We finished putting the decorations on our tree.
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. 
-- Oren Arnold

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
-- Donald E. Westlake

Gift Certificates are available for the holidays. Three and one half weeks until Christmas. Are you ready? Gift Certificates are good for product and services. You decide what amount you would like to purchase them for and they decide what they want to do with them. It takes all the guess work out of purchasing a gift for a hard to shop for person. Give me a call, message me on facebook or stop by the salon. 

I did most of my Christmas shopping today; online. I usually run around Spokane trying to get all my Christmas shopping finished, but not this year. I feel less stressed out too. I know exactly how much I have spent and got the cheapest shipping (most of it was FREE shipping). I have almost 3 1/2 weeks for it to get here and don't feel the slightest bit anxious. I am getting some local gift cards for some family members too. 

I HAVE GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE FOR THE SALON. These make great stocking stuffers or are wonderful for hard to shop for people. 

The salon will be closed Tuesday the 6th - Wednesday the 14th. I will be open all day Monday the 5th and returning to the salon on Thursday the 15th.

This is what the turkey veggie platter looked like when I finished it. My platter was oval shaped so the "feathers" aren't as round as I would have liked them, but I do like how it looks. 

This is the turkey veggie platter after the dip was added (inside the cornucopia). 

This is the second cornucopia stuffed with spinach dip. The dip in the green pepper is buffalo, bleu cheese dip. The cornucopias were made with bread sticks. 

I hope everybody had a blessed and thankful holiday.

Tomorrow we are headed to my mother-in-law's house for Thanksgiving. She asked me to bring a veggie platter. I have decided to make the vegetables look like a turkey. I am going to fan them on the platter to look like the turkey feathers. I also made two cornucopias out of bread. I am going to stuff them with spinach dip (my husband requested I make this). This is going to be an easy Thanksgiving. Thanks Mom for having us over. I will post pictures of my platters next week. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

“Thanks is one of the great traditional American holidays, and yet it did not originate in America. About three thousand years before it was observed in this country, God spoke to Moses in the days when the great host of Israelite slaves had just escaped from Egypt. They were having their first experience in the wilderness of Sinai. The original proclamation from God is reported in the 23rd chapter of Exodus, 16th verse---“Thou shalt keep the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field; and the feast of in-gathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou has gathered in they labors out of the field.” ~Sunshine Magazine

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ~W. Clement Stone

May your stuffing be tasty,
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.  The pilgrims arrived in North America in December 1620.  They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in the fall of 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.  The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land.  The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621 and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.  President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in the year 1789 and again in 1795.  The state of New York officially made Thanksgiving Day an annual custom in 1817.  Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with a magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827 and as a result of her efforts, in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.  Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation in October 1863 and officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. Whereas, earlier the presidents used to make an annual proclamation to specify the day when Thanksgiving was to be held.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the Thursday before the last of November as Thanksgiving Day in the year 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer and thus stimulate the economy of the state.  Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that Thanksgiving will be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.  Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. But it was Thomas Jefferson who opposed him. It is believed that Franklin then named the male turkey as 'tom' to spite Jefferson. 

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The answer to yesterdays riddle: 5+4=3² 

It is possible to use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols = and + once and ONLY ONCE and end up with a true equation; and, you CANNOT use any number or symbol not given. How can you do this?


I look forward to seeing your solutions. I will post the answer tomorrow.

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9.  Take breaks. 
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