Craft Room Makeover

As my business grows, so do my supplies. And it was time for a mini makeover in my craft/sewing/painting/laundry room. The first addition was a awesome (and very sturdy) 6 foot table to replace my rickety 3' x 3' table that was ready to fold and fall at any second.

Next, the Hubs put up some shelves to hold my growing fabric collection and other supplies. It's too bad we can't paint but I think it looks great! Much more organized then it was before.

Here's the Before...

Funny shot. Something is conveniently placed on the ironing board so it appears to be right in the Hubs's butt crack! LOL!

And the after.

I have a lot of storage underneath the table and below another shelf to help with additional supplies, inventory and fabric scrapes. Thanks to the Hubs (as always) for helping me. Actually, for buying me the table and putting up the shelves and for basically making all this happen. LOL!

Vroom! Vroom!

My favorite Christmas gift this year was definitely my new rims and tires. Thanks to the Hubs for a really, really great Christmas. We agreed not to get each other anything this year but neither one of us followed the rules. He was sneaky and totally outdid me.

Thank you Babe! 143!

Christmas Day

We had a fantastic Christmas at home this year and the kids really enjoyed it. There aren't a lot of photo's of "D" because most of them include me and I was a mess on Christmas morning so I thought I'd spare you. 2 video's at the bottom.

Our Christmas Tree on Christmas morning.

Bean checkin' out the goods, and Max too!

Bean's diggin' her new Tinkerbell sofa/sleeping bag.

A little overwhelmed.

Bean's new Ball Pit

"This is cool mommy!" Ok, she didn't say that, but she was thinking it.

Ho!Ho!Ho!

Merry Christmas!

Bean's BIG puppy gift from her Auntie Christine.

They both love it!

A very Merry Christmas for all.

VIDEO'S

Bean and D opening up Christmas gifts.

Bean opening Elmo Live!

Santa Came Early This Year

Santa was in the form of my Hubs (143) and his ''elf'' was a Fedex man. I was given strict instructions to not look at the box when the "elf" dropped it off. So we had a gift bag ready and the ''elf'' so kindly dropped it in for me without me seeing. Then D transfered the gift to another room.

We told Santa it had arrived and he said I could go ahead and open it. But, I was patient enough to wait until he was around and then I dug in! Really, I did wait! Unbelievable for those of you who know me personally and have been acquainted with my lack of patience. And this comes after about 2 weeks of begging for hints and clues as to what it could be.

Here it is, my brand new Dell Inspirion Mini Laptop

Mine is white but without all the design stuff on it.

It's so thin, so light and perfect for working on my site in the living room while watching over the munchkins. Exactly what I wanted.

Thanks Babe!

A Message from Santa?

Last night, the whole family was having a major ice cream craving. I hopped in my car and zoomed over to the local gas station for one of those delicious Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bars for myself, some Vanilla ice cream (or a Drumstick) for the hubs and a Push Pop for D and Bean.

To my great disappointment, they were closed. Note to self: Gas Station closes at 5pm on Sunday. When I got home I considered fishing through the Halloween bag for any treats that may cure my needs. No such luck. Then I remembered the sugar cookies in the fridge for Santa. They didn't stand a chance.

We popped the first batch in and within 15 minutes we had mini Christmas sugar cookies. Yum!


It took D no time to get to work decorating. But a strange thing happened when I took the second batch out. They went in as Christmas tree's, stockings, and little snowmen but they came out like this...



Could it be? Really? A message from Santa? D thinks so, and we do too. "Cool! I bet no one has ever gotten a message from Santa like this." He said. I told him that Santa must be watching over him since it's getting closer to Christmas. :-) All the more reason to behave while you're not in school. Hopefully.

Gingerbread House

This is our first Christmas at home. Yippee!!! So we decided to start a few Christmas traditions and make lasting memories for us and the children. First on the list, making (or in this case decorating) a gingerbread house.

Nice huh?! It looks a 100 times better then it taste. D didn't even like it and Bean wouldn't go near it. This is a tradition that will probably end here. Unless I can find a good recipe for gingerbread, rather then buying the premade box with the icing made of crushed gravel.

We bought the Christmas tree one too. :-( We'll let Bean have her way with that one and we'll just add it to the table as a Christmas decoration.

Other traditions:

- We always open 1 present on Christmas Eve.
- Attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.
- Everyone helps with baking cookies for Santa. Oh, how I love that jolly fellow!
- Cut down our own Christmas tree. However, the fake one's are so much easier.

That's all I got! We made a few decorations this year but other then that, I'm all out of idea's. What traditions do you look forward to each year?

Unbelievable!

More Snow. In the DESERT!

Today is day 2 of snow. Yesterday we were snow free and we weren't expected to have anymore snow until maybe tomorrow. It has been snowing here since 7:45am pst and it is now 4:45pm pst. Holy Moly! 9 hours straight of snow!

Desert Oasis

After Monday's snowfall...

after today's snowfall. The weight of the snow had our blow-up snowmen and tree's bowing to the snow God's, so we let them rest.

One cold Papa!

Can you see our lights? They're peeking through the snow.

I'm surprised this whimpy tree is still standing, but it photographs well.

Our very own snow wolf.

He loves the snow...

and his chew toy.