Winter, Yes! Wonderland?

It snowed all night. The news is saying that here in Parker we have got 25.5 inches of snow. The wind had slowed way down and the snow heavier now. I measured 21 inches on our deck this morning and that's after my husband snow blowed atleast that much off of it yesterday afternoon.

Everything is still closed, we have drifts that go up to 6 feet high. No one can leave their houses becuase the side roads are buried.

This picture is of our back deck, between where the benches are we have a 2 step drop down into the lawn. You can't see where the steps are, everything looks level becuase it's so buried in snow.

This picture is looking out our window into my neighbors yard.

I dont' think we;ll be able to get out of the house until Saturday. The airport which is 20 minutes East of where we are isn't going to try to open until Noon tomorrow. There are cars stranded everywhere on the news, lots of shelters setup, the National Guard is assisting in clean up. Last night we took the dogs out front to go potty cause the back was too deep and we saw a plow get stuck a couple streets over.

I think I'll finished wrapping gifts today, maybe make some Christmas gifts too. No one is going anywhere for a while.

It's most Definitely Going to be a White Christmas

It's hard to figure out just how much snow we have, there are spots where you can see grass or pavement and then right next to it a 6 Foot snow drift. Everything including the PO has closed today and even the airport says they won't attempt to move any flights in or out till tomorrow night. Here is a few pics this evening.

Our garage door has been closed all day, this has just blown in from the small gap between the driveway and the door. Nice huh?

Brrrr! I concur Carole, perfect night for a movie, fire and a few glasses of wine! you know me well!

Blizzard Numero Dos

Well it's the beginning but they say it's going to be a doozy! We're suppossed to get 3 feet by tomorrow morning. Everything is cancelled, the grocery stores were swamped this morning, the roads are dangerous and travel is not recommended. Glad I got my few Christmas errands I had left to do done yesterday. Here's what it looks like so far. Lot's of drifts in the roads I guess, I'll post more pics later.

Christmas Time Outing

Last night we went to the Botanic Gardens with my family, we had cinnamon roasted almonds which were so magical and hot apple cider. Ummmm, so good and they kept my hands warm while walking around in the 20 degree weather looking at the lights. It was a lot of fun, Britton my little nephew was really good and he got to see Santa for the 1st time ever. What is up with tha beard huh?

Well I got most of my CHristmas packages out today, I went to the PO at 2:20 and was out by 3. I still have a few more to get out but I'm still waiting for them to come in the mail, that's what I get for last minute online shopping. I still have everything to wrap for all my local friends and family, you should see my office right now, it looks likes Santa's workshop blew up in here! The dogs like it though I can tell.

Amazing gift basket from friends

Sweet Mail Day

Yesterday afternoon I received this awesome little gnome from Amanda! You sweetie! Thank you so much, I've been coveting one of these gnomes for a while over at Simple Sandy's Etsy shop! I love it! He's sitting next to a fresh batch of cranberry, walnut, oatmeal cookies that i took over to the MIL's house for Hanukkah festivities. We had a blast, I ate my weight in Latkes, oh man they are so good! We also broke in a new Hannukkah gift one of the kids got, a gorgeous Scrabble board! My team lost, yes that's right we played in team's due to the difficult nature of the game. Unfortunately, no one else thought "Knitin" was a word. COme on it's slang for, "I am sitting here being crafty and knitin". Oh well.

Hey, I also received my fabric package I've been waiting for a while now.....My Haeather Bailey Fabrics!! Yes they are here!

A Case of the Mondays

New Leisl bag in the shop tonight,
Feeling very tired the last 2 days,
Ready for a holiday vacation from work things but
must get through this week,
3 Parties this weekend, and I can can start to relax next week
Going to go make something unhealthy for dinner and watch an Alias and go to bed. Now that's a run-on sentence if I ever saw one! ;)

Tis the time of year for Yule Fuel

St. Nick and Pandora

Happy St. Nicholas Day! For a history if your not familiar with the jolly old Saint you can read about him here, a very fun and endearing read. My hubby and I are starting the tradition with our nephew/Godson tonight!

Also, if you don't know about this site run don't walk to check it out:: Pandora is an awesome site where you can have your personal streaming radio station. Just type in an artist or fav song and it will play similiar artists and music, if you like give it a thumbs up and they'll use it to pick new music or give it a thumbs down and they won't play it again. I have about 6 stations now and I'm totally addicted. Oh yeah you can send the stations to others to - Ahhh, kinda like a modern mix tape! It's free if you don't mind the ads on the page, but really it just goes in the backround while you're doing other things so who cares right? Enjoy!

P.S. Lot's of Paige Pockets coming soon to the shop!!

Front Page News

Yeah Emilie!!
Oh yeah! Psssst...big shop update Sunday night and Monday::
2 new Kimberly clutches, a bunch of patchwork tissue holders,
a messnger bag, a ruffle scarf, new ornaments, a new Zoe & ponies too!
Wheewww!

Thanksgiving with Family and Mail from Friends

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with 11 at our house for fried Turkey, baked ham with all the fixin's. The long weekend was a perfect mix of productivity(sewing) and relaxing. I'm thankful that most of my family lives close enough that we can spend Turkey day together.

My nephew bathed/washed the measuring cup very well in the sink after dinner, then we all watched the Broncos lose to our rivals KC.

I also received some pretty amazing and surprising mail over the weekend. I got 2 incredibly thoughtful Birthday packages from Jessica and Carole. I apologize for the poor lighting in the pictures but it was dark out when I checked the mail and I just could not wait to open these packages.

Jessica sent me a beautiful vintage hankie with apple and pears and birds on it - so great it will get framed not cut-ever!!

Then she sent me the sweetest handmade birthday scrapbook, a beautiful needlepointed bookmark (Queen Mary will be glad it's saving her place in my current read), and a gorgeous pair of earrings made by a local artist near her.

Carole sent me a few sweet goodies from Emily at the Black Apple, a gorgeous lavender sachet ornament with a sweet little bird printed on the front, a wonderful necklace made by the talented Carole herself, a bookplate

2 of the cutest tape measures for myself and my mom and some of the most appropriate cards! ;)

Both of you wow me with your kind and unexpected generosity, you know me well and I couldn't have picked out treasures for myself that are so well suited to my personality as you both did - Thank You!

A Proper english breakfast

Oh yea we did it. we put up our tree already!

Public transportation comes to Suburbia

A weekend of Sleeping Dogs, Ponies, and Beer

Man Griswold looks how I feel today! I just had my final visit (every other week for 8 weeks) at the dentist. I pride myself on having nice teeth and taking good care of them. Now that all my "old school" fillings are new white nano technology it is pretty exciting.

There is a new Pumpkin Harvest Clutch in the shop and a new set of Ponies!
Thanks for the good feedback on the Ponies by the way. I'll be adding a new bobbies theme soon too.

Tomorrow I'll be going to vote, like I hope everyone is - I've always been so good about voting early but not this year, I'll be going on Election Day.

By the way, The picture in the previous post was taken at Sonic at about 11pm on Saturday night. My hubby and I went to a nice Irish bar a couple of blocks away for our neighborhood's Adult party. It was a great time, we met some like minded neighbors we had never previously met. I really like our neighborhood! Anyway, we drank a little too much Irish beer and a Sonic Breakfast Burrito was oh so necessary after the bar. horrible huh? LoL

Meet Penny...

Here's the newest product addition to the shop, of course you can find this set there already, 3 more sets will be going up the rest of the evening. I hope all my lovely Blog readers love Penny as much as I am! I'm loving the 'Ponytail Gal' (coined by the great Carole) at the top of the cards!

Oh check my new hair color in the picture at the shop in this listing, it's way darker than what i normally have! Red and Brown with a little blonde left!

More later darlings...Thanks for reading btw!!