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Monday, December 4, 2023

Another Week Gone By

 

Can you believe it's December already?  I can't but that doesn't slow down time unfortunately.

I've been busy.

Sunday
Garden Club had a tea where we each had to bring our own cup, a sweet to share, canned goods for the Food Pantry and a wrapped Yankee Gift Swap contribution.  We played it differently then I've played before.  The second person after seeing what the first person got, chose a gift, unwrapped it then decided whether to keep or take the gift opened by the first person.  I was #2 and here are my gifts:

a pin


and a lovely shallow painted bowl.


Fortunately no one who followed me decided they wanted what I had.  There were some exchanges but mostly people kept what they selected.  The gift I contributed was a snowman sculpture feeding the birds. It got swapped in the end because the first person got to swap after everyone else had finished. What they were swapping wasn't wanted by that person and someone else offered her the snowman in exchange.  It all worked out.

Gifts
I wrapped just about all the gifts I have purchased.  I'm in good shape for Christmas.


Kitchen Redo
The installer is due here on Tuesday and knowing that Sunday was a busy day, I spent Saturday clearing out cabinets, trying to be fairly organized where I stacked stuff.  Monday I will finish by moving out the contents of the last three drawers.



Cards
I printed the address labels for the Christmas cards and discovered that I hadn't made enough cards.  I needed 15 more so I got out the papers and made them.  I mailed all but 7 on Friday. These last ones require me to write a note inside.  I'll get to it this week. My desk is a mess again.


New Skill Learned


I attended a craft class on Tuesday night and learned how to turn cards into little boxes.  I will use these for some small jewelry items I have for stockings that didn't come with boxes.


It was a good productive week even if December started already!




10 comments:

Tom said...

...you are packing and unpacking a lot into a week.

Ruth said...

Oh, those Christmas card boxes look so cute!! I shall have to go look for instructions. Thank you!

Anvilcloud said...

Those boxes are a very crafty crafty craft. 😎

Barbara Rogers said...

Love the box idea from cards! You sure have been a busy elf!

Faith said...

Those boxes are adorable!!

that's the ONLY way I've ever played Yankee Swap!! it's so fun, isn't it? you scored some sweet gifts!!

Happy December!!

acorn hollow said...

You will be happy to have your kitchen back. Create gifts from the garden club swap.
My presents are not wrapped and I haven't started cards yet but I feel good about how far I have gotten as I am hosting 3 christmas events at our house.
Cathy

Vicki Lane said...

Busy times! You remind me I need to get off the computer and get back to my Christmas cards.

Kay said...

Oh my gosh! You are amazing! I need to get my holiday act going.

Fun60 said...

You are well ahead of me. Hoping to finish the last of the Chrismas shopping for presents today. The tree is up and decorated but the rest of the room is not. Plus I haven't started writing the cards yet. I need to stop blogging and get on with the Christmas list of things to do.

David M. Gascoigne, said...

It surely says something about a society when many can barely afford to eat and others can buy wrapping paper only to be thrown away.