Well, hello there! I do exist! Sorry for abandoning the blog for over a month – I honestly can’t believe it’s been that long! It was a particularly bad time to be AWOL, as my wee little blog was linked to over at Lillyella. People have been visiting, but the content has been stagnant – oops!

How is everyone? The past month for me was incredibly busy, & at times even more stressful. The New Moon Party that I hosted last Thursday was an absolute blast, but I really overbooked myself with little projects for it. I decompaged 200+ Scrabble tiles with book covers, cut out over 50 trees (we turned the hallway into Forks – it looked amazing, which was harder than you’d expect – I didn’t want it to look like a Christmas tree farm, you know?), created a Powerpoint trivia game, cut out stencils for t-shirts… oh, my to-do list seemed to grow each day. But now that it’s all over, I should have some energy (& time) left over to play over here!

It’s finally the holidays (I can feel it in my bones & no, that’s not just the cold!), even though some stores wanted us to start thinking about icicles in September (seriously corporate America? Can’t I enjoy the crunchy leaves first?). How do I know? Well, four things have come to pass:

01) Starbucks is carrying their yummy gingerbread loaf, & I’ve had my first slice.
02) There’s a rather large crate of clementines sitting on my counter,
03) Right next to the heaping mound of mixed-nuts-in-the-shell that I’ve been happily cracking open all week, & finally,
04) Pomegrante juice has stained my fingers. & my counter. & one of my white camisoles (never fails).

To celebrate the season, which I love so much, the snow is falling here at Simply Sunshine. I’m so looking forward to diving back into blogging – I have so many things to share with you! Here’s to a less hectic December!

Bonus prize for those who’ve read this far: I loved that weird game Ski Free. I never knew this, & was thus always eaten by the monster. Thanks to Nikki for the link!