New Year's Eve-Eve

The new pencil tree. 

We hope you had a nice Christmas with family

and friends.  We certainly did.  I wanted to show

you our new pencil pre-lite tree that I found

at Michael's craft store on sale for $44.00.

It was a real bargain compared to the one I

purchased on-line during the summer for the

exact same size and shape.

 This year we are hosting our first New Year's

Eve-Eve party.  That's Friday, December 30th which

frees up folks to celebrate the 31st in whatever their

traditional way to celebrate is.  We are having a few neighbors

 over for cocktail and an array of food.

 I'm starting to set and arrange the dining room table for

the food and silverware, etc.   We will convert our everyday table

in the breakfast room for the bar.  Right now I'm re-washing

all the wine glasses to be sure they are sparkling clean.

 The color theme is red and gold and the party invitations

I sent out were gold and cream.

 I still have some grocery shopping as well as a lot of 

various other work to do to get ready.

... As we count down to New Year's Eve-Eve ...