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Most of the house is cleaned. I just need to shower and get myself ready and finish up a few last minute things.
But last night after washing the floors and doing some vacuuming I decided to take some time to play again.
I'm just loving these file folder mini books that I learned about here.  By just using a file folder (which I borrowed from the office)
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Well I never thought of myself as a fish - but apparently others do?
You Would Be a Pet FishRelaxed and laid back, you prefer to sit back and observe what's going on around you.
You are secretly very wise and intelligent, but few people take the time to learn about you.
You don't mind if the world doesn't understand you. You're having enough fun trying to understand the world.
Why you would make...

While still playing around with some Christmas gifts.  I have a mess on all my counters which I HAVE to clean up today!  Which will then lead to the mess in my scraproom because that is where I have to haul everything :(
I really need to find a better organizing system.  Something that I can transport projects upstairs when I don't feel like working in the basement and yet when I take them back...

Every night that I have free I've been trying to work on some projects (aka Christmas gifts) - I also was trying to make these ornaments I seen on her blog (she has awesome instructions) - they were a fun, simple (but messy) project.
Here's the supplies I used and before and after of the glass bulb


I'm also working on a mini book for a gift and another file folder mini book

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Here are some random questions from my blogging friend at Moved to the Mountains
Who am I? Tina, wife, mother, sister, friend, DT member Who knows me best? My husband - Joel How old am I? 43 How old do I feel? Thirtysomething... The most important thing in my life is...  family I always carry...my cellphone  Something I always do is...drink coffee, check email I'm at my happiest when...with...

There are certain things that although we didn't know were going to be traditions in our family, they somehow became traditions.  Like getting and putting up the tree.  It is always no matter what, without fail put up on December 7th {Ryan's birthday}.  Why?  Well because our last Christmas with Ryan that is what we did, we went to dinner and then got our tree. The lady at the tree farm gave Ryan...

Love having busy Sundays that I get a lot done and today was one of them.  To begin the day we went to breakfast which may not seem like a big deal - but for us its been a long time since we didn't have somewhere else that we had to be - although Chel was working so it wasn't a "family" breakfast.
Then we went to Sam's club - a trip we've needed to take for a long time.  Joel drove out his van...

 

 
These are from another day of Ben and Chelsea being silly and at the Browns game

We had a great time at the Thanksgiving dinner with Tony and family.  They did a lot of raffles and Jane won a fruit basket which she then traded with someone to get a turkey.  Chelsea won a door prize and when they called her number she yelled BINGO!  Always cracking everyone up!

Chelsea got some good pictures of all of us in her camera, but she didn't upload them yet, so I'll add more...