The Cottage Is Ready For Christmas..... Trouble Is.... I'm NOT!

Christmas is only FIVE days away.... Remember when it was summertime and we thought we had alllll the time in the world? YIKES! I still have tons of presents to wrap and a few things left to make. I could fib and say I'm planning to finish the Christmas baking too, but I haven't actually finished that in years and years. It's always at the bottom of the list, so it gets short shrift... No problem.... It's so much better to have a nice organic veggie, right? Yeah, I'm not buyin' that either.



About five years ago I started thinking how cute it would be to have feather boa for the garland on our tree..... so I started using lots and lots of my 40% off Joann coupons to buy them. I think it looks like fluffy snow.... and I LOVE it.... It's a happy little tree. I actually used to have a white Martha tree and sadly I couldn't find it this year. Remember how I keep complaining about that HORRIBLE garage? Yep, it's going to get some serious spring cleaning this year. My daughter and I actually ran to Big Lots (very unfamiliar with that place, but it's my new BFF) and picked up this great little tree for fifty dollars... AND, it's PRE-LIT! Whooopee. I especially like it because it's a space saver and here at the cottage that's just DEE.LIGHT.FUL.

I really adore this little black cabinet. It's so strong you could use it for a home foundation. I paid seven dollars........YES! SEVEN dollars for it at the Goodwill about 20 years ago. ALL my husbands have HATED it. Don't you just wish you could use that phrase??.... ALL my husbands... :-) Oh dear.

But it holds a ton of things and is very slim so it fits in well everywhere. I don't know who built it, but one door is wider than the other. I think it's charming.

Several years ago my daughter and I went to Victoria, Canada. The Villory and Boch store was actually closing and everything was 50% off. I got those fab.u.lous candlesticks there. The girlie there thought they should be the the same size. I LOVE them like this. I know she thought I was a smidge cuckoo..... yeah, probably right.

I am crazy about felted fabrics. I have made 469 gazillion of these little ornies. They're fun to make and are easy to take along.

Do you have a pickle for your tree? Apparently folklore says that it's supposed to give you good luck for the coming year. I really don't believe all that hokum, but what the heck! It's cute.

I can't wait for the After-Christmas sales at the Goodwill.... Last year I got enough of those little green balls to use for YEARS to come for FIFTY cents. What a bargain.

I'll be up to my eyeballs in paper today. Nope, the presents don't match my tree very well this year. I'm trying to use up some of the HUGE stash of Christmas paper. Remember the Garage Spring Cleaning? :-)

I almost never use only one paper on a pressie. I like LOTS... you're surprised, right?

And, I make my tags every year. Not too crazy about this year's try.... But I love a little sparkle on a pressie, don't you?

So, how are you chickies doing? I suppose there are LOTS of you who are kickin' back with a nice cup of cider and enjoying the season?


I think I'll get to that tooooo.......right about Christmas Eve. :-)



Huggies and Lovies... And, Christmas Blessings!


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