Feeling ...WICKED!!

Yesterday was a very happy day. Michelle, Brianne, and I went to San Francisco to see the musical WICKED!!!
We have talked about doing this for a while and the girls made it possible for us to go. The tickets were an unexpected Christmas surprise and a joy to receive - and use!! Everything about it was fabulous.... the theater, the costumes, the staging, the acting...but most of all the singing!! My favorite scene/number was Defying Gravity... it gave me chills as I sat there in the theater.

We popped the CD into the player in the car and sang along and talked all the way there and all the way back. It was a very happy day... and it was FABULOUS!

Star Light - Star Bright

It's funny how such simple things make me so happy. I love walking in to my home these days - all decorated for the holidays. The first thing I see is this nativity placed right in my entryway. And it was so-so simple to create - with fabulous thrifty finds.

I found this wicker (?) star at the Salvation Army. It has lights entwined in it ... and fabulous ... it works. I tied it to the back of my little black chair (that I salvaged from the trash can) with a recycled gold ribbon. Placed a gold charger plate, that I found at Goodwill, on the seat and then arranged my dollar store glass nativity on the plate.

It is so sweet to me everytime I enter my home or pass by the doorway. And it only cost me a couple of dollars ... FABULOUS !!!