Getting ready for the holidays!

I'm excited! This week we learned that not only will my our of state daughter and her boyfriend be here for Thanksgiving on my birthday week, but my little brother is coming home from Germany for the week and will be promoted to Major in the Army while he's here (and overlapping his birthday week). To let him take part, we're going to do Thanksgiving dinner on Friday with him and our daughter.

I've got to scramble a little now that we have so many guests coming, I wanted to have a tabletop tree loaded with small crochet items as a pick-your-own gift/ornament but thought I had until closer to Xmas.. and my husband couldn't find our mini trees... instead of table top though we found a pair of prelit 4ft tall porch-friendly trees in faux urns that are nice and full enough for my gifties (I may need to add ornaments and a garland though) for one inside and a bare one outside... changes my planned tablescape but we'll make do! Now I just need to know if it's 9 or 10 if the twin is bringing a guest!

I'm surrounded now with the yarn that I need to make more of my Chibi Thicc mini mushroom gals and flower sprites (patterns by Mushroom Fables Crochet but I expanded the line by making up various heads to match real world mushrooms, some using adaptations of her larger patterns, others more freestyle) and a few more of the mini foraging themed dice bags that I was planning to separately fill a mini tree with as a surprise when our live in 26 year old hosts D&D game nights for them to share with their friends, but will put them out at Thanksgiving and make replacements if too many family members pick them!

(Mini Pine Cone and Berry bags by Mushyy and Acorn Bags by My Simplicities by MN.. the bigger mushroom gals/garden fae are also by Mushroom Fables Crochet but gifts for specific people... the minis are going on the tree for self-selected gifting)

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