And the Winner Is????

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Happy Monday Sweet Friends,

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Hope yall had a very nice weekend!

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Seems like it just flew by for some reason.

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Well,  my Monday has been very good so far,

How bout yours???

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I started the day off by finishing up some Thanksgiving

cards I had been working on,  and got those off to

the recipients,  then got inspired and decided to make

some pretty verse cards for the table on Thanksgiving

day,  meant to take a picture and forgot, and I already

downloaded the new ones.  Sorry!!

They were not all that exciting,  tho pretty!

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Then I made two pans of cornbread for making

my stuffing on Wednesday,  and made the gravy

ahead too.  My most stressful thing on Thanksgving

day is having to make the gravy at the last minute.

Just hate it,  so a few years ago I found a recipe

where you use vegetables and broth and it is truly

delicious,  so that solved my last minute gravy

dilemma,  and works out perfectly for us this year

especially since I am not making Turkey!

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Hope you don't think I am Un American,  lol

I truly am not! I am just a girl who isn't that thrilled

with that Big Bird!   He can just gobble, gobble

somewhere else!! lol

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Guess you can see by my opening pic what else

I have been up to...........we have 3 more sets

of dishes sitting in our living room in the boxes.

I took 2 place settings of each runner up on the

dining room table, and took out all some of my side

dishes and accessories to see how they went

together, and have had them there since last Friday,

  so I just go and look at them ever so often and

try to decide,  I have never had this much

trouble picking a set of dishes! 

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Ridiculous is the word I would choose,

but it has seriously been a tough decision

because not only are they pretty the quality

is very good as well! 

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Do I get a Halleleujah to that!!  Finally!!

Some quality dishware.

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I have narrowed it down to two,  the demure

and stylish Ivory colored square ones,

and these lovely Scalloped edge Shabby Chic white ones.

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A this point I think the winner is the Lovely

white "Shabby Chic" ones.  They were

definitely more than I wanted to pay but what can I

say, I am in love with them!  So I have decided that one

 box is for our Anniversary and the other for Christmas, 

and that works fine for me, cause I have Christmas

dishes that my sweet Sister-in-law gave me.

They belonged to her and my late mother-in-law.

So the new ones will be something nice to

look forward to in the New Year!

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Wanted to show you some new items I found

that I think you will enjoy if you can find them

where you live.

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These are Gingerbread Pecan Biscotti

in case you can't read the label down there!

They are delightful and have a lil bit of

glaze atop them.  Very delicious!

If you have Publix Grocery stores

that is the place to get them.

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And these are yummy dark chocolate dipped

pretzels.  We found these last year and they were

so good I was on the hunt for them this year.

Publix again!  I just love that Store!!

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We also watched a great movie last weekend.

It is the sequel to "The Note",  if you haven't seen

"The Note" you should probably watch it first,

then watch :"The Note II" Taking a chance on Love.

They are both Hallmark Hall of Fame movies

as always with there movies,  they are very

very heartwarming!

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I also heard a very good revue on the new

Disney movie "A Christmas Carol" from a

Christian station on TV.  He said it was the

best version of it he had ever seen,  and they

even mention the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Imagine that!!

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Also got an Amazing Surprise today as well.

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I rec'd this in the mail on Friday,  but did not

order it.  The cookies were free but the coffee

was $45.00.  It is from one of their specialty

programs and is more than the normal coffee.

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So I called them today to say I did not order

this cause I am not in their specialty program,

so she said what if we charge you have the

price and you can keep all the coffee,  and

I said well,  I just got my by monthly shipment

so I really don't want it,  so she said well,

we will just credit your acct. and you can

keep all the coffee,  and I said,  Let me

make sure if I understood you........

Did you just say you would credit the $45.00

back to our acct., and I can keep the coffee

for free,  and she said That's right!

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Woo-Hoo!

Happy Thanksgiving

and

Merry Christmas to us!!

I just love when God sends along these

wonderful lil totally unexpected surprises!

He is awesome indeed!

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Also,  found out hubbies stress test

will be on Dec. 11th,  so thank you for

your prayers,  I am feeling them........

 Sweet Friends.......You guys are precious indeed!

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Just in case I don't get to say it before Thanksgiving,

I hope all of you have the most Wonderfully Blessed

Thanksgiving and time with your family and friends!!

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Hubby will be off the rest of the week and then of

course, there is all that great cooking to do as well!

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So Have a Thankful & Safe Thanksgiving!

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Love, blessings and hugs,

Nellie