Miscellaneous Monday

This week kicks off the offcial holiday season for me. I get a five day weekend starting Wednesday. That is our big "prep" day. Getting ready for the family to come over for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. I'll be baking desserts and hubby will be doing his prep work and fixing his potato salad and macaroni salad.

Then Black Friday will be here and I'll join the mess heading out early that morning, armed with my list and sale papers. This year, I'm adding "scouting for a live tree" to my list. We need a new tree, but I'm going with a real one for the first time in about 15 years or more.

One of my friends is downsizing her Christmas decorations so she had me stop by to see if there was anything I wanted. I got a gorgeous new afghan and some cute litte Christmas tree salt and pepper shakers. They are so adorable.

My daughter is getting into the crafting Christmas spirit. She created a new centerpiece from a platter, a few candles and some stuff from AC Moore. I love it. She posted on Facebook, "For all my crafty relatives, I did not inherit the gene like everybody else but I'm quite proud of my little centerpiece."

I have to disagree. I think she did get the craft gene, she just doesn't bring it out to play very often. I think she did a great job.



On a recent trip to SC, I was making some coasters and I tried a new yarn I had and made my sister a new coaster for her desk at work. It's her favorite colors and I think it turned out pretty good. The picture is a little blurry, but we were traveling down the road and it was gloomy but this gives you an idea.