With today off and now tomorrow off because of the federal government closure, it's a good excuse to buckle down and start thinking about the Christmas layout. Too often even when I start on Thanksgiving weekend, I work on it well into December and rush to get it done. In the middle of a very busy month, it leaves me little time to just sit back and actually enjoy the finished layout.
So I'm going to start designing the layout I want this year, pull out what I have to see what I may need to order and start building a platform if what I've used in the past will not work this year. Watch holiday layouts on youtube to get inspired with some new ideas, go through past holiday issues of OGR. Too often I find myself ordering trestles or FastTrack pieces well into December in order to finish it and it's a mad scramble.
The nice thing is that even if (when!) we lose power, I can still do all of this. So it will be a great way to spend the day tomorrow.
