Sandra, I think you will do great with a reconditioned Cricut. My hubby who is a computer techy person always buys reconditioned electronic products. He says they are cheaper & have been tested more, so are better! I am sure you will do fine!

Angie, sorry about Holiday Bazaar, but that is a lot of hours to put in. Something else will come up, I am sure.

Girls have colonial day today at school. So they get to dress in colonial costumes & participate all day in activities. They are so excited. I will be sure to take pics once they are all dressed!

Well, I think I am as far as I can get on invites until date and time are specific and I can print the things. My back hurts leaning over a table for two days. I really tried to sit up straight, but it wasn't always easy.

It was really nice to have the TV in my craft room. I set up my OLD computer and hooked it up to the TV and was able to watch Christmas movies while I worked.

Hi everyone;
On my way home from school I suddenly got this burst of energy! Stopped and did a few errands, then while I was home for a bit I put in a load of wash and decided to do some re-organizing in my craftroom. I wanted to make more room for my cutting machines, etc., so have been going through stuff and doing some purging. After picking up Troy we stopped and picked out his new frames for his glasses. Have been going strong ever since. Planning on getting the rest of the Christmas stuff up tomorrow. It's supposed to be COLD again (a high of -19C), so might just stay in tomorrow.

Angie: glad you got your parcel after all. That would be one big sale lasting that long, hopefully you can do it another time. We did get his breathing machine finally. Because of all the rent we had paid on it they actually gave us a better machine than what was allowed! It really is a nice machine. Glad your Thanksgiving dinner went well. Now to get ready for Christmas, do you do the dinner for that also?

Sharon: The colonial days sound real fun. What great fun to see the decorated firetruck. Good on them for doing that! Hope you are able to go to your crop on the 15th. I was supposed to have one tomorrow, but it was cancelled as not too many were able to come. I've got lots to do here, so no worries.

Joy: glad you got lots of your invites at least partially done. A TV in your craftroom sounds great. Hope dh is feeling better. I agree with you about the shipping...sometimes it almost doesn't pay for us to buy stuff online! At least, one good thing about ordering from here it's free shipping with the Circle membership. Boy, does that save $$$!

In my cleaning process found a few unfinished cards so I've been putting the finishing touches on them.

Bye for now, take care everyone

Good morning/afternoon/evening!
I am really dragging my feet with decorating and my cards. I am enjoying just plodding along. My DH is really sensitive to the "kafuffle" of Christmas, so I am trying to keep it all low key. I agree with her, Christmas should be laid back, relaxed and enjoyable.
Joy Happy birthday! Good work with all the invites. A labour of love, that's for sure. The shipping is so silly - free shipping sometimes to Alaska or Hawaii, but not Canada? I understand they do need to charge a bit more for out of country, but really?!
Sharon That sounds like a great crop! It would be even better with friends! What fun! Santa on a firetruck. In some of the more northern communities here in SK, Santa comes with gifts by helicopter! I would love to see that one day!
Angie 10 day craft show?! WOW! That would be wonderful exposure for you. I can't even imagine how much you would need to make. The child care would also be a huge issue. Maybe next year you will be able to hire a "helper" to man your table . . .
Debbie I'm not a huge fan of wrapping either. My DH loves it though and he also loves shopping even for clothes for me!
Take care
Laura

Debbie, does your DD have a date set?

Megan says hers will be July 6, but she needs to double check that date with our pastor. She will not get married at the church, but probably outside someplace.

I am really glad she is willing to wait until Kate's wedding is over before she starts hers. Although lots of the guest list will be the same, so that will help. And of course both dresses are out of the way. And her future in-laws live here, so that might make things a little easier. And we know them. We have only met Jordan's parents once.

Joy, July 6th is a great date for a wedding. It is our wedding anniversary date! But of course ours was in 2001!

I also love wrapping presents! I don't claim to be a great wrapper, but I do enjoy it! Especially if I have Christmas music playing while I am wrapping, then it is even better!

I need to buy gift cards for the teachers soon, for Christmas gifts for them. Have to figure out how many I need, as Elise has extra teachers (gets pulled out for math, reading, spelling & speech). Always adds up!

I did sign up yesterday for the crop next saturday. Should be fun. I think one of my friends is going too, which is good. But even if I go alone I don't mind, I will make friends!

Mailed out our Christmas cards yesterday, but may need to re-order a few more. I am sure I have a couple more to mail cards too & only have 3 left! Normally I have at least 10 leftover after all is said & done.

Happy Hannukah, to anyone that celebrates! We don't celebrate Hannukah, but I am going to still make some latkes for the family today probably! I love potato pancakes & what better excuse than to honor hannukah & make some!

Have a good day all, whatever you get up to!

September is the month that DD is hoping to get married, all depends on being able to tie up a venue and church. Her bridesmaids will be in red so the colour scheme will be black, red and white. I think for the invites she will just go for a one layer DL sized invite decorated with ribbon and bling with a magnet on the back that people can put it on their fridge as a reminder but it is not something that we have really discussed much yet. Joy, would love to see what you have been creating.

Sonya, I love Michelle's work, she is so talented - super jealous of you being able to do a workshop with her Will you put what you made on your blog?

I will check out your blog tomorrow, Sonya! I always see your adorable cards on facebook.

Debbie, I just realized that your birthday and Megan's fiance's are on the same day!!

Had a nice quiet day, kind of. Kate and I were both on worship team. All Christmas song. YAY!!!! Then home and later out to my parent's for birthday cake and ice cream for me, Jordan, and Brandon. My siste gave me prunes. I guess fair is fair. I gave her a bouquet made from rose stems and prunes when she turned 50.

Jeffie desperately wants to play fetch, but he does not have the concept of "drop" down yet.

Sandra, did you find a nice coat for Troy?

Good night, all.

Sonya, I just came from your blog. I can see why you had such an amazing class! Those cards are just beautiful!!!!

DH gets his staples out today. He can't wait. Jill gets her stitches out tomorrow from her lip surgery last week (taking care of the bad scar that Jeffie's tooth left last spring).

Hope to get another card made today. We'll see. I got three cute ones done last Saturday afternoon. I have spent a bit more time on these random cards, but I am having fun doing them. I have been using A Quilted Christmas. Lots of layers on that cartridge!

Well I took Jet to meet Romulus for the first time last night, Jet does not like other dogs, he is scared of them especially since he was attacked by a bigger dog in the park when he was a pup. I thought that with Romulus being a young pup and much smaller than Jet that he would be fine but Jet did not like Romulus at all Romulus just wanted to play and Jet kept running away from him!!! I am taking Jet back there again tonight to give it another go, he is just going to have to get use to him, Romulus is here to stay and they will have a lot of time together!

Debbie, oh to have a pool covered with flowers!!!! Right now, warm would feel really good.

I think I am moving backward, not forward. I just feel so behind. I got three sympathy cards made this morning (we have a funeral tomorrow and another on Thursday, and one of the cards I will mail), laundry going, dishes going, and things still like a cyclone hit.

We are having a bday dinner for Jorday tonight, and I will also include Brandon. Late for Jordan, early for Brandon.

Jeffie was ON A ROLL this morning. I finally locked him out of the house. So he went to Megan's house to bother Jordan. He was taking everything and would not drop anything. He found a box of kleenex in my craft room and took it outside and ripped to shreds. He ripped a toy apart. There was stuffing all over the yard. He got a GOOD pair of knitting needles and ran outside with them. Whew. I am exhausted.

Nick is not thrilled with Jeffie, he just tolerates him.

We realized this morning that when Jill is driving home, half of Boise will be driving to LasVegas for a football game. Which is a good thing. Lots of BSU fans there to rescue here if anything happens. I told her to take paper and a sharpie and if she has issues, write "HELP! I am a Bronco fan."

Hi Girls,

I have been MIA. I really really needed to take care of things around the house. This is all new to me having a grand child around the house ...

I spent the weekend cleaning out and organizing my basement. Cleaning out kitchen cabinets needed to make room for Abigail food and such.

My basement looks wonderful. I got rid of so much stuff I figured it I didn't use it in 2 yrs. out it goes. Pasta machines, slicing machines, so much stuff.

As I was going thru some stuff I came across of knitting books and crochet books, looms (all this before Cricut came into my life) I was going to get rid of it all and then stopped and said I can teach my grand daughter when she gets older.

But at least the basement is spanking clean and organized. That was Sat and sunday

Then the past several days decorating. All the windows have lights and decorations. Abby comes over and she is looking all around with a puzzle look on her face like where did all my pictures go!! So now we just need a tree and I am done.