Cat & Mouse

Now that the holidays and craft fair are over I can go through my millions of photos and videos. I'll be posting a bunch of backlog and non consecutive pix and movies for a little while. This one is one of Lucy and her friend Owen one morning. It was sometime after Halloween and before Christmas.....

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!!

This season has been such a whirlwind. I know people say that every year, but I was so consumed with my craft fair that I hadn't started anything Christmassy until the Sunday before! yes, I did the tree, and letters/cards on Sunday, Shopping on Monday and Tuesday, more decorating on Wednesday and Thursday we prepared for Brunch and gift opening the next day! It kicked my butt this year. it was still awesome, but I am spent!

this is sweet Lucy experiencing the stocking tradition...

...yes, she was so excited to get a bunch of cars, bath toys, crayons, and mini balls. I did give her a mini piece of chocolate too. We never give her that stuff and it created a monster.

She made out with some pretty awesome gifts from her Omi & Opi, uncle, Julie's aunt, and us. Her Grandma Allen got her some great things too, but the biggest hit was by far her play kitchen. it's huge, and Lucy can't get enough of it! I fear it will take some of the tomboy out of her. I'll still be pushing her trucks and cars and garage to counteract it.

She really enjoyed the holiday, can you tell???

this was or tree once all the gifts were gone. it's a fake one that is too wide for the space, but I still like it too much to find a better replacement. I LOVE all of our ornaments. many of them were from older family members, childhood, and of course collected vintage ones from flea markets. I don't think I used 1/2 of them and its still covered. I love it!

a few days after Christmas we went to the 'ZOO LIGHTS' exhibit. It's at the Stoneham Zoo, and they have lights set up around the zoo. duh. but then they also have all these old vintage Christmassy things displayed in a mini maze along with a few rides. Lucy's still not into the rides,( or getting her picture taken with a live reindeer for that matter) but she had fun looking at all the santa's, snowmen and lights. she LOVES the lights! Of course you can't tell from any of our pictures, she was not in the mood for smiling or cooperating with the camera tonight. she really did like it though :)

catch up

wow, the last 2 months have been hell and a busy hell at that.

The craft fair went ok. it was not as good as I had hoped, but better than most expected. We definitely had issues, long term and last minute, but most of the vendors made money and most of the customers were happy and excited about round 2. ugh.

the website finally went up, there you can check out pix, videos and a whole bunch more info. Links to our twitter, facebook and blog sites are there too. I am too tired to set up those hyperlinks now, so just go to the site. www.bangcraftfest.com