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I’m officially a collector
Of Nutcrackers! YAY! For years my mom has collected Santa’s for Christmas. Each year I normally add one to her collection. Needless to say it’s gotten pretty large. So a few weeks ago I was in the mall, walking past the Christmas store, when this amazing Nutcracker caught my eye. He was purple and amazing. At that minute I knew that’s what I wanted to collect. I said something to my mom that I wanted to collect them. A few days ago she told me she put something in the mail for us. She said we could go ahead and open it before Christmas.
For the past 2 days I’ve been waiting on mom’s package to arrive. Finally this morning it was at the door when Matt left for work. I was excited to get home and open our gift. And of course what did mom send? She sent me 2 Nutcrackers, a little cheese plate and a stress ball for Matt. 😉
I put
myour Nutcrackers on the fireplace mantel. They look beautiful.
A crappy pic but you get the idea.
~k
ETA: I wrote this last week but for some reason it didn’t get published.
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Train away
I’ll try to make this a short story since it’s work related. A while back my co-worker and I took over credit. We were basically handed an out-dated SOP, trained with the girl who had done it for a few days and then we were on our own. For the most part we were doing pretty well. Until the other day that is. People finally realized we really had no idea what we were looking at. 😉 So today a received word that we are now going to get some training. WOO HOO! I am really excited. I love doing credit and it will be nice to finally know what I am doing.
Bring on the training!
~k
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Christmas Craft Extravaganza
That’s what happened at our house this weekend. I finally finished the paper Christmas trees I’ve been working on for, oh 2 weeks. I also made an ornament wreath for over the fireplace. I have a lighted wreath for the front door but I knew I wanted to try an ornament wreath. I also got the mantel finished complete with dollar store stocking holders.
They don’t look too bad. I couldn’t really find any stands for them. I also didn’t have room on the mantel for them so they are downstairs.
This is our mantel. I think it turned out pretty well. The garland has pretty much had it so it will get tossed at the end of the season. Overall I think it looks nice.
The dollar store stocking holders. Not quite what I was going for but for a buck each and some spray paint they aren’t too bad. I got 2 Joys and 2 trees.
And of course the piece d’resistance. AHHHHHH! My wreath. It took about 30 minutes, a wire hanger and about 70 balls. Once I got my pattern down things went pretty well. I was lucky the tops to my ornaments were pretty tight, they were plastic, so I didn’t have to hot glue them on. Once I was to the end Matt helped me close the hanger back and Viola.
The Christmas table. And lastly……
The TREE!
~k
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Is Frankie’s fun?
You bet your ass it is. Today a few groups from work had a team outing to Frankie’s Fun Park. I’ve been to fun parks before but I’d never been to Frankie’s. We all left work around 1:00pm ready for some fun. We ate lunch when we got there and then we hit the go-carts. Everyone had a blast racing each other. Then we headed back inside for laser tag. The first round was boys against girls and I had the high score for the girls! Whoop whoop! The next round we broke out by groups. Of course my group won. 🙂
After that we were all so hot we headed back outside. Frankie’s has 3 go-cart tracks so a few of us decided to try the slick track. OMG! That track was hard. It took me almost the whole time to finally figure out how to drive my car. I’m not going to lie, I was a disaster on the course. I was all over the place. I was sliding everywhere and running into the corners. The cars have no turning radius so you have to find the right amount of speed needed to get you through the turns. Once I figured out you had to give it gas through the turns I was pretty good. But then the race was over.
I still have one event left on my card. I wonder if I can convince Matt to go to the fun park sometime. 😉
~k
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Let there be light
On the tree that is. The tree is now fluffed and lit. For some unknown reason the top looks crooked or not fluffed right. And the left side looks dark. Obviously I’m having issues. If I could only find the energy to put the decorations on. Ughh!
~k
