Merry Christmas

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! I am still sick, but glad that've been able to slowly recover at home. My hubby has been great and I can't wait to see everyone! 8]

I've already cooked the sweet potato casserole and the peach cobbler so I've crossed out some of my to-do's for tomorrow. I still have the ham, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and rolls to cook...*sigh*... but it will be worth it.



Enjoy the time with your loved ones & I hope that everyone gets at least one thing on their wish list :)



Snail Mail Surprise

 So I come home from work today and I had a surprise package... and it came just in time. I have been anxious to open presents.. yeah, yeah I am one of "those". I love getting presents as you can all see from my previous blog entry (I also love to give, but that's beside the point for this post).
So imagine how excited I was...

I opened the box and saw this. It was a cute little card.
And underneath that tissue paper....was.....
THIS!!!!!!!!

I won this awesome little dead doll from
Daph's awesome giveaway!!! She is
temporarily slumming it on my mantle until I can
find a more permanent home for her.

Boy, I love getting early presents 8]

Bewitchingyou's Bests [[for the Year]]

So if anyone reads People.com, you know that at the end of every year, they have a page that is dedicated to the "Best of 2011". It may be about style, funny quotes, whatever floats their boat. I have decided to do the same thing, but in blog form.

Note: Just to keep each category from being too long (no one wants to read one blog entry that takes an hr to read), I am only going to choose the top five.

My Top 5 Obsessions:

• Twilight (the release of Breaking Dawn)
• True Blood
• Blogging
• Crafting (esp. this Halloween)
• Reading

My Top 5 TV Shows:

• True Blood
• Dexter
• Law and Order: SVU
• Once Upon a Time
• Pan Am

My Top Five Favorite Quotes:

• "Light up the darkness" - Bob Marley
• "I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Alice Kingsley
• "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." - Gil Stern
• "The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." - Charles Swindoll
• "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” -
  Mahatma Gandhi

My Top Five Favorite Blogs:

(in no particular order - this was HARD as I read so many!)

 

• Something WicKED this way comes - wicKED's blog is so funny! He definitely has a way with words! And I just love Archie & Lilly.
• Art Bliss - She is truly a talented artist! I love seeing her creations!
• Lady M's Haunted Parlor - She is so creative and kind.
• Little Gothic Horrors - Not only is Emma talented (just look at her dolls!). I love her gothic style.
• Annie Walls - I am crazy about the funny/sarcastic blog entries. Always makes me smile.

My Top Five Favorite Blog Posts:

(in no particular order)

• Art Bliss' Witch Boots
• WicKED's Happy Creepmas Eve
• Art Bliss' Altered Book(s)
• Maple Grove Cemetery's Tillson Street Revealed
• Out of the Shadows' Dumb Supper

 My Top Five Favorite Websites:

• The Haunted Cauldron
• Cake Wrecks
• Facebook
• Halloween Forum
• Google

My Top Five Memorable Moments of 2011:

(in no particular order)

• AC and I buying our first house
• My mother-in-law's 50th surprise party
• Our first Halloween as haunters
• The birth of my "niece" Lauren
• Any moment spent with my grandparents

My Top Five Favorite Activities:

• Reading
• Marathon sessions of True Blood
• Geocaching
• Blogging
• Gardening

I also want to wish everyone a great holiday (Christmas & New Year's). I have really enjoyed following along, reading about your lives and ideas/opinions. It's great to make new friends that are just as crazy (or crazier) than I am.

Until Christmas...

xoxo Nicole