Here we go.....a lot to talk about.


Happy Everything - made with former Close to my Heart Stamp of the month.




This was a make a take at convention in 2007, I just keep hanging on to it, because

the color combo is strong and the fact that they used a couple of different patterned papers. It is really unique.
"Happy" is a monochromatic card that was trial and error....enough said. :-)

"Thankful" I was playing around with this Close to my Heart stamp set and it is really quite beautiful when watercolored. My design isn't much to talk about, but sometimes simple can be nice.

One of my favorite cards, I made this almost a year ago and have never given it away. I though it would be perfect for a friend or baby card.

"Free Spirit Box" I made this for my show table several months ago. I keep it on my shelf by my scrap desk, it holds all the cards and things I have made. My favorite color is orange so obviously this is one of my favorite papers from Close to my Heart.

Getting ready for Christmas. Addie's class made gingerbread houses last week. I was very impressed with this project. They saved their small milk cartons from lunch and we rinsed them out and dried them. Then we used tub icing and put a small amount on the carton and stuck graham crackers to the sides and top. I was surprised it would stick, but it did! We had tons of candy and the kids could decorate their house anyway they wanted. Some were very creative and others put just a few things.

Putting on the finishing touches. Beautiful.

Addie's house was really cute and she was so proud of it. We brought it home and put it in her room, by her little Christmas tree. The next day we had to run errands and apparently Milo, our 65 pound golden retriever got a little hungry. He ate the entire thing. The only thing left was a crushed milk carton and the little paper plate. Good thing we took pictures. :)

We will try to make another one this week maybe.

!CROP PHOTOS!

I have had a several people who have tried and tried to make it to a crop and just haven't been able to, but they wanted to see pictures, so here we go. We have a ton of fun at these and there is always so much food, we have to roll ourselves home.

The first pic is Debbie, she and I have been friends for many years. It goes back to girl scouting days when my oldest was probably in Brownies! That's been almost 10 years! Man time is just flyin' by. There have been a lot of venting sessions, tears, "what do you think?" conversations and many many many laughs! Thanks for all of it. :-)

Check out the background, you can see that the room is huge, with big round tables and we have lots of room to spread out all of our scrap crap. :)

This one is Sam (in red) and Marsha. Sam and I have known each other since girl scouting days too, but we didn't become close friends, until a couple of years ago when we realized that we both scrapbook. Since then I have had the honor of becoming good friends with her.

Marsha & I met through Sam. She is a Creative Memories consultant and with me being a Close to my Heart consultant, we instantly struck up a friendship. Marsha was putting on crops at the church every couple of months and invited me to help "co-host" them and the rest is history. We now try to have them every month and if one of us has something going on, we know we can trust the other one to make sure everything goes according to plan.

There are several other friends that I crop with and I thought I had taken more photos than I did, so this is fair warning, next time I'm bringing my camera! Martha, Courtney, Rosemary, Sharon, Cheryl......get ready! :)

Well, gotta get ready, Grandpa Bill will be here today and everyone is very excited. It's been a while since his last visit and Addie is about to burst at the seams!

j.