*** DECEMBER DAILY 2024 *** MEGAAA thread

That is a nice set and a great price.

I’m watching Pam’s DD idea videos on Ali’s blog. I just absolutely love her. She has such cute ideas, I love her style, her voice and demeanor is so soothing and enjoyable.

And so many videos! I think I’m on #5! I haven’t counted his many she made, I just keep scrolling and finding another. What a joy.

The stamp pre-order has been extended until 11:59 PM ET tonight, FYI.

Pam is the best- I agree her ideas, her soothing voice. Love her. Excellent free content this year. Even though she is showing ideas for the smaller Al Im I’ve gotten ideas I can incorporate into another size. think I’m set to pass on buying classes other than the prep day.

I feel like I should use this to make a recipe album!  

Who had this growing up?

My mom still has it. I use the gravy recipe to this day.

This is an iconic cookbook that every housewife raising kids in the 1970s owned. I kinda feel like you would get the binder then you could add recipes in. My mom still has hers.

And I thought Pinkfresh said earlier this year that they weren't making scrapbook stuff anymore.

Was that them or someone else with a P?

I have my moms - not that I use it, but I do have it in my kitchen.

I think the stamp pre order Extension is over but they ordered extras of the stamps and so you should be able to still
Put any in your box right now as none are showing as sold
Out.

Thank you! I went back and looked to see where else “Holly Jolly” shows up and it’s the plastic word pieces that include ‘Le Tits Now’. I love the holly jolly, but can’t support such bad design. lol
I think I’ll get creative with my letter stickers or figure out my Cricut to make my own.

On a side note, I just got my hands on some vintage Christmas photos of my dh and his family. They are so good! Think tinsel tree, turquoise, and deckled edges. I’m so excited to include them in my DD this year.

And I found out I don’t have to travel for work in December, I’m so happy to get the full month at home.

I still have that one! This, and a couple of Betty Crocker cookbooks that my grandma got me when I got married are the only ones that I’ve never been able to part with. I never use actual cookbooks anymore, but these traditional old school ones are strangely sentimental, and comforting to me!🤷‍♀️😂🥰

For YEARS every time we’d give a gift to my grandmother, she would say… “Now, when I’m gone, this is yours!”

Really sucks the fun right out of gift giving! One year, my sister gave her a pair of Express jeans, totally distressed with holes and fringe nearly the length of the front. My grandmother looked horrified. My sister said… well, I know what you’re going to say, and I don’t want any old lady slacks! Everyone had a huge laugh. Gram kept saying it though LOL

I have a Tiffany floor lamp that hasn’t been plugged in since the day I carried it out of her senior apartment. I’ve lugged it through 3 states… and… 5 homes in 20ish years. Probably never will plug it in. But my God, she LOVED IT! One of my favorite gifts I ever gave ❤️

ETA: Gram didn’t have a lot of possessions and didn’t have an official will. When we all gathered to read what she’d left (small family and alot had gathered from out of state to be there at the end), she’d labeled alot of things so we knew what she was referring to. In her letter, it said she was leaving me a topaz ring. When her jewelry was opened up, there was a ring box with a store label that described a certain size and type of topaz and diamond ring. The adhesive on the label wasn’t sticky any more, and she’d written my name on it. Interestingly, there was a ring in the box (I knew it well, she often wore it to church) but it wasn’t a topaz ring at all. It was a ring with small sapphires and tiny diamonds. Many of both missing, and they weren’t missing when I saw her wear it. I never did see a topaz ring. I don’t even remember her having a topaz ring.. but I didn’t know she had silver flatware, either. She saved things for an occasion, sadly.

Anyway, to this day, I’ve never had that ring fixed or worn it. I’ve considered melting it down and repurposing the gold and stones… but I still feel like it isn’t mine.

My guess is the topaz is in my uncles wife’s jewelry box, along with the coins that he stole from our collections she made for us. Based on the description on the slip in the box with the sapphire ring… it was a nice sized topaz with nice sized diamonds, I wouldn’t put it past him to have switched them.

Anyway, long tangent lol just spurred a memory, thank you!