tgd6 - part 2

as my productivity for the day winds down, i just want to say that i'm thankful for ...


ornament hooks from target and metallic garlands from the dollar store.


card board tubes, papier mache, leftover paint from college, styrofoam balls, yarn and that salvaged table from work. i still plan to paint the table legs & spiff up the top ... but for now, it's nice just to have it in its spot. it makes the room feel a bit more lived in and put together.


festive beads for my tea light holders.


my charlie brown tree, courtesy of last year's secret santa at work.


tiny holiday towels at target.


my not-quite-graceful snowman, courtesy of malissa.


and though they're not Christmas related, i'm thankful i like these curtains as much in my bedroom as i did in the store. :)


i'm also thankful i found more yarn in the closet to add to these rapunzel scarves for work.

and even though i didn't take a photo, i'm thankful for caramel swirl ice cream on top of girl scout samoa cookies. :)

there was more productivity than this today, but revealing any more would take fun away from Christmas surprises. i'm pleased with what i got done. perhaps not everything on the list got marked off, but then i just might get productive again before the weekend's over. it could happen.

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'becca hopes you all had a great saturday, too.

ketchup

in no particular order ...



i got to spend time with some good friends this past weekend. we gathered at bar louie for malissa's 30th birthday. this isn't the whole group, and we're not at bar louie ... but this is what you get. :)


i made kristie a quilt for Christmas this year. she claims to like it, and i'm choosing to believe her. :) it was a fun quilt to make. the backing is a green moleskin, which set the colors for the rest of the quilt. i'm pretty sure that's a completely backwards way to put together a quilt (backing first), but it worked out well.



i got a new digital camera; one that will easily fit into my purse & travel with me everywhere i go. along with it's regular functions, it has a "selective color" mode, which is fun.


i made my first attempts to use my screen printing supplies. i failed, but i think i know what to change next time. i didn't read the instruction book closely enough, so my exposure was off.




it snowed pretty good here on new year's eve. we went outside to do sparklers at midnight, but had a difficult time getting them to light. so i took photos of some trees while other folks worked on the sparklers. i do love trees.


seriously, we had a hard time getting the sparklers lit. but my dad's a pretty smart fellow, and once he got out the torch we were lit in no time.


our new year's eve included a "red & green exchange", courtesy of my sister laure. she's been a knitting machine the past few weeks, and each of us ladies ended up with one her creations. mine has been named the "sherbet scarf", and it has a ruffle at each end that i'm crazy about. :)


new year's eve also included a game of cranium (the "wow" edition). i like the game pawns. they cute and customizable. so we had a mohawked nerd.