Be thankful~

Okay so this weekend was run, run, run and be sick, sick , sick.  Fun times, fun times!!  We managed to wind our way through a Winter National Monster Truck Rally which was more winter and less rally than we expected.  We made the most of it though and had a good time spending the day with my husbands mother, sister and nephew.  Upon getting home the allergy monster set in for my husband which we kind of expected given all the fumes and dust at the rally but I felt so sorry for him.  We doped him up good and sent him to bed.

Today we have a Rainbow Vacuum guy in our house and let me just tell you...these things are fricking AMAZING.  Personally I would love to have one I think they are amazing and would help us out in several ways.  HOWEVER I can not justify, at this point purchasing one.  We have one house for sale and another not even started yet, new furniture we are saving for and a mini-vacation we would like to take this summer.  We were quoted a price of $2,300.00 for this machine which would probably last us the rest of our lives but seriously when or if I am ever between houses it would just sit in storage and what good would that do me.  I think though after seeing everything they can do today my husband is almost convinced to purchase one of these and fore go the central-vac in the new house.  I say whatever I am really indifferent but I will say - that freaking 2 hour demonstration really made me want to clean my house again...THAT THING WAS AWESOME!!

So anyway onto the real reason your here---the PROJECT!!
Between all the running and neither Ryan or I feeling the best this weekend I only worked part time on a couple of projects.  I did manage to finish one project that I had about half complete though, so that is what you are getting to see.  I know it's not Christmas themed and you'll probably see about 5 other project over the course of this year that aren't Christmas related either but none the less it is still a project.  I already had the letter printed out so I just cut for the ribbon and then fed it through and took a pic.  I like the way it turned out and plan on getting some Autumn foliage to go with it next fall.  I have more projects lined up and one that I am very excited about, I get to pull out the sewing machine for this one!!  I need to however get my butt to the Goodwill and get some old sweaters.  I am taking my mom that way tomorrow so we will see what happens!!

13 years and dollar deals~

So on January 2nd my baby turned 13!!  WHEW...unfortunately I was so sick that we could not take him out for his birthday shopping.  We finally went today and let me just say that when this time rolls around next year I think he and his father will be spending the day together and I'll just stay home.  We spent almost three hours in an archery shop....so boring.  Then it was lipping back and forth and the two of them acting about 5 most of the day...BOUT drove me crazy.  He ended up getting everything he wanted though and got to spend the day with both of us which oddly enough at 13 he still thought was cool!

In between me sneaking away and them finding me though I caught up with some really good deals.  I hit Hobby Lobbys Christmas clearance isle and found kick ass red felt stockings 25 of them.  I am going to embellish them and use them for the advent calendar!! YAY!!  Then at the Target dollar isle I found 6 storage containers that well I couldn't live without so they came home with me too.  The two mesh one have already been put to use in my bathroom closet.  It got cleaning out and straightened up as soon as we got home.  The other four I think I will use for project containers.  I have a bad habit of stretching out my projects because I never have everything at the same time.  With these containers though I can store my papers and the supplies for the projects in one spot so once I have everything I can just sit down and do it.  I actually thought this one through :)

SO....tomorrow is my last day to work on my project before I go into default!!  I'm cutting this one close....oh who am I kidding I am a terrible procrastinator and you should expect this every week.  I will have it done though I promise and pictures posted.