Good Morning everyone! Happy first day of December!!
I am so glad the weekend is finally here! Today I plan to get my Christmas lights out and maybe do some inside decorating too! Biggest part of the outside decorating I dread is finding all the stuff!! When I take it down after Christmas I tend to not be thinking about when I get it back out the next year so it is usually a tangled mess!! Our temp today is spose to be in the upper 50's so it won't be too bad outside untangling the lights!!

Our Christmas parade is always the Sunday before Thanksgiving. The poster is for the parade in a small town nearby that is trying to get a holiday tradition going and attract visitors. They are having a breakfast with Santa this morning, craft show part of the day (big enough it needs two locations) stories at the library, businesss are having open houses, the lighted parade at 5 (yes, it is dark by then!) and then a taco dinner.

Traci, great box of goodies you got from Jess! Love the mini! Those look like soooo much work and planning...sometime I should try one! Traci, what Maggie stamp did you get? (pic is small and I am evidently going blind!) Have fun with all the new stuff! Great pkg you put together and sent Jess!!

I better check a couple other threads and get dressed and get to my days work. You all have a good day and I will try to check back later to see if any more pkgs were received! Isn't this exciting?

Janice, I got Hello Little Butterfly which really makes me happy because it has special meaning to DH and I. I will post more when I get home from church and DD's concert.
Traci

Good Morning everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Spose to get up into the low to mid 60's today...hard to beleive it is December! DH keeps threatening to get the mower back out to mulch up leaves that have blown into the yard!

I have lots of big goals for today. Want to go to church of course, and then need to finish my outdoor lights, get my weekly trip to walmart and the grocery store done, and mail 2 swaps so they get out in tomorrows mail! Whew...that is a lot of doing for one day! Wish me luck!

Has anyone on here ever used Hammermill 80# photo white cover stock to color on with copics? I saw on a blog this morning that this is what one lady uses. It is a lot cheaper than Xpress-it, but would have to be pretty good in my opinion to be better than the Xpress-it is. Just curious!

Jess, I know what you mean about so many things you want to make...my list just keeps growing...maybe someday....ahhhhhh

Have a good day everyone! I got to get movin or nothing will get done!

Rebecca mini's are so much fun. I started by watching video's on youtube. I learn everything from there ! I will help in anyway I can. What is the name of your FB store? I would like to find it on FB.

I found a recipe for orange creamsicle cookies. It says they taste like the orange cream popsicles. So I think I am running to the grocery store for some oranges!

I'll check back later!

Just an update: My MIL passed away on Friday and the service for her is tomorrow with family in town through Wednesday. My computer time is limited a bit until things settle down. I have most of the swap for Joysee ready, but will most likely not be able to mail it until Friday. I apologize for the delay. ((((hugs))))

missstamper, Sorry to hear your MIL passed away. No time is good for a loss but during the holiday's just seems to make it worse because everyone expects you to be joyful. Y'all are in our prayers.

Janice, I got nothing done yesterday either! I need to get a new microwave because mine is dead and forgot! That is until it was time to warm up dinner and I realized I had to do it on the stove.

I decided to start selling Stampin' Up and have posted clubs for January here and I have created a blog for sharing Stampin' Up specific items and promotions.

I have 1,000 things to do today but am looking forward to going out to dinner with DH this evening.

No special occasion, he has a client in town that asked to take us both to dinner. So, we are going to a nice restaurant but it will be dinner for three not two. But I will take what I can get because he has been out of town so much and when he is in town he is playing catch up either at work or at home. Time together is a premium!

ETA: We have been in the 80's, kind of hard to be in the Christmas spirit in shorts and t shirts. I love the FL weather but I do find it is harder to get into the holidays when we have hot years. I do better when we have cold winters even if those cold winters are only in the 60's.

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Missstamper~ So sorry to hear about your MIL. Hugs and prayers coming your way!

I'm sure Joysee isn't in any hurry as she's having surgery tomorrow. She just got out of the hospital for the weekend and will be back in tomorrow. She's been having a lot of issues with her health.

Just popped in to say hi to all the Maggie Sisters~ Heading out to work and have to close tonight. Probably won't be on till tomorrow. Have a great Monday, ladies

~Rebecca

I found a sneak peek at the new Magnolia collection. I don't remember the name of it though! It has love in it, thats all I remember!

I hope to post the new maggie swap sign-ups soonm maybe today. I want to add all of my upcoming swaps so we can take advantage of the after Christmas sales! I am changing it up a bit. So I hope y'all will join me!

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Oh Jess, she is a cutie! Wonder if the collection will include something for her to be laying on? Otherwise, she can lay on the rock wall!

I swore I was not going to buy another Magnolia collection but OMG that Maggie is too cute! I need to get DH working on the ones we have that way I can justify buying more.

Kathy, they post a new shutter here everyday!

http://magnoliainspiration.typepad.com/

Missstamper, so sorry to hear about your MIL, such a rough time to lose a loved one.

Love the pics....

Sweets, I'm so sorry, but looks like it will be Saturday before I can get you goodies in the mail...hope you enjoy it!

Good Morning everyone! Finally wednesday! I thought yesterday never would end, hopefully today will go better!!

Pretty nervous this morning....tracking still shows an expected delivery date of today for Evelyn's pkg. I hope she is not disappointed, and likes what I sent her!!

So we haven't heard from Sweets? I hope she is ok. I might have her email addy if you need me to email her I would be happy to look for it.

I have come to the conclusion that I could not live in a warmer area this time of year. I think these 60degree days are why I am having trouble bringing in the Christmas tree (yes, we use a fake tree). Christmas is spose to be cold and snowy and snuggly, not 'lets open the window and air out the house'. How do you all decorate with snowmen when it is this warm? I have said it before and i will continue to say it...I NEED SNOW!!!!

Traci, you can keep those 80's in December!! Were you born and raised down there in that 'heat'? I spose if you were it is normal to you, but we used to have LOTS of snow before Christmas,not this warm stuff and still some green grass!! The last few years it is getting warmer and less snow, but gosh, I NEED it for Christmas. My grandparents lived 1 mile from us when I was growing up and we always went to their house on Christmas Eve. Many years there was so much snow that the drifts along the side of the road were way taller than the car!!