Jolly Holiday Recap

The parties and stuffing ourselves silly has ended - at least for a couple of days. We went over to the Holtzmans, my in-laws, to celebrate On Christmas Eve.

This picture is from last year - note that the new bookcase is not on the right. But I repeated this comfy glittery outfit, made of a long lurex cardi and some black knit pants.

The Holtzman table was all set for the dinner. The tablecloth was my mom's.

I made a hot cheese dip that was Swiss cheese, mayo, sour cream, cream cheese and onion. Amazingly, the grandkids LOVED it. I was not a cheese eater as a kid - too pungent. But they adored it. Here is Joseph having his dinner at the kids table.

Then it was gift time. 

We wrapped some of the gifts in Star Wars paper. Benjy made sure that we knew that he loves Star Wars.

On Christmas Day, we went to my brother's house and had dinner with Karin's family. I wore my Rachel Roy skater dress and good old BCBG boots.

Book case present.

On top, my vintage brocade jacket with faux fur cuffs by Lawrence.

I wore three necklaces. The top two were sapphire and diamond.

The longest one was my LV padlock.

On my left arm, my yellow gold wedding set, a diamond tennis bracelet, and a sapphire bracelet.

On my right arm, two more sapphire bracelets.

We played a dice game called LRC. You needed 3 dollars to play. I had extra, so I provided some to the kids.

We brought a nicely wrapped bottle of ......

Rompope !!! It's a Mexican eggnog style drink.

We got a lot of cookies, candy, etc as gifts, so I repurposed some of them for a hostess gift.

Gotta love the beer nuts.

So yesterday, I was all set to hit a few stores - mainly my favorite consignment shop. But it CLOSED !!!! All of the good ones around here have finished doing business. Wah. But I did go to Pet Smart. I had ordered flea medicine and had to pick it up. They had these giant rawhide bones for $2.97. They were originally $16.99. I got two, for Kenni and Vinni. I figured they would make good flea medicine bribery items.

Poor little Pandi has been stuffed into Elli's old clothes since it got chilly, so a couple of weeks. She desperately needed some that actually fit her.

Here is the first one - jailbird stripes with a leather/crystal flower.

Here are the other two. They were also $2.97, down from $16.99. She seems much more comfy. I told Doc that it must have been like wearing a corset - I should know, right?

Although appreciative, she got bored after a while.

So did I, so I had Doc unwrap the ladder (my gift from him) and pull it up to 9 feet.

American Gothic in Huntington Beach. Or A Boy and His Ladder.

Of course, I climbed on it and did some rudimentary gymnastics.

It's a nice ladder. I will be using it on Friday, when I wash some of the higher windows outside.

Anyway, today I am going to replace the wallpaper border around the master bedroom, and then try to do a little shopping. I have to go to the bank, and then I am going to try the last consignment shop on my dwindling list. Until then.....

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