Goodies

The items from my UpperCase Living party arrived over the weekend. I ended up getting $50 in free products so I was pretty excited! Here is my FREE hostess gift along with a 12x12 tile I bought at Lowe's for under $2.

And here's the finished product:

Remember my Goodwill mirrors from this summer?

I got a fleur de lis as one of my free products from UCL as well and put on one of the mirrors.

Not a huge difference, just a little somethin' somethin' to make it more interesting to look at. I haven't done anything with my other UCL products yet, but I'll be sure to post them once I do.

I worked on a gift for my Pink Christmas girlfriend this weekend. At least one of the gifts needs to be homemade so I decided to hand embroider an M and frame it.
The red is prettier in person than it looks here. It took me a long time as this is only the 3rd item I've hand embroidered. I had a hard time with the curves and had to rip out a lot of stitches. But, it's done and I hope she likes it. I have one other small project I'm working on for her and I'll show it once I'm done.

44 days till Christmas :o)

Weekend Recap

We had a pretty low key weekend. David and I did a little shopping on Saturday for our Project Joy child. Later we went to get gas and were happy to see the prices had dropped to under $2.00 per gallon.

We hung out at home Saturday night. I worked on a couple Christmas gifts. I finished one and got a good start on another.

I met my grandma, mom, aunt, and cousin in Huron for lunch on Sunday. My grandma's 81st birthday is today so we took her for lunch out to celebrate.

Are any of you making Christmas gifts this year? If so, I'd love to hear what projects you're working on!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

We woke up to this yesterday morning.
Our area received a little over 5 inches, while other parts of the state received over 40 inches of snow. Glad we missed out on that!
This weather makes me want to get out my Christmas decorations in the worst way! I'm waiting until the Saturday after Thanksgiving though - it's tradition. I always pull out all my decorations the Saturday after Thanksgiving, put in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and get to decorating. I usually listen to that movie and The Santa Clause 1 & 2 while decorating.

My Husband Rocks!

If I ever saw a picture that made me think of David, this would be it.

Actually, he took the picture last winter while playing around with the camera. That's his guitar and his Irish hat (I don't know what they're really called.)

One of the reasons I love my husband is for his musical talent. He's a great guitar player and I am lucky enough to get to listen to him play on (almost) a daily basis.

When we were dating we would talk every night on the phone before we'd go to bed. He'd play around on his guitar while we were talking. This is the song he'd play most often. Something about it tore at my heart, and at that time I didn't even know the lyrics.

We had that song played at our wedding.


David's musical talent is just one more reason why he rocks :o)

Winter is on it's way...

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Well this is the weather outlook for my state & surrounding areas today and tomorrow. We don't have any snow in my area yet, but it's on it's way. Guess I'll get my running around done today so I can "enjoy" the snow tomorrow. I'm off to buy bread because toast is the only thing I can eat....still battling with my stomach. Good times. And I'll have to make a Goodwill stop in hopes of finding a project. Hope you all have a great day!

Vote

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Ok, I had a long rant all typed out and I just deleted it. This is all I have to say:

PLEASE do your research before you vote. Don't rely on the commercials, etc. for your information. There seems to be a lot of misinformed people out there. Very sad. I'm definitely not saying that I know it all, because I don't. But some "facts" are very easily proven false if you just do some research.

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Get out and vote tomorrow.

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And that's all I have to say about that.

Sick and Tired

Just a quick post to let ya all know I haven't disappeared. I'm at home sick today getting over some sort of stomach bug. Not really surprised that I got it since since a lot of kids were either out or went home early on Friday with stomach issues.

I haven't posted in a few days and I still really don't have anything exciting to show or share. :o( I'm hoping to do some projects on Thursday and Friday since we don't have school.

Hope you all had a great Monday.