Scrapbook Room

Spent my entire Saturday in my scrapbook room. Although, I didn't work on any pages. My work table is a huge mess & it was hard to craft. I would have not gotten anything done had I spent time to put everything away.

The first thing on my New Year's list will be to clean out the room.

Out My Backdoor

Beautiful, white & fluffy Christmas snow.

Button Tree

Spent hours, hours & hours pinning buttons onto a Styrofoam tree.

Actually, I find mindless crafting work very therapeutic. Now that it's finished it doesn't look like it fits in with the rest of our decorations. So, It will spend the holiday season on my desk at work.

I'm attempting to make more than usual gifts this year and I'm also putting a lot of time & fanciness into the wrapping of each gift. I am so excited to be crafting this weekend. Also, some card writing. Enjoy your weekend!!

Homemade Sofa Table

I saw a picture of a sofa table in a magazine, I ripped out the page, showed the picture to Mick & asked him if he could build it. He did, it looks great in the living room and I love it! I filled one of the trays from inside a picnic basket with mercury glass Christmas ornaments from Crate&Barrel. Oh how I wish they were old mercury glass ornaments.

I think I will add some pine to the basket and tie ribbon onto a few of the ornaments.
You happy Eric? You have your morning fix of GEL-Oh.

Wordless Wednesday

First Blog Anniversary

It's been a rewarding experience blogging over the last year.

I've learned to do a lot of new things on the computer and I've used my camera more than ever! I've always read to get better at anything is practice, practice, practice and I found this to be so true with photography. I enjoy reading the blogs of the family members that jumped onto the blogging band wagon. I got to read & see the happenings in the lives of family members that are so very far away. I only wish everyone would post more!

I really enjoyed when readers left comments. Also, I appreciated those who would give me a call or send an email to comment about one of the posts.

Best of all, I have a written & photographic diary of my life over the last year. So, after one year of documenting my everyday, as boring and ordinary as it is, I'm taking a break. Until....................................

Happy Turkey Day!

Family, Food, Football, and FUN!

by guest blogger team: Mickey and Mau

Nothing's better than a full driveway...

except maybe a full candy jar. This one was full.
Lots of preparation:
The lovely table:
Aunt GEL-oh fretted over the HUGE turkey getting done "in time."

Finally -- and worth the wait!

We had a near catastrophe, but Aunt GEL-oh saved the day -- or at least the gravy.

Food food food...
We had way too many pies.
Dan was hard at work.
Eric returning from a morning of tracking Bambi:
An uninvited guest -- not me, the cat!
The girls walked and ran in the morning.
Don't worry; we had no heart attacks. Only Kelsey ran.

Uggggghhh. Is this the fun?

Joe thinks so; he's a true Dallas fan.

We've also got a puzzle going and lots of crafts planned (in Amie's honor). Don't worry about Dan; he's having fun, now, with the puzzle crowd. He also had lots of good, home cooked, food.

Thanks, Aunt GEL-oh, for another great Thanksgiving! (There's always room for GEL-oh.)