Almost Thanksgiving YES!

It is almost Thanksgiving and I am so excited, I love Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a very wonderful day, making memories to last a lifetime.
It has been a very productive weekend. I went to a craft show in Canada on Saturday and it was really nice. I went a bunch of my friends and all we did was laugh. So that makes it a perfect day.

I got this sweet little prim chair at the craft fair. I just love it. Not even sure where I am going to put it.

 We did a little shopping while we were there, I bought some bizarre stuff, but I have some sweet plans.

Lots of projects going at the same time. lol What a mess, good thing I cleaned it off on Friday. I had room to pile my stuff when I got home on Saturday. it is cleaned off again now.

Oops cooked my snowman a little too long. Grunging in the oven and ADHD do not mix sometimes. I will be setting right there and a bird fly in front of the window and off I go lol.

These look so much better in real life. I love mine and I change the stuff with the seasons.

Santa's clothes after coming down the chimney

Towel cabinets for the store

Lighted birdhouses for the store.

I love the lights.

Well that is enough for one night, I will post more when I get it all done. I have all the stuff that was on the table started and almost complete.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Kat

What a day!

First I am going to check the mail: good news! My magazine FINALLY arrived. In a priority mail envelope so they must of sent it separate.

Very happy it is finally here. Not sure I like it as much this time but I am thinking it is because I just got the new Judy Condon book - Holidays at a Country Home. That book is just phenomenal. Anyway.
So when I leave to go I see we have company near by.

There are actually two here, one up closer, I only had my ipod and I was scared because they are so big. I didn't dare get closer.

They don't even run.

Then, THEN. I come back home and I am going to clean up the downstairs and then feel okay about crafting all day tomorrow. Oh sure! I am doing the dishes (don't have a dish washer, he is off to college lol) and wiping down the counters. OH SH&*!

I SEE THIS! coming out from under the microwave. Well I screamed, ran, and cried like a little girl. This is one big/nasty/scary looking bug. It was a little dark in there. Well I hung up on my friend, she has no idea what is going on, (I did call her back). I called my husband to get his butt out here to take care of this whatever the heck it is. He is laughing. LAUGHING! It was fake and he thought this was so funny. Yup I am thinking still not funny. I could hardly breath, I was getting ready to start packing because I was not living here any more.
Just a couple weeks ago, he left a nasty, giant, fang baring rat, on top of my hall bench and I caught a glimpse of that out of the corner of my eye as I was walking by and almost passed out.
Hahahahaha. NOT FUNNY!
Oh and before that I had ordered a Waist Watchers HAM pizza for lunch. I got pick it up. Throw it on the seat beside me and continue on with my errands. By the time I even remember I have it I am in the next town. I open it up and there is mushrooms, hamburger, pepperoni, and a bunch of other stuff all over my pizza. I call them. "Yes we gave you the wrong one, sorry" NICE so no lunch because there was just too much stuff on there for me.
I think so far this has been a pretty good day. I wish I drank.
I truly hope you all have a very good weekend. OH big country craft show tomorrow over across. Cant wait we are all getting to gether at 7:15 am to get there early. (They are one hour ahead of us over across). Woohoo can't wait. We went to a couple last weekend and they were great.
Kat

Breaking Dawn!

HEY does anyone want to come and go to the midnight showing of breaking dawn with me. Tickets go on sale at 730 so how soon can you be here? lol

I know I should be doing something crafty or at the least cleaning my mess. However the coffee table is cleaned up and the kitchen table is half cleaned off so that should count for something. Oh how I would love about a week in the basement though. I have a week off after Christmas and I am going to be a really busy woman. So much to do, so little time.
HURRY HURRY, lets do dinner and a movie.
Kat

Yup I did nothing and fell asleep

So I made a post last night. Watched a few minutes of television. Then took a nice hot bath. Well yikes, I got out of there and I was in bed and asleep before 9. I have not been to bed before 9 in a very, very long time. of course I was up at 3:30 but still.

Still no APP magazine. I have had the worse time with that subscription. EVERY issue I have to email them and every issue they say it has been fixed. They fix my address and my starting date. ARRRGGG frustrating because I love the magazine. By the time I get the holiday issue it will be January evidently.

Does anyone know how to use the Angel Dust, or Mica Flakes. Do you spray the item with adhesive or ???

Have a good night!
Kat

Huh! I am doing absolutely nothing.

HELLO Everyone! I feel like my life is a whirlwind and here I am, doing nothing. Well not really nothing. I am catching up on what is going on in everyone's world. I am hanging out on the sofa playing on the internet. I love it. I am always so busy doing stuff for the store, working full time, and cleaning up the mess that I make from making stuff for the store.
Well life is too short. yesterday while I was working I had a visitor.

He stayed on the post for a long time and I got right up to the window and took his picture. I swear he was modeling. Oh bragging, hahaha you have to work and I can just set around looking pretty".

So what are you looking at? That is what he said.

Beautiful

So What is everyone up to? What are you doing for Thanksgiving? I love thanksgiving!!!! So many things to be thankful for that we should celebrate every week. Oh wait we do, it is Sunday.
Thanksgiving we get to gather with family and it is the beginning of the wonder of the season.
I hope you are all having a great week. I am off to catch up some more.
Kat

Magazine

Has anyone gotten their Holiday issue of A Primitive Place yet? Shouldn't it be here by now?
Thanks.
I hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Kat

A New Tradition

PASS IT ON . . .

Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high
gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods -- merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!

It's time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in
a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
Everyone -- yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates from your local American hair salon or barber?

Gym membership? It's appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.

Who wouldn't appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a book of gift certificates.

Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plonking down the Benjamins on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.

There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants -- all offering gift
certificates. And, if your intended isn't the fancy eatery sort, what about
a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this
isn't about big National chains -- this is about supporting your home town Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.

How many people couldn't use an oil change for their car, truck or
motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?

Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is struggling to get his repair business up and running.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery and beautiful wooden boxes.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at your hometown theatre.

Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.

Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to burn, leave the mailman, paper carrier, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.

You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn't imagine. THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.

Forward this to everyone on your mailing list -- post it to discussion groups --
throw up a post on Craigslist in the Rants and Raves section in your city --
send it to the editor of your local paper & radio stations, TV news departments.
This is a revolution of caring about each other. Isn't that what Christmas is about?