Faux Flocked Frasier Furs, and Other Such Things...

Ok, so i'm really enjoying saying faux flocked frazier fur... I'll stop soon, i promise...

Anyway the tree is up... and for some reason, it's really hard to photograph... but here are some shots of it... i wanted to do all white, but the pink fairy always comes in and dusts my tree with pink, and then she adds candy canes... oh well, it can't be helped... a pink fairy is gonna do what she's gonna do...

I found this sweet little wreath for $5.00 at Home Depot, it was for their black friday sale...

It needs some flocking too... but i'm gonna try to settle for some of that spray on snow that you can buy at Wal Mart for a dollar..

I had some bits and peices of ribbon, and tied them all together with a twist tie, so the ribbon is quite a mix

and a sweet friend surprised me with me this glitter "Nest" today, so i just stuck it  on the wreath...

Here is a little vignette in the corner, i've been trying to use things i already have...

i have no idea what that string thing is that is hanging from the front of the little vignette...

my photos are filled with strings, dust, random pieces of paper, whole foods bags... 

i'm really not that great at the staging photographing part of it all, i just don't really "see" this stuff, visually i see the whole picture, not details...

I messed around with the mantel a little more... Wonder how many times this will change before Christmas...

The kids came over for Thanksgiving tonight, and i made their favorite, pecan pie with chocolate chips, it's epic... 

To decorate the table i had some random glass jars, and i added dollar store peppermints to them.  This really looks pretty if you have some of those tall glass jars with lids, like the kind you see at TJ Maxx all the time for nine to 12 bucks... they're  beautiful done in different heights in groups of three filled with peppermints...

I had this shredded pink paper i got somewhere, and added it to the jar...

 and a few chocolate covered cherries...

It was my funnest Thanksgiving in a long time.  My daughter (she's 21 now) actually looked at me and talked to me.  We were playing on the computer listening to some pretty songs, and she sang some songs for me, she has a beautiful voice and she likes opera!  This is the daughter who was a Bon Qui Qui double, rap queen with semi criminal mind...

  I think everyone has seen Bon Qui Qui, but if you haven't please watch...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkdcYlOn5M 

  

When she was younger she used to sing... but 

between the ages of 13 and 18 when she was a psychotic teenager and pretty much out of her mind.... 

she stopped singing...

I never knew why,...

but she has found her voice again... 

 ...wow... that was the best thing ever for me...

  My son who is 24 now and is about 95% "normal, but the other 5% is Aspergersy... came too, and he was drinking beer, and sneaking vodka shots... add Aspergers and alcohol and see how much fun you have if that's your kid.  

Anyway, he was really sweet, and thankful, and got all emotional when Ellie and I sang together 

we hate it when he is buzzed and emotional...

 and Ellie and i just looked at each other like "kill me now" 

and Ellie informed me that I used to say that alot when they were young and we were in our house all together...

...terrific what kids remember...

you could connect an iv with your blood directly to them, and save their life and die right in front of them as you sacrifice your one and only life to save theirs..

but what they'll remember is the fact that you said, 

"just kill me now"   ...alot...

Anyway, it was one of my most wonderful thanksgivings ever.. it's been a hard year, and i am really thankful that we were together in all our dysfunction... 

It was us, and no one will ever get us like we do...

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