Holiday in Hand - Tenth

Holiday in Hand - Ninth

Pea soup

I feel like I need a fog horn in my own backyard!

Game and sweating

Downloaded a new game to play. Really enjoying it!



Christmas sweating - no, thank you!

Project 365 catch up

I made several paper garlands experimenting with adding leaves and flowers between the sections of circles. I used all vintage style papers including book text, sheet music, ledger paper and patterned paper. I like it a lot!



I love printed napkins. They are a treat that I buy for myself (and sometimes happily get as gifts). I won't pay much for them so they are often from the clearance end caps at Target or from TJMaxx, Ross, or Tuesday Morning.



Today is a day to celebrate (thus a party favorite - Rye Boat) because RobotFest is today and then we are done with Robotics until the New Year. No more cooking for the team for me, coaching for Joe and long hours after school for Jarrett. It is a good day! Tomorrow is going to be all about relaxing, staying in pjs and watching Cmas movies all day eating party finger foods!

Creating Keepsakes Magazine

Has anyone else gotten their latest issue (Jan)of Creating Keepsakes? Now that Becky Higgins, Ali Edwards, Lisa Bearnson have all stepped down and there is no sign of Jessica Sprague in the new issues, the new 2010 edition reads like a beginner's introduction to scrapbooking.

Who exactly is their target audience?

If you take your cue from the articles and layouts, it is beginning scrapbookers with young children. The tips and techniques are so mind-numbingly simplistic that I was shocked. For example - "to create a ticket shape, cut a rectangle shape from cardstock and punch a 1/4 circle in each corner." Seriously?!

Ooh, I HATE it. No wonder they were practically giving away subscriptions this summer. Ugh, I've got 2 years of this drivel coming. What the heck happened to this magazine? Have you heard anything?

Dear Santa-

Dear Santa,
I have been a very good girl this year. And when I wasn't good, I knew it and was truly sorry so that doesn't count, right? I am ready to give you my list for this year. Here goes...

• Please pay off our car loans. Neither is very big but it sure would be nice to have those checked off the list.
• Please put a nice chunk of cash in our savings account which took a beating this year.
  
• Joe and I would like a trip to VA for a long weekend in our favorite getaway - the cabin in the woods. Over New Year's Eve would be idyllic but heck, anytime would be fine. Please make sure there is lots and lots of wood stacked for the fireplace and the hot tub is bubbling. We can take care of the food and wine. No need to be greedy here.
• Please bring me a stack of sneakers in Jarrett's size cos he seems to need new ones every few months and it's a pain to find sneakers that will fit his extra wide feet.
  
• You could fill my stocking with Target gift cards and I will take it from there.
  

Thanks for listening, Santa. I will be sure to leave out the good cookies and extra frothy milk for you this year because with this recession everyone's lists must be extra long.

Nicely yours,
Sandi

What's on your list this year?

New rescued ornie

Post of Note

Looking for some great ideas for stocking stuffers for everyone on your list? Ali asked for suggestions and the comments include some great ideas!

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