Best Christmas gifts of 09

Our gift list is small compared to most peoples. Maybe this is one of the reasons that I like Christmas shopping. I didnt even have to mail any packages this year. That takes a lot of stress out of shopping.
Now that the festivities are all over, I can reflect on three of the Best gifts of the season. Two of them were From ME!
I bought an expensive golf club for Butch. He liked it, but his favorite gift was the video that I made of photos taken of us this past year, set to music, with effects; all done from a program on my computer.
My other winner was a calendar that I made for Mom. It has family photos, many from her 90th birthday party, also included are birthdays.
She has taken it to "coffee" for show and tell, and today I had to hang it just below her clock, so she could look at it every day.
The third special gift was opened Christmas day in our family grab bag exchange. It was three hand embroidered dish towels made by my mother. Once you open a gift, it can be stolen by someone else, and we were way more excited to land those towels than all of the soaps and scarves and bath products.
Gifts from the heart, those were the best.
Who knows, maybe next year, a writer, or a welder can top my gifts of this year.

Merry Christmas From Our House to Yours

Merry Christmas!

We are grateful to be together but miss the rest of the family too- Marie and Brandon arrived on Wednesday to beat the storm and it'swonderful that Kelly has the weekend off.

Christmas Eve was church and then dinner and the family photo. In the middle of the sermon in church the priests cell phone rang - and then again with a message.

The house is decked with trimmings, mimosas for brunch, gifts unwrapped and even a game to play. The "blizzard" has turned to rain - we are going to curl this afternoon.

Photo Fabric

This is fabric! I made it today.

I went to BenF's looking for fabric that screamed Mn, like paulbunyan, and the sales clerk showed me pillows that a local woman is making from a PB photo. I bought the "paper" and then went to the water front and took a picture of Paul and Babe and emailed it to me from my phone. Printed it off at home on my printer and sewed it to a bag! The picture doesnt quite fit the bag pattern, so I will tweek that idea. But what fun, just when my sewing room was all cleaned up, I destroyed it again.

I am making bags to hold a pound of wild rice to bring to Fl for gifts.

I'm there

Right about now my lovely sister in landing in Florida. Yesterday, I got an invitation (that I had to decline) to hang out in Vegas next week. The snowbirds are leaving, the cold has arrived and I REALLY need a vacation. For now, I'll just have to dream of a deck chair with sun. Come the New Year, I'll get serious - Meet you at the beach?

crud #/:#*

There is something that I really dislike about winter.
Dirty Cars!
You know, that greasy, grey brown film that adheres to your vehicle as soon as it snows and they throw a little salt down. Then you rub your sleeve in it as you unload your groceries. If you are looking for your car in the full Christmas parking lots , all the cars are now the same color!
That's it, I'm going to Florida where all the cars are clean and shiny.

Vegas, Fog, Skin Glue & Turkey

We had a long weekend trip to Las Vegas for our anniversary. Beatles Love, Santana and a time share were the highlights. It took an extra day to get back because of fog in Duluth - airports when you don't leave are really a drag.

Then there was a trip to the ER to get skin glue for my dish washing accident - the lady in the next bed was also walking wounded from the kitchen.

Turkey day came quickly with David and family as guests - great fun.

My Haiku;my secret

I can RUN two miles

Even in the cold I RAN.

Am I a RUNNER?