industrious activities

so i'm in the process of making a very specific wish list of my own to post here. so that anyone who's going to get me a present (and i only expect my family to do so, so relax already, just buy me a beer if you like me) will buy me something i want or give up and hand me cash. cause there's a crapload of things i want sorely, but will never buy for myself cause i'm on a budget now and am an anal, impecunious wench who enjoys denying herself unnecessary material goods to atone for sins in a past life.
so don't buy me anything yet till i make that list.

while kz was gone on business for 4 long boring days full of cold toes and countless imagined burglary attempts during the wee hours, i summoned my long-dormant crafty side and surprised him with a real xmas tree and decorations. i'm extremely pleased with myself; pix to follow:

so here's the awesome tree

some snowflakes i made and pasted on the patio door