Good Morning D!
Love the stockings! I like the color of V's the best!
I used to love BF too (when it was on Friday). Now I just do a little online shopping at my leisure because I refuse to interrupt our family time on Thanksgiving. Family time is worth more to me than money saved heading to the stores on Thanksgiving.
Have a great day!
Good morning Tasha! Thank you - I really like all of them together.
I agree - BF just isnt' the same... I dunno- I never really participated in it, but I loved to watch others.
I have found even planning what I am making in the morning helps me and I have seriously decided I don't care if anyone likes it or not anymore.
Good luck with everything today.
Hahaha.... I try to plan what I am making in the morning- but I am fresh out of ideas. For the family who always ate the exact same meal together - I am now doing what I swore I would never do, and that is cook a different meal for each person... Alli needs vegetarian... Most nights I eat what everyone else is eating, but last night I did not - so I wound up making 3 different meals. It's crazy - and I need to figure out a way to make it easier.
Thanks Chiara - I hope you had a great day too!
I just heard on the news last night that Target will open at 8:00 on Thanksgiving Day I hope you don't have to work!
The stockings are great!! I love all the colors!
Oh yay... <---- sarcasm. I can find out tomorrow what I work, because that schedule will be posted. But I probably won't know until I work next week... I am sure if will be some sort of insane hours.
Honestly - I would rather open at 8pm, then to have an overnight shift.
I am a YO-YO on your report. im caught up then SLAMMED back down! then i am up then down...
Well i am up. (right now)
I LOVE the steam boat Willie bag!
The stockings are just REMARKABLE! so adorable perfect and LOVE the font you used so glad you got to finish it.
as for the trip: ADR's i hope you get to do Kona! love to hear what you think of Tonga Toast. I know Suzi thinks it's too sweet... never heard of such nonsense...
Still waiting on this SSP you have going on.. as you know IT'S KILLING ME!!!
Hi Mo - glad you're all caught up - there's really not all the much to catch up on. I loved that bag too - maybe some day I will make myself a grayscale bag - I they are just so cool! The stockings have been so much work - much more work than I thought they would be, I just hope everyone loves them and uses them. I do hope to try Tonga Toast some day - and those macadamian pancakes, I am sure the moment I tell V about those - she will want to eat there every day. LOL Macadamia cookies are her favorite.
I can SO sympathize with you on the meal planning dilemma! I have the same issues. They all know we are on a TIGHT budget to save for the cruise. Do they think we can eat steak and lobster every night on that budget??? I tend to get in a rut with the meal planning, same meals over and over. But when I get complaints I just kindly offer for any of them to take over the task of meal planning with the budget that I am working with each week. That shuts them up!
Yup and that's exactly why I stopped making the menus... All everyone wanted to do is complain - yet when I requested they make suggestions, I rarely got any. Hmph... Then it's macn' cheese & ramen noodles every night... Hahaha - not really, but I wanted to. LOL
Sooooo, I too am struggling with what to do for exercise now that winter is approaching. My issue is two-fold. The group I exercise with meets on Monday nights, and now DD11 has a basketball game every Monday night until the end of January. DH and I were walking in the mornings...but yeah, NOT in winter. So, I am cheap and have found some workout videos on YouTube that can be played through the Wii at home. Tried that last night...and it kept stalling to buffer. I may head to the thrift store to see if I can find some videos...but I refuse to give up on it! I have GOT to do this!
I know I sent you a PM on FB yesterday - but I thought I would answer here too, since maybe there are others out there. I suggested to Oopsi that she get a specific Walk Away the Pounds dvd... It's my go-to work out, it's quick and well... quick. LOL And you can make it easier and harder with weights. Even though I am working through my heavy lifting program - I still do this dvd twice per week. My favorite part about it - the 1 mile - which is what I almost always do, is only 22 minutes long from warm up to stretching - so I can do it in the morning really easily.
I love most of the restaurants at MK too. Makes it hard to choose which ones we will eat at. I had a hard time deciding between LTT and the Plaza for lunch on our last day, but you tipped the scales for LTT and the Freedom Pasta - which was yummy!
I am glad you tried LTT... I am kind of sad that I don't think it will make the cut this trip... Not because we don't like it - but I am just not sure if we will have enough park days, and I think BFF & dd would enjoy CP more. But if there is a way we can squeeze it in, I am going to.
I really need to start wrapping soon. I always leave it to later and then have a ton of stuff to wrap - and it usually takes 2 or 3 days to do it all.
I don't have enough to wrap yet... LOL But I have a few shopping excursions coming up - so I will soon.
Yeah, I think so. This will be a workhorse machine and it is just what I needed -- a basic, non-computerized, easy to maintain machine.
Awesome! I think everyone needs one of those.
I will post a picture when I'm finished!
Cool - I can't wait to see.
I've been using my Jiminy bag every day too, but I'm not tired of him yet.
I am glad... I don't know what is up with mine - but I never really liked mine as much as I liked yours.
I guess that's why I am carrying him at home, I am not sure if I will carry it in the parks again?
Love your stockings and such a nice gift
Thank you so much - it has been a much bigger project to tackle than I thought it would... And it's also used way more fabric than I thought it would too. LOL
Finally caught up! (I skimmed a lot)
Thank you for taking the time to do that... I don't always get a chance to do that with other TRs, so I really appreciate when others can with mine.
Your weight loss approach looks great. I love your attitude!
Thank you, it has been a very long road, but - I just keep on - keepin' on and slowly but surely changes are happening.
Your trip looks so exciting so far! Have you guys decided on a resort? Did I miss that?
I didn't post that? Hmmm... Well we are staying at FQ again - as of now.
Can't wait to hear the final ADRs!
Me too!
Love the bags, especially steam boat Mickey!
Thank you! It was so much fun to make!
All caught up from the long weekend away! My casino weekend ended up getting cancelled so I spent the time cleaning out closets. Yep, fun weekend.
Well, at least you were able to save some cash. LOL
The stockings are beautiful! So glad you had lots of time to work on them over the weekend and that the $10 "bribe" to V got you some help.
Yah, that was $10 well spent!
Back to the Coral Reef restaurant. I would say it's pretty much the opposite of Rain Forest Cafe. I see RFC as very loud with lots of activity where CR is a very relaxing atmosphere. CR is done in all blues and greens so it feels like an extention of the aquarium which covers one whole wall of the place. The restaurnant is build in tiers like a theater so every table is facing the aquarium and has a decent view. As a matter of fact if I had to compare it to any restaurant I would say Sci Fi except you watch fish instead of Sci Fi clips.
That sounds very nice... I will look into it more. Thanks for taking the time to give me such a detailed description.
So as you well know, I'm having you make a bag as a surprise for my cousin Morgan who is getting married at Disney this February. Over the weekend she noticed my bags in the photos I posted on Facebook and started asking me about them. I ended up giving her the link to your Facebook page and she spent hours looking at all your bags. She said her favorites are Maleficent, Cheshire Cat and Mary Poppins. Needless to say I think she is going to like her bag! I just hope she doesn't win an auction one before February cause she says she really wants one. Well, I guess that's not a huge problem as she'll just have two bags then!
Hahaha... Well - I know a few people who have more than one bag...
And they don't seem to mind. LOL In all seriousness - I only have 3 more auctions before then, and the next one's theme probably won't work for her... So, technically 2 more auctions... I am sure it will be fine.
Ooh interior shots of the stockings would be fun
I'm so proud of myself on the meal planning front. I have been doing really well. I started out just doing it weekly, but this month I did the whole month. I think this works better because we can jump around depending on what we feel like. If I have say....tacos planned for the end of the month and we want them tomorrow instead, it is easy to just swap it out. Next I need to get couponing....one thing at a time.
Totally agree with you on the exercise class in the winter. But can you just get a DVD to do at home maybe??
OK... I will post photos of the interior fabrics below.
That is exactly how we did our meal planning too... It was so nice to just go to the calendar and pick something because I knew I had all of the ingredients on hand. I need to get back to it - I just get so annoyed with it at the same time. LOL
I do have a few DVDs that I already do - I just love the comraderie of doing it with my work buddies... I still have not decided. Sigh...
Sounds like your days are full off stuff that has to be done. I can't wait to hear what your BFF thinks about your dining plan for your trip.
My days are quite full recently... Once I get these last 2 projects done, I can start working on other things more related to our trip - so FUN stuff. LOL
Sounds Me and my friend started to think about another USA trip. But this time we want to do the northern parts of the country. So my question is: When does the snow disappear where you live? When we decide to travel we want to do it either in the spring (after the snow is gone) or in the fall (after the warmest days are gone)
Yay!!! This sounds like fun! But no Disney in there? Normally - I would say that a good time to travel would be the month of May - however - traveling during that time is also the stormy season, so bad storms and tornadoes are a possibility. Otherwise - September is a gorgeous time to travel, as all the leaves are changing and it's relatively cooler. However - those are typically good times, this year - we were getting freak snow storms well into May and September was unusually hotter than normal. Hopefully this was just a weird year?
The stockings are perfect. Glad you could get some help from Victoria and that Mr. Rocket was so cooperative.
Thanks! I couldn't have done it with out her help!
Can't wait to see the EPIC custom bag order.
Me too! So far it's beautiful!
No ADR choices yet?????? Just kidding. I didn't realize you had been using your JC bag - glad to see you are showing it off.
Nope, not yet... BFF has been preoccupied with a few other things on her plate, so I don't want to harass her too much about it yet.
Yah - I am carrying my JC bag, but really starting to get sick of it. Sigh... I need to change it out, but I keep forgetting until I grab it to run out the door. LOL
Nini - your stockings sound very nice. Maybe in a few years your DD and Miss B can work on redoing that project - they can do all the sewing and you can do the embroidery.
Great idea~!
The stockings look great. It's hard to pick a favorite. I like Victoria's and Thomas's colors.
Thanks! I am still a bit undecided about the lime green for Thomas - I am worried that it may be "too girly" later in life?
We found out today that our sales are going to start at 6:00 pm. The cell phone sales won't start til 8:00 am on friday. Last year we had problems because the carriers' call centers didn't open til 9:00 out time. The phones were in the 5:00 am ad. We had a lot of unhappy people.
Yikes, I bet you did! There are just some things that can't be helped though.
I started Christmas shopping while I was in Florida. I only have 3 people to shop for so it isn't too bad. My sister, brothers and I decided not to exchange gifts for Chriatmas. We have Chrsitmas dinner and we all bring a dish so no one has to do all the cooking. We play games in the afternoon.
Liz
That sounds like a very nice Christmas dinner and day! I am so looking forward to the holidays!
Glad you got the bag started and more done than you thought you would. Can't wait to see how it turns out once you've gotten it finished.
Me too! I am very excited about this one!
The funniest thing about the towels was I had walked by them about an hour before that all happened and could have grabbed how ever many I wanted. But once I felt them I realized how thin, rough, and just cheaply made they were and knew no one would use them so I didn't get any. We do the same thing with the DVD's. But we also buy a lot for ourselves.
Hahaha... Funny how people go crazy.
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Yesterday was a crazy day... I wound up fighting that darn headache well into the afternoon. Finally, at lunch time, I took 2 Aleve and that seemed to do the trick.
I appliqued all day long... This was a hard applique to do - but it turned out fantastic, so I am very happy with it. I cannot wait to show you all.
I work at Target today... A longer shift than normal, but still not long enough for a lunch break. Grrrr... I really hate shifts like that. I could care less about that meal, but those floors are SO hard on my feet, that half hour break to sit down really helps. It's shifts like this that I have to bring a second pair of shoes with and change them out half way through my day.
I am very excited to share that I finally saved up enough $$ for the embroidery machine... I am very excited, because I feel like I have been saving FOREVER!
Suzi requested to see the interior fabrics of the stockings... So, to refresh your memories - here's the stockings so far...
Here is the interior fabric I used for all the girls' stockings:
Then here's the fabric that I used for all the boy's stockings:
I hope you all have a fantastic day... Sending out prayers to all who need them.
D~
I can't imagine how frustrating that must be for you. (((Hugs)))
Yay for making a dent in yours too - and how FUN to surprise your neice with her new stocking... So, did she notice it when she got home???
I hope you don't have to work!
never heard of such nonsense... 
That shuts them up! 
So, I am cheap and have found some workout videos on YouTube that can be played through the Wii at home. Tried that last night...and it kept stalling to buffer. 
I may head to the thrift store to see if I can find some videos...but I refuse to give up on it! I have GOT to do this! 
