Only 10 More Days

What do you want Santa to bring you this year?

Dave is out freezing to death making a display case for my limited edition Micky Mouse train.

I can't wait to put my train in it and hang it on the wall.

What do you think you will get?

Okay,

You Bad Folks,

Have a little faith. You don't have to be perfect to get something, just "okay."

Hard to say. If I really want something I buy it, doesn't have to be for Christmas. I just picked up a few things on Bluefly.

I am working my a** off trying to get a book together of all the interviews I did on the Visual Arts Junction blog. I want a copy in my hands before Christmas.

Shelagh,


I hope Santa comes through for you.


LC,

Sounds like you have it made.

I guess all of the guys have been bad.
They know nothing will come?

This is the front cover, Alice:

12/6/2009

Shelagh..

Who's listed in your book ?


Cheers..Joe

12/6/2009

Alice..

My Christmas Wish is for a new HP
Towerless Computer ...I wonder if
Santa is listening ?


Cheers...Joe...

Shelagh,

Very well done!

Joe,

I hope you get your wish.

Is the cover something LC would wear?

I will let her answer that!

12/7/2009


Shelagh..

" Congratulations"...

LC must be envious...


Cheers...Joe..

Poor Dave cut his finger and had to get 6 stitches put in it.

All because of Christmas.
I noticed a drop of red on the bathroom rug , then found him wrapping tape around his finger.

I made him see a doctor.

Anyone through Christmas shopping? I almost am.

I haven't started!

A set of red-handled suntoku knives I had ordered for Dave got back-ordered until mid-January, so I canceled the order and have to find a substitute. I am really bummed, but the rest is going well. Lynn's no-fish plates arrived yesterday. They look very nice. Now I need to decide what no-fish recipes I need to print out to go with the plates.

All-recipes website has lots of homemade soup and drink mix recipes. I found good ones for everybody; now all I have to do is get the jars, layer the ingredients in them, and design and print the labels.

We will have our Christmas on the 20th, so I don't have as many days as most, but I just need to make one trip to our super-supermarket which has lots of lovely kitchen gifts, as well as jars, rices and spices, and even printer labels and wrapping paper and boxes. That one trip should do it.

I don't do malls.

Ann

alj wrote:

I don't do malls.

Quoted for truth, lol.

My packages from Overstock, drugstore.com, L L Bean's website and Amazon have been arriving fast and get promptly hidden (always a challenge, as my younger daughter still sniffs around for them. One year she told me I needed to find a better hiding place, lol).

I bought Starbucks gift cards for people who helped me out with my book. Had to go in-store for that, but that's ok, because I got a nice mocha latte for myself.

I am through. I just placed my final order wth Amazon.
My house is decorated.
I will post pictures, today.

12/9/2009
Merry Christmas o All..

Almost there, need a few more gifts, private
stores, I don't do malls ! I did order for my sister-in-law
a special gift in memory of my brother who died at 50
from his heart condition, it's a memorial pendant , it's
in the shape of a tear drop and you put the person's
birthstone , here's what it says:
" A loved one that was here and now is gone has left
behind a memory and a tear. The gem that marked
their birth will carry on the shinning light of love to
hold them near."

Cheers..Joe....

Not much shopping yet. But my daughter is definitely getting a gift certificate from Coldwater Creek. Others will get gift certificates from restaurants. Mitchell is getting a copy of Dick's book. Steve will get a gift certificate from the Endurence Store where they know him by name. Justyn is getting a truck that grandpa will purchase. My son Don will get a gas gift card, my grandson and fiance a photograph of Wisconsin for their new home. Peggy and I went shopping when we were in Virginia in October, and then there are a whole batch of grandkids.

Whew.

My grandson is coming to decorate as soon as finals are over. His mother was a little miffed last night when I told her he had offered.

Love, Carol

Carol,


She should be glad he is so kind and helpful.

What woudl she prefer him to do?

Time is runnig out.

I love Christmas!

I am glad the kids are coming home this year.

We will all be together.

For the past two Christmases we went to our daughters house so we could be with our grandchildren.

We didn't get to see our Son and his wife or mother-in-laws. We will see them all this year.

Inch by inch--It will get here!