Homemade Gift Ideas

• Recipe jars


• Family recipe book


• Scrapbook


• Photo album/book


• Cookies wrapped or in a tin


• Hand-dipped & sprinkled chocolate pretzels


• Paintings


• Poem (s)


• Mini handwritten stories/books


• Homemade coloring book


• Goodies in a jar (i.e. candy, buttons, charms, bobby pins/clips/hair ties, gumballs, gum packs or sticks, nuts, ribbon, little toys, crayons, pet treats, beads, lip gloss/make-up/mini nail polish bottles, bath confetti, ground coffee or mini coffee packs, tea bags, notes, pens/pencils, erasers, quotes, sprinkles, lotto tickets, stickers, etc.)


• Goody baskets (i.e. breakfast theme, drink mix theme, craft supplies, hostess theme, paint/artist theme, kid theme, etc.)


• Jewelry

Yay Christmas Films

• "It's a Wonderful Life"


• "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas"


• "While You Were Sleeping"


• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"


• "Love Actually"


• "Home Alone 2"


• "The Santa Claus"

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5 Things to Be Happy About Right Now (during winter)

1. Wearing tights (black are prettiest and sophisticated) with both winter and summer dresses


2. Exercising outside (yay running!) without getting overheated


3. Soup filled with lots of beans and veggies


4. Holiday music is so cheerful!


5. Hot chocolate--always a warm classic

Thankful

• that class ended early on 11.26.07


• that D'lites is closed on Thursday and not Wednesday (buy 2 get 1 FREE day!!!)


• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition


• being with family (and not having to work or go to school instead)


• my beautiful new home in Tampa


• that I didn't bust open my face when I fell in the Sweetbay parking lot yesterday


• my three lovely blogs


• sweaters! and blankets! and heaters!


• wedding location recent developments/prospects
  
• inspiRations


• Health/happiness/a job/an education/opportunities/priceless & wonderful blessings


• life life life life life life life life life life life life life life life life life

Jeez, I could go on FOREVER, but I'll end here so I don't bore anyone...so I'll lavish my thanks on God, in my prayers, which works pretty well, too...

Current obsessions/passions/whatever you might call them:

• being thankful


• warm soup


• home decor blogs


• fruit gum


• Regina Spektor


• cupcake art


• D'lites ice cream


• "Pushing Daisies"


• planning and making Christmas gifts


• dimes


• dreams


• straws


• daily snapshots


• mini braids


• leggings and tights


• collecting lesson plans

Looking forward to...

• No work, no school tomorrow after 4:45 pm


• A new mini laptop?


• Finishing all assignments and the fall semester!


• Villagefest in Carrollwood Village


• Thanksgiving and a day off--from everything!


• "Winter" cleaning


• E-bay, Etsy, and Craigslist listings


• Making and compiling Christmas gifts


• Seeing my darling Amy


• Spending the weekend after Christmas with my family


• Blogging/reading blogs


• Crafts: paintings, plushes, gifts


• Holiday movies (even though I haven't been to the movies in forever!)
  
• President Elect Obama's inauguration

Hey, it's ok!...

• ...to give more presents than you get at Christmas.


• ...to be an adult and wear colorful tights.


• ...to spend a little more money than you meant to at the craft fair.


• ...to say, 'No!'--to Uncle Scottie's gourmet smoked pork-whatever, another party, or coffee-after-dessert-after-Thanksgiving dinner-after-brunch with his grandparents.


• ...to not write a 'to-do' list for a day!


• ...to eat all of the cookie dough out of the ice cream but get upset if anyone else does the same thing...