Holiday preparations are in the works.
I know what I’m making for tomorrow’s Christmas feast… I’m on “two side dishes.”

The real question is what will they be served in???

Just a couple more holiday star ornaments making their Christmas Debut… one glazed & one soda-fired! Thanks Julie & Lisa for sharing pics from your beautiful Christmas trees!

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”…
and it appears as though one of my holiday stars has made it to its new home… err, tree!!!
Thanks for the festive photo Anna!

What’s better than seeing WICKED for the first time?… seeing it a second time in 3D today!!!

And then soon enough… WICKED the sing-along version coming soon to a theater near you!!! Who else is ready to “defy gravity” with me?… singing & “dancing through life” together!!!

Step-by-step… processing my reclaimed clay this afternoon! It has set out in a plaster bat for awhile and is finally a good “clay” consistency. I like to layer it with some fresh new B-clay. Thin layers of each, sliced in half, stacked, squished, repeat. It incorporates both clays quickly with just a bit of wedging at the end. When it comes to using this reclaimed clay, it will all get a full wedging then!

As we slide right into the Christmas holiday…. as well as Hanukkah & Kwanzaa…
let us not forget today’s celebration… FESTIVUS!!!

Made popular on that wonderful TV show about “nothing”… a celebration made famous by Frank Costanza! One of the most important traditions of Festivus is the “Airing of Grievances,” where families & friends have an opportunity to tell each other how they were disappointed by that person in the past year. A Festivus dinner is shared before the “Feats of Strength” competition takes place, where the head of the household must be pinned in a wrestling match beneath the unadorned aluminum Festivus pole.

A FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!!!
Today’s your day… go out & have fun with this!!!

My Christmas Tree is covered with handmade ornaments… and I’m always looking to add more! So I was excited to snag one of these limited-edition tiny dinosaur ornaments from Brett Kern’s online sale. He’s known for making larger dinosaur statues that look inflated. I haven’t started THAT collection yet… but I can see THIS collection starting already! Check out his “inflated” masterpieces – @brettkernart

Looks like Kristy is enjoying a little Sundae Sunday in a cute little purple bowl. Cute, yes…but my question is “why so small?” That just looks like a “starter-sundae” to me… MORE IS MORE!

This Fall my cousin Kim came over & we planted a LOT of new plants in my front garden. This is my first time trying hellebores & I’m kind of excited to see them flowering at the end of Winter. But I just saw these cuties this morning. Are they going to bloom too soon?… or are they just getting ready to impress me in very Early Spring?! Novice gardeners want to know!!!

Beautiful colors & textures on this Japanese maple tree during my early morning walk.
Almost as though it “forgot” to drop its leaves this Fall?!