Angie

I took a couple of days off to spend them with my BFF Angie that was here from Chile. We went shopping to our favorite crafty place, Archivers in Orem. The store was beautiful and we both did some serious spending... Angie has been living in Chile for the last couple of years, but she visits once a year and every time we take off from were we left, we meet 29 years ago. We had a wonderful 4 days together, we went all over the place and Saturday night we had our traditional Christmas party with all our girlfriends here at my home. Let me go back a day and share the fact that David was in charge of the food and dinner for our ward Christmas party,of course that made me on charge of the food..lol..The true is that as always he needed very little help as he is so organized and efficient with any task...so we all had a few busy wonderful days.

Starting to look like Christmas.

This week David finished his painting that will go on our Christmas cards and of course it is just beautiful.  Most of my shopping is done Online and I ordered ornaments very early this year to make sure I could have a few that I really like. The glass ornaments are from Pottery Barn, that this year as always their Christmas displays are so well done...yes I will love a Pottery Barn house...The small ornaments are the new "Sugar Coated" ornaments from Martha Stewart...awww...they are just adorable and perfect for a small metal tree that I found in one of my craft expeditions. Our big tree s our traditional snowman tree, which includes a collection of ornaments through the years.

Home

Our wood floors are done...all finished...This is a project that was pending for a couple of years and we finally picked the wood and got this going. Found some new rugs as well as David was never really too happy with my choice of the old red rug...I ordered some fabric that I'm hoping I can use to make some new pillow covers in a yellow tone. I need to dust off my old sewing machine and see if I can get this accomplish as sewing is definitive my less favorite thing to do. I will give it my best....

This weekend I had a morning of crafting with the ladies. Love the Christmas ornament we made. My intentions are to put together a garland with handmade paper ornaments, but each ornament takes time and all the pieces need to be glue perfectly so everything connects together very nicely. Last month we started to make an exchange of two Christmas cards per month. This really helped me look for everything I have to make holiday cards and ornaments and also truly motivated me to make cards..

Park City

We left around 10 am for what developed into the most glorious hike. The original idea was just a walk, but we end up hiking and walking close to 3 hours. It was so much beauty  everywhere...ahhh...the colors...Just wanted to stop everywhere for pictures. Huge accomplishment to get everyone away from Laptops and gadgets to enjoy the sun and breathe some uplifting air...