On the Twelfth Day of Christmas...

On the twelfth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

12 drummers drumming...

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas...

On the eleventh day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

eleven pipers piping...

On the Tenth Day of Christmas ...

On the tenth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me ...

ten lords a leaping...

On the Ninth Day of Christmas...

On the ninth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

nine ladies dancing...

On the Eighth Day of Christmas...

On the eighth day of Christmas

(one day late, sorry...computer issues)

my true love gave to me...

eight maids a milking...

On the Seventh Day of Christmas...

On the seventh day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

seven swans a swimming...

On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

On the sixth day of Christmas 

my true love gave to me...

6 geese a laying...

On the Fifth Day of Christmas...

On the fifth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

five GOLD rings...

On the Fourth Day of Christmas...

On the fourth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

four calling birds...

This little bird also came a callin'  

bright and early,
13 years ago today...

Happy Birthday Christian!

Another teenager added
in the Snowden clan...
(saints preserve us)

On the Third Day of Christmas...

On the third day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

three French hens...

On the Second Day of Christmas...

On the second day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

two turtle doves...

On the First Day of Christmas...

On the First Day of Christmas

my true love gave to me...

a partridge in a pear tree...

and this little partridge too!

Happy 18th Birthday

to my first baby bird Dredan,
love you always and forever...

I Made it Monday...

I worked my fingers to the bone last week.

I have no idea how this happened.

I felt a little twinge in my finger 
and looked down 
to find this...

a broken blood vessel 

from gripping my creations too tight???

...is that even possible???

 The older I get the more bruises

seem to show up.

I swear, 

I brush by something 

and a few hours later 

it looks as if I've had a run in 
with a baseball bat.

Old age...the joys

This finger incident 

did 
occur after a sleepless night.

So there is no real telling how it happened

 as I was quite possibly 

in a craft coma.

I dragged myself up the stairs at around 
6:30 am

(just as my high school boy was waking up)

He took one look at me and said

"Mom, seriously...you're crazy!"

I concur...

I fitfully "rested" 

for an hour or so 

before I had to get back up 

to get my little ones off to school.

Then it was back to crafting!

Finishing this
(the sign for my booth)
is what took me most of the night,

the frosting atop my crazy cake...

 Here are some of the things 
produced from that night of insanity... 

this pic turned out not so swift...

I must say...

the injuries and such

were worth it.

The Beehive Bazaar was really good to me.

In all the madness 

I forgot to take a 

"before" 

picture of my booth :(

My niece texted me this shot 

near the end of the first day,

looking pretty spare...

(which is a good thing)

then

my son snapped this 

on his phone 

right before "tear down."

Again, 

not such a great shot,

 but it's documentation of some sort...

(capturing the emptiness is the happy part)

So adieu to the shows for awhile,

it was an exhausting fabulous ride...

p.s. a few more vintage Christmas things left in my etsy shop

"call IT courtney"

I Made it Monday...

I've been burning the candle at both ends

AND

been burning each and every tip of my finger

right along with that candle.

I've been covered in 

glitter and webs off hot glue strings

for weeks,

and my poor children 

have been eating a lot of cereal for dinner.

But it's almost here, 

and next week our lives can get back to normal.

Well...

as normal as they can be

with

2 children birthday's

1 husbands birthday

and 

all our Christmas shopping still to do.

"Normal" is relative...

Since it's Monday,

Here are a few of the vintage-ie

things I've finished this week...

AND

hot off the press...

(the glue is literally still drying on these little planters)

Don't forget to come to

The Beehive Bazaar

Thursday-Saturday

and support some cool local crafters.

(me being one of those local crafters, the cool part...debatable)

He's Baaaaack.....

Our little elf

"Buddy"

has returned from the North Pole.

He was a little late because...

(Not because he is packed away in our pods

and we needed to go get his understudy

from Barnes and Noble.)

The kids were worried about his tardiness, 

especially Smith.

He broke into tears a few days ago and tearfully confessed:

"I touch-ded Buddy at the last Christmas, so I think I took-ded

his magic powers away"

Sooo sad.

But Buddy has arrived

and Christmas has been saved...

Totally Judging A Book By It's Cover...

Books aren't people 

so I'm doing it,

I am...

I'm judging a book by it's cover.

I can't help it.

And

I don't think you could either...

Serious eye candy.

But what makes these even better,

they're classics.

Which means

  the inside is really good too!

I have this one

and this one

and this one

now
 I just have to get these

and these

and these

oh boy...

Happy birthday, Anniversary, Valentines day, Mother's day, Easter, St. Patrick's day, 4th of July, Columbus day 
and a very Merry Christmas (for the next 10 years)
 to me...