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Deer, oh dear Christmas decor
Well, better late than never, don’t you feel like sometimes you just are never done!? I feel ok, about the whole Christmas business, thankfully we have had lots of joyous occasions keeping us busy in the midst of the shopping, wrapping and a little bit of decorating :) and I am so grateful for online shopping! So my theme was deers, It’s a fun christmas collection and being in Phoenix we really don’t see these graceful animals that much. I like how many different shapes and sizes I found, all yard sales of course The outside is classic and white but I … Continue reading
Oversized Cross-stitch Art
Doing the mantle is both my achilles heel and personal challenge. I was pretty proud of myself for knocking this one out without too many tears last weekend. Not going to lie though, the bulletin board was basically cast into my lap, so the hard/expensive part was done. One of the dealers at Antique plaza got rid of it, I saw it and scooped it up out of the alley. It needed a few modifications, it was about 1.5 inches too tall to sit on the mantle and it was double sided so I had nick trim it down and I pulled one of the … Continue reading
Our new addition
It was a pretty normal day, October 22nd. I woke up, went to work and had a pretty typical work day. But lo and behold I came home that night and was greeted by this little guy. A puppy! A corgi puppy of course. Nick had picked him up that day and surprised me with him that evening. (you can see how pleased lilu is about it) His name is Ein (like Einstein) we named him after the corgi on Cowboy Bebop (A Japanese Anime show.) The corgi is named Einstein but they called him Ein for short. This was … Continue reading
