Category Archives: Holidays

Merry christmas!

December 25, 2012

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. We are in Oregon having a blast but I wanted to share a few photos from some holiday events and celebrations earlier this month.

-The trees at the conservatory in Volunteer park close to our home.

-What I ended up wearing to a Christmas party.

-A really big Christmas cactus.

-Walker and I celebrated our Christmas early this year since we were going to be out of town. He made meat pie ( a holiday tradition passed down by his grandfather), we drank wine, and opened gifts.

I’m going to take a short break from posting and let everyone enjoy the holidays, get some good relaxing time in, and get caught up on fun events and projects. I will see you all next Monday! Again, merry Christmas!

Christmas preparations

December 24, 2012

Today we’re on a bus heading to our Oregon Christmas. Before we could head out though we had a few things to do.

I mailed my last packages on Saturday afternoon and then we started to prepare for our trip. May I just say what a relief it is to be completely caught up. It didn’t last long but it sure felt good. I’ll taking a little break until after the first of the year and my body sure could use some heeling.

Next we had to wrap all the gifts we’re taking on our trip and start making all the goodies we are planning on sharing. On the list were ginger cookies, candied orange peels dipped in chocolate and as an added bonus chocolate covered pomegranate seeds. I’m so excited to share all of our hard work. It’s my favorite part of Christmas.

What have you done in preparation for this Christmas?

Catching up

December 21, 2012

I’ve been a little absent over here but after spending about 12 to 13 hours a day cutting, sanding, hammering, polishing, packaging, mailing, answering emails and so on I just couldn’t bring myself to upload photos and write a post. Today I finally feel like I’m catching up and it feels good. I should say mentally because physically I’m beat. Every muscle hurts and I think I may have pinched something in my back. Ha! All I want for Christmas is a massage.

We’ve managed to get out a little but I’m really looking forward to a few days off.

-envelopes to go to the post office. It’s been like this almost every day.

-a late night break to a Korean restaurant.

-it snowed!

-a candy cane to eat while I work.

 

-more envelopes to mail.

-wine tasting (and buying), using my camera bag as a wine carrier.