I hit a deer on my way home tonight!

I just thought Id do a quick post.. I wanted to show you the memory orders that I finished and to tell you that I hit a freaken deer on my way home from work tonight! GOOD GRIEF!!!! man does that suck.. for the deer and for me..........

Broke the piece that holds the headlights and smashed the headlights and the piece underneath it on the passenger side.. that darn deer all of a sudden just appeared! ticks me right off I tell ya! I couldnt find the deer, but hes got to have one messed up leg or hip! there was a nice bunch of deer fur stuck to my car, but no blood.. I hope the poor thing survives. but I'm so not happy about my car!!!!!! DARN DARN DARN!!

So anyways.. these santa stars are made of a womens husbands flannel lined jeans. She bought memory bears last year after her husband died and wanted a little something to put on her families christmas trees for this year, so this is what we came up with. I havent heard how they went over. I hope her family liked them.

I learned something about myself this past weekend.. and that is that , if need be, I can make 9 bears from start to finish in two days and evenings! I do have to say I busted my butt, but I did manage to have them done by 10:45 sunday night and ready to deliver on monday morning!

The woman who these bears represent died this summer.. her brother ordered the bears. He told me today that there wasnt a dry eye in the house when he gave out the bears last night. And, his sister in law called me at work this morning to thank me and to ask me to make 3 more. Im glad that the bears help to make people feel close to who ever it is that they lost. sometimes its just so sad seeing the pain that people are faced with when they have lost someone they love so much. But somehow, i usually feel a little closer to the people afterwords. When I make the bears I try to imagine what the person was like and I think about how much the people who will recieve the bears loved them. I dont know why, but its just something I do. Ok.. enough about the bears..

I am tired.. and a bit upset about the stupid deer! so I'm going to make a cup of tea and sort out magazines and look for some valentine inspiration!

have a sweet night!

its a blizzard of snowmen: the results!

Finally I'm getting a chance to upload all the pictures from the snowman swap. its taken awhile to collect all the pictures and I'm still missing two I think... so if they are yours email them over and I'll post them here!

We are having quite a wind storm here, so I'm praying we dont lose power!!! I have 9 teddy bears to finish today for an order and am going to be needing lots of light! (I'll post pics later!)

Ok. so on this years snowmen... first of all, thank you to all you talented girls who joined in the second annual snowman ornament swap!! I love hosting the swaps and you girls make them so much fun for me!

I also had done a couple 1:1 snowman swaps at the same time so those are included here as are also a couple of special gifts I recieved from some very special flickr and blogger friends!

This first awesome snowman is bipolar.. he has two faces! He was made for me by AMelia of sweet Bs! I adore him.

This ornie was made by one of my snowman swap partners, Jolene! thank you jolene! This was jolenes first swap and she did a great job! I have this hanging in a place of honor on my tree!
This was a gift from the sweet Debb! thank you so much Debb, he is hanging on my calander! so sweet of Debb to send me a sweet piece of her art work! I love him!

This adorable little snowfriend was made by my other snowman swap partner, Cassandra! is he not the cutest little snow soul??? I LOVE him! thank you cassandra. You may know Cassandra as HeyJupiter on flickr.

She is know for the gorgeous mermaid art she does.. and along with her snowguy, she sent me a little piece of her mermaid art!! how lucky for me!! I love it!

This sweet snowfriend, was a gift from FLora, I am in awe of her art work and she is a kind hearted person who wanted me to have a piece of her work!! Im telling ya, I am so blessed with awesome friends out here in blog land (and in person too!!) Is this not the cutest ??? thank you too flora!

Another friend I swapped with, Jenny, of be cherry... can you believe your eyes?? how stinking cute is this! I love ya Jenny!! and your little snowman too!

ANd are the rest of the wonderful art work you all did! This one is by Melissa and went to Michelle~ I know Michelle was thrilled with this! HOw cute!! thanks for being in the swap Melissa!

This batch of goodies went to Annie from Debra Schoch. Annie was overjoyed by the wonderful things she recieved! It was Annies first swap! Debra of Hophopjingleboo always does amazing work and send great things in her swaps! thank for joining Debra and Annie!

and this is the wonderful creative snowperson that annie made for Debra! Isnt she adorable!! I love her annie! I'm trying to figure out how you did her face!?

These snowfriends were made by Debb and went to Kai! are they adorable or what!! Debb is a faithful swapper and blogger pal. She loves to create and share she work with others! Actually the same can be said about Kai, who was her partner!
This is the piece Kai did for DEbb, again .. adorable! And I just have to tell you all, that I have a special place in my heart for Kai! She's special!

These next three pictures are of the swap pieces that Cindy did for kathy... This was Cindys first swap too.. she did a great job. I know Kathy was so happy to recieve the great things she sent her. Cindy made most of these things, including the wonderful calender.. She is obviously extremely talented!

Ok.. now bare with me here, because I am a little confused about some of these pictures and might not have it straight as to who made what!! I do believe that Alison made this things.. (and please please forgive me if I'm wrong and let me know right away so I can correct my mistake!) How sweet is this little package of snowfriends! Iwish I had a better picture so we could see them all closer! Thank you so much Alison for joining the swap! Alisons creations went to Courtney!

And Courtney, did this fancy needle work for alison! Isnt this adorable! I love it! Thank you soo much for joining the swap girls! And , courtney, thanks again for the awesome snowman earrings you sent me!! I've been wearing them!!

This sweet snowman in the box was created by Peggy! and the second picture shows the top of the box! Adorable and creative! Peggys piece went to Sarah. Love that little cardinal on the snowmans head!

Here is the cute piece that sweet sarah made for Peggy! Sarah is another faithful joiner of my swaps! What a great little snow scene! Again thanks to both girls for joining! (oh, and sorry about the differences in the sizes of some of the pictures, I dont know why medium is not alway medium!)

Heres another faithful swapper pal! This awesomely sweet little snowfriend was made by the awesomely sweet Jillian and it went to my friend Barb! How lucky Barb is! isnt this the sweetest??

And here is the great piece that Barbara did for Jillian! (Love ya barb..) Great Swap girls!

These next two pictures are of the swap items that Kathy sent to Cindy! Arent they ADORABLE!! I love that snowcone guy!! I'm so glad you joined again Kathy! Love the things you make!

The next two pics are from Marcel (Aunt pittypat!) She is a swapper queen! How handsome he snowman is! She certainly sent a package of goodies too! Her package went to Sandy. love the snowman and thanks for joining Marcel!!

And, this is the swap items that Sandy sent ot Marcel. I can hardly stand the cutenest! I love the fluffy pink hat on her snowgirl head! Thanks for joining the swap girls!!

OK. heres where I might be a little confused again! I do believe that the very talented Fran made these pieces for her partner Amelia! Arent thye cute!!?? Fran is another faithful swap follower of mine! thanks fran!

Here is the sweet piece that Amelia made for FRan! how wonderful is this? You guys are all so talented!

This little sweetie was made by Leslie! dontcha just love it?? how adorable. This one went to Maria! I know she had to have been thrilled to recieve it!

This wintery snowman was made by vivlyn.. isnt he adorable ! Ilove his little jinglebells and that that he is standing on the snowflake. how cute! thanks Vivlyn for joining the swap! Vivlyns snowman went to the lucky carla!

And these babies are the ones the creative Carla made for vivlyn! How about that little baby snowman?? Cute cute cute!

Ok, the rest of these youve already seen in a previous post, but these are the ones I made for this swap, for some gifties and for a couple one on one swaps..

Thanks to all of you who joined this swap! another successful snowstorm completed! Now I'm off to finish those 9 bears!! will post pics tomorrow!

CHRISTMAS !

MERRY CHRISTMAS BLOGGER FRIENDS!! I AM POOPED OUT! THIS CHRISTMAS BUSINESS IS A LOT OF WORK. WE HAD CHRISTMAS EVE AT OUR HOUSE AND THEN I WAS UP UNTIL 3:00 am BEING SANTA CLAUS! EIY YIE YIE! WHAT A LOT OF WORK! BUT SO WORTH IT TO MAKE MY FAMILY HAPPY!


WE HAD A GREAT CHRISTMAS, MY CHILDREN SPOILED ME AND THEIR FATHER, WHICH THEY ALWAYS DO. WE HAVE THE BEST KIDS! WHEN WE FINISHED HERE, WE HAD TO RUSH OFF TO MY MOTHER INLAWS TO EXCHANGE GIFTS AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DINNER... i ATE SOOOO MUCH! (LAST NIGHT TOO!) I ACTUALLY HAVE A LITTLE HEART BURN NOW!
I PLAYED WITH VIOLET TODAY.. IVE BEEN NEGLECTING HER LATELY.. THE POOR GIRL WAS GLAD TO GET OUT FOR A BIT. SHE WENT TO GRANDMAS WITH US!

WELL, PERHAPS I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT CHRISTMAS TOMORROW.. I'M HOPING TO DO THE SNOWMAN POST THIS WEEKEND TOO!
HOPE YOUR CHRISTMAS DAY HAS BEEN FILLED WITH LOVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS.. MINE WAS!
NIGHT NIGHT!!

When its like this outside.... bake cookies! the only problem with baking cookies is......

Then I just want to eat them all!

I used to make some other kinds too, but Ive narrowed it down to these five kinds over the years because these are our favorites.

I usually make fudge too.. but I think I'm going to pass on it this year..

Its a good thing most of my kids live near by and stop in a lot... someone has to help eat these babies! I did make up a tray to take to a family christmas party today.

However, the weather is supposed to get nasty, and I'm not sure I'm going. The rest of my family says they are.. I just get tooo nervous driving or riding in stormy weather.. (pisses my husband off.. oh well.. )

I have projects to work on anyways.. gifts that need to be finished.. bears that need to be worked on..

I would like to go to the party.. but I just dont know..

I do have my shopping and wrapping done and now my baking is done..

We have friends over for christmas eve, so I do still need to clean the house. I'll have some cooking to do, salads to make on tuesday night too. Unfortunetely I have to work christmas eve.. that kind of sucks, as It doesnt give me much time to prepare for company at 7:00 when I dont get home until 5:30! I'll just have to have most everything done on tuesday night and wednesday morning. Really theres not that much to do. jens a teacher so she will be off the next 2 weeks, so she'll come over and help.

well, just wanted to share these cookies with ya! I suppose I should go get showered and dressed and figure out what I'm doing today!

have a sweet sunday! only 4 more days til christmas! I hope you're all ready!