I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.

"And the Grinch with his Grinch feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas , he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more." - Dr. Seuss



On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!

In December I will be, a baubled, bangeled Christmas tree with hot soup bowls draped all over me.Merry once, merry twice, merry chicken soup with rice.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall.

The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. The "pin up" images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of "pin-up girls" were mass produced.


I found some really cool books with classic pin-ups in them, a bit of decoupage, two old tables and arranged those scantily clad ladies onto the table tops

Thriller...

now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change...

my dear dad

bye bye miss American pie

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