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Blessings & Birthdays!

Whew!!! It is officially the end of Friday and these past two to days have seemed to be a whirlwind of fun!!

Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving at Jason’s mom’s place and we had a blast. Unfortunately my camera has crapped out so I was able to get 0 photos – BOO! HISS! Oh well, maybe I will just have to ask Santa for a new camera so that I can keep up with my hobby of photography.

So yesterday it was my job, along with my 7 year old niece to make the deviled eggs. What I was not aware of, however was that my niece LOVES hard boiled eggs and has the life philosophy that if, as she is pealing an egg, and it should break, then they are no longer deemed worthy of the deviled egg plate – hence she can just eat them to put them out of her misery! Cute, but NO!!! She ended up breaking sooooo many eggs that at dinner time she actually passed on the deviled egg platter as it came around because she had already eaten something like 4 whole eggs! Gotta love my girl!!!!!

After dinner, most of us managed to go for a quick walk in the neighborhood, which was good since the group was seeming a little cooped up. Then a few of us adults hung around to play the game Mad Gabs – WHAT A HOOT!!! That game is so much harder than it seems – I may have to pick this up, so I always have it on hand – could be fun at dinner parties!!!

To say the least – we had FUN!!!

As for today, it is my Sweetie’s 35th birthday and we literally spent the day doing WHATEVER he wanted to do! FUN!!! I won’t go into all of the details here, but we did a lot of walking around downtown checking out all of the French/European stores, made a pit stop at Great Harvest Bread Company – Yum, checked out this great kitchenware store for some supplies, and eventually made it back to Bentley’s for an absolutely DIVINE dinner!!! All-in-all, a damn near perfect day!!!

Happy Birthday my Love!!!! I love you more and more every year!!!

(And Daddy, keep your spirits up – you are in my prayers!!!)

Have a FABULOUS evening!
~Christina 😉

Getting Creative!

Good morning!

I am up , showered, and dressed early this morning! This is quickly becoming a daily habit of mine, getting up early strictly for the purpose of spending time in a creative state of mind! This habit is beginning to be one of the favorite moments of my day. I have given myself permission, if I am dressed and ready to go to work, the time between being ready and actually walking out the door, I will spend that extra time in my art studio being 100% creative! I spend enough of my day being analytical and responsible – this time is just FOR ME!!!

Let me clarify on my “Art Studio”. What I am now calling my art studio, as of this morning matter of fact, is a previously unused room in my house that has habitually been the catch-all room for all of the miscellaneous crap that we really never knew what to do with. Well, after an inspired 3 hour clean out last Saturday morning, I have a large clear area where  was able to place a large table that I am going to use as my crafting table. I am finding that this table is GREAT place to journal, blog, read, get inspired, and create miscellaneous long awaited crafts! This room is SUCH A BLESSING!!!

One of the habits that I am trying to delve into is to create one piece of 8 x 11 “Art” every single day! I keep telling myself that the idea is not to necessarily create a masterpiece or even something that looks good – for that matter, but to flex my creativity muscles and get the idea out of my head and onto the piece of paper. I am hoping that this exercise not only gets me out of my “fear of failure” mode, but will also inspire me, and help me get better at expressing my true inner self! I am really don’t know what that is going to look like, and heaven forbid someone psycho-analyzes what comes across each piece of paper, but so far it has been EXTREMELY THERAPEUTIC!!! I look forward to sharing some of those pieces with you soon! 😉

As for my day today, or more especially, this afternoon, my sister, Alex, and our niece and nephew are going to come over for our weekly dinner and swim night! Tonight our niece, in honor of her 8th birthday this past Mondy, has requested that Uncle Jay-Jay make his special spaghetti dinner – apparently it is her FAVORITE!!! Uncle Jay-Jay is happy to oblige – we just LOVE these kiddos SOOOOO MUCH!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Miss V!!!

I LOVE whenever Alex comes around, Alex is one of those rare, special people, who carry an aura of love, warmth, and true sisterhood with her everywhere she goes! TRULY she RADIATES JOY!!! and I am just SOOOO BLESSED to have her in my life!! I LOVE YOU, SISSY!!! 😉

Well, I am going to get a move on, and get started on my daily art page for today! I think I am going to make a collage, or maybe do a quick painting, or…, or… well, we will see!! What would you create today if you had an extra hour in your morning??? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments above!

Have a FABULOUS day!!!