10/19 Bought a 6 dollar 4 foot tree at Dollar Tree, figuring it would either work for the location I want to put it or it would not. When I got it home I fluffed it out and it did fit on the dining room buffet. I took a before photo of the tree and will take an after once it is fully decorated (if I decide I like it) If I don't like it I am only out 6 bucks and some time.
10/20 Bought bulk stamps for our Christmas Cards. I still send them out each year.
10/21 To have a tree in the den I have to move one of the end tables that sits by the couch and staircase. I store board games on the shelf in the table and really have no other place to put them on the main level of the house during the holidays.
Instead I wrap them in old wrapping paper, and "hide" them in plain sight on the shelf where they always are. Sometimes decorating is nothing but smoke and mirrors, right. They are wrapped and waiting for me to move the table to the dining room. (Friday after Thanksgiving)
We will not be playing them until real winter hits here sometime in January, so they will not be missed at all.
10/22 I started playing with the ribbon I want woven through the 6 dollar tree. I think it might work. I got the tree topper bow done and am undecided about weaving more through the branches. It'a a small tree and the extra ribbon might overpower it.
10/23 Got all the presents that have been bought so far wrapped. Also made the clay to cut out Pip's little 3 year old handprint for a garland. The clay did not work because of a user error (me). I could not get the edges as smooth as I wanted them to be. Instead I dug through my stash and found some wonderful Christmas card stock. I cut enough to make 15 toddler hands, gluing front to back papers, so there is a design on both sides. Now I need to decide exactly how I am going to use them.
10/24 Ordered a hard to find gift for a hard to shop for person.
10/25 Made a list of party foods to serve at the Dec.2 party, and also listed cookies and candies to make and give to friends.
10/26 Downloaded (Thanks Libby app) 4 Christmas magazines. Skimmed through all 4 but knew I had them for 7 days to study when I had more time.
Went shopping briefly and found 2 Christmas presents for 2 special people
10/27 On our way to Florence (that would be Florence Alabama, rather than Florence Italy) we stopped at Smith Farms. I walked out with 2 Christmas gifts
Then I found another few gifts at a museum gift shop.
10/28 We stopped at a really cute little shop in Florence and I found the perfect gift for Son2. Then we made one more stop on the way home and I found another present for Son3.
Once home I got all the newly purchased gifts wrapped.
10/29 Got all the presents I bought on the trip wrapped
10/30 Went to Smith's just to see what they currently have. Walked out with 5 Christmas gifts and a couple of ideas for later!
10/31 Wrapped the gifts bought Friday. Covered a large Amazon boxes exterior in wrapping paper to hold all the gifts I have wrapped. Enjoyed Halloween.
11/1 Read several Christmas magazines and found a couple of recipes I want to try during the holiday including making both chocolate and butter candles. I can say, with confidence, I am doing nothing else before tomorrow
11/2 I did not do a blooming thing
11/3 Made a few ornaments from cupcake liners as filler for a garland
11/4 Made a few more ornaments to hang from the chandelier
11/5 Wrapped a gift that arrived via UPS. Polished a few silver trays.
11/6 Bought one present.
11/7 Ordered a gift. It should be good for a laugh once it’s opened.
11/8 Streamlined a plan for having 3 different dinner parties during the holiday season. Read (looked through) 3 Christmas magazines and found some wonderful ideas.
11/9 Made a comprehensive list of everything that needs to be done by Friday morning after Thanksgiving. While others will be out scoring bargains with Black Friday deals, I will be up to my eyeballs getting things decorated for Christmas.
Cleaned then waxed all the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers. Though my kitchen is not gigantic it is decently large with 26 cabinet doors and 8 drawer fronts. It took a good bit of time which tells how badly they needed cleaning.
11/10 One present that was ordered was delivered and wrapped.
11/11 I did not do squat, and it is too close to the final countdown to have a day doing absolutely nothing.
11/12 I got the interior windows in all the common areas washed, and was able to wash all the exterior windows on the back main level. I can't reach the front exterior windows to wash them.
The good thing is that the exterior front windows are not as bad as the back ones, and I think one of those windows cleaners you attach to a garden hose will work for them
11/13 Though we did not do anything specific toward Christmas on the drive to Nashville except listen to Christmas music (Thank you Sirius).
Once we walked into the lobby of the Gaylord*, it was Christmas. Everything in the entire place was Christmas themed. It was just beautiful.
We did have dinner with Son3 and DIL3. Through dinner conversation I heard a couple of possible gift ideas. When TheHub and I got back to our room I wrote them down.
11/14 I bought a Christmas present at one of the gift shops in the hotel.
11/15 We had plans for the day which did not leave time for doing anything toward Christmas. We will be home sometime Monday afternoon and I will need to get cracking .
Ho,Ho, How am I going to get everything done if we keep doing other things?
* If you get e chance to visit the Gaylord during the holidays by all means go. It is a lovely and festive experience.
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