Playing Catch Up...

The last time I posted on here, it was just around Halloween and I had left off with a video tutorial for you all. Now that more than a month has pasted, a lot has happened. Besides Hurricane Sandy and the Nor'easter we had a week after, October was full of new orders to fill and ship out, which thanks to Sandy made it nearly impossible to do. All of my orders were delayed for over a week! I still feel so bad that my customers had to wait extra long for their orders, but thankfully they were all so understanding and extremely patient! [Thanks again to everyone who stuck with PLS during Sandy!] October was a very successful month for my little shop, and I am very happy to have meet the customers I did that month! In the little spare time that I managed to find, I was able to craft some handmade halloween cards for my family. Each one was different and unique to the families members that were going to be receiving them. I am really happy with all of the designs I came up with, but even more so, I was soo happy my family loved them as much as I love making them!

Then came November. The end of fall. The beginning of the Holiday Season... & Turkey Day. Nothing to exciting occurred in November, but I was able to take a mini-trip to Virginia with my family for Thanksgiving. We left The night before Thanksgiving after I got out of work, and made it to my Aunt's house at around 1:30 in the morning. I was soo tired by the time we got there that I just went straight to bed. The next morning was Thanksgiving. Not my most favorite holiday, well to be honest, I hate Thanksgiving because the food selection is pretty much everything I hate, expect for mashed potatoes and my mom's pumpkin pie! I brought with me, a Tofurky, because I don't eat meat. It's my Thanksgiving tradition for the past 3 years, which is how long I haven't had meat. So basically Thanksgiving went something like this: 

9am: I woke up and got dressed.

9am-11am: assembled a lots of items that I was already behind on submitting to a lovely blogger, and took photos out side because it was soo lovely outside.

11am-12noon: Ate breakfast & kind of watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

12noon-1pm: Played some pool, and kick my little brother's butt... 3 times! [I'm just that good lol]

1pm-2pm: Cooked my Tofurky...

2pm-5pm: Ate our lovely Thanksgiving meal with my whole family, which was very nice

5pm-5:30pm: Chatted with my Aunt's friend's mom about some business stuff

5:30pm-7:00pm: Ate desert, which included lots of pumpkin pie in my belly

7pm-til I went to sleep: Played pool against my brother (again), my Dad, and my other brother on and off.

So my day wasn't too exciting, but it was definitely fun to just hang around with my family in a different environment for a couple of days. We ended up leaving the next day around 5:00pm, because we had lots of activites to attend to over the weekend here in New Jersey. But we made it home in less than 4 hours and my Grandma drove back up with us to spend Christmas here. Yayy!!

Now here we are in December (!?!?) Did I just say that? Seriously, though I can not believe it's already December! Hey 2012, where'd you go!?!? I'm hoping to build up my shop inventory this month and just focusing on making my shop one big, cohesive brand that I will be proud to share with others. I wanted December to be filled with orders for all my Holiday Note Cards, but with the Holidays coming up, I'm hoping it will be a little slow in the shop, so I can spend as much of my free time with my family & friends as possible!

What did you all do for your Thanksgiving? Do you have any fun/exciting plans for Christmas/New Year's? Let me know what you Holiday traditions are; I love creating new ones with my family!

Have a happy Monday night, all!!

xxoo