it feels so good to be creating again. and even though most of it is for the store, i’m enjoying it. i’m currently trying to finish up my sample for my mini album class (to be taught on 1/9 and 1/11)… the one with the deck of playing cards. it’s really cool and i’m having [...]
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Weeks of planning and preparing and shopping and wrapping and decorating and mailing and everything else related to Christmas… and it’s all over in one day. One short little day. Despite the day FLYING by, we had a WONDERFUL Christmas. The whole (immediate) Dunkin family was here. Dave and I had our own Christmas and [...]
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Merry Christmas, dear family and friends! It’s early here – about 7:30 a.m. But I just couldn’t sleep any longer (I’m as excited as a kid when it comes to Christmas) and I’m enjoying the QUIETNESS of our home before the day brings noise, activity and more people. We left our tree lights on last night [...]
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we are now officially READY for Christmas to arrive. and it can’t come fast enough! last night, dave and i sat downstairs on the floor in front of our tree. we shook some of our presents, trying to guess what they were (are). we gave each other a bunch of hints and clues ("I got [...]
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i want you all to know that i LOVE reading your comments on my blog posts. your comments make me smile, esp. when you respond to my questions… i love that we can all interact through this modern technology….. crazy, eh?! and therefore, i want to READ MORE! with that said, why don’t you tell [...]
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yep. that’s exactly what i’m doing…. baking like a madwoman. after putting in a 44-hour work week (in 4 days), we ran a few errands on the way home. i think all Christmas presents are now purchased (dave finished up his shopping on the way home this evening) and most are wrapped. dave has even [...]
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our tree is FINALLY decorated! it took all of 5 or 10 minutes last night, but we got to do it TOGETHER. that’s what we kept waiting for…. those few moments when we could work together to decorate our tree. it’s filled with mostly ornaments from my childhood (my mom has a smaller, pre-decorated tree [...]
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MMMMMMMMM…………. my house smells SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD right now. I’ve got some snickerdoodles in the oven. i LOVE the smell of cinnamon. I’m not much of a fan of the TASTE of cinnamon (with a few exceptions – like hot cinnamon candy… yum!) but i LOVE the smell. and I do love snickerdoodles. tomorrow night i [...]
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AHHHHH…. my first night "off" in a long, long time! what am i doing? nothing. yep. absolutely nothing. we stopped by dad & mom’s house to pick up our box of goodies from grandpa & grandma in ohio (milk chocolate covered pretzals for me and dark chocolate covered pretzals for dave) and we got an [...]
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Prepared. That’s how I feel right now. Well, at least PARTIALLY prepared. My Christmas cards are FINALLY ready to be mailed – all 140 of them. Yep. They’re going out late this year, but they should still arrive at people’s homes BEFORE Christmas. YIPPEE!!!! This morning, I also wrapped Dave’s presents AND his stocking stuffers [...]
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