Nearing the End of the 4-day Weekend!

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving - It was a quiet day here at our house - Decided to forego the invites and stay home with our own turkey - Got up and made the stuffing and got the turkey ready and my husband did his usual when I asked him to help me get the turkey in the oven bag and into the pan - he made it do a little dance! Does this every year the dork!

We had dinner late afternoon and about 5:30 my husband comes upstairs and tells me he has to have a nap and could I wake him up at 8:00 for the game. Well this is what I saw when I went in to wake him up - All 3 of my boys - husband, Miles under his chin and Riley attached to his butt! I told all those lazybones to get up - and they all yawned at me!



Well most of the day I spent working on the Santa rug for my Mom - this is as far as I got and haven't picked up the hook since Thanksgiving. Still not sure how i'm doing the background yet - I do have to change the "birdhouse" roof - it was a stocking but my mom likes birdhouses too so i thought I would change it and add a few birds to the rug -as you can see I can't freehand draw! So not sure how it will hook up.

Friday I went to a folk art sale, Der Belsnickel, a juried craft show of which you are supposed to have I think 95% natural and handmade. Well nothing really knocked my socks off seemed like it was all the same items from previous years and not many people were walking around with bags - i was in and out of there in less than an hour there was one seller there that i know from another handcraft store and bought a few ornies and things from her.

Yesterday i got up early and drove to New Jersey to teach two workshops and I have to tell you it was very nice to see that people out there are buying handcrafted items (made in the US). Rosie's store, The Maple Tree, is small but filled with wonderful hand crafted items from local artisans. She had a steady stream of customers all day that were buying! Great for her! It's nice to see people are buying items made by hand. The classes went well, I met a lot of wonderful people and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. If you are ever in the area of the NJ shore points, check out her store - and also down the road at Teaberry Antiques , my friend has a store within this co-op. She has some nice prim and country items.

Today it's cold and damp and rainy out and I had no desire to anywhere! Haven't picked up a hook or done anything worthwhile - just a wasted day of doing nothing. I so wish I was a person that could nap (never seemed to be able to get into that habit) as this is what i found when i lifted the a blanket i leave on top of the bed (for the cats of course!)

Oh my goodness he was so toasty warm and looked oh so comfortable that i crawed under the blanket with him but that lasted about 2 minutes - like i said - I just can't seem to "nap"! Well Riley got up about a half hour ago and is talking and stalking and looking to get into something! He's just too funny - i just gave him a "rubdown"and tried to clip his claws - got one done - he was having no parts of it today! Maybe I can get one done a day - then it will be time to start over again!

Well it's dark out now and I'm already starting with that "dread" of a Sunday nite - work tomorrow! Urghhhh - especially hard after a "long weekend" but it's something that's got to be done to pay the bills!

I feel like i totally wasted today - I really need to get my rear in gear and get creating again!

Have a wonderful first week of December (now isn't that hard to believe!) and remember to Smile!

joanne