Facebook finds.

 This is a screenshot of a post I saw on Facebook

This is from the store where I used to work. I found so much wrong with this. Number one she keeps using the word "homemade". Years ago a health inspector told us we were not allowed to use that word. It had to be store made. Second, she's making all kinds of things from scratch which is not the least bit cost effective for an in store bakery. Apparently during the holiday season she had them making a wide variety of cookies all from scratch. Lastly the price got me. I'm cheap so maybe $20 is normal but it seems awfully expensive to me. 

I love the craft things I see on facebook. They don't annoy me like the above post. I thought this was totally adorable. I couldn't find any instructions but I'm thinking it would be pretty easy to figure out

There was also this one

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More felt ornaments.

 I'm currently working on felt snowman ornaments. I only had 2 done when I took the picture and I'm now up to 5 finished.

I made these years ago when I was doing craft shows and at that time I added glitter to them. I haven't decided if I'm going to do that this time or not. 

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Presley's birthday party.

 They didn't play pin the tail on the donkey. They did pin the eyelashes on the princess

Time to sing

I loved her expression when she saw the lipstick box

She seemed to like everything I put in the bag

How long till Spring

 I'm digging for blog material so I'm taking what I can can get right now. Friday morning I took screen shots of my phone to show you the kind of weather we're getting right now.

1 degree is cold enough but the next day was even worse.

And the 7 day forecast

I feel like this cold and snow is never going to end.

Saturday morning.

Hooray for a day off but it was only -11 when U got up and I had to go outta Walmart to pick up a prescription and dog food.

When I went out to start the car it didn't want to. I begged and pleaded and it reluctantly turned over.

I got to Walmart a little before 9 so I could be first in line. 

Got my stuff, checked out and headed back home. A birthday party in the afternoon and then Im hibernating until Monday

Getting ready for Valentines day.

 I know it's a little early but I was playing again with AI. 

This first one I did using Bing's copilot. I asked it to put Gibbs in a Valentines decorated room

It did a good job of taking him out of the original picture but I must say that room is a little much.

Next I asked remix in my messages app to turn it into a pencil sketch and this is what I got.

I liked this one a lot.

More lake effect and another call off day.

 Thursday Jan 15th we got hit with another round of lake effect snow. This is what it looked like out my window that day. 

I was able to get out of the driveway so I made an attempt to go to work. I got 2, maybe three miles away from home and I went up a hill to turn on to one of the main roads. There's a flashing light there and I had to make a complete stop to wait for another car. When I went to go I couldn't. I just sat there spinning my tires. I tried backing up a little and going again but no luck. I was able to turn so I turned around right there in the road and went back home and called off. 

Later I was so glad that I did because all day I kept hearing about accidents happening because of the weather. There were several multi car pileups and my alternate route for bad weather had traffic backed up because of people getting stuck on that hill and not being able to make it up. 

Happy email for me

 When I was at work the one day I got an email from the president of our division. This was certainly a happy email.

There was also my 6 month review. They sent me questions that I had to answer about myself and how I thought I was doing. I hate things like that but it was mandatory. I didn't realize I was going to get it back with the reviewers responses on it. This is a lot so feel free to skip over an of it. Made me feel good that it was all favorable.

More felt ornaments.

 I finished 6 of the felt fox ornaments.

I still have the orange one cut out and will probably go ahead and finish that too. I also cut an extra head piece so I may cut the cheeks too and do one more.

Another felt ornament I made was this cute little gnome. This is for all you gnome lovers out there.

I'm currently working on snowmen heads. I'll show you those when I'm finished with them.

Presley's gift, the lipstick box and the bag

 Her party isn't until this coming Saturday but I wanted to have everything ready in plenty of time so I wasn't rushing.

I just bought a bunch of stuff that I could load the gift bag up with. 

My first attempt at the lipstick box didn't come out so good. I have it stacked here but the very top part was very fiddly to glue together. I didn't have it quite right and it didn't line up right to glue the last part down.

I gave it another try and it worked much better the second time around.

As for the plain white gift bag I bought, I glued strips of black cardstock to it. Then I made a gift tag with red lips on it. I still need to add a hanger to the tag.

Lake effect

 I dread hearing those words and it seems like I've heard them way too many times already this winter . 

It started on Sun Jan 11. I took this when I let Gibbs out the first time.

This was about an hour later

Paw print art

And when I let him in he was a spotted dog

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I'm not quite sure why, but this one is rather blurry compared to the rest. I was going to retake the picture but figured it was good enough.