Amalgam

My time has been in the basement trying to keep it warm with loads of laundry. An assembly line of hummingbird feeders and a few jewelry orders fills my freetime. I had a showing last weekend at a church bizarre and another one will be December 3rd at a varsity club in town. I'll be in a row of vendors such as Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef and Tupperware. Do you see a pattern here? I don't exactly fit in but it is exposure. I made reservations for a booth next year at Trinity's Christmas Bizarre. This year was already filled up. Too bad. With Trinity Christmas Bizarre, the Artbeat, Wild bird Unlimited and hopefully Artistic Touch, I should have a nice flow of sales and orders for Hummingbird feeders and maybe some jewelry by next year. Word of mouth is getting around at school and a want to 'see'/ 'shop' or 'make' is being requested. Not sure how to handle that. Somehow I need to get creative with this or just drop it. I can't deal with all the Chrsitmas Decorations going up already. The larger than life yard blow up decorations are so ugly!! I swear, people just don't have taste or dignity. Or maybe I just don't know how to have fun when it comes to the holidays anymore. I have no desire to hang up lights or drag out all the dusty Christmas crap I have stashed in the attic. My enthusiasum for Christmas lasted about one day when I bought a package of Christmas cards with the intent of actually assembling them and sending them out. They so suck! Why did I buy them?
I want to take them back and tell them to shove them! The ribbon that came with the kit is much shorter than the sample itself, making assembly impossible according to the 'sample'. So now I have to make my own alterations in order for it to work out. Man.... I need a fresh approach to this holiday. One that doesn't cause me to get into a funk. Having kids pushes me to perform where I would just prefer to let slide. With that said, Blue will be the color for this season. So blue lights it is! Okay..... now I have to go out and spend money on blue lights!! arrrgh.

Not one acorn has been seen this year. The squirrles are out of control with their panic to find a food source which includes all of my birdfeeders!!!!!!!!! To purchase a bag of cob corn will only invite critters that I don't want hanging out in my yard eye-balling my feeders when the corn runs out. What to do.........

We won't be having guests staying in our home this weekend for the Army game. The tickets that were promised to them were given to family memebers . The whole B&B has been a dissapointment except for all the work tha got done that needed to get done in the first place. But it is only the first year and we already have an 'in' with some of the local B&B's with their overflow. So lets hope Notre Dame wins this weekend so the crowd will grow for next years football season. Go Irish!!!!
( making a sour face because I can't believe I said that).


"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer: but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
~ Henry David Thoreau ~


~Amalgam (uh-MAL-guhm) noun
A mixture of diverse elements.