It's time Christmas countdown calendar time! Whoo hoo!
Advent Calendars are a very Danish way to celebrate Christmas.
I never had one.
Clearly, I was horribly mistreated as a child. This has nothing to do with my parents didn't want two kids fighting over one daily calendar prize which we probably didn't need since Christmas was coming or extra treats that could negate the use of the most magical parental phrase to get two little girls to behave instantly, "Santa is watching."
Nope. It was out of pure parental meanness. I tell ya.
Now that I'm all grown up (stop laughing. It's true.) I guess I could get my own Advent calendar and countdown Christmas any. way. I. want.
I choose this.
Neener. Neener.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Build a Beer Advent Calender
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Monday, November 19, 2012
20 Cute and Eco! Christmas Ornaments
I think my love of tree ornaments comes from Grandmother
making me ornaments each Christmas of my teenage years so I’d have a set when I
went out on my own. My favorites will hang on our family Christmas tree. It
feels like she is still with us during Christmas.
I carry on the Christmas tree ornament gift tradition. I
give each of my nine nieces and nephews a Baby’s First Christmas ornament on
their first Christmas. Santa always puts a new ornament in Miss 3 of 9’s and
Mr. 7 of 9’s Christmas stocking since those are the only kids who do stockings
(besides my house.) I usually buy those ornaments so I don’t tip them off that Santa
sometimes has help filling their stockings from this side of the North Pole.
Not to mention, I get to satisfy my ornament addition, um fascination, by
spending a lot of time browsing for their perfect yearly ornament.
Let’s check out some Christmas tree ornament eye candy!
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Have I Thanked You Lately? Because I Should
This post has been in the back and front of my mind for a
long time. Last night I had a mild panic attack when I realized Thanksgiving is
next week and I am unprepared. This is unusual but well, I’ve been a little
busy fighting and losing to canine cancer this year.
These past five months I’ve been on a see saw. Feeling OK
and moving within the online world only to retreat to my cave the following
day. I feel guilty and selfish because I haven’t truly thanked you for what you
did for us and before, during, and after Blitzkrieg’s cancer battle.
I’m thanking you now.
Husband said I should share the photos I took of our visit to my hometown's beach. We let Blitzkrieg sniff and experience the smells of a Lake Erie beach after the winter storms and before the spring beach clean up.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
How to Install an Under Sink Water Filter System
We are a tap water house. It is cheaper, greener, and lazier
because I don’t buy and lug bottles to and from the store or send them to recycling limbo.
We’re also a filtered tap water in the refrigerator house.
In theory. Unfortunately, the filtered water pitcher is the first thing
jettisoned from the refrigerator when I need to make room for food after a
shopping trip.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
How to Make Color Denim Jeans for Five Dollars
It is officially jeans weather and I got a little surprise.
Turns out the Kidney Stone Diet followed by the My Dog Has Cancer Diet followed
by the Grief Diet (I do not recommend these diets At. All. It isn’t healthy and
stinks on ice) made me lose enough weight to make my fat jeans too big.
I need a pair of temporary transitional size jeans. Colored
denim jeans might be fun because now things are settled and I plan to start
Wii-ing and biking on our new bike trail my way back to the normal range of my
Body Mass Index (BMI). By then the colored skinny jean trend may have jumped
the shark.
Thanks to a thrift store sale and a Michael’s coupon, I made
a pair of purple denim jeans for $5.00.
You can too!
Here’s how.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
32 Gifts for Crafters and DIYers
I asked a bunch of my favorite craft and DIY bloggers what cool gifts for women they received or are on their gift list. While we all agreed gift cards to our favorite home
improvement and craft stores are always winners, sometimes the people in our lives are looking for new and unique gift ideas because they have gone to the gift card well a little too often.
Ironically, most of the gift ideas we talked about I've gotten or given as gifts myself. True story.
Gift Ideas for a Quilter
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