Christmas came and went in it's typical breeze in, breeze out fashion but the gifts just kep on coming. Now these first ones I gave myself. I had some dress shoes I wear to work that the "leather" started peeling off so I decided it was time to get some new black shoes to wear with my pants. I also was looking for something besides tennis shoes to wear with jeans. So...
I found these 1/2 cowboy shoes--they really do look like cowboy books when you wear them with jeans and these cute little black slip ons. Kind of fun. I'm digging the "cowboy boots" though.
Next came a package in the mail from Inkom Crazy Lady (a.k.a Karen) which got me wondering what the heck it could be. Low and behold the Doodle Queen (a.k.a. Karen) had sent me one of her doodle bags!! Now I have two incredibly cute bags--one from Karen & one from Kelsey a talented mother daughter duo. I could seriously sell their bags up here like hotcakes. Seattle has banned plastic grocery bags and the grocery stores (and department stores) have to charge you for paper ones. So people are bringing their own reusable bags. Who wouldn't want to take a bag this cute shopping??
My friend came by one night with another new year's gift for me. She and her daughter had bought lots of fun fabric to make aprons for gifts. This one hanging on our new door is the one she made for me.
We did get new doors to replace all the internal doors in the house that were suddenly too short because of the missing carpet. We are not sure if we are going to paint them or not. We kind of like the wood look. We do have to finish them in some way, but just not sure what yet. So here I am in the apron. I'm sure it would look better if I wasn't standing with my arms in back and had taken a shower and done something with my hair and I was ten years younger and 10 pounds lighter and who cares...
So Dennis won a $500 Amazon gift card from work because of the hard work he did visiting all the AAA stores and encouraging the employees to push the AAA credit card. They had a big contest where sales people who got 10 people signed up for the credit card were entered for a drawing and for every person they signed up they got $25. It was very successful so Dennis won 3rd place in the national AAA drawing. Wondering what he got with the $500?? Well one thing is the Kindle below which he got for me. Quite surprising.
I had no idea. He just came home one night and said close your eyes and hold your hands out. I wasn't even asking for one he just did it. He said now you can take more books to read with you when we travel. Haven't read any books on it, but I have gotten hooked on playing Sudoku on it.
Haven't posted in a bit and this was the most interesting stuff I could come up with. Not sure why January was such a "gifty" month but it was fun!
