Snuggies. Journals. and Little Cookie Makers.

Nicely wrapped up in my deluxe sage snuggie I am ready to face the cold basement to make an update--mainly because cleaning the house holds no excitement for me.  I am convinced that winter is a direct result from the fall and would move to Hawaii if that were feasible.  It's not. So a deluxe sage snuggie during a black friday sale it was.

(okay.. I must add that I was going to get a picture of a snuggie and super-impose my face on it... but got too distracted from the website.  It sounds like a group 9th graders wrote it together in their marketing class.  My favorite lines: The sage green Snuggie will make you look neater and more put together on those brisk days when you decide to wear it out. The sage green Snuggie blanket is an exclusive color that you can wear at any occasion.  Wear it out to eat with friends... I dare you. Wear it to work tomorrow.. I double dog dare you! Wear it to your friend's wedding... I triple dog dare you!! Myself...I won't wear it past the basement steps. My husband isn't quite as convinced that it makes me look "neater"... fatter maybe... but not "neater". )

Monday was a friend's birthday so I decided an hour before the party (not recommended) to learn how to make coptic bound journals so that I could give her one since she likes my mixed art journals. Really not that complicated at all.  I had two seconds to take pictures in my dark basement.. but of course I have to share them anyway! The cover was a picture from a really old medical book... a drawing of a body pasted on chipboard with the tissue over the picture with the names of the organs printed on it. (She is in school to be a physicians assistant). I cut a transparency and put it over the top to protect the tissue.  Connected it all with eyelets.  Six signatures of 8 full pages.  Blue embroidery thread.

 

 
And how was my Christmas?? Thanks for asking.  It was nice.  No traveling. My sister was here Christmas to New Years.  Ben made me a dvd of some pictures of the kids to music as my gift. I tried to be the "fun mom" who bakes with her kids... Kate took the job of cleaning the beater very seriously.

Zachariah got outside with Ben to shovel, have a snowball fight and make snow angels before it got too cold.

I also got to meet twice with Sarah, my business partner from California, because she has relatives in the area. It sometimes gets a little freaky with how closely our ideas for the business are. We're not just on the same page.. we're in the same sentence. If we could only come up with a name we would get SO many things rolling... we're kind of stalled until the right one lands on us.

Alright... time to see how much I can get cleaned by the time Ben comes home... a daily race.