Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Thanks to shirebound,gamgeefest,rubynye,obeliamedusa,marigoldg,llinos and knittedmerry and knittedpippin for the fun Christmas cards! I am really enjoying them!

First of all:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm going to split this up into parts.
( non-spoilery general observations )

The following are some rather detailed spoilers!

( lots and lots of spoilery stuff )

I did get my hobbit-lass costume and my feet done in time to wear them, and the DH even wore his cloak and carried a staff! Our son went with us; no costume, though.

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Here are some more pics of our decorations this year: ( Read more... )

In other news--Monday we got a nice surprise in the mail. A check for $85 from the electric co-op we belonged to in Mississippi! We did not expect to get one this year--but apparently they had more than 5 years worth of dividends to send us! (They hold the first few years, but we both thought it was 5 years, which would have made last year's check the last one--but apparently not! He says he thinks they may have held the first ten years; that would be cool, as it means we'd get them for another 4 years..)

Yesterday we went to Stillwater and did a little Christmas shopping. I picked up a few stocking stuffers, and the DH got one of my gifts--he needed me to pick it out, as it is a new desk chair! I'd been needing one badly, but it was not on my Christmas list, so I was quite surprised when we stopped at Staples and he made me go and sit in chairs, LOL!

I plan to finish my hobbit feet and my costume alterations today, and whip up a cloak for the DH. Tomorrow if I have time, I will make him a Gandalf hat.

Tomorrow night!!!!! *grin* I am so excited! Our son also decided to go with us, so we will pick him up on the way.

"Far over Misty Mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old..."

Since it's Caterday, and I just happened to catch Miss Belladonna in an unguarded moment last night...





And then today I caught Sophie in the same pose!

Chapter 5, "The White Rider"



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I thought that our Thanksgiving Day would be pretty easy and low key, even though we were expecting company for the day for the first time in several years. My son was bringing his new girlfriend and her four kids, 13,11,10 and 1.( Read more... )

Here is a purse I made for last weekend's craft and bake sale at the church: ( Read more... )

This was a day I was going to spend finishing up both art and a story for this month's challenges, so that I could post them without being late. I was also going to post some pics I'd been meaning to post.

Well, instead we spent the day with the plumber, who took care of our washing machine (the drain was stopped and running over) and the refrigerator repairman (because water was leaking into the vegetable drawer and freezing there).

And just before the plumber arrived, as I was attempting to clean up the kitchen before he got there, my utensil drawer broke (actually it was the track to the drawer which broke.)

So the plumber was here for about an hour, and after fixing the drain informed us that the problem is roots in the line, which if we do not get taken care of, will mean that the drain will stop up again. Ball park estimate? $2,500.00. Luckily, he thinks that the fix he did today (which, thanks to our home warranty only cost $60) will hold until next spring. The kicker? We don't have any trees large enough to infiltrate our lines; it has to be one of our neighbor's trees.

Then of course, there was a flurry to get the fridge and freezer empty before the refrigerator guy got here. Stuff from the freezer at the bottom went into our chest freezer on the porch. Then ever surface and counter in the kitchen was covered with the stuff from the fridge. It didn't take him long to fix it--and it cost us $50.

Then we had to try and locate a new track for the drawer, so that the DH could try to fix it--that took most of the rest of the afternoon...

Also, has anyone else been having trouble with Photobucket? It's being all weird. When I go there a pop-up appears asking me if I want to take a "tour" of their new features. Before I can either click on it OR close it, the whole page turns kind of grey and the screen freezes.

I swiped this meme from pandemonium_213 last week. It took this long for my voice post to show up!

Upload/record the answers to the following questions. Some people used "vocaroo". I used LJ voice-post

1. Your name and/or username:

2. Where you're from: (As specific or as generalized as you wish, depending on your level of comfort)

3. The following words: aunt, roof, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught, orange, coffee, direction, naturally, aluminum and herbs.

4. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

5. What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

6. What do you call gym shoes?

7. What do you say to address a group of people?

8. What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

9. What do you call your grandparents?

10. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

11. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

12. What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Here are my answers:

I feel a huge sense of relief, like a great weight has been lifted off my back.