Merry Monday in December!

I know it's late!

I had a bit of vertigo and it threw everything off for me yesterday and today.

But I'm better now and I don't want to miss posting.

I hope you had a very

I love October and November, but this month is truly special to me.

Not only do we have cooler weather and Christmas, but this is my birthday month!

I'm not one of those people that think" it's just another day" or they don't want to celebrate.

nope, not me!

I love it!

The mood, the cake, the gifts, the candles!!

Hell, I'd wear a tiara if I had one, lol.

I'm happy and grateful to spend another year with such lovely friends and my family!!

And you know how I like to celebrate every little thing..

Did you see the full moon last night?

It looked so gorgeous!

My friend Bernie took a picture of it for me, my phone just doesn't take 

pictures as good as his does.

It was 58 degrees and there was a breeze!

We made this cocoa the other night, 

Helena got it from the Great Pumpkin and we waited to try it.

It's very rich..

Since the night was chilly we made gingerbread to go with the cocoa.

They turned out okay..not like last year when I made sugar cookies for Santa.

I put them up on the fridge to cool & I bumped my arm, involuntarily jerked it back

and all the cookies flew to the four corners of the earth, much to the delight of the dog and cats!

It took forever to sweep up because we couldn't stop laughing.

We sprinkled these with pink sugar..

These are funfetti cupcakes Helena and my niece made yesterday.

We were going to decorate our stockings while they baked, but that's one of the times I got very dizzy.

The cupcakes were decorated while I took a nap. The stockings had to wait.

Remember all the neat stuff I got on black Friday at the thrift store?

Here's some of it...

sheet music to use in art projects for .75 cents

A one dollar frog made of what feels like cast iron, he's very heavy!

These hanging crystals..They were terribly tangled and after I spent half an hour untangling them

I hung them on this heart ornament I already had. Can't tell from the photo but they go all the way around the heart, it was a set of two but the other one had torn chains, so now I have a bunch of loose crystals to craft with. They were .25 cents

This desk organizer for $3.50

Old Christmas lights..I bought them to use in crafts..I'm too afraid to use vintage light strings.

.50 cents

I also found vintage cupcake liners and tart tins..

.25 cents each

I made this with one of the bulbs..

This is how she looks on the tree by my bed...

some of the other ornaments I've made recently...

I made this with an old ping pong ball and a light bulb bottle from Michael's.

I also used the vintage cupcake liners to create the little tree she's holding!

fold the liner in half...

roll it into a cone, add hot glue to keep it from unrolling, then decorate or paint them.

For this centerpiece project

We used clear plastic plates leftover from Thanksgiving..

covered them in glue & glitter and added cupcake liner trees.

that tiny Santa was .10 cents, I painted him pink and glued him down.

The house was a gift from Helena, two years ago

(she knows I LOVE gingerbread houses)

Isn't it cute?!

Here's a glimpse of my lovely assistant.. thinks he's helping when he gets on my lap and falls asleep while I try to craft:) He has purple glitter on his nose!

This is what Helena made for our abandoned art this week.

We left it on a bus bench..

Do you have any events or parties coming up?

I was fortunate enough to meet the most incredible person last February..

Her name is Christie Troxell, 

she's an amazing Designer, Artist and Brand Ambassador

at Ritzy Parties..

 

" Ritzy Parties is a full service design and coordination firm offering luxury event products and services, professional styling and merchandising, fresh florals, interior décor consulting, and custom, commissioned art. We bring style to story, and dreams to life.

Ritzy Parties is headquartered in Southern California, and serves esteemed clients nationwide, 

providing meticulously planned, curated events that are creatively and uniquely conceptualized, 

and elegantly executed."

 Christie Troxell, CEO, Creative Director

I hope you get a chance to look at her website.

It's filled with eye candy and art projects too.

Well, thank you for stopping by this week.

Sorry it was SO late.

I'm going to leave you with this...

See you soon..