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I’ve been busy this week. I scrapped 16 layouts! 16 layouts people! That more than I scrapped in all of November & October combined! 13 of them were 365 layouts. Here are some of them And some of them were actually Journal Your Christmas layouts! I now have 7.65 layouts done out of 17 prompts. Woohoo! and here is the updated Day 5 with the newest advent items

I had plans for this photo. Big plans. But they involved me crocheting a bunch of small dino & clone sized santa hats at some point in the last 11 months and well…that never happened. So I thought – why not bokeh? why not wrap everyone in colored lights in the dark and bokeh away? Well…because this is me we’re talking about & while I understand the concept of bokeh & even from time to time manage to produce it, this particular idea was really beyond my abilities. Not that that stopped me from trying. First I set up in the bathroom, because that is the only place I am guaranteed undisturbed darkness. Then I thought it would be neat to wrap Nigel Marvin in lights & have the Clones & smaller dinos holding the light strings. Nigel Marvin is the large stuffed dino for those of you without a scorecard at home. ok so far so good, lets turn out the lights yeah… not really what I had in mind. Not dark enough, the little guys are too hard to see…. ...

It is really really cold! Oh sure, if you are in Canada (hi SciFi!) or Wisconsin (hey Sherri!) or other northern regions I am probably warmer than you. But for the mid Atlantic region, it’s freaking COLD out! We don’t see daily temps in the low 20s until Jan or Feb. Normally we are busy complaining that 40 degrees and rainy sucks for holiday weather but for the past 6-8 days we’ve all been ranting on about the COLD. My heat pump has not stopped running except maybe for a few hours on Sunday when it reached 33 outside. There is a draft. I cannot track down the draft. I’ve blocked off every window & door, even inside doors, with beach towels and there is a still cold breeze blowing around my ankles in the kitchen & living room. Plus if you get within 2 feet of any of the sliding glass doors you can feel the chill coming off 64 square feet of freezing glass, despite the heavy curtains. We have a woodstove in the living room & when a fire is lit that room gets WARM....

The problem with having Star Wars ornaments on the tree is that they very often are off the tree and part of whatever adventure the Clone Troopers are having.

Ok, so we are up to what? Prompt 13 I think today? And I have what? 4.35 layouts done? That is further behind than I intended to be by this point. I sat down at this computer Saturday morning determined to use Rinda’s suggestion about prompt 9 and then do prompt 11 because I know exactly what I want it to be. Plus I‘d have time to tackle the boys about prompt 4 & at least get it started. Then I figured Sunday I’d work on prompt 10 & whatever prompt 12 was. I ended up doing 3 complete layouts and have 8 others in various stages of completion from 50% to 90%. But none of them were Journal Your Christmas layouts. I sat down intending to them. Really I did. But then…the spirit moved me…and one thing I have learned is that if the spirit has a topic in mind there is no use trying to channel it to another topic, just go with it. The spirit moved me to get caught up on my 365 Project layouts and since I last did a few back in April I had a lot of catching up to do. I am d...

some from my 365 collection Heath Bar brownies Decorating the tree First fire of the season The tree all lit up. For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

I’m behind as usual, but not as behind as I could be. I’m still waiting on some weather besides ‘cold’ for prompt 2, though I am inclined to start a layout for it because it doesn’t look like much else is coming our way anytime soon. Prompt 4 is still hanging out there waiting for inspiration. I had a great idea for prompt 6 last night, but failed to make a note of it and now can’t recall what it was. My idea for prompt 9 requires input from the boys & getting them to focus on non-Pokemon things is a challenge, unless it’s Star Wars Monopoly, their new favorite game. I’ve covered prompt 10 fairly well in my past 2 albums so I’m considering the other suggestions & have a half page done about how I procrastinate wrapping because I really don’t enjoy it. But having done a page on how I don’t sent out cards because they stress me out I worry about this becoming a “Why I don’t like the holidays” album, so I am not sure about that page. Here are two I have completed P...