{"id":976,"date":"2009-02-01T23:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2009-02-01T23:31:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T04:31:23","slug":"christmas-part-5-fun-new-toys-and-good-old-friends-or-hooray-i-have-my-laptop-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"christmas, part 5: fun new toys and good old friends (or, hooray!  i have my laptop back!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"buttons\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZtwN1KxKI\/AAAAAAAAKHo\/NbJiLdwV4Is\/s800\/IMGP6610.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so&#8230; my laptop is fixed and i now have access to my christmas photos again and the saga can continue.<\/p>\n<p>one of the fun things we did on our christmas vacation was visit some very dear friends who live in england but who were visiting parents who don&#8217;t live very far away from mr. happy stuff&#8217;s parents&#8217; home, so we traveled a few hours one day in order to visit with them and meet their little punkin for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>the guys (our husbands) might have gotten slightly bored because we sort of went nuts with the crafting.\u00c2\u00a0 i mean, we were only there for a few hours, and we managed to sift through her piles of beautiful buttons and i couldn&#8217;t resist buying one of her luscious button bracelets:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"bracelet\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZt78cFXSI\/AAAAAAAAKII\/oMgz0k7IMak\/s800\/IMGP6785.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and a few other pieces from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=6113901\">poor robin<\/a> shop (that&#8217;s the same bracelet&#8211;not a second one):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"poor robin\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZt-GCn22I\/AAAAAAAAKIQ\/0WAhQLgB6lg\/s800\/IMGP6782.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i had a really, really hard time choosing, but i love all three (or is it five?) items i chose.<\/p>\n<p>we also had time to play with one of my very favorite new toys that i got for christmas:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"kit\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZt4UZC9uI\/AAAAAAAAKIA\/3AS5DDMUqSY\/s800\/IMGP6771.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a fantastic needlefelting kit from my mom.\u00c2\u00a0 look at all of those colors!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"felting\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZt0WGopSI\/AAAAAAAAKHw\/iFwHueAdXlE\/s800\/IMGP6651.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here i am, enjoying my new bracelet and needlefelting at the same time!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"monster\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SYZt1oj4yoI\/AAAAAAAAKH4\/lDhptXDtSi8\/s800\/IMGP6774.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and here is the first monster i&#8217;ve created!\u00c2\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t he look like he&#8217;s pontificating?\u00c2\u00a0 i love the bowtie.\u00c2\u00a0 this little guy was heavily inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moxie_\/\">made by moxie<\/a> even though she took down her wonderful flickr photo tutorial a few days before i actually got my kit (sniff!) but i&#8217;d read through it before and got this result from memory.\u00c2\u00a0 i definitely need to play more with this medium.\u00c2\u00a0 and maybe get some more thimbles.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, it was tons of fun crafting with my friend and visiting with her family.\u00c2\u00a0 maybe someday we can live a little closer together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so&#8230; 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