This Busy Life

I honestly hadn't planned on being away from the blog for two months but things picked up and now I have no idea where the time went! Thanksgiving was ridiculous, had to work the night of into Friday morning for Black Friday. I really hate whoever came up with the idea of having big sales the day after you say what you are grateful for. Since then people have been rude, inconsiderate, and just down right nasty. I can't wait till Christmas is over.

Speaking of, we have an interesting tree this year. I wanted something different, so I ordered orange lights online.
Yes, orange.

My husband wants to order other colors next year since they have almost every colored light imaginable on white wire. I am totally all for that!

I also got new stockings this year since the family has expanded. I had a lot of fun putting the names on them.

Since my Dad and Jake moved in that made five but...who is this Sweetie?!
Why this beautiful girl here:

Sweetie Belle, is a Bull mastiff and is only eleven months old. Already she is almost full grown and too tall for her own good :D
A friend had gotten her and couldn't handle taking care of her so we gladly took her in. She is the biggest baby, loves attention and will sit or lay on me every chance she gets. We tried to keep her off the bed and failed miserably so now she keeps me warm at night as she has to start out laying right up against me. They say money can't buy happiness, they are full of shit. I paid the person back what they paid to get her and all of us are very happy that she joined our pack and she is happy to be here.
So now I have three dogs in the house and I couldn't be happier with the two most important men in my life to boot. Hopefully after Christmas things will calm down work wise and I can do other things besides...work.

CAKE!

Sooo yesterday was my birthday, I turned twenty-seven. Part of me doesn't care, and a small part is saying "eww". We baked a cake in the morning, then went out bowling that evening.
The cake we made was a red velvet with chocolate icing. I swear this is the prettiest red I have ever seen!

Please don't mind the ooooold wall paper and counter colors :D

It's what delicious looks like.

So I am having artist...jitter...problem again. I think that's what I want to call it o.o I have a drawing ready to be colored, but can't get the nerve up to color it. I haven't done feathers in so long it makes me nervous. I can't even force myself to do practice bits! It's so sad :( Maybe I'll just go draw a pony and come back to it...

Happy Holidays (Belated)

I had meant to finish this before yesterday...



I'm going to make this the last post I do this year. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that their New Year is colorful and happy!

Christmas Tree

Took me awhile to stop and take some pictures of the tree. There is always something to do or you want to do and the next thing you know it's three days later. Can't wait till things settle back down again.

Ornament Finished

It's done! Now I just have to put it on the tree, grab the hubby to put the star on together and it will be done to!

Christmas is Coming...

This year I thought it would be nice to get a Black Labrador ornament for the Christmas Tree. I was exasperated when I found how difficult this quest was. What I kept finding over and over were Yellow Labs. Really? I can count on one hand how many Yellow Labs I have seen. Also, aren't black labs the most know face for Labradors?
Frustrated I kept looking, I even looked online but I wasn't happy with what I was finding. So I took matters into my own hands when I stumbled upon this ornament. (Which still isn't a black lab!)

Seen here having an identity crisis is a brown lab I'm painting black. (Didn't think to take a picture till after I started.) I might change the scarf color too, not sure yet.

I swear it was destiny I found this ornament. It had been sitting were the 'white' ornaments were, probably set down by someone who changed their mind. I tried looking to see if I could find more (in hopes for a black) but I couldn't find anything that it would have been with. No other dog ornaments, no cats, NOTHING. I guess it can go with the saying 'never look a gift horse in the mouth', now I have a Labrador ornament AND I'm painting. I forgot how fun it was to paint objects :)


Oh no!

Baked Goods and Pretty Vegtables

It has been a busy November for me and I can't believe it's already about to come to an end. Thanksgiving was chaos as usual but before, I did get some camera time...

Was trying to give everyone a sugar rush, but they stuffed themselves so well on dinner they didn't get to the dessert. So I made them take it home.

I found some awesome looking squash and Indian corn to accompany this pumpkin.

I took a number of pictures...

I figured they can be some inspiration for drawing..

Or just fun to look at!

I'm hoping to make pumpkin seeds before the pumpkin goes yuck. Never made pumpkin seeds before ^_^

Holiday Busy-ness

Now that all that craziness is over with, maybe things will calm down. I was so busy with the holiday preparations and lots of overtime at work that I didn't get around to showing off my current cross-stitching project.



You can see what it's going to be at this point, but I still have a good ways to go. I already have my next two projects lined up so I'll be going at it for awhile. So excited!

Being into the holiday spirit this year, the husband and I decided to make a ginger bread house. Him nor I has never made one before so this was quite the experience for the both of us.


I felt bad that the windows came out crooked when he put them on, maybe we should of thought about putting them on before we put the house together?


I love the tree he made. :)


I went a little crazy with the Dots.

It might be lop-sided but not bad for our first try right?

Christmas Tree!

It's that crazy time of year again. Everyone is out trying to finish off their Christmas List and find those elusive items. While I stay home and put up the Christmas Tree!

I was so excited to put it up this year as the two years before it didn't get put up. The husband and I had to go out and buy ornaments and lights for it as a lot of those things got thrown out when they were ruined in a flood couple years ago. Surprisingly that part I found enjoyable to!
I was very happy with how it turned out as we kept changing our minds constantly whenever we would find something neater then planned to buy for it. I think blue and silver works very well for it.

I must have moved when I took this one. I'm not the best person to stick behind the camera.