SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT & NEW SWAP

GOODMORNING all you glories! Thats what my dad used to say to me.. "goodmorning glory!" or "rise and shine little sleepy head!" and the best... He'd get up early and go get fresh donuts, then when I woke up he'd say "I brought you something to sweeten your disposition!" Ok.. now I can blame him for my being fat.. I've been trying to sweeten my disposition for over 40 years now! oh my, I've regressed already, before Ive even started here!!
SO anyways.... again I say.. GOODMORNING all you GLORIES!!

I've got lots to show you and talk about.. so get comfy.. I've been planning on spending a good chunk of time on the computer this morning, updating my blog and visiting yours.. and also I really need to hop over to livejournal to visit some sweet girls over there that i've so neglected!

I guess I'll first finish up with halloween! Fran asked me to tell what I did last night for halloween... I hate to disappoint anyone.. but I didnt do anything halloweenie at all! I met my daughter JEn after work, and we went to the furniture store and bought more furniture for her new apartment.. then we went to target and I bought a bath mat! PINK of course... for dinner we each ate not one but two halloween cupcakes that I made at 5:00 am yesterday morning! I got home about 8:30 and never even saw a trick or treater............. how sad is that!? well, except, I did see the sweetest little ninja and black cat at target.. I must have said "how cute" loud enough for the ninja boy to hear me because he turned around.. OMG so cute, and said.. "you like my costume???" then he kept talking to us and when his mom was getting ahead of him and calling him to her, he turned around and said "goodbye"! I dont know why I'm telling you this.. its just that he was soo stinking cute and of course he reminded me of my little tony when he was that age, probablay 5 ish! so that is what I did on halloween. I never even carved a pumpkin this year because I want all my pumpkins to last til thanksgiving! I do have a few halloween pictures to share with you of a girl at work. I didnt get her permission to share them, so I so hope she doesnt mind.. her costume was sooo awesome!

OK.. I think I've told you that I'm a magazine addict.. I've been known to drive all the way to the city in pursuit of a particular one, more then once.. (this drives my friend Jeannine nuts..) anyways, this time of year there are sooo many that I have to buy! I picked up 4 the other day, romantic homes, victoria, teddybear and friends and mary englebriets home companion.. (Im waiting for the winter addition of artful blogger, and where woman create.. and I'm sure to buy another half dozen or more with in the next week or so as the christmas additions show up!) ANYways.. I was sitting, looking through the romantic homes issue and I hadnt read anything.. just looking at the pictures, thinking that some of this gorgeous home that they featured looked familiar.. and then I notice a picture of an ornament that I had made for a swap! I was like, OMG.. how'd I get in there?? Well, you need to run right out and get a copy.. the home featured belongs to our very own Cathy Scalise of treaured heirlooms and she mentioned the PINK ornament swap we did last christmas and then in the back of the magazine our blogs are listed! yup. that was a nice surprise! Cathy your house is really AMAZING!!! I wish I could hang out there through the holidays!

these are pictures I took last year when I made them!

NEXT ..... now that halloween is over, it feel I can talk about christmas! I have a few things to share with you that I made this week. I started my christmas creating.. got lots of things living in my head.. "visions of sugarplums dance in my head" not kidding! so much to create and sooo little time to do it all.. If only I didnt have to work!! So here are this weeks goodies.. The red bear is for Terisa of running with scissors for an art auction that she is involved in.

And, finally , is anyone still with me here?? its time for .....the second annual snowman ornament swap! so.. the details are.. I had toyed with doing it groups of three or four and having everyone make for each person in their group, but because this gets to be such a busy time of year, I'm keeping it as a one to one swap! so my darlings, spread the word. please post the swap button on your blogs send folks this way!

So the snowmen are to be handmade of any medium and should be "ornament size" like, under 7 inches. The number one criteria, like last year is that they must make people smile!

Sign ups start now and will go through November 7th. On the 8th I'll post or email partners. MAIL OUT date will be December 1st! I really want to keep to this date for mailing out girlies.. and of course as usual, you will need to email me a picture of your creation so that I can post a little "snowstorm" of all your creations here!

You can leave messages here to sign up, but also please email me at vivianneroni@yahoo.com with your mailing address and blog address.

Well, I think Im done posting for now.. now on to visiting out in blogville and then its grocery shopping and working on that big bear order, which I finally have all 8 cut out and ready to sew!

HAVE A SWEET AND CREATIVE WEEKEND ♥