House of Christmas Trees Tour and Gnomes, Gnomes and More Gnomes (Dec.1, 2020)

I went to work in my 'office' this morning (otherwise known as my craft room) and the commute was wonderful.

One minute to work! 

While I was busy working this morning, My Honey got busy working on supper.

He made this porketta with red pesto sauce in it.

Got it all tied up and into the oven.

Not gonna lie, the delicious aroma filled the house while it was cooking away and I can't wait to try it.

It was nice out so at lunch My Honey and I headed out for a walk.

We saw NCT's vehicle parked at the Christmas Tree House to say Hi and she made us come in for a tour.

I'd seen it already but My Honey hadn't.

It's such a shame that it had to be cancelled because she put so much work into it and it looks awesome.

I love the Noel sign on the mantle.

She made sure to include the buffalo check that is all the rage right now.

There is that sign we made - I think it turned out great.

The house just has trees everywhere - and they are all themed.

The kitchen is looking nice.

Love the wreaths on the cupboard doors (I do that at my house) and the Gingerbread sign is one that we made as well that she is going to sell.

Cute Christmas stuff is everywhere.

I love lanterns.

Red is my favorite Christmas color.

These funky pink and purple trees spark lots of conversation from the few folks that did happen to tour through the house.

Another sign that we made.

This one sold already.

It is really a nice sign.

We convinced her to do a Christmas room and I think it was worth it.

That is my blanket and pillow on it - they look great.

Those signs on the tree are mine too - I just got them at a boxing day sale and was going to use them in a wreath or something.

This cabinet is new since I was there - I really like it.

The room of trees.

This bedroom has 4 trees in it - what a lot of work.

I like the little slim tree, I'm considering getting one for my place maybe.

This was her mom's furniture - the lamp was handmade - isn't is so old fashioned yet fabulous?

Another room full of trees.

And another sign we made - this one is sold already as well.

Even though she can't do tours of the house, she did have a photographer lined up to take Christmas pictures and because she can do that by appointment, that is still going to be a go.

The photographer is going to give her half of what she raised to go towards the charity that all the proceeds of the Christmas Tree House were going to go to so it isn't a total loss.

I'm so glad.

She worked for weeks on it so it would have been such a shame if it was all for naught.

After the tour, we continued on our walk.

Look at that sun just a shining - what a lovely sight!

This afternoon, Baby F came over for a visit (mom and dad both had to go to work).

My Honey made them each a crown.

She liked it and left it on for about 2 minutes.

He watched her while I worked this afternoon.

It was hard not to go out and just join them but I did it.

Right as I finished work, the porketta was ready to come out of the oven.

Doesn't it look fabulous?

We had salad and mashed potatoes with it for supper.

After Baby F went home, I got to work finishing up my gnomes.

Basically I just needed to add the beards and noses.

I made blues, reds and greens.

I painted little patterns on their hats too.

I hope SW likes them.

I made a whole army of them.

Moi!

My Honey and I sat down and started watching The Christmas Chronicles 2.

It was really good - we turned it off though with only a half hour left to go because we are both getting old and we were falling asleep.

We'll finish it off tomorrow night.

Saw this online and it reminded me that I need to get mine finished up!

That is all for today, until next time, be happy!

Weigh In Day and Gnome Production (Nov.30, 2020)

Weigh in day today.

I've been feeling big this week so kind of was expecting to see a gain even though I have been on plan.

I did use up some of my weeklies, but not all of them so I guess we'll just see.

Weighed in at 202.6 lbs.

So that was a loss of .4 lbs which is just fine with me.

70.4 lbs gone in total now.

Onederland is so very close.

I had a very long meeting this morning, 4 hours.

It was our WCSS meeting, normally we would have had our 2 day conference at West Edmonton Mall but due to Covid that had to be cancelled.

Kind of a bummer because I look forward to that each year.

I had a real exciting lunch, rice crackers, laughing cow cheese, deli turkey and a chocolate mint candy to finish it all off.

It was actually really good.

I took pictures of some pictures with my phone so I could get them blown up to put in frames.

I was looking for Christmas ones of my brothers and sister and I but this was the only one I could find for now.

At lunch, I walked down to the Rexall and got 5x7 prints made of each.

I wanted to get a walk in too so I went the long way around.

It was pretty nice out there for a winter day, 1 degree I think - I didn't even have to wear a big coat - a hoodie was enough to keep me warm.

My son and Miss H went to WCT to do some Christmas shopping so they dropped Baby F off for My Honey to watch.

She has a bit of a diaper rash and it hurts when we try to wipe it when changing her bum so instead of distressing her, we just put her right into the tub.

She quite enjoys it in there.

I was standing at the door watching her and I think she kind of forgot I was there.

Tub time!

Old McDonald had a farm....

Grandma, Get out!

Hmmm, what can I get into next?

I had some modelling clay in my office so she and My Honey played with that.

My Honey is so imaginative - he created this little wizard guy.

"Baby Shark phone" - that's what she says when she wants to watch YouTube videos on the phone.

Of course her wish is our command.

I got the pictures put into frames and added a few stickers for fun.

My sister and I.

I have been putting this picture out at Christmas for years now.

This was taken at the town Light Up last year.

No pictures with Santa this year unfortunately due to social distancing rules.

This is my boy when he was just 5 years old.

I worked at a department store (Kmart) and was always super busy around the holidays so his dad always took him for Santa pictures and I'm so grateful that he did.

I worked on my gnomes a bit after supper.

They needed another coat and then I decided to add some pattern to their little hats.

I need to let them all dry and then I'll sand them back a bit like this.

Then I just need to add beards and noses, I'm hoping I can get that done tomorrow night.

After I finished up painting for the night, My Honey and I watched an episode of The Mandalorian before calling it a night.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!