Tips For a Easy Thanksgiving

OK well I have some tips to make you Thanksgiving easier than ever and I hope you enjoy them.

1. My biggest tip is do not spiff up your home what so ever for the dinner. The dust bunnies give people a conversation starter.

2. Dress either yourself, child or significant other completely inappropriately. The guest shock at your hot pants and big fake tattoo will divert attention from any hot button topics in the group such as religion or politics.

3. When people ask oh can I bring some thing have each of them bring a food. This way if they don't like what you make they wont starve and be bitchy.

4. Make every one go around the table and say what they are grateful for it is harder to say some thing mean directly after saying some thing nice.

5. spike every thing you possibly can coffee, wine, pie, what ever a drunk family is one that goes to sleep and leaves you alone.

6. I like to hide some thing like a random hamburger in the turkey. This way when you get the person that says oh I don't really like turkey you can say here ya go and slap down a patty.

7. Only have one dessert and make it your favorite. This is very important as the less options they have the faster they will finish.

hehe I hope you all had a good laugh and know this was all meant in jest. Well every thing but the spiking lol.

Have a great day

Cappy

Dreaming Sunday

OK so the image above not so relaxing but to me it is. Any thing that makes me laugh is always a bonus. So today has been one of those easy days where you just wake up and savor the morning. I hope you all have had one of those recently. Last night was full of crazy dreams and I am about to get the put in my dream journal. The readers digest version is very simple. Got into it with Reverend Alden from Little House because he kept moving my Christmas tree and knocking shit off. Not sure what that was about but it did make me smile when I woke up.

The next dream was going on a pub crawl with all the women in my family. What made it very creepy was that many of them were dead. It was good to see they could still have a good time. Some thing about watching your great grandmother do shots is a bit freaky.

Well I hope this has given ya all a good smile or at minimum a raised eyebrow hehe. Have a good day all.

Cappy

Pre-Black Friday Sale and Decorating Ideas

Howdy all hope your days are all great. I wanted to start by letting every one know that this great team I joined that I am sure many of you etsy folks already know of Tradaholics. Well these awesome folks are having a sale. Here is a link to the thread on the sale with all the shops in it. A really neat way to get tons of Christmas gifts out of the way. Every thing will be reduced or is already under $10.00. I know I am gonna do a little shopping and just thought you may want to as well. http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6353840&page=1

Now on to the decorating ideas. Well one day I came across a bunch of those sampler rings for sewing at the thrift store. All were under a dollar so I snagged them. I then took a bit of left over fabric from a different projects and some fabric paint as well and just did a free hand little design on it to resemble a snow flake. It was cute and cost me almost nothing. It is also very light so could easily hang some place you could not put screws in the wall. Just a idea. Have a good day all.

Cappy

Gratitude Wednesday

Well it is Wednesday and as yall know I love to reflect on the good thing in life from the past week. Actually there is always good stuff but I try to hit the highlights. Here are my highlights I would love to know yours.

1. I am so excited that the holiday music seems to be perking me up and sending me into creative over drive. while yes another horrible ornament has been made this one up top is pretty cute at least I am happy with it :)

2. Decorated some for the holidays with the husband. Not sure why but he is is a very cheerful holiday mood. I mean the man actually has ideas of assisting in the dinner for thanksgiving.

3. Did a artwork trade that was really fun to make. Not always inspired by the custom artwork ideas but this was a blast.

4. Was featured on a really cool blog that I follow she put up my little story and a work that went with it. www.soulreader.blogspot.com/2009/11/spirit-bear-by-guest-writer-cappy-sue.html

which just made the week.

5. Got some new perfume in a trade that I love.

6. Spent the best rainy day locked in with the hubs :)

have a great day yall I would love to know what your grateful for this week.

Cappy

Don't Forget To Relax

OK so with the holidays coming I am pulling out decorations, planning events the nearest is thanksgiving. Just for that I have to make sure all the family has their ducks in a row so no panties end up in wads up butts causing issues at our feast. There are little extra projects like going over the good china, planning a menu.
Not sure about you but I like to try and mix things up a little each year. There is a little uptake in calls for orders from my shops. My roots are clearly trying to shame me into coloring my hair as I swear I saw a gray up there. You get the idea we all start picking up speed about this time of year.
OK that is great and dandy but well I hope we can all take the time to relax at least once a week. By doing so we stay healthier, enjoy the events we toil over more and just have some fun.
So here are a few things I am going to do this week just for myself I would love to know about you.
1. I am gonna have a girls day with my sis where we watch "home for the Holidays" the holly hunter one because it is to funny. This is our kick off to the season.
2. spend one 2-3hr time span getting drunk on hot chocolate and schnapps listening to Christmas carols early and wrapping up presents I already have so they don't loom. Avoiding the 3 a.m. Christmas eve wrap athon. I love wrapping when I have the time to make it pretty and not rush.
3. rake leaves then toss myself in at least once and pray no giant spiders get on me. lol yes I know I am a giant girl.
4. Just give myself time for reading, or writing a little, or maybe even just a nap.
So now my question what can you do to relax over the next week or two. Oh I hope the cats above inspire you to relax they clearly got the know how :)
have a great day all
Cappy

Online Christmas Open House Starts Today

Hi all not just tooting my own horn here we have 14 great shops, giveaways and a promotional deal in each shop. I am just so excited. You can get any of my paintings buy one get one free just cover the shipping and so many other folks have awesome stuff and deal to. So here is a link to the giveaway page if you want to enter and get a sneak peak at the items. http://www.audreyscrafts.blogpspot.com/ to find the details or just click the link to the right :) have a great day all.

New art and a little buzz

Howdy all I like once a week to try and show you a little some thing new from my shops and today I am gonna be a little selfish and talk about some thing I am very excited about. On Sunday November 15th a online craftshow my first online craft show is going to begin. You can see a link on the right to read more about it. There is a contest with all the shops. There are 10 shops and we each are doing a give away and a special holiday sale of some kind. Mine is buy any one painting you can pick a second of equal or lesser value free just pay the shipping. I really hope you all can take the time to visit the great shops there is a wide variety and see if you can find a holiday treasure or two. Thanks again and either way have a good time entering the contest who knows you could win the print I am giving away from my shop or one of 9 other awesome items. Have a great day all. Oh the work above will be new to my shop soon.

Thanks Cappy