Today Has Been One Heckava Week!

Don't you just feel like doing this to some people sometimes! lol!

Well the saying "Today has been one heckava week" is on a little plaque with a Ziggy statue at my "old" desk at my old job (where all my stuff is still at!) . Ziggy has always been my favorite cartoon along with Calvin and Hobbes - which reminds me - I need to watch "Ziggy's Gift" (Zig's Christmas movie!) . - This saying is so appropriate for nearly every day this past month. I don't know what it is - Is it the Christmas Crunch? Is the the feeling of Christmas? Is it the weather? Who knows - but every day this week has been one heckava day! As you can see - this little guy below has no worries - he was just curled up attached to my leg as I was working - I had the camera and snapped a pic - guess i woke him up!

Every night this week I so wanted to just sit down and hook - I hadn't pulled a loop since Thanksgiving Day and really needed to! So Tuesday nite I finally got to hook for about an hour and this is all I got done - I got inspired from a rug on the cover page of PRHG with the hit and miss across it's bottom - so I decided to make this border hit and miss - I still haven't decided what color I will do the background or the little birds I drew in there. I really need to find the time to sit and hook this - there are so many new things I want to get started on but one thing or another comes up!

Tonite I have been tracking packages I sent out earlier in the week only to discover one is lost - which is upsetting as I was so hoping she would have her package by now, another was mis-routed due to incorrect address, however in checking the address I found out it is correct! My husband will be looking into this at work tomorrow - hopefully things will get straight and everyone will get their packages! Sorry to the rest of you that are waiting for your packages! I hope - I hope - I hope they get there tomorrow - Tis the season to give and I love doing it - and the darn shipping company is interfering!

And speaking of packages - i got a couple in the mail this week - This one is from Debbie -she knows I adore cats - and sent the coolest kitty collectibles - stamps , a small tiger that is so cool -his face looks exactly like Riley, a kitty bowl, the cutest ornie of these two cats in a trash can - which is on my tree right now and she distressed some candy canes for my feather tree - Thank you so much Debbie - I love everything!

On Wool Snippets I participated in a Secret Santa - this year my friend Kathy had my name - Talk about stinkers - she never let on! She sent the most wonderful items! She punchneedled a feather tree and it's on a wood paddle - just perfect punching! I have this hanging next to a rug I did my first year of hooking (which was actually my very first rug I drew myself of a feather tree with three cats under the tree - it represented Sid, Nicky and Miles who were my cats at that time) This little Santa she hooked and is a pin - it is adorable and I will wear it everyday until Christmas. She also cross stitched and aged this little pillow with a reindeer and hung on a hanger - I just love it - Her work is awesome - another one that is super talented with whatever she sets her hand too!

Also in that package was a beeswax sheep which will go with my other sheep in my dining room, a note pad that says "simplify" (something i need to do to my mind and life), a moose Mug (not pictured - it's already at work for my morning tea!), a moose ornie which is too cute, a pack of sharpies, a snowman box filled with Milky Ways, oh and hidden in those milky ways was a cat ornie on a clothespin - very cool Thanks Kathy - you rock!

So that about sums up my week - besides having to hook the Santa, I am basically done with Christmas shopping - everything is bought and all the times needing to be shipped have been shipped.

Tonite/Tomorrow we are supposed to get come nasty weather - so I'm hoping after my work obligations I can sit and hook tomorrow nite!

I'm hoping everyone doesn't get too caught up in the craziness of Christmas and gets to take a moment to enjoy what it's really about!

...let yourself daydream.....joanne