Monthly Archives: December 2016

Dec 10 2016

Merry and Bright

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I don’t know if you have noticed but I’ve been really into making signs lately. It’s a new hobby of mine that I started doing in September and have found that I actually really enjoy it. We have a place called the “hatch pit”. The city provides a place to dump any tree clippings, wood, construction stuff, and sod. Well sometimes people dump pallets that are in pretty good shape. You can scavenge the wood area where the pallets are and so it’s free to take. Corey and I got quite a bit of wood from there to supply my new hobby. Corey has also enjoyed working on some wood projects of his own. I usually tell him I need a sign what size and he’ll put it together for me. He also made a wood box for a table center piece. It turned out pretty cool. Maybe I’ll post a picture of it some time. I saw this post on pintrest here. I decided I wanted one too and created an image that I wanted on my computer. Then I printed and transferred the image onto the sign and hand painted it. I’m so happy with the results. What do you think?

Finished sign

Finished sign

Rudolf even has a red nose

Rudolf even has a red nose

I love that the tree has red stars to tie into the red lettering on Merry and Bright.

I love that the tree has red stars to tie into the red lettering on Merry and Bright.

Dec 3 2016

Mail Time

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Addressed, stamped, and ready.

Addressed, stamped, and ready.

Back in November I had a blog post about sending Christmas cards. Here is the update. They are addressed, stamped, and sealed ready to go. It was quite a process this year. I had a lot of complaining from kids about taking a family photo. The cards aren’t the best looking but we still went with it. The icing on the cake was when I bought 60 stamps and lost them! Yes I lost the stamps. I looked everywhere and was unable to locate the stamps. That’s enough for me to give up and say I guess we weren’t meant to send cards out this year. No I’m determined to do it this year. No excuses. I went out and bought 40 more stamps and we are headed to the post office to post the mail. As long as nothing catastrophic happens on the way to the post office we are golden. If you get a card from me remember it wasn’t easy and there was a lot of effort to get them to you because we love you. On a related note I finished the “MERRY MAIL” sign and have it hung up ready to receive the cards for this year. I love how it turned out. It’ll be better than the string I had hanging up. I always had to keep hanging the string over and over again because it kept falling down. Can you believe it we already received one card! Yay! Someone is on the ball this year. Hope you have an easier time getting the cards out this year.

I love how this turned out.

I love how this turned out.

Dec 1 2016

Snow!

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Yay it’s the first day of December! We woke up with this sight to see.dscf6140
2 1/2 inches of snow. First time this year I’ve had to shovel. It’s been snowing off and on for the past week but it always warms up enough to melt. This time I think it’s here to stay. Here in Eastern Idaho we usually start getting snow in October but not this year. We have been warmer than usual which I’ve enjoyed because it has allowed me to bike and walk all November. I guess it’s time to dust off those sleds, wax those skis, and warm up that hot cocoa because winter is here! What are some of your favorite winter time activities?

View off our back porch

View off our back porch