WHAT A DAY!!!

 Yo, ho, ho, and  bottle of rum--as if your girl ever drank a full bottle of anything alcoholic in her whole life. Sure, she joined in with the crowd when she was in college, but the interest soon faded. Other people weren't that lucky.

Hey, hey, hey! Six potential purchasers of of Fiorella's for-sale house and their entourages, all in masks, trailed through her abode today. All seemed to go well, but Fio was surprised that so many people could afford acreage.

Sonia is whimpering right now. All our visitors made a fuss over her at the door, then HAD THE NERVE to leave after they'd toured the house when what she wanted was for them to stay around longer. After all, Mommy is soooo boring.

Mommy was "boring" because she was tied up in pulling together a 2020 Christmas card during a pandemic in a house that had been turned upside down in preparation for sale. Sure, she'd had the sample 5"x7" from Kinko's for a while, but it took some deep thinking to come up with a project that was clever, simple, meaningful, and--most important--composed only of what she had on hand because she had to stay home and welcome her potential guests.

No problema! Your Fio is a veteran of using whatever is available so she rolled up her sleeves and hand-printed this year's Christmas message on graph paper in red ink, then glued it onto a greenish page ripped from a lined tablet, then cut tiny batches of holly out of a the remains of a deep green shoe box, then finished it off by using her trusty hole puncher to produce "berries" out of red paper which she glued onto the "holly" as needed.