Celebrate the Season

This year December has flown by so quickly it feels as though I haven't had time to do all the things I wanted to truly get into the christmas spirit. However, I wanted to make a list of all the fun festive things I have done this season to remind myself that I have made good use of Christmas time!

• Saw the Lights on Temple Square
• Watched Elf, Home Alone, and Muppets Christmas Carol
• Went to the Forgotten Carols
• Saw the play Savior of the World
• Experienced Ultimate Sledding in Park City
• Drank Hot Chocolate
• Made gingerbread cookies
• Listened to lots of Christmas music
• Decorated the Christmas tree
• Wrapped gifts
• Had a Christmas dinner in the Joseph Smith Building
• Went to an ugly sweater party
• Built a Gingerbread House of Graham Crackers
• Hung out with Family
• Attended the Family Christmas Recital
• Went to the fesitval of Trees

Everyone's a bit quirky

I was tagged by Britton to name six quirky things that I do. I found this a little hard because these things are just normal to me, but probably pretty wierd to other people. Anyway, here it goes . . .

• When watching sports, especially basketball, I love when the scores are even numbers. I feel a sense of relief and satisfaction when a three pointer changes the score from an odd to an even number.
• I keep most of my shoes in shoe boxes. I like the organization and I don't like my shoes to be stacked on top of each other. In my mind they are staying nice and new longer.
• I am really picky about the condition of my socks. I can't stand it when I step in something wet with socks on, or when I walk across the kitchen floor and get crumbs on the bottom of them.
• I put salt on oranges.
• This is a weird one that comes with past jobs and being a design student. I think of colors as either paint colors or chartpak rendering marker colors. A normal person would say that is brown, I would say that is "shaker beige" or "lenox tan." What one person calls red I would call "brick red" or "bing cherry."
• When I make toast for breakfast, I take a peice of bread from the bag and then take a bite before putting it in the toaster. My toast always comes out of the toaster with a bite taken out. Odd.

My New Headboard

Working at a high end furniture and design firm makes you want really nice furniture. And since there is no way I can have the really pretty things I see all the time, I decided to design and build my own! My dad helped me with all the sawing and screwing, but together we built a pretty awesome bed. It is an upholstered headboard with upholstered side rails and foot board. I love it! I have slowly been putting the bedding together and decided to splurgo on some expensive daniel stuart fabric for pillows.