Happy December!

I spent a large part of my day yesterday running around without my head. Today I am catching up from that debacle. Part of my new routine is scaling down and I have found that it is really hard to simplify your life. One thing that I discovered last year was to stay away from the mall for the last 3 months of the year.

There is something about going to the mall at Christmas time that really makes me hate Christmas. I don't know what it is that turns ordinary people into assholes. Maybe they didn't get the parking space they wanted or the cheap and useless thing they were going to buy that is all the rage is sold out. I don't know but I don't like it. Last year I went to the grocery store and stocked up on gift cards. Nothing says "I love you and so glad to be giving you a gift" like a $50 Visa gift card. When they say it's the thought that counts, my thought is, I just saved myself a shitload of time and aggravation.

p.s. Don't you love all the ornament filled bottom half of my tree?

Isabella wanted to make her dad something so we went to Michaels and stocked up on craft crud to make some crap, I mean, thoughtful gifts.

She worked on this yesterday afternoon, after we had to go to a Christmas party so when we got home she saw her dad and could not wait to give him his Christmas surprise. I guess we could start a tradition of gift giving on the first day of December.

So Phil is the proud owner of this t-shirt showing him with a surfboard in a wave. And he has a dog on a leash. The artist signed her name but then added more ocean on top of it. Let's just say that he better wear this and wear it with gusto.

I'm working on something for Isabella and her cousins. It's going to be cute, at least in my head it all looks adorable. Heather Ross is one of my FAVORITE fabric designers and I love her patterns as well. Too bad her fabric is $17 a yard. I pay so much for it that I have a hard time cutting it up. But the little girls in my family are worth it so they are getting something from her Far Far Away line. This is just a little peek cause I am loving my life right now.