Sparkly Pines

Corynn and I decided to tackle some of her Christmas gifts today. They are not fully completed as they are drying as I type. We used regular pinecones for ornaments. Notice the MASSIVE pinecones? They are about 6 inches tall!!!! Grandma Newman collected them and brought them back from her annual vacation. (I hope to get some more this year.) Anyway-I figured I would have Corynn paint a small terra cotta pot and hot glue the cones on top. Add a star to the tip and they are nice little trees to give as gifts. Corynn loved getting glittery...er, um...making the TREES glittery! Yeah-that too.

I type this now because I am a bachelorette for a few more hours. As soon as Matt came home, he headed off again to take los mexicanos to the stores (since they can't drive...). So, here I am, all by my lonesome. He promised to bring me back a treat...I wonder what I will get?!?!?!

It is positively FREEZING here-our heaters are not working upstairs! Not a good thing when it turns cold-like it has! When the dryer here bit the dust, Ed told us it was our responsibility to fix it so I know who's responsibility the heat-fixing will be. Ugh. So-to warm us up we headed to the kitchen to make some cookies...and turn on the oven!

I have been working tirelessly to organize the disorganized 'hot spots' in my house, namely, my bedroom and the craft room. I did our room yesterday and my craft room today. My goodness-it had been neglected since the craft show I did weeks ago! It feels good to have some floorspace-and TABLE room. It might just draw me into a few projects! And I have all sorts of ideas turning about in my head. Now for some time....

Have a great night!