Packed away and out in a couple of months!

I've totally been a slacker these past couple of months.  Not just on the blog but in my home.  I usually am on top of things when it comes to the Holiday decor and I have always had the tradition of putting away all the Christmas stuff on New Years day....nope not this year.  See, I have been in a funk!  My crafty bug has not been very creative, well I shouldn't say "not" creative...I have just been to busy.  I actually went almost 2 weeks without stepping a foot into the craft room.  EEK!! LOL!!  I'm making a change though.  No resolutions here - just changes.  This past weekend I started up on some new projects and Monday night/morning I packed up alllllll the Christmas that was in my home.  Tuesday after work I took all of it upstairs to put away. Yay for me!

Here is my Christmas tree, I had already started removing stuff from the bottom.

 

I sure do have a lot of stuff that goes into the tree.



Well Christmas is officially put away....."see you in a couple of months".  Last Christmas post I promise.

I hope everyone has had a great week so far.

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Merry Christmas to you!!

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from my family to yours!!  

Is it weird that i keep humming the dang Lexus tune from the commercials?? No, it's just super annoying!! On the other hand do you think it'd be okay if I demanded a BIG RED BOW on all of my gifts....nah I'd just get the AYOOYM look- oh that means "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND" hahaha!

Well, I probably won't be back on here till after the New Year - maybe!  I can't stay away too long.  I wanted to say thank you to all of my new readers and visitors.  Thank you for stopping by and for all of the lovely comments.  I hope that you will stick with me in the New Year....I have tons of projects that I have started - furniture re-do's, guest room make-overs, sewing products, food recipes.....I've been really busy.  I can't wait to share.

Here is a snazzy little tune that I found for you, Enjoy!!

I ♥ this video!

Tuesday Talk - Christmas Edition

Just a little funny and sarcasm for your busy Tuesday!

Everyone enjoy your day!

Don't you just love the Holiday's??

Head on over to midwestern {sewing} girl to link up pictures of your Christmas Tree!!  What a neat way to showcase your tree!!   She will also be having a give away. Hurry on over!!

Thanks Maggie you're super awesome for doing this! 

Guess what I did last night?

Besides burning my finger tips off.  Yup, I made more Pebbles Pics.  

Well this batch was made with different Christmas pics.

Again, this is not really a tutorial since I didn't take any pics of the how-to part.  But they are super easy to make and make great little gifts.  

Here's what was used:

glue gun/glue sticks

glass pebbles from $ store

scissor/blade

magnets

Christmas pics

Once you decide on the pics you will use,  apply glue to the flat side of the pebble and press firmly on to the pic until all the air bubbles reach the end.  Then let the glue cool, now you are ready to cut the excess glue and paper off. (Adults should do this part if you decide to make this with kids.) Since I use the magnet tape, I just cut off a piece and remove the backing and stick onto the pebble pic.

These pics are from a Holiday scrapbook magazine.

These are ornament pics from the Target catalog.

These pics are from different Christmas wrapping paper I have.

These pics are from old Pottery Barn Holiday catalogs.

Random pics from a holiday magazine.

cute huh!!

Well I hope you liked my Christmas Pebble.


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But Mom....everyone else is doing it!

I definitely can't take credit for this idea...they're all over blog land! But I can take credit for these that I have made ☺!  I love making them. Super easy and always a big hit as a gift.

I won't bore you with a tutorial, so if you want to make them just search for them.  They are really easy to make. 

All you need is:

Glue gun/glue sticks

Glass pebbles

magnets

scissors

and whatever pic you want -

Family, Holidays, birthdays

Endless possibilities!!

Need a quick little gift or stocking stuffer? Well here you go! 

Great little trinket gifts.

These are different pictures printed on regular paper.

I stamped plain paper with different stamps.

I used stickers and unused tattoo's.

Used a marker on scrap paper.

My favorite.....old James Avery catalogs.
What? you don't know what James Avery is?

I had a broken pebble, so I found this pic to use.  
One side for me and the other side for my bestie!

See Endless possibilities!! 

Just add a magnet to the back and give them away!

Christmas, Christmas time is here!!

I know you were just singing the title....lol!

I love that song!  

Are you ready for Christmas?  I am soooo ready.  I totally ♥ the holiday season.  Can you believe that  there are only 26 more days till Christmas? What makes it even more Christmas-y (yeah I added a "y") is we finally got the chilly weather....32º this morning wooo-hooo!! Now if it would only snow. Highly unlikely...booo.

The house is pretty much decorated, I'm just adding all the finishing touches!!  Here is our Christmas Tree, up and festive and patiently waiting for the gifts. Which will not be put under the tree because of 2 certain nosey, no rule following, sneaky felines - 

Stella and Ms. Betty! ←bad kitties (",)

Christmas Tree 2011

I've only had one problem while putting up decorations.  Being the impatient patient person that I am, I wanted to hurry and put the lights out before it rained on Saturday.  We have a string of lights that's like an extra we use for its light bulbs and it's always put at the end where I really don't  have to have lights on. It works out perfect because I can just tuck the unused non working lights  behind one of the plants near the plug.  Well it rained and I never put in bulbs in the 3 of the empty sockets. I didn't even think of it.  Saturday evening after all the rain was done with I plugged them in and they were on, no biggie...well when I went to unplug them for the night, they were off. I have no idea when they went off.  Let just say I had to change out that string of lights!! Boo!!! No fun at all!   I started to swap out the lights for one of the new boxes that I bought.  I'm so glad I decided to start changing the non-working lights at the next string, not where they were plugged in and nicely hidden, because when I got to the end of the string I was short about 6 feet of string from where they were plugged in - since my favorite store in the whole wide world - Hobby Lobby decided to change the C-9 lights from HL brand to the GE brand and jack up the price to 9.99 -Thank you!! Same amount of bulbs, just set closer together....eek!  So I had to rig up another extension cord!! Very frustrating!! And it's orange, no way to hide that, I'm gonna have to go and buy another green cord.  So instead of 3 string of lights now I have to use  5 string of lights to do the one side!! ugh!!!!!!!  Do I sound whiny??  That's fine!!  It was just annoying!! But it's done, so now I can enjoy my lights till the New Year!

What was one disastrous episode you've had with the Christmas Tree or while decorating !!

Hmm... I have so many stories but my favorite would have to be when I was 6.  We lived 3 houses down from my grandmother, we were having dinner and daddy told me to run to the house and plug in the Christmas tree lights.  Shouldn't take me more than 5 minutes.    So I ran home and got on my belly to crawl on the side of the tree, well I guess I was a little to close because I bumped it and it came toppling over on top of me....yup it was insane. Well this was a monstrous tree, it was heavy and completely full of lights, tinsel, glass ornaments, you name it it was in the tree! Well good thing my dad wasn't too far behind, I would have been there a while, if he hadn't of thought it would of probably been hard for me to get to the plug.  Sadly every things was broken!!  I was okay, just a little scraped up from the tree needles.  But we went out the next day and bought more ornaments and I was never allowed to touch the plug ever again. I didn't either...it wasn't till I was 19 and I was moved out on my own.

I want the cooler weather......NOW!!!!

Can I just say I ♥ the FALL weather!!!   Who doesn't??  and with the horrendous heat that we've been having here in Houston....I can't wait for that last week in September.  I open my front door and can feel that Awesome cool breeze...letting you know that something amazing is around the corner!!  That's usually when it happens for us!! 

I love the tree's when their leaves start to change colors, the reds, yellows and oranges are amazing!!  Even though we don't have many trees around here that change it's beautiful when you see one!!  That's why we planted a Bradford Pear tree in the backyard!  I love it....and I get all giddy when it starts to change!!

I love decorating too......inside I usually do Fall items with a hint of Halloween!!  We don't have kids but I always do Halloween crafts with my nephews and nieces..."they want to see Halloween" around my home!  Then after Halloween I pluck the Halloweeny stuff up and keep the Fall stuff up. Then I wait till about a week before Thanksgiving, put all that stuff away and out comes the Christmas stuff!!  If I host Thanksgiving, then I'll wait and put Christmas stuff up that Black Friday!!!  That's only if I host....if not, its up a week before and I can shop to my hearts content on BF!!! ☺

This is my season....."Fallowwingmas", its my season and Holidays combined....lol!!

And I absolutely love going to Bed Bath and Beyond during the Holiday's!!  Not only for the shopping, but I love the Holiday scents in the air....the candles, pine cones, cinnamon!!  I know I'm weird!


So, my question to you is:

 What do you like about the Fall and when do you start to decorate?

Can't wait to see some responses, everyone have a great Monday afternoon!!
 

Texas Heat!! Scorch!! Random ramblings!

Houston, Texas  : heat index 108   ------>  this sucks!


Where is the Fall weather?  obviously not here!

I think this year I wanna host a Halloween party.....fun times!!

I'm sooooo ready to start decorating for the Holiday's!!

Maybe I should take out the Christmas tree for some pre-fluffing!!  (pre-fluffing is the only thing i hate about the artificle tree) (aaaaannnd it takes for ever...I usually start fluffing  2 weeks before Halloween!) <---- yes, i'm a loon!! lol....a Holiday loon that is!!

I still have lots of gifts to finish making <---- yes, I'm one of those!!  I like to have all the gifts done with at least by Halloween!  Hey I like to shop too.....I get gifts out of the way, so I can enjoy Holiday shopping for myself!!  Is this selfish???  Nope....it's smart!! lol!!

Ugh....this year will be over before you know it!!