here's my REAL monday blog

here's a happy bit of my home: 
it is my kitchen sink .... i took down the curtains for christmas and hung favorite ornaments up on ribbons .... i love how it looks ... and it actually makes the room much brighter with the sunshine streaming in ..... to get a better look, try happy christmas window with tags on flickr .....

here's a cropped version of the same window ....   on flickr it is a close up with lots of tags so you can go and see exactly what all the doodads are .... 

today is my dog's first birthday ..... we had her "party" on saturday .... she just had her usual day today ..... i love her very much .... is that weird to profess my unfailing dog love where everyone can read it?  her name is dixie .... we sometimes call her dixie doodle .... she sometimes doodles on the floor when she is VERY excited to see you .... it's almost an honor ... it means she loves you too ..... tmi? 

i spent some time in a fifth grade today doing some beading ... i think the project is turning out SUPER ..... 

i worked on a canvas that i did not take pictures of yet ... soon!!   ... i have so many art plans in my wee head .... and i just can't get them all done .... too many other things are getting in the way! ..... most of the time i am currently spending in my studio, i end up wrapping presents ... or helping the kids with their top secret christmas  projects .... 

and tonight, i did something i'd NEVER done before ... i coached a basketball team .... julia's team, in fact .... her coach is out of town .... so i said i'd do it for him ... funny thing is, my dear andy is her coach ....so....it was kind of an add insult to inury thing ... not ONLY is he out of town, but i have to do his stuff .... i have plenty of my own stuff!! ... but, it was actually very fun... so fun that it seemed SHORT ... i wanted more practice time than we actually had ..... and i don't know a thing about basketball! 

if your time isn't too overloaded, here's a christmas diversion: a happy christmas game...well...more weird than happy, maybe!

fa la la la la .... hope your week started out well .....