I was asked again to participate in an ornament exchange through a group on Facebook. I was assigned a partner who lives in Nevada this time and our ornaments had to be in the mail by November 17th which I was able to eek out. This time I chose to share this ornament....
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Ornament Exchange 2022
Monday, November 28, 2022
Jingle Belles - A Banner Holiday
Well, here we are again at the end of the Jingle Belle challenges for the year. That is not to say that I am done with my Christmas cards, although I should be if I had kept to the challenge schedule. I have a few more to do, but they'll wait until I've posted my card honoring the beautiful blog banner that hostess Lauren created (click here for details).
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Jingle Belles - Funny Ho! Ho!
Everyone has their way of celebrating the holidays and one of them can be with a little humor. This fortnight the Jingle Belles have tasked us with coming up with a humorous holiday card. I've had this Reinbeer stamp set for a bit and hadn't used it yet. It is a little cheeky.
And here's a lesson that I should have learned before because it's happened to me in the past - try your stamps out when you get them. Sometimes they are not made correctly or have a flaw that won't be detected by just looking at the uninked stamp. You'll see what I mean below. Fortunately, this flaw was easy to cover up.
I like to think that I can help put people at ease by injecting a little humor into the situation. Of course, I'm not talking about life or death situations, but those everyday sometimes sticky situations. Those times when a little humorous distraction can lighten the situation. Like last week when I was getting my hair cut. I was almost done in the chair when my hairdresser's next customer came over to tell her she was there. This little woman was 94 years old and walked with a cane, but was rather chipper and was chatting away. My hairdresser went to help her sit down in the chair next to mine and the woman lost her balance and fell backwards and lightly hit her head on the floor. Well, that was enough to cause everyone to come running. She wanted to collect her wits and just sit on the floor for a bit, but the salon personnel were all around her trying to get her up. They wanted to call her daughter and let the daughter know she had fallen. The lady told them not to call, that her son-in-law was in the car waiting for her. But they called anyway as they left her to sit on the floor for a bit with just me to talk to. She said she wasn't really hurt and was more upset that they were calling for help. I told her that I was impressed with how graceful she fell and rolled with it and she laughed. I then told her that she should probably get checked out at the emergency room because she might have a mild concussion (relying on my prior experience with such). I think that little bit of humor about her rolling diffused the situation a bit and she thought about and agreed to get checked out. While she was waiting for her SIL she continued to chat away and I learned that she had had polio when she was 5. She shared a little of her experience of being sent away to a sanatorium as a child and how they were forced to go into the cold ocean water and told not to cry or they wouldn't get dessert. I told her that she earned her dessert that day and she laughed again. I'm pretty sure that she'll be okay but you have to worry with those frail little women.
Time to head over to the Jingle Belles to get a few giggles and Ho! Ho! Ho!'s! by clicking here.
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Celebrating in November Part 1
I went through the calendar on the wacky holiday website and made note of some of the days that we could celebrate this month (and next month too) on a Google calendar template. While there are a lot of events to choose from, some of them are a bit more obscure and wackier than others so I tried to stick to thinks that we could pretty easily do and to intersperse the food events and non-food events.
A tutor who tooted her flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, is it easier to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Tangles and Tangents
As I've done in the past, I participated in Inktober this year using the tangles list provided by Stephanie of 7F5R and the template for this year's Stellar Challenge provided by Pilar Pulido @Zentrarte and Sara Ponce @Manosaltangle. The previous two years involved the Lunar and Solar templates and this one is supposed to be the constellation Zentangle. However, I went ahead and connected all the stars instead of only having the connections form a "Z". But that's that, and no one would know unless I spilled the tea.
I didn't have 9 plain tiles to work with and luckily found the 4 tiles that I had watercolored in preparation for a previous project. I thought they would be okay in the corners and I immediately, on the first day, second-guessed my judgment of using blue ink, but I went ahead with it anyway.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Jingle Belles - Not a Creature Was Stirring
The Jingle Belles challenge for this fortnight is to include creatures. I had a few creatures that I wanted to use, but these decorating ducks won out. The ducks are fussy cut from a Penny Black stamp appropriately called Duck the Halls. I gave them a tree from a Cottage Cutz die to decorate and planted the whole scene on a hillside die from The Greetery. I think that they may need a few more decorations (or at least an electrical outlet) to get that tree decorated though.