Happy New Year!

To all friends near and far... Happy New Year!

Wishing you all...

A very happy...

Enjoy your evening and stay safe!  I will be home, enjoying a pizza dinner with my little family.  Maybe watching a movie and mayyybe getting a bit of sewing in.

See you all in 2013!

Jen  :)

Wow! Happy New Year?

Seriously??  It's 2012 already?  Where did 2011 go?  I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday, both Christmas and New Year's.  We sure did!  Santa was VERY generous again.  I need to remember to tone down my "Santa" shopping for Punk this coming year.  I went a bit overboard.

2012 proves to be a good year.  Lots of plans in the Miss Punkie Pie household.  First - a full kitchen remodel.  Hopefully to be starting SOON.  We need to clean out part of our garage so that the new area of my kitchen can get started.  Then walls will be knocked down in the old kitchen.  Super exciting.  But.  There's always a "but", isn't there?  Construction Man told me last night that if my car issue (my car is making noises) is in the transmission and not the wheel assembly (whatever that means), my new kitchen is on hold for a little while.  Here's some praying that my car issue is NOT in the transmission!  I've waited a year for this new kitchen and I WANT it!  Everything is all picked out.  Just need to get going.

Second - we are DISNEY BOUND this year!  WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!  I can't wait.  And SHHHH!  It's a big secret!  Amelia has no idea.  We will be telling her in August at her birthday party.  We're going in October.  Again, it's all planned out in my head.  Just need to meet with the travel agent.  There is an agent in my "local" area that deals only in Disney travel.  We're going to make an appointment to talk to her, find out our options and book it.

Third - Amelia will be starting 2012 with GLASSES.  Yes.  She needs glasses.  She's actually far-sighted.  Has issues with "focus" sight.  She's been complaining off and on that words are "fuzzy".  I made an eye doc appointment and they got her in during the week.  The doctor seems to think that she may still outgrow the eye issue as her eyes mature.  If not, she could need them for reading the rest of her life.  No problem.  She picked out some very cute purple frames.  Pictures to come once the glasses come in.  AND she has her 1st loose tooth.  She's patiently waiting for the Tooth Fairy to make her appearance.  We told her the Tooth Fairy was on vacation until 1/3 so her tooth better not fall out before then.  LOL.

And lastly, I did some shopping for myself.  A little "Merry Christmas and I got a new job so I can kinda afford it now and you can't hassle me, husband" type of thing.  Wanna know what I bought?  Welllll, you're going to have to come back and find out.  :)  When I have it in hand, I will show you. 

Happy 2012!
Jen

Happy New Year!

My blog has been quiet.  Not too much going on.  We are actually headed to a wedding this evening.  My cousin is getting married.  Amelia is excited because we get to sleep in a hotel tonight.  I'm excited because I get to get dressed up and celebrate bringing in the new year properly instead of passing out at 10:00 p.m.

I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year!  Talk to you in 2011!

Cheers!
Jen

Last Day of 2008

Well, 2008 is coming to a close soon. Anyone have any big and exciting plans so that I can pretend to join you?! We're not doing anything. My husband has to work during the day and the weather people are calling for the "S" word. If I say it out loud, it may happen so I say nothing. I'll have to update you tomorrow since I'm writing this a day in advance; I have some downtime. Punkie is with my MIL for a couple of hours.

So, back to big and exciting plans. I got none. I'm probably going to cook dinner and maybe watch a movie with my husband once Amelia goes to bed. Real exciting. NOT. I did have plans to take a ride to Joann's since they are having a pretty good sale that starts on the 31st. We'll see how the weather is.

Okay, here are a couple pictures of my new plant stand and wagon from Monday's auction. I would have taken a picture of our awesomly priced bunk bed but I have no idea where my husband put it. I think it's in the barn. I just love the wagon. I love it when my husband surprises me like that. I didn't even see it in the all auction stuff. Good eye!

I bought myself this book off of etsy.com a few weeks ago. The picture on the front did me in. I love the bright colors and cuteness factor of the pincushions. Today, since I had some downtime, I took a ride to my local Salvation Army Thrift store to see if I can get any wool garments to felt. I'm ready to try something new. I did get a whole bag full of sweaters for $28.00, so not bad. But nothing in the pretty bright colors like on the cover of the book. I got a few black, a light blue, a pinky purple... a cream, a gray and an assorted one, mostly on the gray side. They did have some ladies wool suit jackets there but I didn't know if they would be suitable once felted for my pincushion project. And those were in pretty bright colors. I'll think about it and maybe I'll go back this weekend. Now I have to read on how to actually felt these sweaters and see what I'm up aganist.

That's all from me. Everyone have a marvelous (and SAFE) New Year's Eve and I'll talk to you all in 2009!

Happy New Year!

Jen :)