Like A Kid On Christmas Morning Or A Cat In A Tree

The husband and I have a problem. We're really bad at keeping presents in the house! I'm better at it than he is but that's not saying a lot! My birthday is in November and some years I receive my present as early as September or October! He buys me something he knows I'm going LOVE and then can't wait to give it to me! And he's allmooostt cracking! Every day he's getting a little closer to letting me open them early. We'll see if he (and I can!) wait till Christmas to exchange gifts. I mean really, how important is it to open presents Christmas morning?

And because my cat seems to have it out for me lately I'll end the post with a few pictures of his recent troublemaking.

(If you follow me on instagram you'll have already seen these photos but if you don't follow me you, you can find me at the username: carisle)

 He made it in and out of the tree without knocking any ornaments off the tree! Crazy cat! 

Our Kindness Date

Almost every week-end we spend a day in the nearby city. Usually we're running errands like picking up supplies for the shop or grocery shopping. Every week-end it seems the stores are getting busier and busier with christmas shoppers. Understandable! Tis the season! But every weekend everyone seemed to be getting more and more stressed and we found we were getting in worse moods too by the end of the day. So we decided to try to change that on our city trip this past weekend.

We drove through 3 Tim Hortons drive thrus and purchased gift cards. Then when they handed them to us we handed it back with a tip and asked that they keep the tip and use the card to buy people's coffees behind us. 

Then we picked the longest drive thru line-up we could find where we thought the people running the windows would be most stressed and grumpy. Mc Donalds won with a 15-20 minute wait. We had previously bought itunes gift cards so we were happy there were two different windows at this drive thru! We handed one to each of them as we paid for and received our bottled water. 

When we ate lunch at a restaurant we had such a friendly waitress! So we left a nice tip and I had previously wrapped up one of my favorite necklaces I make in my shop (leaving my shop name off everything). I hope it brightened her day a little!

We had SUCH a great day! We didn't feel any stress after when we braved the store lines! How could you when you've had such a fun day! The look on people's faces couldn't help but put you in a good mood! We went into the day with the hope that'd it'd be a fun date we could do together and it really was! It was nice to be "stuck" in a drive thru line with no where to rush off to or nothing immediate we had to do but sit there and talk! We both said that this date is something we'd like to do more often.

While we were in one of the lines we were across the street from a bowling alley so perhaps that will be our next date activity!

Playing Catch-Up!

How ironic! A month ago I write a post about being back and breaking from my blogging hiatus, and here we are... no posts since then! So to cover my butt so I don't lie again, I'm not going to say I'm back to blogging regularly again. We'll just have to see!

So what has happened in the past month?

 The past few weeks have been busy in the shop! I've been loving it! But I'm glad it has slowed down now so I can get all my own christmas things done! Besides the tree that is finally decorated, there isn't any other decorations up around the house yet! I think I have one or two christmas presents to wrap then I'm finished! These were the small "thank-you"s I dropped off for the post office ladies! They always go above and beyond their jobs to help us out!


I love package swaps! This year I participated in two! I took photos of the items I sent to them but it was late and dark so the photos aren't very good quality.

The first swap was 

I was paired up with Leslie from For the Love of Shoes!

I loved everything in it! This was my favorite item in it

Isn't it adorable!?!

The second swap I did was the

I participated in this one last year and loved it! So I was very excited to do it again! This year I was paired up with Jesa. A fellow BCian (is that what we're called?)

This girl has mad skills! She created a beautiful christmas book! I have my favorite page open in the photo. 

Speaking of books, this one has been on my reading stack. 

 It has some really hilarious parts! 

  

I've had this yarn just waiting to be made into something so I crocheted an oversize cowl. I originally thought I'd included it in a family gift exchange. But I love it so much, I might have to keep it for myself! 

I better save some things for my next post! Hopefully it'll be sooner than a month!