christmas eats

When I wrote about the fun event we went to last weekend, I forgot to say that Charles Phoenix made us dessert too! Drum roll ... "Twink and Ho" Trifle in honor of the Twinkie and Ho Ho Factory where the event was held. Retro foodie fun fun fun! It looked great but I was too skeeerrred to eat it with all that high fructose corn syrup and artificial coloring and flavoring and preservatives LOL. Not an eighth of a teaspoon of real food in that bwahhahhahahhaha

We were all on our own for Christmas yesterday and we pretty much napped and read and ate the day away. We did go out to our favorite vegan restaurant for Christmas dinner and had a wonderful time as always. They always take a photo on special occasions, so nice to have a memento from the evening. There was a special three course meal for Christmas with an optional dessert course. Yummy in my tummy!!!

 Red and White Christmas Soup

New York Rockefeller Terrine

 Holiday Gift Box

Frosty's Frozen Fantasy

Sorry, terrible picture. The dessert was so charming, a snowman with a chalet and decorated tree. Hoping you can see it better in the photo on the menu ... and they sent us home with snowman cookies too.

Our neighbors must have stopped by while we were out to dinner because my husband found a Christmas card and plate of cookies their kids made for us on our porch when he went out for our paper early this morning. I feel so sad, we only enter through our front door when we've gone for a walk and since we drove home, they must have sat out all night long sniffle sniffle ... 

woof woof Merry Christmas

a very reluctant Rudolph ...

 

Holiday frivolity continues unabated over here LOL ... poor Missy got dragged into the act ... for a biscuit.

Tuesday we had the immense pleasure of going to see (the 89 years young!) Angela Lansbury in a revival of Noel Coward's, "Blithe Spirit". Fun fun fun. 

We had a lovely time on Christmas Eve at my cousins home. We're on our own today for Christmas. Hubby made me french toast for breakfast and there'll be lots of Christmas movie viewing.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

holiday happenings

To the tune of Jingle Bells, we're "Coughing all the way" through the holidays over here. Sheesh, will this monster of a bug leave town, puhleeeezze! Nevertheless, we are out and about and celebrating the season a bit. Fa la la la la ...  Gingerbread cookies have been eaten snarf snarf ...

and more Christmas cards made ...

Saturday night we saw the wonderful Irish accoustic band Lunasa in concert with singer Karan Casey at the Broad Theater, for A Celtic Holiday. Beautiful haunting music and Karan Casey's gorgeous voice.

And more merry making on Sunday! I've wanted to see Charles Phoenix for years and finally got to see his Retro Holiday Slide Show over the weekend. HYSTERICAL! Laughed for two hours straight without a pause. The event took place at the former Twinkie and Ho Ho Factory!!! - which has become Modernica Props, a gigantic movie prop rental company. Vintage lovers take a seat before you get the vapors and pass out on me --- filled to overflowing with mid century wonderfulness.

Holiday attire was suggested and we silly kids couldn't resist
bwahhahhahha ...

Happy almost Christmas!

santa's on his way

The up side to having the mean old bug and unrelenting strangling cough from you-know-where, that hangs onto you (and hubby even more so!) for dear life and won't let go, is having plenty of crafty play time!  I can't seem to stop making holiday cards LOL. I think a snowman card is next on the list ... "in the meadow we can build a snowman ..."

Meanwhile, Thanksgiving is still up in the living room and I'm hoping I can remember where my feather tree went to before Christmas Eve??!

The list is long long long of events planned and eagerly looked forward to (some all year long WAH!) that we've missed this December. But today we're off to a play, loaded down with smiles, kleenex and a boat load of lozenges. All appendages crossed for no lengthy coughing fits.



Happy (hale and hearty!) Holidays to you!

a crafty happy holidays to you

Santa's Workshop is chugging along over here ... 

making Christmas cards today!

thanksgiving happy mail culmination and woohoo celebration of thankfulness of lovely crafty friends

sick as a noodle over here ... cough cough hack hack ... sort of like the walking dead, except it's more like the barely moving ...

Hubby teaches elementary school, the Petri dish of new and old fashioned viruses. No escaping the germs of 32 children - each armed with a nuclear arsenal of ickyness hahahhaha - and bringing it home to the wifey.

So we had a different holiday vacation week than we had planned - the hubby leading the way with the dastardly bug and then my being walloped and flattened by it on Friday. Each of us in denial, swearing it was bad allergies, it must be allergies, until the coughing. Will it ever end??!

We went out to dinner as planned on Thanksgiving (we were going to forfeit our deposit if we didn't, so decided to give it a try), my poor husband coughing into a handkerchief throughout the evening. I was just at that tipping point of feeling weird and low energy, but thinking I might just not get it. HAH! Take that Sally! Neener neener the weasely bug said to me. 

Smacked me down early morning on Friday.

But that's enough whining! 

Time to report the arrival of more thanksgiving happy mail (above)!  Vivian's adorable card arrived, accompanied by the cutest thanksgiving stationery. Thank you thank you thank you Viv, love everything, so charming and so very sweet of you.

And here are the cards I made for everyone ... and I enclosed a couple fall leaf die cuts from paper I watercolored and some acorns in each ... I had so much fun!

Thanks enormous bunches dear Pam, Patty, Debbie, Joyce and Viv! I had the best time making cards for you guys and eagerly looked forward to the arrival of yours, like a little kid. It was so great the way it worked out, everyone's darling cards arriving on a different day, bringing smiles across the miles, again and again.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves too!

Happy week to everyone!

happy thanksgiving

Giving thanks for so much today.
(except for coming down with a cold HAH!)

Wishing you love and laughter  ... and lots of PIE!
Know that you are thought of and wished ...

A very Happy Thanksgiving!

number four thanksgiving happy mail and a surprise visit from Santa

Oh my!!! Gosh, what fun this is! Everybody's card is arriving on a different day and gifting me with fun every day - it's like a week of birthdays.

Today Joyce's (Scrap for Joy) card arrived ... well, actually a package arrived. Along with Joyce's so very adorable card (and sweet note), Joyce made me the cutest Christmas decoration to place on my mantle. It's so clever and darling dear Joyce and so very generous and sweet of you to make it for me, I'm overwhelmed. (I think you must be a super duper multi-tasker Joyce, accomplishing all of that while having just recently moved to a new house, in a new state, and not unpacked your craft room yet WOW!) I'll be hunting for my plate stand right away so I can enjoy it.

Thank you thank you thank you, so very much Joyce!

Once again I apologize for being a complete knucklehead with a camera. I'm so sorry - my dining room table is the only open space in the house and it's flooded with light - normally would be a good thing but not for taking photos.

Happy happy, it's almost here, Thanksgiving! So much to be grateful for, my lovely crafty and dear friends, thank you for all the smiles.

happy almost tofurky day

A wee teeny tiny bit of holiday cuteness has appeared over here ... we don't have much so it's kind of a puny looking effort LOL. WAH! It does look cheerier in person thank heavens. I'm thinking about enlisting the husband to get the gigantic box of my mom's china out of the garage for us to use on Thanksgiving. Maybe even break out the silverware. WOOHOO

Happy happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

one two three happy mail!

My mail finally arrived at 5:20 PM today - I had about given up on it for the day. I feel so sorry for our mail carrier, he's even come as late as 7PM, they're so understaffed.

I am having so much fun! Lookie lookie! Adorable Thanksgiving Happy Mail number three from Debbie of Kitten Creates. So pretty, thank you thank you thank you so very much Debbie. Love the vintage images everyone has used.

I sincerely apologize for my super poor photography skills - I fear its getting worse boo hoo. Hanging my head in shame.

Happy happy holiday card making and Happy Thanksgiving!

yippie rolling thanksgiving happy mail celebration continues

Thanksgiving Happy Mail Card #2 arrived today from dear Patty of Patty's Pretty Things. So darling, adore the vintage image you used Patty, so sweet. Thank you thank you thank you!

I'm having so much fun, why didn't I think of a card exchange earlier?!

Happy Thanksgiving!

the very first thanksgiving happy mail has arrived at my door

(okay, I'm obviously a complete knucklehead with cameras and Photoshop - I lightened these in PS and they're still dark when I post them here WAH! I saved the changes and yet they don't seem to have stuck. ARGH!)

So excited! My very first Thanksgiving Happy Mail card (cards!) arrived in yesterdays mail. WOOHOO! Fun fun fun.

Pam, of Virginia Retro, sent me two darling cards (in two separate envelopes, can you say TWICE THE FUN?!) - a card and a tag (with a doggie! doesn't get any better than that).

Thanks so much for playing along Pam and exchanging Thanksgiving cards with me - this may have to become a whole new tradition!! 

Happy early Thanksgiving!

thanksgiving happy mail on its way

Hi Pam, Vivian, Debbie, Joyce and Patty! I got your cards mailed this morning WOOHOO! Hope you enjoy them - I had so much fun making them for you. Thanks so much for letting me practically beg you into making a card for me LOL. You're A+ good sports and I so appreciate it!  

 

Happy early Thanksgiving!

thanksgiving card exchange - anybody want to play? EDITED

EDITED TO ADD: So sorry! I neglected to say that your cards are to be signed by you and mine will be signed by me.  I hope everyone still wants to play? I wanted to receive some real mail in the mail again, especially at holiday time. Let me know if you've changed your mind (which is perfectly Okie Dokie with me, I understand) or if you have any questions. Thank you!

Having fun today playing around making Thanksgiving cards!

I was so sad and depressed when I only received one Halloween card in the mail this year and I thought HEY! Maybe some crafty blogger friends and acquaintances also miss snail mail and might want to exchange handmade Thanksgiving cards??

Anybody feel like making and exchanging Thanksgiving cards with me?

I know I can make five (possibly more) ... is there anyone out there who'd like to receive a handmade Thanksgiving card from me and in exchange, make a card for me?

Please leave a comment on this blog (which I'll receive in my email, all comments are moderated due to spam and robot comments).

I'll pick the first five people who comment, to make cards for. Remember, you will be making me a card too.

I would like everyone (if anyone wants to play along pretty please) to receive their cards by the latest, on Saturday November 22nd (to ensure timely Thanksgiving savoring and warm and fuzzy feelings) - so lets agree to mail by approximately Monday November 17th - Wednesday November 19th, depending on how close you are to me in Los Angeles. You never know how long USPS will take these days, it can take one day or five days for regular mail to reach me.

Let the card making begin! (I hope I hope!)

Sally

nom nom nom november begins

Day after Halloween fall feasting on Pumpkin Pizza YUMMERS!
Hurray for take-out!

A hurried photo taken of the porch before the Trick or Treaters arrived on Halloween night. Hubby, AKA, Chief Hefter and Toter of Porch Decor, made an executive decision due to a shortage of time to curtail the Halloween Extravaganza Porch Plan. Well done, HAKACHATOPD! 

 

Anybody else struggling with a mountain of stuff?  Feeling a teensy weensy slightly bit encouraged - dropped off nine boxes at Good Will on Saturday. WOOHOO! Fingers crossed the trend continues.