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Today Chelsea and I are starting our day with a 5 mile run downtown.  The Turkey Trot is today and we are going to be a couple of soggy turkeys for sure!  I am grateful for the opportunity!

I started Christmas shopping a while ago, and I'm doing pretty good so far although my mom, sister and I spend a day shopping and that's when I get some serious shopping done!
I love getting handmade gifts and last Sunday I went to the Litchfield craft show and picked up some gifts for others and some gifts for me!  A couple of my favorite things include the Snowmen that Trish makes, the jewelry...

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to:http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
1. What is your holiday wish for your family? That we have a safe, happy holiday and share in more special memories and of course all their wishes come true.
2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?...

I finished it and I'm so excited for the fact that I finished a project and I'm just thrilled with how it turned out.  It seems sometimes I don't do a project because I have such high expectations of how I want it to turn out and then it never gets done.  This one once I started in, I enjoyed every step of it.

I mostly used the October afternoon Christmas line with some 7 gypsies, Tim Holtz and...

Every year we try and make it into Medina Square for the candlelight walk, this year we had the perfect weather to do so!

It's a great way to get into the season!

I had to drag the family through my favorite store in town, Perfectly Charming!


although I don't think my family was quite as excited about the decor as I was.

Chelsea asked someone to get our picture while in the square
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If you are local and want to get a start on your handmade gifts for Christmas then check out the Litchfield craft show on Sunday November 21st from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The Litchfield town hall is located at 9254 Norwalk Road in the circle.  Admission is free.
I'm still working on my mini's, I just got the 3 X 3 pictures I ordered to fill some of them.  Picking up some more pictures today to fill this...

I started picking up some Christmas gifts over the past few weeks and I was getting to the point of needing to get things written down so I knew what was done and what was left to do.  Then I saw this blog post at 11pm last night.  I was ready to go to bed but then something in me thought I have the supplies for this...
and so it began!
A Christmas planner that I could write my things to do,...

thinking about Ryan lately.  Not that he's not always on my mind, but most times I have that "It's better to have loved and lost than to not loved at all" attitude.  Not today...
It all started when I found a box in the closet that contained a lot of his artwork from his school days.  In there was a calendar, one that marked the last year of his life.  As I scanned through the months looking for...

This month I'm working with the Bertram Inn Christmas kit.  I started with the mini book first, go figure... 
I'm thrilled with how its coming out so far!  Here's a sneak peak!

I got to go back to Presque Isle again with a group of friends this past weekend!  It was a great day I got to share with friends.  Annette always does a great job with the bus trips and Lisa, Jane, Joyce and I sure did have a good time...

Once Jane and Joyce got on the slot machines they were feeling lucky.  Lisa and I wandered throughout the place checking out all the different games, occasionally...