Days weeks months....

Where does the time go? I have a project list so long I can not even look at it anymore. Parties slowed down for a while but are now picking up, Thank You!

HOLIDAY PARTY - we did a girls PJ nite, BEST idea ever. Each woman loved wearing their most comfy clothes. I made Merry Berry Martinis and an antipasta platter, yum. We played Holiday Trivia, Grinch Exchange and an Ornament Exchange. One wonderful woman gave each of us a ball ornament with everyone's last name and the year, I see a new tradition of making the ornaments at the party. We already have a hostess for next year, can't wait.

VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY - instead of going out to dinner, we're having a Fondue Party at one couple's house. We're doing cheese, bread cubes, veggies, apples, steak, chicken, shrimp and chocolate strawberries, delicious. Each couple is to bring their wedding album/photos as we all are newer friends and did not know each other when we all married. I have planned a fun renewal ceremony for each couple. I'll play the minister using funny snippets of information and I have a fake big gem ring for each woman and a veil and bouquet, thinking of ideas for the drop drop. We'll play a famous couples trivia, valentine pictionary and the newlywed game(need new questions as we just played for NY eve). Looking for a few more games. Created an ipod mix with great hits such as

• Stop in the Name of Love(gotta love Diana Ross)
•  Love Shack(B-52s)
• Pour Some Sugar on Me(Def Leppard)
• You Can Leave Your Hat On(Joe Cocker) - I so LUV this song
• How Sweet it is to be Loved by You(Marvin Gaye) 
• Crazy Thing Called Love(Michael Buble) 
• I Got You Babe(Ahh Sonny & Cher)
• Love Will Keep Us Together(Captain & Tennille)
• I Do I Do I Do(ABBA) 
• You Give Me Fever(The Cramps) 
• Baby Be Mine( Michael Jackson)
• Going to the Chapel(Little Anthony)
• Always & Forever(Earth, Wind & Fire)
• You Light Up My Life(Debbie Boone)
• Unforgettable(Nat King Cole)
• Wonderful Tonight(Eric Clapton)
• I'll Be There(Jackson 5)
• and more

Children's Themes I'm working on and hopefully I will have photos(need new camera)

• Girl's Tea Party - doing the white, pink & silver with mismatched china
• Diva Party - doing the red, black and white look. Found a new frame for the table last week. Adding Chocolate Fountain.
• Hot Wheels Party - researching ideas
• Spy Party - for my son's 9th birthday. Planning black t-shirts, black caps, spy id lanyards, spy training activities and a spy hunt through the town. Should be FUN. Making invitations today - mini invites and a magnifying glass in a classified envelope, I think they will like it.

Goal to be better at posting!

Computers - Ah the joy & disappointment

I love my laptop, the best purchase ever. Portable, lightweight, and holds all my fave sites and info. But in 3 years it has had to be fixed 3x. My poor baby is in the shop again, the geek squad shop(3 weeks-ahhh) and I am lost without it. I write here from an old computer, the keyboard is a loud annoying monster and all of my fave sites and info are a million miles away. I should have backed up my info on a thingy(not sure what it's called) but I never did. I have been wandering, stranded, slowly finding my way back. Advice - back up your info and have a spare computer on-hand at all times.

Plans go ADD

Even the best of plans go ADD! I'm sure many of us do this but maybe there is advice out there that could help. I make many plans for projects from this to that and then something better comes along and I'm onto the new project before I even begin the old.

Halloween is soon to be here, my project list has grown ten-fold but the thrift shops and my fave blogs provide me with other temptations. Like the black lampshade that needs just a bit of embellishment. Or all of the transformation entrys and DIY entries. Which got me thinking, dangerous you know.

I especially loved the post on http://southernhospitalityblog.com/my-house/ about her office nook,  so what did I do? You know it, I just had to have an office nook too. So the work began yesterday.

From the beginning;
When I began working from home I worked from my husband's office upstairs. Shared desk, storage, computer, etc. Well that was a disaster! So, I moved to our dining room. No more dining just shelves of supplies and a couple of desks. Well when the holidays arrived it was a nightmare to move everything so we could have a nice family celebration. Moving everything back was ridiculous so my husband converted 3/4 of the garage to my new space, perfect for storage but not a desk. So my desk is the dining room table with a printer in the kitchen and files/papers/books/mags in random places. This is fine however sometimes I just want/need to shut the door, get me?

So yesterday I removed storage boxes of holiday decor from an upstairs smalllllll room, now stored in under the stairs closet(boy I have wayyyy tooo much stuff) and I removed plywood shelving, my arms hurt. I only broke on hammer. Next will be drywall patching, husband needs to help, and carpet removal. My hope is to be finished by next week, I can dream. Still thinking of a paint color, should I copy the green from Southern Hospitality?

On a good note I did manage to bring all the halloween decor downstairs.