Five Question Friday

Hallelujah... hallelujah... it's Friday! That means it's Five Question Friday time!

1. What's on the top of your holiday wish list and why?!

A Kitchen Aid mixer of course! I seriously long for one of these babies, LOL
I want either a Lavender, Iced Blue, or Mint Green mixer. Life would just be so much easier if I had one of these :)

2. What is your favorite Christmas gift from the past?

Oh wow, this is a hard one. I have gotten so many great gifts over the years. I guess the most thoughtful one was a gift my husband bought me for our first Christmas together. I had written a poem when I was in 8th grade and submitted it in a contest and it won. It was published, but for some reason I never received my copy of the book. My husband somehow located it all those years later and had it wrapped for me underneath our Christmas tree. So sweet!

3. If you had life to do over, what would you be when you grow up?

I love my life just the way it is, but if I could do it all over again, I would have moved away right after high school. I would not have let a boy gold me back from doing the things I wanted to do. I would go to all the places I once dreamed of going and see things I will probably never get to see. I am too invested here now. There is a baby involved, so I will probably never leave home now. My parents would kill me, LOL

Sometimes I wake up and can't believe how old I am. I feel like time is slipping right out from under me. Some people think it is silly how I feel like I am old, but I really do. I guess I have an old soul. :)

4. When do you put up your tree?
The day or weekend after Thanksgiving! I want to savor every moment of the Christmas magic! It usually comes down around New Years.

5. What is your favorite Holiday?
Christmas of course, but there is something about each holiday that I love. Christmas is just my favorite because it last the longest :)

So, I was thinking a lot last night about some of my favorite holiday movies. Here are a few of my favorites that come to mind. What are your favorites?

Love, E

Scrap Tree

It's inevitable- the fall season just brings something out of me! All I want to do is cook and make things! There is this urge to do creative things that takes over me and will not stop until I start working on at least a dozen different projects at home. One of my dearest friends, Toni, called me early this morning just bouncing off the walls with ideas for things to make. Toni and I think alot alike. That's what I like about Toni, lol. My first project this fall was canning homemade apple butter, now my second project was making a scrap tree :) So much fun and so cute! I just took old fabric scraps and cut them into various "scrappy" shapes and used fabric glue to stick them on a regular artist canvas. I have an old dramatic/vintage looking frame that I am going to put it in and hang it in our house. It reminds of the leaves changing in the fall. I love it! I got the idea from a mum made of fabric that I saw on pierone.com. It was for sale for $75. Mine was much cheaper :)