Miss Priss !!

Ok, ok....I know it's way, way too early for me to update my blog again, but I just had to !!! Due to the enormous amount of transcription I have had over the last several weeks and everything with Craig, I knew it was going to be tough to get any decorations up this year. Also, knowing that Craig would not be feeling up to decorating for the holidays, I wanted to make it nice for Matt & Junior....so I, (AKA: Miss Priss), decided to do a few things around the yard to decorate for Christmas. Anyone who knows me, knows that being a born-and-raised Southern California girl, I have always relied on my dad, my brother, or Craig to do stuff like this for me. But, my bestest buddy likes to play with power tools and always teases me that I should be doing some of this stuff myself, so I took on the task of putting up Christmas lights.....ALL BY MYSELF!!! However, Matt did offer to help (when I was practically all done) but he did offer a couple of times.

As you know, I used to paint (before I quilted), and I made this snowman and Santa. They have been collecting dust in the garage for years. However, I found them and cleaned them up to put along the path to the front porch.





Last Saturday, I had managed to get the reindeer up and put on the yard but wanted more.





Going on a mission, I went out and found the kind of lights that go over bushes....well, they were too small to go over the big bushes in the front, so I put them over the two small trees and the bush by the front door instead. It actually worked out well. But, I miss the colored lights that my dad used to put up every year. So, I managed to find them in the garage in opened boxes. Being the Priss that I am, I was very cautious about black widow or brown recluse spiders being inside those boxes and I pulled the top wire out until all the lights came out one by one so I could see if anything was going to "jump" out at me.....thank goodness nothing did!!! Anyway, I got two strands of lights out and decided that I was not about to climb a ladder and try to get the lights under the eves. I had already done that a couple of times to get the power cords to the outlet, and let me tell you.....I don't like heights, (again Miss Priss) !!! However, I put them around the front window in the yard.....It's just enough to make it festive and it was the best I could do all by myself.





So, here is the final outcome of Miss Priss and her decorating skills.....




Also, my good friends, Joy & Yvette, thought I was out playing with "Bernie" (my new sewing machine) instead of working today. I was even "LAUGHED" at and told I "was not a true quilter" because I didn't have a quilting project to work on !!! ...I politely mentioned I have TWO QUILTING projects in the PLANNING stages...not all of us have three-day weekends or a sewing room to retreat too (just teasing you, my friends, you know I love ya) !!! However, after another 2000 line day, I took breaks to try to decorate and rest my hands. So, now I've blogged it too and have to finish the rest of my 2,148,7999 line day.....ha,ha,ha !

Love, Karene