One of our only Christmas photographs

Someone gave this little play place to us for our kitties (because their cat didn't use it) so we promptly declared it the kitties' Christmas present.

Despite Gepetto's probing alien eyeballs and Pisica's disgruntled scowl they actually do enjoy it. 


The hubs put a little space heater in front of it and then tries to force them to go in there once it gets all warm and cozy. I'm sure they enjoy that as well.


Daisy likes it too. She likes to perch on top of it to look out the window and keep an eye on the mail man. Although you won't find her hanging around there while the other two are - the three kitties unfortunately still do not get along. Still lot's of hissing and growling going down in our house! Boo on that.


Just be friends guys. In the words of Gob Bluth, "COME ON!!"

Sketchbook Day - our little house on a hill

I don't usually draw buildings. Like, ever. Or anything with straight edges for that matter because...I'm bad at making straight lines. But I suddenly had the urge to depict our little home with our Christmas tree twinkling through the window.


So I did.

Please take notice of the...not straight roof.


The Christmas season has seemed to sap all my energy! I need to get re-motivated. 


I joined a gym. ahh!!


A quick Christmas recap post will be coming soon. BUT I neglected to take ANY pictures over the weekend so...we'll see how that goes.


Right now I'm watching The Great Muppet Caper and trying to keep the hubs awake throughout the whole thing. Because I don't like watching movies by myself. hehe. Miss Piggy is the star of her own synchronized dancing fantasy.

A green, I mean, brown Christmas!

Today is shaping up to be a pretty good day in the Points household. Sleeping in, exchanging gifts, watching It's a Wonderful Life (turns out I know the whole thing by heart, but the hubs knows Home Alone by heart so I guess we're even), wrapping presents for the rest of the family celebrations, watching our kitties turn psychotic as they play with their new catnip mouse toys, and pondering the strange fact that we are in Minnesota at Christmas time and yet the temperature is in the 40's and there is no snow outside. The hubs informed me that this also happened in 2006, although I must have blocked such a disturbing and bizarre event from my memory.

As I mentioned before, I'm not a winter person. And 40 degrees is a whole lot better than...anything that's colder than that. But I DO like snow for Christmas. I like snow for Christmas, but then for it to be gone by like...mid January. But the way things are shaping up I'm guessing now that we won't get snow UNTIL mid January and then it will be here until like, mid April.

Not cool Minnesota. 

BUT. Christmas is still fun, brown and all. Yes. Today I got to use my new COOKIE PRESS! 

My first time ever making Spritz cookies, and they turned out nice and tasty. And also cute. Just the way I like cookies.

Success.

We have more time to relax today and then will be off to Christmas celebrations with the fam. I DO love this time of year, snow or no snow. :) And who knows, maybe good ol' MN will grant us a bit of Christmas eve snowfall tonight. Merry Christmas friends!

Ch ch changes

You may have noticed the lack of animal doodles around here lately.


And for that I apologize.


But after awhile you can only get through so many animals when you wonder how many more can there possibly be? (As I'm sure Andrea has wondered as she has put the lists together.)


So. I'm taking a bit of a turn in a different direction. I'm going to start doing sketchbook posts at least a couple (hopefully) times a week. These very well could be more animal doodles, or sketches of anything else I happen to be working on. Some of them may be nothing more than a few squiggly lines or a silly cartoon, and some may be elaborate and detailed. I actually really love drawing people and faces but haven't done that for awhile, so I'm looking forward to getting into that again.


And when life starts to get just a little bit too crazy (as it so often seems to) I may post a few doodles and drawings from some of my old sketchbooks just for fun.


So in short. There shall still be doodles, but the doodles shall not be limited to just animals. I have loved the daily animal doodle project because it has made me keep up with drawing way more than I have in the past. And since drawing is one of my absolute favorite things, it's good. It's gooooood. I'm excited to continue on in a bit of a different direction. 


So without further ado, a doodle. Of the Christmas variety.

Oh and ps. I've got some fun plans coming up for my animal doodles from these past few months - so excited to show you!


In other news the hubs and I finally watched Christmas Vacation tonight. Such a fave.


"Well why is the CARPET all wet TODD?"
"I don't KNOW Margo!"

Just checking in ya know.

Hi! I'm back!


From where, you ask?


San Antonio, Texas. Yes that's right! We ventured to the big ol' state this past weekend. I'd never been there before, but I'll be darned if it wasn't basically as cold down there as it's been up here.


What.


BUT. It was a very fun city. And a very fun trip. The hubs and I went down there with his family to see his lil' (but in all reality very tall) bro graduate from the Air Force's basic training. It was awesome to see what he's been up to these past few months and his clean shaven head. And his new dad glasses.


He was an honor graduate. Congrats Brent!

Brent and his sweet little nugget of a girlfriend Mackenzie.


Stay tuned, for I'll be posting more pics and a recap of our little trip later this week!


But now we are back and it's Monday and you know Mondays. They're just...so...annoying. Like, having to wake up and stuff. Not to mention going Christmas shopping for three times as long as you thought you would due to your inability to make decisions. 


And on top of that forgetting to eat lunch beforehand.


How can a girl possibly make important decisions about what to buy and wrap up for her family members when all that's sustaining her are two frosted sugar cookies consumed at 7am?


So, it's like that today. All Monday-ish. 


But tomorrow is Tuesday and I almost ALWAYS like those.

Blast from Christmas past

I stumbled across these veeery old Christmas pictures scanned onto my computer and thought that I would share them. Because that's what bloggers do, right? Share?


Here's me and my little bro all dressed in our Christmas spirit best. Complete with festive red carpet.

Me and my violin. You can tell that it's Christmas related because of the holiday cheer ribbon tied to my instrument. Complete with festive red curtains. And bangs. And awesome jeans.

I'm assuming that this next one is a Christmas-y occasion because it appears that I'm wearing a Christmas-y dress (but my mom might tell me that I'm wrong). Complete with festive Christmas card pose.

That's all for sharing right now. Hope you are having a veeery great week!

Gift Ideas

Hi friends.


I'm wondering, are you like me, and need help with your Christmas shopping?


If so, which I'm assuming some of you MIGHT be, I have a solution for you. Check out my friend Kris' sweet little shop, Life at the Table.

Kris makes lovely handmade goods including market tote bags, produce bags, reusable sandwich bags, and beautiful drawings for your kitchen.

Now. I know from experience that her stuff is fabulous. A couple of months ago I snatched this super fun market tote bag from her shop. I LOVE the bright color combinations and intricate detailing. I'm excited to try it out at the farmer's market when summer comes back around (eternities away!!) but in the meantime I've been using it as a book bag.   

I have a lot of books I like to cart around with me (sketchbook, whatever novel I'm reading at the time, journal, bible, blog journal, to do list journal, planner, devo book, help books....AND the list goes on.) This bag is strong and durable and gets compliments wherever it goes.

So. If you like cute, lovingly handmade and awesome things or you think that someone you need to buy a Christmas gift for might, head over to Life at the Table and check out Kris' work! The Christmas deadline for her made to order items is the 15th (um...today!! hurry, don't dawdle!) and for her in stock items the deadline is the 18th.

Happy shopping!