List It Tuesday: Holiday Faves

I'm excited about actually posting a Tuesday list on a TUESDAY this week!  I have been loving Aimee's from Artsyville's List it Tuesday challenges and will miss them between now and the end of the year. 

This is a list of some of my favorite things during the holiday season. I kept it pretty high level but there are a million and one things tiny little things that I love about this time of year-- for some reason, it seems to be nostalgia season and seeing my nieces and nephews enjoying all the things that I found so magical as a kid is a special treat. 

I remember it wasn't the Christmas season until we went down to the firehouse on Main Street to see Santa Claus ride in on the fire truck.  That poor Santa always had a line all the way down Main Street of squiggling, wriggling, giggling little kids who couldn't wait to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.  And, in those days, we didn't go in jeans and tennis shoes.  We DRESSED to see Santa.  I still can't believe how many red velvet dresses and black patent leather shoes I had as a kid.  Thank goodness, we had that sweet hot chocolate to keep us warm while waiting in line and the oranges we got from Santa were always the sweetest ones we had all year.  Because they were magic, of course!

List it Tuesday and EDM #310: Junk Drawer

Sometimes it feels like every drawer is a junk drawer.  You never can tell what you might find in any drawer in my house.  This quick sketch shows just a sampling of one of the more random collections!  Don't ask me why I would have a fortune cookie in any drawer! 

Back to back List it Tuesday posts this week because I'm finally getting one posted on a Tuesday! Also linking to EDM #310. 

List it Tuesdays: Small Comforts

This is for List it Tuesday at Aimee's Artsyville.   The topic this week was small comforts.  As usual, I'm eking in just under the wire for the 12/4 list. 

This was a really interesting exercise for me because it made me realize just how many small things throughout the day serve as beacons of comfort in an otherwise harried life.  And, at least one or two are really not small comforts but huge ones!

Favorite Movie Quotes- List it Tuesdays and AEDM #6

 

 

Okay, this is a first for me.  I absolutely love Aimee's List it Tuesday at Artsyville, but I've been about a week behind each week.  This week, for the first time, I'm actually getting my movie quotes out there on time.  Unfortunately, poor Aimee is stuck using her mobile app this week (never easy!) and is not able to put the link up.  Hopefully, Aimee will be up and running soon.  I know how frustrating using the mobile app can be!

  

I'm a huge movie buff.  In fact, I love movies so much, it was hard to come up with a single list of favorite quotes.

 

 

So, I ended up using two pages in my big journal and, even then, there were a million more lines that I quote routinely in every day life that got left out. 

I tried to pick things that I thought would fit well here...  Lately, I've been drawing a lot of characters from kids movies and shows, like Kermit and Fozzie, Where the Wild Things Are and Winnie the Pooh, so I figured Jessica Rabbit probably fits in.  Maybe one day soon, I'll draw her, too!

The blogosphere has certainly been the beginning of many beautiful friendships for me over the past year.

Sometimes, I get so caught up in stopping to look around, I forget where I was headed!

I have to keep reminding myself of this with each passing year!

But I continue to keep seizing the day... and life has been extraordinary!

This was definitely a fun list to create. I can't wait to see what others have come up with!

 

Also linking to Art Every Day Month (AEDM)!  Day 6!

Quick Fixes: List It Tuesdays

Quick fixes from Artsyville's List It Tuesday describe a list of things that I COULD be doing very quickly but that continue to remain on the bottom of the daily to-do list.  Maybe one of these days I'll become an organized person... But for now, I prefer the magic of shocking my sweetie by being able to instantly find exactly what I'm looking for amidst the chaos.

Also linking to AEDM!

Nostalgia

Happy October everyone! Where did the summer go? We've been having a lot of rainy days here lately... and while we haven't felt those true crisp autumn days yet, our temperatures are dropping day by day. This may be the first year ever where I'm not already nostalgic for summer and am looking forward to cooler temperatures and enjoying the beautiful fall foliage.

Speaking of nostalgia, Aimee at Artsyville has revived her List it Tuesdays and this week's theme is Things That Make You Nostalgic. This was tough, because I could fill journals with things that make me nostalgic... I guess that's both the blessing and the curse of growing older. I sketched a few ideas out on a journal page and these are some of the things I came up with.

 

Today also marks the beginning of Blogtoberfest at I Saw You Dancing.  This challenge provides daily prompts and encourages people to post to their blog every day during the month of October.  That is a real challenge for me, but I'm going to give it a shot.  (Today's prompt is to set intentions.)  What are your intentions?