As you may know..

Denise and Lynette are off on big business right now. I mean BIG business. This is the Spring '10 and Fall '10 line we're talking about here. You guys should be so excited. Seriously. If you thought you liked Hotline or Gypsy Blue 1&2, you are going to be doing flips for this Spring!! And I haven't seen the designs for the Fall yet, but the fabrics are seriously amazing. My favorite I've seen yet.

So it's Christmas time... And I have gotten basically zero of my shopping done. Well, I've got Mark's present. So that's not zero, but it feels like it is! Because I knew straight off what I was getting him and I have my ladies to buy for still! And that requires actual work. I think I'll be hitting up some thrift stores and Joann's Fabric after work today. Yep, it's settled. I'm gonna have to. I seriously love shopping for people though. I'm better at buying gifts for other people than I am for myself. No joke. But just as I am great at shopping for friends, I am the worst person for my friends to shop for. That's just how it goes I guess? Speaking of giving and receiving presents... Why don't ya'll tell me the best, most sincere, most interesting, or just plain funniest gift you've ever given or received? And I'll hook up the winners with a little Christmas Joy in the form of some MJC! And as usual, lets do one or two guesses per person.. 

Mark (the boyfriend) is incapable of growing facial hair, but you have no idea how badly he wants a mustache, a beard, anything! I think that's how it usually works with most everything though. When you don't want one ya got one and when ya want one ya don't. Well, regardless..I thought it'd be a good idea to see how he'd look with some face hair...

He's such a dork. With or without a mustache.

Oh! And that's my bathroom. Not much of a sneak peek though, is it? So here's my Christmas tree...

(Those curtains look familiar? Well that would be because I might have taken the fabric from 435 and made them myself!) There aren't many presents under there yet as you can see... Hence Sam McDonald needs to do some shopping tonight.

Comments

[Amitha]

Sam, I LOVE your place. That chair is TDF gorgy!! Mark's stache is so dang funny!! Thanks for making me always laugh.

[Nicole]

The strangest gift i ever received was from my husbands aunt. She couldn't make it up north for our wedding so she gave us a christmas gift. It was a wooden paddle (that I guess you are suppose to hang because it had a little leather loop at the top to hang from) with a huge bright green frog on it? Completely random strange thing? I don't care how hard anyone is to shop for who would buy anyone a wooden paddle?

Merry Christmas!
Nicole

[Dana]

When I was in middle school and my brother was I think a junior in high school we were off to church for Christmas Eve. My brother said that he was going to stay at the house to work on something. I just thought it was being a jerk cause that was the norm. The next morning in my stocking he had written each of us like a scroll, he even burned the edges for authenicity and tied each one with a red ribbon. The scroll was a personal note to my mom, dad and me of how much he loved us. That was very uncharacteristic for him and I still remember that as the best gift I ever received. My brother is getting ready to ship out to Afghanistan in early January so to have this from him is that much more special.

[Rachel]

This Christmas one of my students gave me New Moon and Precious on DVD's. He was so excited to give me a gift, regardless of the fact that he had burned these DVD's from an ILLEGAL copy he made in the theaters. You gotta love that he was giving with his heart though. He knew I LOVED New Moon and had been wanting to see Precious but due to being broke I hadn'been able to go see it. It was a very sweet gift from a kid that didn't have much (Materialistically) to give but it was huge because he gave from his heart. Hope it's not too late to enter. I need the hook up.