Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Holidays
Well, I have no excuses....other than work and prepping for our first Christmas in the cabin (actually, our first time hosting Christmas EVER). The shopping/crafting/wrapping has been done for about a week or so. But work has been busy and stressful. The tree skirt looks great, the presents are sitting and waiting, and the Xmas Crackers are tempting me daily to pull and POP! one. :)
Tomorrow I make an early run to (the dreaded) Wal-Mart for a few necessities and lots of food for the weekend. We are having a Winter Solstice Party (aka End of the Mayan Calendar Party) Friday night. Then Saturday is brunch then an 'early' Christmas Eve Party. Lots of fun food, prizes and crafts/fun things to do. The Xmas Fairy has been busy...
Lon has assembled a fantastic bunch of holiday movies to run with or without sound while we play and celebrate. For example, on my two days off last week we watched the Christmas classic, Gremlins. Yes...think hard, it WAS a Christmas movie. Billy got Gizmo for his Christmas present and all hell breaks loose after the midnight snacks and late night swim at the Y. We also have such favorites as Elf, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Year Without a Santa Claus, The Santa Clause, Fred Claus, Scrooged, and E.T....just to name a few.
Besides, we have Pandora for excellent mixes of Christmas music (I highly recommend creating a Jack Johnson Holiday station...most chill and excellent) and some fun mix CDs from years past. Thank you, Kris, for one of my faves...The Girls Do Christmas. Best take home party gift ever! :)
After my Wal-Mart run, I come back home to prep some goodies (Vegetarian Sausage Balls) for our work Holiday Party, clean the house for weekend company, go to said party, prep weekend party fixins and find time to relax during my first off day this week...ha!
I am very much looking forward to hosting our first Christmas, but wish I hadn't had to work right up until the day before. Such is life. And it will all get done and I'll have so much fun once everyone is here. It's really been so nice NOT to stress about the holidays and only have to stress about work. Oh yeah, and the gray squirrels that have apparently taken up residence between our ceiling and roof (we have no attic...they had to have eaten a path out of the insulation.) But have no fear, we have someone coming tomorrow afternoon to rid us of the rodents and hopefully patch up their entryway! If we had an attic, I wouldn't be as surprised, but our ceiling is directly under the roof...crazy. The life of a log cabin owner...we learn new things everyday.
Anyway, sorry for taking so long to post. I do have pics to post, but the phone-to-laptop cable is downstairs and I am upstairs...maybe after the holidays I'll have time to post more frequently...and maybe I'll have a new phone-to-laptop cable. :D
Hope you all have a Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukkah, Blessed Kwanzaa and a Freakin' Awesome New Year!!!
Tomorrow I make an early run to (the dreaded) Wal-Mart for a few necessities and lots of food for the weekend. We are having a Winter Solstice Party (aka End of the Mayan Calendar Party) Friday night. Then Saturday is brunch then an 'early' Christmas Eve Party. Lots of fun food, prizes and crafts/fun things to do. The Xmas Fairy has been busy...
Lon has assembled a fantastic bunch of holiday movies to run with or without sound while we play and celebrate. For example, on my two days off last week we watched the Christmas classic, Gremlins. Yes...think hard, it WAS a Christmas movie. Billy got Gizmo for his Christmas present and all hell breaks loose after the midnight snacks and late night swim at the Y. We also have such favorites as Elf, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Year Without a Santa Claus, The Santa Clause, Fred Claus, Scrooged, and E.T....just to name a few.
Besides, we have Pandora for excellent mixes of Christmas music (I highly recommend creating a Jack Johnson Holiday station...most chill and excellent) and some fun mix CDs from years past. Thank you, Kris, for one of my faves...The Girls Do Christmas. Best take home party gift ever! :)
After my Wal-Mart run, I come back home to prep some goodies (Vegetarian Sausage Balls) for our work Holiday Party, clean the house for weekend company, go to said party, prep weekend party fixins and find time to relax during my first off day this week...ha!
I am very much looking forward to hosting our first Christmas, but wish I hadn't had to work right up until the day before. Such is life. And it will all get done and I'll have so much fun once everyone is here. It's really been so nice NOT to stress about the holidays and only have to stress about work. Oh yeah, and the gray squirrels that have apparently taken up residence between our ceiling and roof (we have no attic...they had to have eaten a path out of the insulation.) But have no fear, we have someone coming tomorrow afternoon to rid us of the rodents and hopefully patch up their entryway! If we had an attic, I wouldn't be as surprised, but our ceiling is directly under the roof...crazy. The life of a log cabin owner...we learn new things everyday.
Anyway, sorry for taking so long to post. I do have pics to post, but the phone-to-laptop cable is downstairs and I am upstairs...maybe after the holidays I'll have time to post more frequently...and maybe I'll have a new phone-to-laptop cable. :D
Hope you all have a Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukkah, Blessed Kwanzaa and a Freakin' Awesome New Year!!!
Sunday, December 9, 2012
After Pics and Xmas Crafts
Work has been crazy...sorry for the delay in 'after' pics of the painting project. I love my new champagne cork door knobs, too!
This looks SOOOO much better!
Mom's favorite (Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante) corks
Ahhh, so nice to get a project done.
Also been working on some very fun holiday crafts for decorating and gift-giving. Here is my burlap and satin tree skirt...finally finished!
Pinterest Craft #1, Finished skirt...finally!
Finished skirt in its rightful place...yay for presents!
Pinterest Craft #2, cheap glass ornaments from Hobby Lobby with paint on the inside (paint on the outside of a couple, too). Very fun to make!
Pinterest Craft #3, birdseed ornaments. These are hanging in my trees all over the yard, sans cookies cutters, of course.
Pinterest Craft #4, my adorable little cork trees (before trunks).
After trunks (from the yard). I only decorated the one...I like it, but I like the natural ones, too!
And I had one craft FAIL:
No biggie...I am making homemade Christmas Crackers this year and my trial cracker was fantastic! At least I've got a fun use for the rest of the paper rolls I've saved! :)
Happy Holidays!
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