Apparently I don't know my own strength.

Because I went to punch out a star for my daily entry last night and this is what happened:

Oops. 

I've broken the casing before, but never the metal die!  I'd call someone and complain, but the company went out of business.  I've had this punch for years and it paid its dues so I guess this is its way of telling me it's ready to retire.  Point taken.

Fortunately, that was not my only star punch.  So here's my daily for Day 18:

I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire in the making of my felt tree here.  The rest is about a really fun (and funny!) holiday party at work yesterday and also my little holiday post office experience.  Rick and Erin - there's a package headed your way!  Hopefully it comes before Christmas.

Speaking of Rick and Erin, Erin posted some more photos of Adorable-Niece-Eraleigh the other day that I couldn't resist scrapping.  She was apparently "helping" with the tree until they discovered that her idea of help involved sucking on the branches.  That was quickly ended and she then wore herself out watching mom and dad finish up.

So that's all the scrappy stuff today.  I'm currently firmly entrenched in my house and refusing to budge for any reason today due to another storm coming through; my commute into work yesterday was enough to finish me off for the week (inches of snow and NOTHING was plowed.  Ugh!)  Thank goodness for VPN!

Happy Friday!