not going to drive myself crazy in this Christmas rush...because I;m going to have myself a merry little christmas...starting now...*

All is white..

All is white..it snowed overnight...




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IIIts Monday...

I'm sure Monday didn't become Monday on purpose but just by accident..

Have yourself a good one..

Where the music is...

Well....everyone needs to be somewhere,and I need to be where the music is the next couple of days...Following the Nutcracker and visiting the Mouse king...
Have a merry time dear readers and friends..I'll be home for Christmas..xoxox

Its Monday...

Ups downs..Highs lows..any way the wind blows....Its Monday...

Voila....

There it is.... a tree hiding in the lights....but I do believe there's something else hiding inthere too......on the Hilltop we have to be alert ..and watch out for the Christmas Gnome..


In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose

Santa Claus Land...

Long long time ago..I visited Santa Claus land..to make sure Santa got my wish list...


To Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus, I'll let you know
The few things that I need,
And if you'll bring them to me
I'll be much obliged indeed.

I want a horse and wagon,
And a boat that's painted red,
An elephant, a jumping-jack—
You need not bring a sled,

For I have one very pretty;
But I want a trotting-horse,
A man who wheels a wheel-barrow,
And candy, too, of course.

Now, Santa dear, you'll not forget.
I wish you'd write them down,
And leave them all at my house
When you journey through the town.

by Jennie D. Moore

I'm sure santa is on his way..It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air....



Wishing you a wonderful weekend.....

Windows....

This is the most wonderful time to go window shopping...Isn't this one magical...





And when you live in Amsterdam....go see this one...Bookshop Athenaeum...



Want to know where these mouse come from...click HERE..





And now..lets go vintage window shopping..





Art-Christmas window display at bergdorf goodman

Trust....

You can't compare appels with pears....so trust me this time..and take it...

-“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”
Richard Bach

Clutter...

Today ..(and tomorrow)..I will be busy cleaning my studio...

“I've been getting rid of some clutter — anything that doesn't serve a positive purpose in my life — and making room for things that feel happy to me. Because I get to make my life whatever I want it to be. I get to make the room feel however I want it to feel. I get to make the closet as full or as spacious as I want it. And, if I have more clutter to get rid of after Christmas, I'm not going to wait a year, or two or three to do it.”

Jan Denise

So...let me think ..what do I really need in my little birdsnest...



Art-Henry Meynell Rheam.

Wild...

Do you remember..from when you were just a little person..I do...WILD was my middle name...And now..in my mind..I still run free...dare to do a little running with me....? Off we go..dashing through the snow...


“All good things are wild, and free.”

Henry David Thoreau




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Art:The Wild Girl..Christofer Wormell

Its Monday..

Gotta go to work...Goodbye...

Life..a short love story..

Wishing you a beautiful Sunday..

From shore to shore...

Its a stormy day....I am going to make a long walk...to clear my mind..just staring at the waves..finding a new horizon..



Beyond the water, there is always land.


Even the sea binds...
And if one cannot always see the shore,
The shore is always there.

So it is with emotion:
Every kindness, every fleeting thought of love--
And every hatred too--
Will reach its shore.
Even if one cannot always see,


The shore is always there.



Leslie P. Garcia

About a book..

I'm of to a party my friends...My hubby's book party...He did it..his book has made it to the bookshop's and library's..I think I;m going to ask him for an autograph..




“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?”
James Matthew Barrie



Happy weekend my dear readers and friends...

December-

Yeeee..the time has come...have fun my dears...


"Each Christmas I remember
The ones of long ago;
I see our mantelpiece adorned
With stockings in a row.

Each Christmas finds me dreaming
Of days that used to be,
When we hid presents here and there,
For all the family.

Each Christmas I remember
The fragrance in the air,
Of roasting turkey and mince pies
And cookies everywhere.

Each Christmas finds me longing
For Christmases now past,
And I am back in childhood
As long as memories last."
- Carice Williams, Christmas Past






Its December....enjoy...!!!