Happy Earth Day, dear Friends!

Happy Earth Day!  Happy day for me as someone who is passionate about recycling, living green and trying my best to be organerexic!  My new favorite motto is Proud to be Organerexic! 

If you would like to volunteer to help the earth or a cause in your area, look at this site, All For Good, and you can volunteer in your area.  I've committed to a day in May.

Christmas Decorations

To see the finished outdoor decorations, look here.  Very simple with the decorations this year.  The tree, the mantel, the foyer and the stairs are the only areas decorated.  I'll finish the foyer tonight.

This is the mantel with the stockings hung for Santa!  Madelaine and Lyonn each have one too (although I'm not certain how their new fruit dehydrator is going to fit...)

The ribbons on the trees just do not photograph well.  I tried about 15 different angels.  It looks a lot better in person!

the branches on this tree have so much varying textures, again, althought I've tried to show them, it is very hard to see in the photo.

Except for the Nativity set in the Foyer, I think I am finished decorating!

Outdoor Christmas Decor, Part 1

I've been horrible about photographing my Christmas decorations.  When I arrive home in the evening, the lighting is just not the best.  But I've been decorating!  And having a wonderful time doing so!  The outside is almost complete, I just have to buy some new lights for the front balcony. 

When I moved from my townhome to this house, I went to Costco and bought everything new for outdoors because I didn't have anything.  Well, its been 7-years!  And the lights are starting to have some problems!  What's worse, is that the same lights are not even being made and I can't find replacements.  So, I took a string to use for my replacements lights.  I plan to go light shopping at lunch today...

A few pictures, but I'm taking a flex day off on Friday (YAY!) so I'll be able to take some photos at dusk and I think they will turn out alot better.

Notice the owl in the corner....he now has a big red bow!  He has to live on my front porch because birds are building nests on the ledge.  Normally I would be ecstatic about this, however, you can imagine what a mess this creates on the front porch...last year I had to through a wreath away because of said mess.  So the owl moved in and since the nests were empty (I checked first) the birdies moved out.  They can live anywhere in the backyard, its huge!  I'm not being mean! (I'm trying to convince myself of this, can you tell?!)

this just looks strange, and my deer are not even visible!  There are candy canes lining the drive way, this is one side, along with 2 lighted deer, contributed by Edgar when we combined our homes.  I've since adopted them... more to come!

Tartan Cheese Cake by Isaac Mizrahi

Did I mention how much I adore tartan?  Its so preppy and classic.  I also adore QVC, or any avenue of online shopping, but I digress....

When I received an email that Isaac Mizrahi would be featured on QVC, I had to check out the website and to my surprise, I saw this adorable TARTAN cheesecake!

How cute is that?!

"...Designed by Isaac Mizrahi and created by Junior's. Each couture confection is handmade with fresh, premium ingredients--from the creamy original New York cheesecake baked atop a chocolate graham cracker cookie crust to the rich chocolate ganache icing and decadent fudge border. From Junior's New York Desserts. Measures 8" "

Thanksgiving Table

I can't believe I hadn't published this; it was still in my 'drafts'  obviously Thanksgiving is over...have I mentioned I'm feeling very behind in my personal life as of late??! 

This was my table without the table settings, eeeek, or candles (why did I photograph it in this incomplete state??)

The reason I'm even publishing this so late is because I love the little Indian corn (ahhahah) my sweetheart Edgar IS an Indian, although he would correct me and say "Native American", but just in the event that he reads this, I have to laugh about the name; and yes, I do have the maturity of an 8-year old!

And the little pheasants; I found them at a little pop up shop in Cabazon Outlet Center (by Palm Springs-worth going to if you visit Palm Springs) a few years ago, and their little sweet faces make me smile each year when I take them out.  

CHRISTMAS posts to follow!

Christmas Planner

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I'm trying to get caught up today; it has been so incredibly buzy.  I have pictures of finished projects, I just have to down load them.  I can't wait to share. 

This is the cutest Christmas Planner from Ms. Tip Junkie's blog.  She is offering it as a free down load!  This is a really fun blog to visit if you haven't already!

Weekend Fall Shopping

I found this cute little holiday decor thing at Marshall's for...can you believe it???...$7.00.  How cute is it? For some reason I just fell in love with 'Noelle', yes, I gave it a name (just for fun of course, I'm not really loosing it...as Edgar so uncharitably suggested ;-) 

It was the only one in the store, so I popped it into my cart.  Tried to make it more fall-like as opposed to Christmas-y by tying a chocolate ribbon around it.  I'm not certain where is should go for the season, but I'm thinking of the first landing on the stairs...

***sigh*** another awkward item to store....