More Holiday Stuff (including presents and ornaments)
Mandy is leaving for Central America on Sunday (well, she's leaving for Milwaukee to visit her parents until Christmas, and then leaving for Central America directly after that), so the last few days we've been decorating like crazy. The living room is now decked out in lights and stockings and garland and my fiber optic tree is still glowing away, and the kitchen is decked out in garland and whatever ornaments Mandy had lying around, and over all, it is very colorful.
Also, because she's gonna be gone for the next four weeks (woe, I'll have no one to blame random noises on except the demon squirrels for *four whole weeks*!), she gave me my stocking/presents today. I told her not to get me anything because I am Insanely Poor Like Woah and cannot afford presents for *anyone* this year, but she went off and got me stuff anyway cause my roommate is awesome. Anyway, she gave me a cute mug with penguins on it! And it was filled with chocolate covered pretzels! She also gave me Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on DVD, which is awesome cause I was totally in a Rudolph mood! (also, did anyone else know it was 135 minutes long? Every time I saw it with the holiday specials on TV, I only remember it being, like, and hour to an hour and a half long, *including* commercials) Best of all, though, her parents gave her a whole bunch of JC Penny gift cards (like, 600 dollars worth. Yeah, apparently they got them for credit card rewards or something), so she in turn passed about $125 worth on to me, which means I can *totally* go off and get myself a new winter jacket (the zipper on my current one is kinda wore out) - which I've wanted to do for months - and not completely break my checking account. Yay!
She also gave me lots of chocolate, cause hey, everyone loves chocolate.
In other news, I have finished all my femo ornaments. I be cheap, but I gotta say, some of them turned out really good.
It's kinda hard to see them all with the table cloth Mandy has over the table, but you can see them for the most part. They look much better without the rather bright and colorful background.
Enough so that immediately after I noticed now distracting the background was, I put the SD disk back in the camera and tried again on a non-flowery background.
Of them all, the snowman took the longest. I figured that would be an easy make, just roll some balls together, add a face and a hat, and vwala, lovely yet simple snowman decoration. An hour later, I was still working on rolling small enough pieces of white clay for the snowflakes. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, though, so that one is totally going to my parents.
Also, because she's gonna be gone for the next four weeks (woe, I'll have no one to blame random noises on except the demon squirrels for *four whole weeks*!), she gave me my stocking/presents today. I told her not to get me anything because I am Insanely Poor Like Woah and cannot afford presents for *anyone* this year, but she went off and got me stuff anyway cause my roommate is awesome. Anyway, she gave me a cute mug with penguins on it! And it was filled with chocolate covered pretzels! She also gave me Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on DVD, which is awesome cause I was totally in a Rudolph mood! (also, did anyone else know it was 135 minutes long? Every time I saw it with the holiday specials on TV, I only remember it being, like, and hour to an hour and a half long, *including* commercials) Best of all, though, her parents gave her a whole bunch of JC Penny gift cards (like, 600 dollars worth. Yeah, apparently they got them for credit card rewards or something), so she in turn passed about $125 worth on to me, which means I can *totally* go off and get myself a new winter jacket (the zipper on my current one is kinda wore out) - which I've wanted to do for months - and not completely break my checking account. Yay!
She also gave me lots of chocolate, cause hey, everyone loves chocolate.
In other news, I have finished all my femo ornaments. I be cheap, but I gotta say, some of them turned out really good.
It's kinda hard to see them all with the table cloth Mandy has over the table, but you can see them for the most part. They look much better without the rather bright and colorful background.
Enough so that immediately after I noticed now distracting the background was, I put the SD disk back in the camera and tried again on a non-flowery background.
Of them all, the snowman took the longest. I figured that would be an easy make, just roll some balls together, add a face and a hat, and vwala, lovely yet simple snowman decoration. An hour later, I was still working on rolling small enough pieces of white clay for the snowflakes. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, though, so that one is totally going to my parents.