OPPS!--DAY LATE

AGAIN!!
Can I use the 'excuse' that it is the holidays--
and I am busy--or not?????
the truth is--
I did not sleep much, Saturday night--
(Was up knitting for an hour in the middle of the night!)
so therefore--I would not of made much 'sense' if I did this post yesterday!!
at least that is my 'story'--

Let's see--
in my Inchy life--
Dec 8th--
Sunday--

It was time to take care of the all the thanksgiving leftovers from my dinner with Frannie
on Friday
and I worked on some Christmas decorating--

Dec9th
Monday--
shopping day with Frannie--

and I finally was able to get this--

another nice floor lamp--
will need it to see to eat our Christmas dinner on Christmas day--
and will come in handy after the first of the year for sewing!!
also got alot of baking supplies--
now where are those elf's this time--
I don't seem to be smelling any cookies baking yet????

Got another block of the sal done--

and so far--

Dec 10th
Tuesday--
Nice surprise in the mail--

from Norway--got excited and as I opened the mailing envelope--
I realized it was wrapped in Christmas paper--
which means--it is against the rules to open until Christmas--
so under the tree it goes!!

and another block was given out--

and here is the  close up of his buttons--

these are very old buttons-
and I have had them a long time--waiting for something special to add them too--
and this little guy won 2 out of the 5, I have, to wear!!

Dec 11th
Wednesday--
went to a--

Bean Auction--
yep they have such a thing--
down in our dinning room once a month--
we were given a roll of paper towels for  coming--
and then a cup with '20' beans in it for the money to bid on things--

I bid on and got '2' items--the Penguin plate and knife was one item--
costing me the big price of 4 beans!!
and the Christmas necklace cost me 4 beans--
there was alot of 'smelly' gift sets this month and I don't do 'smelly' stuff!!!
it really was lot of fun--

Dec 12th-
Thursday--
when we walked into the lunch room we had a nice surprise waiting for us--

They had the cutest booth set up in the corner of the room and were giving out
cups of hot chocolate and fresh baked sugar cookies--and they had bowls of icing,
and lots of sprinkles for toppings so you could decorate your own cookie--they were
very good and the hot chocolate complete with mini marshmallows was divine--it was
the real hot chocolate--yummy!!!

and another block was done--

And I do believe the 'elves' did show up and got the tree decorated and the window
ledge--before they disappeared, again!!

Dec 13th--
Friday
This is our last Friday the 13th of  2019--

My girl friend Carolyn came by and picked me up and we went out for lunch--
the little diner we picked over beach side--had prices as high as Cracker Barrel--
(where we often eat) but not near the amount of food or as tasty--!!!
then we went to a consignment shop called Cottage Rose and I did find two treasures--

a cute small tea cup and saucer--
and two holiday hankies--

Dec 14th
Saturday

Candy Canes--it's just not Christmas with out some candy canes--
I always buy a box of the red and white ones to hang on the tree--
and the block today was a --

This is block #7--
we are almost done--there is a total of 9 blocks--
Also did a walk over to the thrift store downtown and found some treasures--

2 really heavy weight mini muffin tins for just $3.25--(these are $7-9 dollar a piece
quality!!)  and some nice Christmas cards for 10 cents each and this little basket--

and found one of my elves over there --goofing off--
the little snow bear ornament someone painted in 1990 and I love the tiny mouse in
his pocket so he needed a new home--as did the bunny on the pole--also hand painted
and the counted cross stitch is old and is a Dale Burdett design--and then that square
silver tray--will make a nice display board for a counted cross piece --

Here is a few random photos of some decorating I have done--

Betty and Fred are all decked out for the holidays--

this is how I decorate-ed my metal bucket I got at a rummage sale here in the building
last month--Do you remember when I made those little Santa pillow--they were alot of fun
to make--

and here is a new lattice piece I picked up one day at the thrift store--
it works perfect for my two new bunnies

and I got this book read--

really enjoyed this author--

and this story

DON'T FORGET TO LOVE  EVEN YOUR MISTAKES--

AS THEY TEACH US SOMETHING

LUV, DI