9 Days Til Christmas

Time flies when you are sick with a cold/fever/bacterial infection.

Yup...that was me!

So after Thanksgiving my son came down with a fever that lasted 5 days, a virus, which turned into an ear infection so since that's considered a bacterial infection he was prescribed antibiotics. Thank heavens. THEN I fell ill, with a fever...uh huh...they said it was viral. My sore throat eventually erupted in nasty sores which meant what I had was actually bacterial...thank goodness for antibiotics. Not so happy that I had to weather 5 days of fever and take care of my son as well. It's been one helluva 3 weeks!

I've spent half of December being sick so now there are only 9 days left until Christmas! Wow!

I still have a discount code being offered at my Etsy shop. The code is DECEMBER2013 for 20% off your purchase. Make sure to take advantage of it. I will slow down with the shop after Christmas because I will be gearing up to move again! Yippee, finally, hooray, my own house again!

Thank you to my awesome Christmas who have been ordering stuff from my store. Creating makes me SO happy!

Here's some new things from my store today:

words by the late Nelson Mandela. Get it at Fanciful Wish

words by Mahatma Gandhi. Get it at Fanciful Wish

I seriously love hand stamped ribbon wrap bracelets and I'm glad my customers love them too. These usually go fast.

I did make some rings finally and these are cute and so affordable right now!

Cute or what? COURAGE. Get it at Fanciful Wish

Happy Shopping everyone and Happy Holidays!

Thanks for reading, XOXO:
Yolanda

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