Does Life Get Any Better?

I finally bought my own glue gun, I've been using my daughters hot glue gun and have burned my fingers so many times. So I bought a low temperature one, I sure hope it works - I still have battle scars from making my wreath.

I found this cute pillow at Goodwill today and it goes nicely on our bed. Our dog lives the life of luxury and sleeps on our bed all day long. We have to put a blanket over the comforter to protect it from dog hair, so this is for him to lay his head on it!

But my best find today has to be this musical gingerbread house! The tag was still on it and it's from Hallmark!


I also found these cute cookie ornaments at Kohl's that are going to go on the tree in the dining room.



And I bought quite a few cans of spray paint to work on some projects this afternoon. Tomorrow is the day we get the Christmas trees up and the house decorated!

Hope everyone is having a nice Thanksgiving weekend!

Gingerbread Wreath

This fall I purchased quite a few gingerbread items at Goodwill and decided to break away a bit from the snowman theme and decorate my kitchen/dining room with gingerbread.

We've got a nice big window in the dining room that I thought would be perfect to hang a gingerbread theme wreath. I found all of the ball ornaments at Goodwill and everything else is from Hobby Lobby or Michaels.

I finished it up last night and took a picture to see what it looked like. I still had plenty of ornaments left over and decided it wasn't full enough.

So this morning as DH was making the turkey, I removed some of the poinsetta's and glues on the rest of the ornaments.









I love how it turned out and it wasn't hard at all, considering that I burned my thumb bad enough that I got a blister. That hot glue is HOT - sheesh that really hurt!



And with all craft projects, I've got another project in mind but I can't say much more right now.







I'm linking up to The Inspired Room and the Holiday Linky Party, Fireflies and Jelly Beans and the Show Off Your Stuff Party and Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage.

Happy Thanksgiving

Have You Seen This?

This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. We need to seriously wonder why we voted for these people and not let any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,
D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

This week I was inspired by The Tomato Vine and a kitty tree that she made for her cats.

I found a small christmas tree at Goodwill today and came home and made my cats their very first tree!

And I had lots of help.

They tipped it over on the counter so I put it on the floor for their safety.

And they were so curious..

I'm sure that before Thanksgiving gets here, the tree will be bare.

They all got in the action and attacked the tree...

I still have projects to complete, the gingerbread wreath using these gingerbread men that I got off eBay.



Best thing about this week is, only two days to work!

And it's almost Black Friday, which is a mother/daughter shopping tradition.