The Glitter Workshop Dish

Our Christmas, 2009, In photos…

Phew! That is a lot of pics…

Our Christmas was perfect. We started off Christmas Eve at the Verhoeven homestead and had a lovely time, then we headed home to get to bed so Santa could come.

Christmas was spent at home with our family and the Boraca / Richardson’s (my sis). I made a rib roast and rolled turkey breast and Felina brought tons of delicious treats. A great day…. We even owned a dog for about an hour! This old chocolate lab wandered into our yard and our neighbor took him in until he could reach animal control. He was old and sweet and looking rough but I knew I couldn’t let him to go animal control on Christmas~ But, they did end up finding his real home, so that ended well. Of course now I want a dog. NO!!!! AHHHH!!!! Get that crazy thought out of my head…

The kids were spoiled as always, but I kept to my word and did not buy one single electronic device for them! Fine, I did buy some games and an extra dance mat, and Felina got them Wii Resort…

Yesterday Jerome and I got away for a little bit while Aunt Jenni and Grandma watched the little ones and the big ones were at their dad’s. We are possibly looking for a new tv, but we are having a really hard time with it, because we don’t actually NEED a new tv and we really really want to get into a larger house that fits our family better. Well, I do more than Jerome, but I think he does agree with me, mostly. I have never met anyone in my life though that is so grateful for what he already has. And, our home is perfect, but perhaps just not for a familiy of six. Anyway, the tv money could go into the savings as we desperately try to save up a down payment, but it was a gift, so… well, we’ll debate that later.

I hope everyone had an amazing holiday and I am looking forward to 2010. What does the new year have planned for us?? I can’t wait to see…

Our Holiday Wish, Peace

And here’s one that shows her new leopard boots…

I had a really nice day shopping with my sister yesterday. We made a day of it and finished up a few gifts, got haircuts and had dinner. A lovely day all in all.

Tonight is Jerome’s holiday work party so we are getting ready for that. I even treated myself to the whole Bare Minerals collection at Sephora and feel pretty lovely with my new look. I don’t usually spend much on makeup because we have lots of other expenses and it seems so frivolous, and I don’t use a lot of makeup, but it was a nice treat that I will enjoy.

Off to have some coffee so I can stay awake for the party!!

xxoo

Valentine Craftacular

The next High Noon Craftacular will take place on Saturday February 13th from 10 - 4.

The deadline to apply for this show is January 10th with notifications of acceptance going out the 12th and payment due by the 15th. I do not have the pdf application up yet, and the website still has the Holiday info, but all my crafty friends are welcome to email me (naomi@glitterworkshop.com) with the following information:

Business Name / Vendor Name:

Address & Phone Number:

Email:

Brief description of products you would be offering:

Booth size preference : 8×5 booths are $50 and 4×4 booths are $25

Pictures or a web address for images of your products.

If you are emailing pictures please please please resize your images and format them to be easily viewed. It definately leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it takes fifteen minutes to open email attachments! If this is an issue, you can also contact me about mailing images of your work.

Please also include a price range for your products.

I do have openings for a couple sponsorships as well. If you are interested in finding out how to help sponsor this show you can also contact me for more details.

Big News and THE Christmas Picture

First, the big news! NO, I am not pregnant, yikes… don’t even joke about that… No, the big news is that I will once again be hostessing a Valentine Craftacular! I contacted Cathy at the High Noon Saloon and she said she would be happy to have us back for the Valentine show. I will be keeping the Christmas shows at the Masonic center to allow for more vendors, but I love Valentine’s Day, I love Craftaculars, and come mid-February people could use a reason to come on out, have a cocktail and enjoy some high quality crafty gifts for their own Valentine.

The show will be on Saturday, February 13th and I will have application info out soon, but you can email me at naomi@glitterworkshop.com if you are interested in more info!

Now, on to the Christmas picture. Every year I get a picture of the kids for a card. I used to go to studios when the girls were younger, but it gets very expensive and with four kids someone is bound to be crabby or need to be bribed etc… This year it was Henri. He did NOT want his sister’s to hold him and he did NOT want to sit still. If you look closely you can see the tears in his eyes from crying but we bribed him with clementine pieces and we all pretended to fake burp, which he thinks is the funniest thing on earth. yeah. nice.

So, here it is!

I ordered some photo cards to put in with xmas cards for Luna’s birth announcements too. I know, I know, she’s two months old, but hell, I didn’t think I would ever get them out! I did cheap out a little and just ordered them from Walgreens (I special ordered Henri’s… spent WAY too much….), but the picture is cute.

Time to call it a night… I will get the Craftacular info out soon though..

xxoo

Snowy Days

That is a shot of our Christmas Tree. Yes, you heard me right, our Christmas tree. My mother bought us a lovely artificial tree that is tall and skinny (and pre-lit! yeah!) that fits in our teeny tiny space we have left in the living room, but I was feeling bad that we weren’t going to have a real tree, so Jerome surprised me with one! Of course, it has to live on the front porch, but it is lovely.

We have been doing a lot of this lately..

and some of this..

So, between napping and bundling, we have wrapped up our craft show season and I shipped off my last wholesale and consignment orders today. My etsy shop has been picking up too so I have slowly been trying to restock. I did get a few things up including this Grinch bracelet. Grinch goodies have been popular this year…

Zoe has been doing some of her art lately too. She is AMAZING on the Etch-a-Sketch. She did this ‘drawing’ in about two minutes, literally.

She is crazy good.

This girl is also doing something amazing, and has outgrown her newborn clothes!

Well, tonight is a ‘big girls night’ so we are going to Noodles and to the theater to see Fantastic Mr. Fox… wish me luck… I heard good things about it though and we loved the book!