Merry Christmas

Wishing all my friends in Blogworld, a super fabulous Christmas.  We are snowed in, expecting 7 to 14 inches of snow, wow!!  Blessings to each and everyone of you!!!

Christmas Wish List

Ok here is my Christmas list in a nutshell.  You dont even have to rush out and get it right away, I can wait a few days, weeks or even months as long as I get one or all of them. 

I want a mudroom.  Living in Iowa you have coats for all seasons, early spring jacket, early fall jacket, first signs of winter jacket and the below zero jacket.  Now take all of these coats and multiply times 4 members of our family!!  I have coats up the wazoo, along with the shoes too. 
 
 This mudroom above would be perfect, unfortunately would have to add on to our house to make it work.
 
More than likely this would be the real size of my mudroom, but I promise not to complain if you get it for me. 

How about when you buy me tickets for Disneyworld, you get some for yourself.  We can all go together.  How fun would that be?  This truly is one of the happiest places on earth.  The castle and fireworks (Wishes) at night is truly breathtaking.  I have a cousin who has been there many, many times.  I asked why they went so often, doesnt it get old?  After my first visit I was hooked and cant wait to get back.  Really want to go at Christmas time cant imagine the beauty. 

Last but not least, sorry having a cougar moment.  How about some time with Robert Pattinson.  I know he is half my age, but this fine young man makes my heart go pitter-patter!!!!!!!! 

I know my list was a little spendy this year, I will try to go easier on you next year, K? 

Hobby Lobby

AWESOME NEWS!  Hobby Lobby starting January 1, 2010, will open its on-line store.   I live about an hour away from HobbyLobby so whenever I am out and about I make sure and stop in, but now it will be available online. 

Fun Family Game

 

 

 

I just wanted to share a fun and educational game to play with your family over the holidays.  I know I paid under 5 dollars at Wallieworld (Walmart) for it.  It was actually meant for a stocking stuffer, but we had 2 snow days this week and was desperate for entertainment.  My husband and I had just as much fun playing as our daughter and the neighbor boys!!

Super Cute Christmas Decor Idea

  Are these super adorable or what.  Ms. Kari at Ucreate had these featured from Ms. Mariel over @ so she says.  I gotta make these, even if I dont get them done until after Christmas, they will be ready for next year.

Make Blogging Easier with Live Writer

I am linking up to Trash To Treasure Tuesday at Reinvented.  Always great inspiration to be found there.  For the info on my wall pocket scroll down to the last paragraph.  Thanks for stopping by.  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
  I am trying out the Live Writer Program for blogging.  I always fight with my pictures, trying to get them where I wanted and so forth.  I think I like it.  My font size wouldnt ever stay the size I selected, kept going back to small size.  I like that you can manipulate your pictures by dragging or typing in exact size you want. 

I added a picture to see how easy or difficult it was going to be and happy to say super easy.
It is also a free download and I have added a link to a video on how to use it.


My picture above started out as a dollar thrift store find, gaudy gold from Home Interior.  I gave it a bath in Silver spray paint and a little Caramel Latte, added some foam and walaa Christmas decor on the cheap!!

Anybody Else With Sometimers

I know I cant be the only one with this disease, sometimes you can remember and sometimes you cant!!  I heard a wonderful tip the other day from my mom's friend.  If you have a lot of Christmas decorations and you have found the perfect spot in your house and want to remember how you put it all together, take a picture and place it in your storage box.  Next year when you get your decorations out you will know exactly where you want it to go or how it was put together!!  Genius.

Looks like I have been missing out.  I found Wearethatfamily blog and am linking up this week.  Awesome stuff folks.  Give her a visit.

Pink Polka Dots

Look out Chef Boyardee here come the Sisco girls!! 

While my daughters and their cousin played this weekend, I decided they needed matching aprons and a chef hat.  I pulled out my trusty Google and searched.  I should have known that Ucreate was one of the first ones to pop up.  She has aprons galore on her site, just adorable.  I have followed her for a little while now, make sure you stop by if you are looking for homemade Christmas gift ideas.

Carsyn, my oldest, thinks the apron and chefs hat are for her cousin, but I managed to get 3 done.  Cant wait for the photo op at Christmas!  The apron was pretty simple to do, I didnt follow the pattern exactly as time didnt allow me to follow exactly.  Chef's hat took a little longer but still not too bad.  The pattern said to use fusible interfacing, I am not sure what I used, but I had it in my stash from when I was making bags and just sewed the stiffener onto the brim of the chefs hat before sewing the brim to the top.  The pattern I found at U create was easy to follow too.

One Little Piece At A Time

I am still plugging away getting Christmas decorations put together.  I dont know why but it has taken me almost 1-1/2 weeks to get my Christmas decorating done.  Perhaps my 2-year-old taking the ornaments off the tree as I put them on has something to do with it.  I was inspired by all of the ornament wreaths and decided to make one.  It turned out pretty good, but I decided to use it as a base instead.  My poinsettia in the vase is really glittery, but again my poor photo skills it is showing up.  I am hoping if I check around blogland, I can find a more experienced blogger with photo tips!

I am linking up to Its So Very Cheri, make sure and stop by!!

Frugalicious Day!!

I managed to sneak this in today.  I love playing along over at Finding Fabulous.  It is the day you get to share your frugal finds. 

Pic below are all thrift store finds and not intended for Christmas, but have worked out great for my decorations this year!!!  The bucket I bought for 1.75.  It was even more than I wanted to give, but after fretting over 75 cents decided to go with it!!  The gold candle was a buck, candle holder a buck, holiday picks at Dollar Tree 2 for a buck, cranberry star a buck from Dollar tree.  Happy with how this turned out.

I am infatuated with all of the mercury glass floating around blogland.  The glass below came with one my dollar candlesticks, a little dated and almost threw it away.  Not very frugal huh?  It was standing still, lets paint it, so I decided to go for a "faux" mercury glass look. 

I used silver and caramel latte Krylon spray paint.  I used short bursts alternating colors and while not perfect, I think not bad for frugal!!

Party Time - Cloche Style

Ok ladies.  It is time to party with Ms. Marty over at A Stroll Thru Life.  She was kind enough to invite me a while back, but time is going so fast, I almost forgot!  After I stumbled onto my first linky party in blogland, I kept noticing cloches everywhere.  Thinking to myself, what the heck is a cloche anyway?  So I did what I do best, Googled it.  Basically it is a French word for bell.  See gals you are not only inspiring me but teaching me things too!!!

I have 3 cloches, actually 2-1/2 because it is broken, but I am still using it.  My favorite one is a cheese dome from a thrift store and then I added a piece from a broken glass ornament.  I love it!!

Above is the broken one, just dont look to close and you wont even notice!  Couldnt find anything cute to put in it, so I just added some ribbon.