Coasting Along

Today's journal entry is about Advent. For the first time since I was a kid, I have an Advent calendar this year. It's shaped like a...

I've been playing with scraps and thought I'd share my Christmas card prototype. I cut a whole bunch of strips of Basic Grey Christm...

Something very odd has happened to me this fall. I've started listening to Christmas music. I, who have always been very firm that Chris...

I'm trying very hard not to give in to that post-Christmas let-down feeling, because it's no good to head into a New Year feeling bl...

I love those little magical Christmas moments that pop up from time to time. It started snowing here tonight around 6:oo and we had to go to...

Catching up on my journal, here are the December 12 and 13 entries. The 12th is about changes from Christmases past, and the 13th is about m...

I took a picture of my little tree today for the Christmas journal. We usually put up our 6 1/2-foot pre-lit tree, but I needed to rearrange...

Todd and I had a really fun day together today...first we worked on cleaning up the front of the house, raking leaves, etc., and then we sta...

If you happen to be buying something at Amazon, and you need one more little thing to push your total over $25 so you can get free shipping....

Look at these cuties I found for 80% off at Ben Franklin today! I love it when you see something cute and you pick it up and it's so che...

Well, I was having a really nice Christmas vacation till I woke up with a sore throat on Christmas morning, which was a full-blown chest col...

Well, we are getting ready to pack up and hitch up the sleigh tomorrow morning and head for warm, balmy Ohio, where it's currently snowi...

About ten years ago, this commercial was playing on TV a lot, probably around Christmastime. And it never fails to make me laugh out loud e...

Isn't it funny how you start December feeling sort of on top of things, and then get busier and crazier as the days go by? Or does that ...

Here's my journal page, about Advent: And here's the picture I used, full-size, just because I liked how it came out: And here's...

Just a few more of the Christmas cards I made last week. I moved to a blue/brown color scheme for most of these. Now I think I'm done. I...