Getting Ready For Christmas...

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Last night Furs and I made a quick trip to the Spruce Meadows Christmas Market... we started out with a feed of perogies... and sausages... with sour cream and fried onions and bacon... The main reason for the trip to Spruce was for the greenery for my outdoor arrangements... I got enough for two planters!.. and we also picked up a garland... 

I was pooped when we got home so left the greens on the step for the night... 

I was up at 7am this morning... had a nice cuppa tea... paid the bills... then headed outside when the sun came up... it was freezing out... I worked away for a couple of hours and above is the result!.. I even washed down the railings... swept the steps... washed the stoop ceiling because it was really dusty... and gross looking... and pulled grass up from between the walkway blocks... it warmed up later in the morning when the sun made its way around to the front of the house...

The rest of the day was spent working on giving the house a great big cleanup... getting ready for Christmas... and for the parents visit!..  worked away until about 7pm... made it through the entrance area... front room and a good half of the kitchen... tomorrow the rest of the kitchen and living room... then onto upstairs... that should go quick... and if the weather is nice we can get the last of the bushes wrapped up outside... and fingers crossed I can get an indoor holly arrangement put together... I have a bag full of holly in the fridge from Spruce Meadows!.. 

Have you started getting your house ready for Christmas?..

xo

Lacey

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Hey!.. What have you been up to!?.  This past weekend... ugh... it's Sunday night... why can't today be Saturday still!?. anyway this past weekend Fur's and I finished up... almost... our Christmas shopping for our families!.. Well the stuff we have to send in the mail anyway!.. YESS!.. no need for super expedited get it there tomorrow panic rush shipments this year!.. 

Today... Furs and I and a few coworkers went to the Pacific Place mall up in the NE for Dim Sum... it was YUM!..

Om nom nom...

On our way home we picked up a string of warm white lights for the front eve of the house... the lower eve... 

Chris put up the lights and I wrapped the bushes in burlap... should have done that back in October... ran out of burlap though... will have to finish up two bushes out front... and the gardens in the backyard next weekend...

It's the first year we've had lights on the house!.. we've put them inside in the windows the past couple of years... but thats just not the same as lights outside...  Next weekend I'll get greenery at the Spruce Meadows Christmas Market to do the two planters out front...

Check out the perfect string of lights!.. Oooo... Ahhhh!..

I mentioned it in a few previous posts... my September and October were out of hand busy... I worked and slept... wasn't capable of much else... well most of the houseplants have perished... apparently I didn't water the house plants for two months... the big fern was just a raggy mess... so I tossed it... and the planter was in quite the state...

Galvanized my ass!.. I sanded the rust off... and there were small holes in it!.. I primed it... painted it cream... and was hoping to be done there... BUT it looked terrible still... it had gone to far... THEN I had a thought!.. 

Cover it with sheet music!.. now it's new and refreshed... and the inside lined with plastic to prevent further corrosion!.. I've planted 6 paperwhite bulbs in it!... I didn't have any sand so had to use these rocks... actually... come to think of it... I think I have a ziplock of decorative sand in the entertainment unit... I'll have to run and check after... The rocks just aren't dainty enough for the sweet paperwhites...

...six planted in the trough... then four in these four little buckets that I've dropped into an old looking tool box...

...again the not so nice rocks...

We also picked up three amaryllis... a big read one... a white one... and one that is red and white... planted in various containers whose plants had perished...

I can't wait for them all to bloom...

This last one... I'm wondering if this little container is too small... someone with amaryllis experience let me know!..

Are you getting excited for Christmas!?.  I've begun to listen to Christmas music...  :)

xo

Lacey

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Ya... I'm Lame...

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work... sleep... work... sleep... I've been totally lame... hardly cooking... let alone baking!.. Gardens have gone to pot and winter is setting in... getting gardens cleaned up this coming weekend... and Furs and I are putting up Christmas lights on the house!.. 

what have you been up to for the past month!?

xo

Lacey

ps... I'll be back!..  sooner this time!..