Tis the Season for holiday shopping. The aggressive sales push this year started BEFORE Thanksgiving with more mega-stores even remaining open on a day when employees should have had the day off (or at least had working on Thanksgiving as being “optional”).Cyber Monday is now cyber week…anyhow, my point is, stores are competing for your dollars. If you are considering buying a home or are currently pre-approved to buy a home, I thought I’d share some tips for you on how to make sure your “pre-approved” status is not jeopardized during the holiday season.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Just for fun this holiday, I decided to paint Santa on black velvet.

Black Velvet Santa by Rhonda Porter
I entered him into Daniel Smith’s customer art contest and actually wound up being one of their weekly winners! He’ll be entered into the monthly competition in January with all the other weekly winners from December.
I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Santas Occupy Seattle
Not really! Yesterday we started our Christmas shopping in Seattle and were delighted to bump into hundreds of Santas for Santacon 2011. Apparently all over the world, there were thousands of Santas coming out to be jolly before the big day.





