Living Room Christmas Tree

Here is a pic of the tree in our living room this year. It has a country, woodsy, log cabin feel. Found some really cool ribbon at Jo-Ann's with moose and pine trees on it and it went from there. used a flash to show the grapevine and berry garland...

December is almost here...

and that means crunch time. Time to get those Christmas cards made and sent, with pics in them, teacher gifts made, house cleaned from top to bottom, finish decorating the dining room (even though I don't feel like it right now) and get sewing on pj's for the girls and doll clothes, YIKES!!!

We had a good Thanksgiving weekend. Did the family thing on Turkey Day and went Black Friday shopping. Lisa went with me this year and it is so much more fun shopping with someone than going alone (which is what I have done for years since everyone thinks I am nuts going Black Friday Shopping). I am pretty much done shopping and gifts are wrapped and under the tree, YAY!!!! Even all the Santa gifts are wrapped and stored out of site (next year I may need to hide them at Mom & Dad's). Below is a picture of some wood ornaments I made for some friends this year. Now I need to get crackin' on teacher gifts. Later............

BUCKEYES RULE!

Another OSU v. U of M game in the record books and another OSU victory, how sweet it is! I know you Michigan fans are just seething right now and wanting Lloyd's head, but come on, what goes around comes around. All the years I had to put up with crap from Michigan fans when you were kicking our proverbial rear ends while John Cooper was at the helm, now you know how much fun it is to be made fun of. I won't rub it in, though, but I can't wait till January when we play in the Rose Bowl. :)

So Much for the Updating...

October was a real pissy month. Seemed that anything that could go wrong did and had some surprises and disappointments too. Lost a former Jo-Ann's co-worker. She died of a stroke at the age of 55. It is different going into the store and not seeing her there anymore.

Anyway, it is amost the middle of November and it is getting busy. Went shopping last weekend with mom, Erika and the girls. I got quite a bit of shopping done and will start wrapping some of it this week. I also put up my living room tree. Why so early you ask? It is a 9 foot pre-lit tree I bought the day after Christmas at Target last year. I wanted to make sure it would work and that sucker is heavy. It comes in 4 pieces and the pole the branches are attached to is steel (not aluminum like a lot of trees), did I mention it is heavy? And tall too. I am changing up my living room theme too. I am going for the country look instead of the burgundy/cream/gold I've had the past seven years. I already have grapevine garland and berry garland around it. Found some really cute country/woodsy ribbon at Jo's and hope to get several more rolls at the Super Jo's in Ft. Wayne. I also plan on cross stitching a bunch of ornaments (time to dig out all those old cross stitch magazines I used to buy) and some out of felt. I also have some fabric from when I worked at Jo's I'll make some ornaments out of too.

Then next year I plan on ripping all the wallpaper out of the dining room and painting where it is now. Then the former living room theme will go to the dining room and the current Victorian theme will move to Abbie's room. I have a tree for Ashton's room and that will be a Precious Moments theme. The kitchen will be a Gingerbread theme (YES, just say it Erika...I AM MARTHA!) and I know that all of my family thinks I am totally anal, but I love decorating for the holidays and then sitting back and looking at all of the decorations.

Pictures will come as I get the rooms done.