Decorated mantel with a little help...........

Today was a gift from the snow-god, Blizzardacus, in which he dropped enough snow last night for school to be cancelled. Tonight we are expecting anywhere from 5 to 16 inches of snow, depending upon the how the lake effect snow machine fires up. Isn't it funny how the weather man gives such a wide span to cover his butt? I could be a weather person in that case...."today folks we are going to have anywhere from 3 inches to 29 feet of snow, so get the shovels out". Well I used the time wisely late this afternoon and finished decorating......I had a little assistance, if you can call it that. This guy was very helpful with his super long arms, he could easily hold onto the bead garland. This dude was no help what so ever, he kept giving everyone this shy sideways glance and kept wishing then "Happy Holidays!". These snowmen are a hard bunch to work with, they are VERY unfocused.Ok so I, by myself got the greens on the matel and started to place the dark green glass balls and large metal jingle bells when this guy started to poke me in the nose with his aluminum tree.

Well, I finally just finished but not without somebody getting stuck in the gumbal machine.....

Sunshine climbed into the gumball machine and got stuck. He then yelled out for me to bring him his snow, bottle brush tree and red and silver balls. I think he's planning on hanging out there until after the holidays.

Todays giveaway is a set of 3 original Christmas postcards I created. These are actually the ones I will be sending out myself this year. Leave a comment and I'll draw a winner on Thursday. Sorry the pictures of them are a little blurry but then again I'm a little blurry after deal with those snowmen for a few hours!

Black Friday Giveaway

LEFT OVERS!!!!!

Well I survived Thanksgiving! All of that food! Now I want you to be very impressed so I'm going to tell you this........I went to the gym last night and I rode the bike....on the hill program.....for 30 minutes.....at a very brisk pace........and only burned 220 calories! What! What's that?!?!?! Only about 2 bites of stuffing! Oh well, at least I tried.

I don't shop on Black Friday so I stayed at home and worked in the studio on my Christmas cards. I'm doing a series of 4 and finished the last 2 today.

.If you'd like to be entered into a drawing to win a set of them just leave a comment about what you did today on Black Friday or what you're doing with all of those turkey leftovers! (I might just give out 2 sets if someone comes up with some really original way of using the leftover turkey!) I'f you'd like to purchase a set go to Jingle All The Way Home.