Month: December 2017

I debated about posting this Tie o’ the Day. Last year I bought an Ugly Tie Kit, in order to make my own masterpiece. It was nicely ugly. I glued all kinds of rick-rack, jingle bells, googly eyes, and tiny wrapped presents onto it. Suzanne even glue-gunned a couple of stubborn items to it for me. Flash forward a year. This is what’s left of my DIY Ugly Tie. I especially like the dried glue spots on the tie, left wherever a decoration fell off. 😱

You know you wanna jump in a hot tub and do some serious relaxing today. Tie o’ the Day understands you’d prefer to do it without Santa and the reindeer. They pulled off a bigly job on Christmas. They deserve a day o’ rest, as do you. BTW I know most of you Facebook friends were so busy with your own Santa duties over the past week that you missed a bunch of TIE O’ THE DAY posts. Go to my timeline to catch up.

Ties o’ the Day close the season appropriately for the Christmas neckwear. I think they offer the same message: we should believe. Whether we believe in Santa, or Jesus, or both, or neither, we need to carry belief with us. For me, belief is an attitude—a way of moving through the world with an open willingness. You don’t always have to believe IN something. You just need to have the believing attitude (a beatitude?). Believe in you, in goodness, in compassion, and in belief itself.

Ties o’ the Day are ties o’ many colors. Bow Tie o’ the Day is a snowy beaut. The tie covered in Santa-hatted, red-scarfed dinosaurs is neato—except most of the dinos are upside down. What up with that? Santa is able to ski right off his tie cuz it finally snowed a bunch here last night. The deer with red noses clearly had a few snifters of hot toddies at their jolly party. And then we have HO’s and headless Santa hats. Golly, gee!

Just a couple more posts and the entire holiday tie collection will have been presented to you. No Tie Left Behind, and all that. These Ties o’ the Day are certain I saved the best for the final posts o’ the season. Ties might be right, but I don’t judge. I couldn’t live without any of them. And you know dang well, I’ll be pawing through Christmas clearance ties later this week, looking to rescue more. Hope I discover something I don’t already have. Yeah, right. 😜

Despite my Tie o’ the Day Scrooge, I am not a Grinch. I do have Grinch pj pants. And Suzanne made me a Grinch flannel quilt. But the fact that I have a zillion Christmas ties proves that I relish the holiday hubbub. In fact, I enjoy it right down to the occasional BAH HUMBUG. Grinching and Scrooging are simply part of the season’s traditions. A good grousing about a long line, an exorbitant price, or not locating the scotch tape does wonders for your Christmas frustrations.

Look what Santa left in our Xmas stockings! Since I’m sure you can’t tell which sock is mine, I will clue you in: mine’s the one filled with Ties o’ the Day. Suzanne made a hefty haul of clementines and a bolt of flannel. To those of you who were pulling for Skitter to get a mutt-sibling, that didn’t happen. Santa wanted to leave one for her, but our lone mutt needs all the attention we can give her right now, as she grieves Roxy.

Ties o’ the Day have little to say this Christmas morning cuz we’re still tuckered out from our X-mas Eve. We do want to say Happy Christmas. We hope you got what you wished for. And we hope you’re spending your day with the people you love most in the world. We are going back to bed, but throughout the day, we’ll post more pics of the balance of the seasonal of ties.

Skitter is trying to butter me up to let her wait downstairs for Santa. Gonna butter me up? Put on a tie. It’s virtually impossible for me to say NO to people/critters wearing any kind of tie. Want a favor from me? Show up in a tie if you’re gonna ask me for one. Especially if it’s a bigly favor. Skitter’s Bow Tie o’ the Day is also begging for that sexy leg lamp stocking to be filled— with a puppy, I imagine. 🐶 🎄 🐾

Ties o’ the Day give ya a bit o’ all things Christmas. The snowman/snow plow tie gets me a slew of guffaws every year. If you don’t know the word DABBIN’, look it up in Urban Dictionary. There! Tie gave you the Christmas present of a new word for your vocabulary. Now, I’m off to the Tie Palace to figure out how to display all the as-yet-unworn holiday ties for you, before the end of Christmas Day. I’m crossing my festive pancreas I can do it.