Christmas Prep

 So, we drew names for the family Christmas get together, and I ned to mail my gift to my baby sister in CA. And Young Caitlynn has a gift to go there too. SO I boxed them up to get mailed. I noticed there's a little hint as to what is in the box as I was going to the Post office.

 The gift from Caitlynn is an odd shape, so I sewed a gift bag for it real quick.

 Pretty cute for about 10 minutes of sewing!

 I got the big nativity out this year. Bob is part of the stable animals this year. We moved his favorite box up higher, since when DD's dogs are here they tend to torment him.

 I got the Annual Gift Box from my employer! Isn't it packed pretty! Every year there is commentary at work about the box. And a lot of the time they talk about the packaging. Sometimes folks think they waste too much packing material, or there's too much plastic, or there's too much cardboard, it's always something. It must be hard to make several thousand employees and retirees happy.

The gift was a cooler bag. Well at least it's handy.

 I went with the rainbow tree this year. I saw it on the Instagram HGTV posted one and I thought it looked so pretty!

 I am absolutely in love with this tree! It took awhile to find all the colors of lights, I couldn't believe I didn't have any red lights with green wires, only red lights with white wires. But I had a set with twinkle red and clear, so I used them up top!

 I love the way it came out, but I'm going to hate putting it all away, I had to open every storage box to get all the colors I needed.

 So Pretty, and the topper is a vintage topper I got at an auction last year. It's wonderful!

 So pretty!

 I spent all day today with lovely Jean. We traded in her van, which was having issues and she needed to get it traded in as soon as possible. Look at the pretty sedan she got. It's a Kia Optima.

SO many cool features and we got a pretty good deal on it! It took all day, but we got it done!

The Holiday Box

 I was just looking through my posts from 2018-there sure are a lot of them! Anyways, the P&G holiday box arrived the other day! It's truly Christmas time now!

 Always some chocolate covered almonds...people complained in the past about the excessive packing materials-this year they really cut back on the cardboard.

And there's the nice selection of product! My favorite. Oh Darn! I forgot to take a picture of the gift-it's a Pyrex pan with an insulated carrier.
I did finish another project, but it's going to be in the Christmas gift exchange, so I can't show it off yet....

But it got spray basted on the garage door yesterday!

The Box Is Here!

 As my calendar says it's the last day of November and of course, the arrival of THE BOX, all means it's almost time to get the Christmas tree out! I'm planning a great one this year!

 My employer #pgemployee (hello social media guidelines)-the corporate portion- sends us a lovely gift this time of year every year. It always includes a selection of products and a gift, it was a backpack this year, and chocolate covered almonds! Way back in the day, it used to include fruit and a canned ham. Oh how times change.

 Anyway this is one of the products that came in my box. I had not seen this before! I googled it and it comes in Olay body wash, and also in Old Spice varieties in addition to the Ivory one I got. WOW! I LOVE this! I am not a fan of original Ivory soap-it's not creamy enough to suit me. But this scrubber-WOW!

 The soap is kind of soft and is packed in this little two sided wash/scrub pouch. Kind of like soap-on-a-rope!!The blue side exfoliates-Oh is it nice! LOVE IT!  And it's really nice Ivory soap-creamy and it makes my skin feel soft and not dry.

 And as much as I like liquid soap, I never use it because I HATE that plastic poof scrubber thing that you really need to use to get the full benefit. SO this is 100 times better than washing with that poofy thing. The white side is a non woven fabric, and the blue side is kind of plastic-ish fabric-nothing like the poofy thing though-thank goodness! I think I'll get another one of these in the Olay variety. Google tells me it costs $6.99 at Target-so about the same a bars of soap I think.

 And I'm working on a quilt-a Pokemon quilt for Christmas for the youngest grand. We'll see how this comes out.