Great Gift

The group of ladies that I make baskets with has a lovely Christmas luncheon where small gifts are exchanged. One of the members and I went in on the basket towels. My local embroiderer is just down the street from me. She was kind to find the basket and make them up for us. There were some leftover towels so I had Merry Christmas put on them for myself. Throughout the year you could have monograms or initials put on towels to perk them up. She monograms almost anything with anything you want. I think it's a great way to make an inexpensive gift very fancy. If I had embroidery on my sewing machine I would do this very often. I strongly suggest making friends with your local embroiderer.

Merry Christmas

With my best wishes for a happy day with family and friends !

Restart

My goal of "Do something Christmas everyday" turned out to be like a bad diet for me. I have been off "the diet" for at least a week. Recently I found myself in the car fussing in my mind about all I had to do and realized if I was two I'd be lying on the floor kicking and screaming. (At least that thought made me laugh.) I have all the time in the world this year. I'm not working and I have no little children to care for, so why isn't this easier? My only answer is my expectations are to high. Now that my Christmas presents are done I feel more on an even keel. All I can say is like dieting I'm taking it one day at a time and if I fall off the Christmas wagon there is always tomorrow.

Something Christmas Everyday

One of my favorite stores has a slogan "Do something creative everyday". I'm going to do something Christmas everyday. I started the post thanksgiving days pressured that I had so much to do and as usual so little time. Yesterday I was looking at my favorite blogs and saw how everyone was already decorating for Christmas. So I brought out the Christmas dishes and we used them for dinner. I'm going to start enjoying something everyday. I'm sure everything will get done and this year with joy.