It Pays to Get Up Early

Once in a while I'm reminded why I like to get up early.  It doesn't generally involve the kids--as they both like to sleep in.   But Mother Nature sure works some morning magic sometimes.  These were from one morning this past week:

From right outside my house...this was the morning sky above my neighbor's place.  The moon is still haning there waiting for daybreak.

From the center of the culdesac, this was the morning breaking over our home.  Not a bad way to get started!

Uh-Oh! Santa?

After twentyish years--and having been a hand-me-down to start with--my crock pot knob finally broke this week.  I also cracked the lid when I set it right-side up on the glass-top stove and the heat sucked it so tight to the stove-top I had to pry it off.  I have glued the knob but the plastic has all but dissolved to try to keep it together.  I asked my mother in law for a new crock pot for Christmas--she needed a list, or at least an item or two--and I'd love one with a locking lid.  But then the knob broke and it is either cook with a pair of pliers nearby and saran-wrap over the crock or send it to DI and hold my breath for a new one.

(Not sure why it twisted sideways...maybe this is the compromise to keep adding photos?!)

Gettin' Crafty With It

I think I have the photo problem fixed, at least for now.  Here is what I have been working on lately...Christmas crafts for gifts:

It is a Christmas caroler filled with candies up into his little stocking hat.  Not too bad...I bought 1/2 yard of red t-shirt knit and made 16 little caps.  Used 6 bags of candies that were on sale and the paper was all pretty scrap pieces of scrap booking stuff.  TP , paper towel and wrapping paper rolls were recycled trash.

The little fabric tissue holder (bottom left) and the keyring chapstick cozy were from leftover placemats I bought on clearance.  I paid 78 cetns for 4 D rings at WalMart and 99 cents for the snap clip (just for fun on this one) so the chapstick keeper clips to keyrings or purses or in the car.  The little moose is a wrapped package of minty gum.  See the details f that below.

I bought two packages of Eclipse gum at Costco and wrapped the individual gum sleeves in Christmas paper and then glued them into a scrap of cardstock and added stickers and a sticky back velro button to keep it closed.  Simple.  I did a bunch of these--in all different colors and design.  Easy-peasy.

Here is another fabric option on the tissue cover and the chaptsick keeper--without the clip.  Super easy and super inexpensive this year! 

This is what I have been making in my little Santa's workshop.  What are you up to?  I could use the good ideas for next year!

Not Again!

Again, this blasted machine is telling me I have maxed out my photo limit.  OH!!!  Like the cobbler whose children go without shoes, the computer genius's wife is the last to get help desk assistance.

What The....?!?

Have any of you that blog been told by bloggers that you have exceeded your allotted space for photos?  Did you now there was a limit?  Neither did I.  I was just trying to load some pictures of my Christmas crafts I've been working and it doesn't want t let me. 

Oh, frustration, technology is thy name!!

Better Or Not, Here I Am

I am done being sick.  It is no fun and my rib muscles hurt from the coughing.  Plus my head has felt funny on the over the counter medication I was taking, not that I quite taking it--mind you--but I probably should not drive when I'm on that stuff.

Genius Golfer is still in bed today.  And for that I am sorry.  But I don't really feel too bad for him.  I think he chooses to be sick sometimes, because it is easier.

The laundry and the groceries and the other things I need to do don't go away when  I'm sick, so I get up and do them.  It isn't ever going to get easier.  And the stuff I do really \needs to get done at some point. 

GG is laying in bed today watching golf.  But he came down and had left over lasagna for lunch.  I don't think he is is that sick, to be honest.  But he has to decide for himself.  And I decide I am not sick any more.

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