Have you seen The Story of Stuff yet? Very informative and interesting… just thought I’d pass it along especially considering that its the “season of stuff”.
I’m happy to report that with the exception of my son’s few gifts from Santa and the 2 sticks of lip gloss that I bought for the cousins (before I realized that I had handmade headbands that they would like..) that everything else I’m giving out this year for Christmas is handmade. Most of the family are getting bags of white chocolate dipped pretzels (assuming I stop eating them all… yum.) and the women are getting soaps from Etsy sellers and handmade earrings from my bead stash. I really wanted to make an effort to find things that wouldn’t “collect dust” and could be used up.. leaving no waste. (mmmm.. pretzels…)
I’m really hoping for gift cards for Christmas this year - I love getting to go out to eat or to buy coffee.. and I would really love one to a ‘big box’ store so that I can replace 2 appliances that are not long for this world. I really cannot live without my microwave.. and its been near death for over a month. Every time I walk into the kitchen the number “4″ is showing on the screen instead of the time.. and when I try to press buttons only certain number combinations work. I’ve been microwaving things at strange times (2:22 or 1:11) and just hoping that it hangs in there until we can purchase a new one. It is about 10 years old and was bought at a yard sale.. so I’m thankful it lasted this long. The other appliance that is on the fritz is the waffle maker.. which just doesn’t want to cook the waffles dark anymore.. so I think part of the heating element went out. We love homemade waffles here at Chez Mousie and they usually become dinner at least once a month (we also are big on pancakes & french toast for dinner too.. yum) especially during the winter.
Tomorrow is all about baking cookies, making chocolate cupcakes for Christmas Eve at the in-laws, and replacing the dipped pretzels that I’ve eaten tonight while sitting in front of the computer. Have a great holiday everyone- my next post is going to be an automated one set to post on Christmas since I’m going to be traveling around Atlanta for 2 days to do the in-law stuff. 