I hope everyone who celebrates it, had a warm, safe and happy Thanksgiving. I didn’t get to post before hand, but I wanted to share some of the things I am most thankful: An awesome house of our very own, a wonderful and understanding man that I never get tired of being around, a supportive family that lives nearby and get to see often, a sprinkling of friends that add variety, adventure and fun to a life that might be dull otherwise, a fun job with a steady paycheck and coworkers who mean so much to me, wonderful memories and experiences that will be with me forever, a pesky cat that hates everyone but Matt and I, my health (that I should be MUCH more thankful for) and a great body that I should take better care of.
Friday night I held my Sixth Annual Gingerbread House Making Contest. I hope everyone had a fun time. I think there were 19 entries and over 25 people (little kiddies included) in attendance.
The winner was made by Dacia. She had told me beforehand that she had a great idea and needed to get her secret ingredient right before the event.
Yep, that girl loves her some bacon! There are more pictures from the night over at flickr.
So, now that it is officially the 2011 holiday season I’m trying to create a list of things I want to do.
-winterize the windows to keep the house efficient and warm
-put together the advent box with little presents
-Put up the tree and decorate it
-hang stockings from the mantle
-decorate the outside of the house
-make this year’s ornament
-go sledding (once we have snow)
-listen to plenty of Christmas music
-buy meaningful Christmas presents for family
-think of a good exchange project idea for extended family Christmas
-productive and fun vacation week between Christmas and New years
-make another snowflake wallhanging.
I just love my little shop so much. There have been times I have fretted over this or that about my shop, but I will always be grateful to Etsy for the opportunity to make a dream come true.
I love making my little treasures. I love sending them out into the world. Etsy has offered me that opportunity.
edit to add: I feel like a fool for not thinking to thank all of those who have supported me in my online shop and have purchased things from me. Etsy has offered the platform, but the actual support came from you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Just a quick pop in to share some new items I’ve added to my etsy shop.
I made this 12″ square pinwheel painting with chalkboard paint, so you can customize and share your own affirmations.
I made this little painting last year for a commercial project that never got the green light. I really love it a lot, but I made the painting knowing that it would be for someone else, so I am posting it to my shop now.
And last but not least:
Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth! These confetti buttons were made for you to take your own party on the road. Each button is made up of tiny handcut paper confetti.
I got the circle series itch and had to run and buy some big sheets of watercolor. I feel like I always say this about every piece, but I LOVE this piece. I started with the bag of vintage photographs I got at the flea market and picked this one in particular because of the color and content. It just had this great, warm, vintage feel to it that I hoped to carry through the rest of the piece.
This original piece is available in my etsy shop with a few other remaining circle series pieces.
Our cat Bishop has an affinity for styrofoam, as documented here. Because of this we have always been vigilant about keeping the stuff out of our house. Well, a week ago, he was able to sniff out and open a box that had some rubbery type foam packaging inside, and proceed to eat a huge amount of it while we were at work. It wasn’t styrofoam, so we weren’t alerted to hide it away, but apparently it was close enough to the real thing for Bishop. For a half of a week he seemed fine, then all of a sudden he started getting sick and so finally on Wednesday we took him into the vet and he had his SECOND emergency surgery to remove foam from his blocked intestines. He’s a stupid and expensive cat, but we love him.
My brother once told me about how Cap’n Crunch released a limited run cereal that was called “Oops, All Berries”. Ever since then I’ve always had my own vision of a “Oops, All Marshmallows” cereal. While talking about this online with Brenna and Chase, Chase was able to locate sellers who sold cereal marshmallows by the bag. I purchased a pound, oh yeah! When it came in the mail, I poured myself a cereal bowl full, topped it with skim milk and Matt and I enjoyed it. Delicious. I tell ya, I’m such a little kid, BUT at the same time this is why it is awesome to be a grown up. You can eat a bowl of dehydrated marshmallows for breakfast, lunch and dinner if you want.
