Candle Holder and Salt-Pepper Shaker Sparkles

 

If this looks like a flood of photos,that's because it is.

 I can't paint all the time, I spent half an hour playing with my phone and my mothers candle holders. It's amazing to me how a simple set of Salt-Pepper Shakers can sparkle. I love my fairly lights.

Sparkles, Sparkles and Sparkles

 

Define Sparkles...

Physical Effect: To shine brightly with small, quick flashes of light, like sunlight on water or the reflection of a diamond.

Personality: A person who "sparkles" is described as lively, intelligent, and witty.

January 19, I put away all Christmas, but left the tree because its cold and I like sparkles because this is my Florida fireplace. 

January Sparkles, from My Nook,  it is now Feb and the tree is still there.

Before I got old and memory impaired, the house was full of candles, and I collected from thrift stores candle holders, the long ones , not the fat ones.. 

I have not used these in about 10 years.

It Feb. and I am Sitting on my sofa, and this is what I see. 

The tree is still up, but I did remove the glass balls, now its just a sparkle tree.

But wait, there are more, to be continued

January 26 9th Anniversary

I missed posting this on Jan. 26, 2026, my 9th Anniversary of giving up Sugar and have had none for 9 years.

photos above are from January 26, 2017- March 2018

Current Me 2025, well there is none. Below is last photo  taken Feb 20, 2025

 and this was one of only 2 taken since 2023, and both were early 2025. Our world turned upside down March 28th, 2025, when Bob stopped Walking.

I gave up processed sugar. and I lost 60 pounds the first year, and another 20 for a total of 80 lbs weight loss after I realized the only way to stop the yo you weight loss/gain was to

 give up the thing I was addicted to. Sugar! I had/still have a life long addiction to processed sugar. 

I am 9 years sober from that addiction

 

There are certain foods I cannot have in the house. Oreo's, soft chewy chocolate chip cookies, Doritos, chips, Frito's, Cheetos and ice cream. cakes, pies anything else with sugar is OK, and I will ignore them. The listed foods I avoid like the plague. Fat and Sugar and Salt.. No sugar and closely monitor the fat and salt.

I found a way to have Chocolate on rare occasions. 

Melt a Bar of Bakers Dark Chocolate, in a 2 cup glass measuring cup in the microwave,

 stir in 1 package of sweetener. 

pour small circles of it on to a sheet of aluminum foil, freeze while flat, remove when frozen and place in a zip-lock bag. 

Note: pure dark chocolate is OK for IBS, as is pure chocolate powder.  Before IBS I added nuts, now I just make the chocolate. 

I can eat pizza, about, once a month.. a burger once a month with chips or fries. 

Proof of how crazy I have been, I ordered pizza at 10 am to be delivered at Noon that day, and my standing instructions are no contact delivery, leave on white bench on Porch.

I got the TEXT that said Your Driver Is Here and thought

OH NO....I forgot to prepare the bench. There was no where to sit it, I opened the door in my flannel gown, see the arm out the door? I opened the door and stuck my arm out and said through the crack, I forgot to clean off the bench, and he said no problem, but I have to take a photo to close out the app.

My Five Minutes of Fame, photo and a copy of the text proving he delivered it.

This will have to do as my current photo for 2026.