its beginning to look a lil' like christmas...

So tired.  Not much to say.  So I will just post some pics ok.

Oliver the Elf has landed.  Cracks me up every night to see where he is going to show up next.

Kinda creepy actually.

I think he liked Kit's treehouse.  Who wouldn't right?

And since we are on the topic of creepy dudes hanging out around my house...how about this one in my daughters closet today.  Can you say EWWWW.  Apparently it has good taste though. 

You can't argue with taste.  Who doesn't love the Matilda Jane Pinkie Lap Dress?

Enough of the creepy creatures.  Now for a little bit of simple decorating because I am all out of ideas so I just shove things into glass jars and call it decorating. 

That's right.  Your eyes are not deceiving you...those are my sacred holiday peeps-in-a-jar again.

And again...I hate eating them...so they are safe.

Now if that was a big jar of holiday m&m's...it would be gone in a day.

where or where have I been?

Forget zhu zhu pets...the gift of the season clearly is paperlili leggings!  Ha. 

I never keep count of how many I actually make a week...but this photo will give you a general idea of where I have been for the past month.  This is 2 days worth of leggings.

This is not including the matching tees that go with some of them.

It has not slowed down.

I am more than grateful.  My customers rock:)

My rhinestone supply chick is the best.  She is sooo used to me emailing her with emergency orders that she needs to next day to me.  Yes...I pay a fortune for it...but it would be a big ol pain in her bootay to have me bugging her for stone asap.

Guess what someone in my family needs for xmas?

So far it is just her one front tooth...but within the next week...it will be two.

Guess I better make her a shirt:)

Actually...it is going to be real uuuuugly here because there are actually 2 more teeth dangling in there...so we will be missing 4.  Niiiiice.  So funny.  I love her. 

And since I have not mentioned my dear Lyra this week...lets post a little something she took...because her pictures are much much more fun to look at than mine:)

The question is...what one to pick because I have 4million that she took...they are all good. 

She is good.

 

Just in time for xmas baking.

I won't be baking anything just yet. 

A. I don't have time yet...chipping away at the holiday rush

and

B.  If I started now...I would eat it all now. If I did that...I would be a snowman shape by xmas

but it is never to early to dream about what to bake:)

Lets start with these.  I love Layer Cake Shop.  I want everything in the shop!

so I want to make something with these

and these

then...top it off with a lil bit o snowy glitter

 

and then put one of these on the box and wow everyone...

who cares what the actual baked good tastes like...how can these not impress!

 

and a very...

to you and your family:)

And a special thank you to all my blog readers and wonderful customers.

Thank you

oh my word...I LOVE these...

These wreaths are so pretty and different.  Such wonderful colors.  Every year I think I should go back towards traditional holiday colors...green, red...nahhhhh.  I like the pink/robins egg Martha Stewart colors...and boy these are just about perfect.  Martha needs this chick on her show to show us how to make them.  Have I mentioned before...ok...have I mentioned yet today how much I love Etsy?

the real question is...which one to get?

Christmas music always helps...

Saturday I was working (go figure)...and I am not sure you have ever noticed but Saturday television really rather sucks.  It is terrible.  I was a news junkie.  For years and years...news news news.  Then I found that it is just way too depressing to get that much news every single day.  So I have turned to recording some cheesy tv at night and watching it during the day while I am working.  What I have found though...is that the news, I can drown out and work work...the cheesy shows actually require me to kinda pay attention.  This is not good.  I don't have time to pay attention.  So my latest is music.  And you know what?  I am a blinging machine when I just open the itunes and go.  LOVE IT.  Oh and the holiday music channel on our tv.  Wayyyy up there in the 800 numbers or something crazy like that...it got me through saturday and through about 20 orders.  Whooo hooo. 

I think my point was holiday music. I love it.  Last year I discovered this Christmas Remix cd on itunes and I could literally listen to it over and over again.  There are two cds of it...I picked the songs I like from both of them and you need to just trust me on this one...you will love it too. 

 

I know we have not even had Thanksgiving yet but...

...yes, I can taste the fried turkey already.  Yum.  However it is never to early to "prepare for the Holidays"...or at least that is what Fancy Nancy told me in her latest book.

So first on the list...the advent calendar.  So many to choose from. 

There is this one.

or these cute date bags

 

Helloo...cute Matryoshka doll funness

how about some cute mittens

or hey...how about a cute metal calendar with bottle cap magnets to help count down the days?

 

whatever floats your boat...you can bet you can find it on etsy.  

Trampolines make for fun pictures...

This is funny

Let me just start by saying...9 year old girls are tough to dress.  Especially mine.  I have no idea why.  She is a bean pole...and very long legs...rather gangly.  Abercrombie and I have a love/hate relationship.  So here are my lists of loves and hates that I have for Abercrombie...lets start with the hates

• the super duper shorty short shorts
• the tees that have some reference to kissing...hugging...etc (hello...they are for preteens and teens) like the (meet me in the woods) tee.  Ya.  Not on my kid
• posters of half nekked dudes that hang ceiling high in the store 

here my my loves

• their cotton...super soft
• quality is there
• they hold up in the zillions of washing
• their sweaters are good enough that I often question weather or not I would fit into the xxl:)
• they don't make my kid look like a dork

Now...back to one of my hates.  The store itself.  It is dark and creepy and well...I get a headache by overting my eyesight from the posters of the 18 year olds (I hope) in the posters with the washboard abs...eyeye.  So I choose to do most of my shopping online. Plus I don't let my kids go in there.  Yup.  I am a prude and I will fight it until there is no fight left in me:)

This brings me to a funny purchase.  Well kinda funny. Only funny because I actually purchased it. 

Not funny that they actually sell tees with half naked guys on it for little girls.

Here is the original tee.  Keep in mind. I thought it was a cute enough tee with sunglasses on it. I DID NOT zoom in online and see what the reflection was in those sunglasses.

Ha.  Just imagine my surprise when I got it.  Funny.

Anyways.  Instead of sending it back (it was on clearance...go figure) I just got out the bling and decided to fix it.

So now...in person...you would never know what is under that bling.

Let this be a lesson to all mothers shopping at Abercrombie online.

  ALWAYS zoom in to see what you are actually ordering.

Because I needed a break...

It is only 10 pm.  I am exhausted. This has been a terribly long day but I think I can crank out a couple more hours worth of work.  I needed a break though.  I don't have much to post. Actually I do have some new designs.  Super duper cute ones...but I don't have pictures yet.  Ha.  How is THAT for a tease.  So.  I will post a little something that I asked Lyra for help on the other day.  Editing photos.  I suck.  I have photoshop.  I have lightroom.  I have lots of fun stuff.  I suck at it all.  So here was my experiment.

It started with this picture I took

Then I attempted to edit it myself

Then I sent it to Lyra and asked her to edited it...so keep in mind that this was my crappy picture that I took (actually no picture of my sweet darling could be crappy...what I mean is my crappy picture taking skills) so this is all Lyra had to work with...and this is what she came up with

see the difference between a professional and a picture happy mama.

Lyra turned in into a piece of fluffy cotton candy.  I love it.

Ok.  Back to work.

update:  I notice that all my pictures are being chopped in half...and this is driving me mad.  Apparently they are not the correct size for my silly blog.  I know I need a new blog.  When I get some free time (ya right) I will start one.  In the mean time...if you just click on any of the pictures on my blog...they pop up nice and big.  If you know how to fix my blog for me....let me know.  Clearly I need the help.

Another Update:  Okeee...so thanks to my very helpful blog reader Amber (Amber you rock!)...I have kinda figured out how to make my pictures bigger.  But I have totally squished all my links to the bottom of the page...oops.  Sorry.  And my over all blog is kinda boring to look at...however...my pictures are not cut in half and I think I prefer that.  Eventually I will figure this all out:)