holiday summary

This year’s holiday decorations, in total: The Outside Lights: ST:TCT: The Regency Mantle: The Side-by-Side: The Built-In: The Display Case: The Holiday Table: It was a simple and easy holiday, exactly what we needed. May everyone’s new year bring good things.

under the wire

This was a rough but good year. Big projects and heavy schedules sit on the horizon and I’m working to clear the tedium of life prior to the chaos. I thought that included holiday decorations, but as Christmas neared neither of us wanted to wake up without a tree on Christmas, so I got to […]

the tree that almost wasn’t

For the first time in over twenty-five years, I wasn’t going to put up a Christmas tree. You see, things need to happen over winter in this old house, and I need time to get projects ready. But I know how I work, and I do not want to return after holiday travel and have […]

the 16th day of christmas

As the snow arrived behind schedule, the Christmas season has been extended because this is cool:

the final days of trekmas™

I have been remiss in posting the remainder of Trekmas™, which was completed last Friday night. Day 10: On the tenth day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: a Bird-of-Prey bookmark! Day 11: On the eleventh day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: stainless comm badge ice cubes! Day 12: On the twelvth […]

the 9th day of trekmas™

Day 9: On the ninth day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: a shuttle stress reliever…

the 8th day of trekmas™

Day 8: On the eighth day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: a Tom Paris collector plate keychain! (It is *not* Nick Locarno! They look nothing alike. Nope, I don’t see it.)

interrupted trekmas continued:

I am back home, and last night, we caught up on the Twelve Days of Trekmas. Day 4: On the fourth day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: a USS Cerritos shot glass! Day 5: On the fifth day of Trekmas™, my Boo-love got from me: Klin-gon Em-pire sooooocks! Ba-dump-bump-bump… Day 6: On the […]

the 12 days of trekmas

I gave my husband a twelve day Star Trek advent calendar for Christmas. I’ll admit that I don’t understand such a calendar with only twelve days, so considering the late find, we are treating it as a Twelve Days of Trekmas™, intending to run from Christmas to Epiphany. The packaging design, alone, justifies the purchase. […]

missing the mark

Or… Learning to Forgive Myself as I Grieve Through the Holidays. Late starts can really snowball into conundrums when one is as thorough with holiday decorating as I prefer to be. Correcting bad pandemic housekeeping habits runs into early tree upping (early-because-no-less-then-three-and-each-one-takes-three-days-to-set-up). The Thanksgiving break gave me the time to catch up on trees, but […]