Happy Holidays

I've spent the last two days up to my eyeballs in ribbon and wrapping paper. The last few years I have made a lot of the gifts we give to people, but this year I was not so motivated. Instead, I've had a lot of fun collecting gifts along the road of life.

I'm actually looking forward to the holidays this year. It's the first year in nine years that I am not working retail in some capacity and it feels great. Yesterday I poured over my wrapping paper collection and chose two coordinating papers, then I hauled out my rubber stamps, pinking shears and glue stick, made hang tags and bound each package with lots of twine.

Of course, once I sat down on the floor to commence my wrapping festivities, I was joined by two furry not-so-helpful helpers. Henry came and and wedged himself in the tightest burrow he could while still monitoring my every move.

Lola went for a more active approach. First she started on my left...

then she made a full circle inspecting every gift, paper choice and scissor making sure to step on each before moving on to the next.

Finally I made some headway. I call this year "2007, the year of the GIANT gift tag." I like how they look and I'm excited to give them!

This is Susan's gift. I've very excited about it.

Oh, and look, Jenny's gift got some special stamping treatments!

A little Henry for the afternoon

12 hours of rain

An unbelievable phenomenon happened today, it rained! Usually when drizzle is on the forecast the local TV meteorologists break out into StormWatch 2007. I don't think I watched any 'live' television yesterday to have been informed about the unusual deluge that planted itself over our house today.

Thomas found this little slug, apparently awakened by the wet weather, crawling up our sliding door this afternoon.

Calculating his demise

"I had Lola on the couch with me last night, and she was just staring at me."

"Oh, yea? What do you think she was thinking about? Was she gathering intelligence?"

"Like, when she's going to kill me?"

"Yea."

"'He's still too strong for me. He could still take me down. I'll wait about two years then kill him...

Wait, I have no sense of time!

Has it been two years? I don't know!

Could I kill him yet?

No, he's still too strong. I'll wait about two years then kill him.'"

Creature of habit - Part 2

I'm at it again. I just went to make some afternoon tea and look at my spoons!

You can click here to view my previous spoon exploits.