The gift that just keeps giving

How are your holiday preparations coming along?  I'm doing pretty good considering I've spent the last few years simplifying the holiday seasons.  Cards are made and in the  mail.  House decorated.  Gifts purchased.  Lists for the day's events are made.  So doing pretty good here but there is one thing I want to talk about.

I think glitter is absolutely beautiful and it is exciting.  But it just won't ever go away!  I have worked pretty hard to minimize the glittered items I have.  Metallic decorations?  I'm all over it. Glitter?  While I love it, I hate the mess.  So I've been working to eliminate it from my world. 

I must have lost my mind because I accidentally bought some glittered ribbon for gift wrapping.  So I decided to use it on  my neighbor gifts because...well...they don't like me anyway.  What a lovely passive aggressive gift to leave at their door....right?  So I was in  my office/scrap room tying ribbons around the little chocolate boxes I bought for them.  The glitter was coming off all over my desk.  It was a mess.  When I got all done, I looked down and it was ALL OVER my dress I had on. Red glitter.....all over.

I decided the best way to get rid of it was to go outside on the driveway off my patio and shake it off my clothes.  And I did just that.  It was spread all over but not my problem right?  Later the next day, I stopped off to drop off some groceries on  my patio and laughed because the driveway was glittering like Santa had just come by with his  magic reindeer.  I snickered to myself and gave a knowing nod.  I wonder how long that glitter will be there.  Maybe that wasn't such a great idea.  But I kind of like it.

Hope your holiday life is pretty like glitter...but  maybe not quite so irritating.