Spent a couple of hours this afternoon trying to find the things I needed to make my DIY project for the ornaments I want to put in the womens stockings. I think I started a wee bit to late. I wanted to go inexpensive for this project. I wanted to get jingle bells that did jingle so I found those at Michaels and got the ribbon there but that left me to find the cookie cutters. never knew it would be an almost impossible task. I thought dollar stores would have some kind of cookie cutters but every one I went to said they were out of them. Of course you can't find any one to help you in any store. I think all of them are at the registers now.

So we went to Walmart. By this time I knew you had to look in crafts, house wares and seasonal. Well Walmart is a big store. I found some right off in kitchen wares but of course they have that bar code and you have no idea what the price is. A price above the display said $4.99. No way! I got one of them to check on the price. I know Target has bar code scanners all over so as I was walking to the food section to where they sell cake and cookie mixes I kept looking for scanners. I bet some one watching the hidden cameras thought I was a bad person who kept looking over my shoulder or looking suspicious for some reason. But no scanners, and no cookie cutters in the baking goods aisle. So all the way back to the other side of the mega store to seasonal, no cookie cutters but there was a cashier that had no line!!!! She scanned it and the thing that was in an area that said $4.99 was actually $.97!!!!!! I felt like hugging her. so went back and got 12 cookie cutters. I was wanting snowmen, angels, trees, etc in traditional red and green but all I could get was stars, snowmen and trees in a funny color of red and green. But that's OK, I got them.

So sat here tonight thinking this would be easy. I can't figure out how to lock the ribbon through the little thing on the bell, loop it around the top of the tree and then make it all stable so the bell doesn't move except jingle. I can't get the bell stableized. It kills me to do it because I didn't want my sister to see them. One of them would be a gift for her! But I am going over there tomorrow to finish another DIY project and I will have her help me. She and Mom were the creative ones. They had a solution for everything.

Sparky you could have said something like welcome to my world or something maybe like how is your treatment going. Glad she at least picked up on your shirt and spoke to you about it.

Sally, feel like your mouse sometimes. I still have three gifts left to buy, candy to get, some other stocking gifts, a birthday present for my brother in law who's birthday was Dec 19th and wrap everything!!! But our holiday is on Jan 3rd so I don't feel as behind. But then there is the dirty house thing plus the tension of knowing that 33 people will be here, 4 of them toddlers and 2 newborns.