hairbrained schemes

Wonder Woman

Still recovering from the last weeks festivities.

Wish I felt like Wonder Woman.

Especially in that outfit. 

Nanaimo bars do not make for a good fit in my favorite jeans.

(click on the image to see all these cool things up close & personal)

Visions of Sugarplums beating me in the head.

That's where I'm at right about now.

But in a good way, if that makes sense at all.

Etsy = SUPER busy

House = extremely chaotic

Family = mostly wonderful

Dog = sweet but hairing up my house & adding to the chaos

Christmas = can we push it back a week?

My brother's family is coming for Christmas & I am really excited. It's been about 10 years (at least) since we were together during the holidays.  But an extra week to get things ready would be great.  As it is, I'm ready to throw a bowl of candy canes on the table & call it Christmas baking.

But all these things are good.

The kids aren't going to remember that there wasn't piles of gingerbread men in the house when they are grown (I'm sincerely hoping they aren't as food oriented as I am), they will remember going skiing with their mom and friends and sitting in the hot tub after rehashing, in great detail, every single grind, jump and bail that happened up at the hill.

One of my prints was featured in this beautiful & unique treasury today.

I love it.  And the title is so fitting. (click on the image to go to the treasury)

My friend, Marnie, hosted Renee Pearson's blog last week and I volunteered to contribute a couple of layouts.

 

Thanks to Libby Pritchett for her fabulous as always digital kits. 

In all the chaos, I do need to remind myself ever so often, it really is a good good life.

 

 

 

The life of a working woman.

So when Gorgeous George started making noise about me going to work and I decided to open an Etsy shop to waylay that for as long as I could, I didn't know how busy it was going to be. 

Granted, this is the Christmas rush and I'm sure it will dry up in a week and I'll be crying into my recycling bin of mis-printed posters, but for now, I'll do what they say and make hay or something. 

WCS has their December gallery up, Holiday Homes is the theme this month, and it is lovely.  They also have a giveaway so be sure to pop over there and throw your name in the hat.

Here are my projects:

 

You can head over to WCS to find out how I made them - they are both upcycled from the thrift store (no surprise there, me with all my "and I got this, and this, and this and I only spend $2.27!")

Right now I am hating that I put a black border around one of those photos and not the other. 

I would go change it but I'm not through my first coffee of the morning yet and frankly am to lazy.  So we're all just going to have to deal with it.