Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from my little family!

(I'm wishing the below photo wasn't blurry. Chloe was participating - willingly - and it would have been so great!)

clean car

at 9:30 tonight, we decided my car just HAD to be washed!

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pitiful (looking) Sophie

All Sophie wanted was for someone to play with her or pet her. She wasn't amused with the picture-taking.

Chloe and the tree

I'm wondering how she's going to react when we take the tree down this week.

leaning tower of snow

The sun came out today and began to melt our snow. This snow got stuck on it's way down from the top of one of the lights.

snow in Lake Waccamaw!

We went home today. This is what we woke up to:

Snow. In Lake Waccamaw. That rarely happens, much less THIS MUCH snow. The drive home was not fun.

Merry Christmas!

My sister-in-law brought her cat over to her parents house for Christmas. This was after he ripped his Christmas tie off.

decorated (plastic) horse

I introduced you to this plastic horse last month. The people who own the plastic horse decorated it for Christmas.


They must be serious about their horse. And I have to ask - why does someone want a life-sized plastic horse in their front yard?

Meet Sarah

We spent time with Sarah, the chihuahua, this evening. She's a pretty sweet dog.

winter at Lake Waccamaw

We arrived in Lake Waccamaw today. It's pretty cold, cloudy and foggy. Those conditions still make for a pretty picture.

gift-wrapping help

Chloe was bored just watching me wrap presents today, so she jumped on the table to help.

multitasking

A look at my passenger's seat - my purse, phone, MyAgenda and sticky notes to keep me even more organized.

pumpkin pie

I made pumpkin pies with gingerbread men (cut out of pie crust) on top.

The recipe was my great-grandmothers. And the pies (there were two) turned out great!

snuggly Chloe

Really poor quality photo of Chloe and me (and heavily cropped.) But she was SO sweet, and I tried to capture it.

I saw a rainbow today

It was a small rainbow, but I tried to get a photo anyway.

This has to be some sort of good luck. I'm just saying....

hand-painted

Another ornament. This one was painted by me (there's a set of 3 that I painted.)

snow-covered mountains

My view as I left work today:

snowman complete!

I finished this guy tonight:

You can see before pictures here and here.

Check out detail shots on my regular blog.

chocolate goodness

I made almost five dozen of the peanut blossoms this evening.

Don't they look yummy?

for real snow

as opposed to fake snow.

We really had snow overnight. This is the back of our house. And a reminder that I need to clear off branches that land on the roof.

new fabric

fabric I'll be using for a new project.

Chloe and her catnip

Check out her tongue in between catnip sniffs!

'love'ly ornament

another favorite ornament of mine...

reading with the cat

Chloe likes to read - or to be read to.

snowy hill

The thing I dislike most about the snow is the hill next to our house.

a favorite ornament

This is one of my favorite ornaments on our tree.

paw prints in the snow

It snowed today. I took Chloe onto the porch.

party fun

Scene from a holiday party we attended.

cat under the Christmas tree

Chloe likes the fact that there's a tree skirt and presents for her to hide in beneath the Christmas tree. It makes things interesting.

snowflake pie

I made a pie tonight with snowflakes (instead of leaves.) I love my piecrust cutters from Williams-Sonoma!

This was pre-baking.

Biltmore entrance

Even the entrance to the Biltmore Estate is pretty, especially at Christmas.

warning sign

by the time I got to the "warning" sign, I already knew traffic was slow or backed up.

foggy mountains

you can kind of see the mountains in the background. really gross weather.

play time then nap time

the tree is up and someone needed a nap.

meet Lilli

I met Lilli, the daughter of one of my best friends, today. She was born on Veteran's Day.

giant lollipop

Found this during our Black Friday adventures.

No, I didn't buy it.

plastic horse

I've heard of people putting statues/plastic "things" in their yard, but a life-sized plastic horse?


I saw this while on my morning run. A little strange for a house on a lake.

somewhere in the middle of NC....

we're heading east for Thanksgiving!

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foggy mountains

view of the mountains after it rained today. (Sorry-my camera battery was at home on the charger!)

Santa cat

hard at work on cards

I finished 24 holiday cards today. They were completed with a "hand stamped" stamp on the back.

That was hard work.

long walk

We took a long walk to check out some new shops in our area (it's rare that we can walk to stores other than the liquor store.) This is one of the fields we walked by (and that I often run by.) Look closely for a horse...

lighting up for the holidays

We went to see Harry Potter last night in Biltmore Town Park (just a fancy name for a development that contains a hotel, movie theater and a bunch of shops and condos.) When we came out of the theater, the Christmas lights were lit!

sunrise over west Asheville

I caught this sunrise over west Asheville this morning. Looks like a sunset, but it really was 7 a.m. when I opened my curtains and was blown away by the colors. I had to capture it.

ready to walk

Sophie's always up for a nice walk.

Elton John in Asheville

I saw Elton John tonight in Asheville. My first time seeing him in concert, and most likely my last (just because he has only been to this city twice.)

It was pretty amazing.

my current work space

my next project. Christmas cards!

checkbook cover

I set out to make a checkbook cover this evening. And I succeeded.

alpaca at the Studio Stroll

It's not every day I see alpacas and can feature them on my blog. Today I saw a few at the River Arts District Studio Stroll.

The studio stroll is held twice a year and people can meet the artists and buy their work during these weekends. (The artists generally have limited hours the public can enter the studios and make purchases.) It's very cool and we spent four hours down there - and didn't buy anything, but we may go back tomorrow.