Monday I finished up twenty stockings for a family shopping night at church.
The local food pantry teamed up with our church to provide low income families a shopping night for their kids.
Stuff at the church has been hopping this week...
The place was filled with toys,
stuffed animals,
goodies, hats, blankets...
you name it.
Really well-organized and the volunteers even served the shoppers cookies and cocoa.
HAPPINESS :)
DOG HAPPINESS at home...
Winston discovered the bag of stuffed animals I'd left in the kitchen,
they were his, Greta's, and Frank's Christmas presents.
He went CRAZY for the bunny.
I gave in and gave it to him.
I bought more stuffed animals yesterday....
He ran around the house with it
non-stop for twenty minutes...
and then he played with it on his back
for another ten minutes...
And this is how you look after all that exercise- haha!
I wish I could make everyone that happy
for one whole $1.00!
Sophey made a kiln-fired clay candle holder at school.
She gave it to us.
That was happy too...
And the kids are now out of school till after New Year's.
Happy X's three people.
I helped Sophey make some melted crayon hearts.
They are fun to make... (if you're not the one peeling the crayons :0)
Just put the crayon pieces in the oven at 350 for about fifteen minutes,
and then you have new psychedelic crayons when they've cooled.
I seem to keep decorating (and shopping ) right up to Christmas.
Santa cups make good candle holders too.
I added glass votive candles to them this year...
and again to the glasses.
All thrift store specials last year.
Score!
I found this pair of old windows at an estate sale a year ago
for fifteen dollars.
(I KNOW ?!)
They are hung on a wall going into the living room.
I decided to hang the Xmas cards on it this year.
Added a sign to the mirror
and few more ornaments
art : )
The poinsettias are not looking too good though...
they may barely make it to Christmas.
I am a trained professional poinsettia killer ;)
You didn't know that about me did you?
(But the poinsettias do).
Well, that's it for me.
Today I'm cooking and baking.
Tomorrow we're skiing in the afternoon.
Not any snow in the valley
but enough in the mountains.
I think I'll stop here until New Year's.
SO:
***** MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!*****
XOXOXOXOXOX!!!
