the holidays are here

december daily 2010 preview

Finally am posting some pictures of my December Daily 2010.

If you want to see all of the pages, you can view them on my flickr page.

I think this is my 3rd or 4th DD. Looking back, I learned 2 main things:

1. Don’t try to create the page ahead of time. Stick [...]

Christmas cards 2010 version 1.1

Well, I said I would never do it again, yet here I am.

Handmade Christmas cards.

A few years ago, I made huge amounts & hated it.

This year, I decided that if I see any cards that catch my eye, I will buy them.

BUT, I will also make [...]

the holidays are here!

My first Starbucks Holiday “Red Cup” of 2010!

Beth made a late afternoon Starbucks run & surprised me!

YAY! The holidays have arrived!!!

Thanks, Beth!

embellishment swap

I made these journaling tags for an embellishment swap over on the studio calico site. It was a lot of fun, but it’s always hard to know if the person that will receive your items will like them!!! The “Cookies” tag word, and cookies were cut on my Cricut. The button wreath that I [...]

whatta surprise! (day 9)

WOW!

A surprise party…for me!???

Tonight my hubby, along with my son, parents, sister and in-laws, threw me a surprise party!

For ME! I couldn’t believe it!

I had a wonderful evening. Lots of family, and my best friend & her husband…lots of laughs…I had a great time.

Above [...]

the TP tree

For those of you that may remember our yearly toilet paper roll exchange, here’s what happened this year.

(For those of you that have NO idea what I am talking about, you can read about it from my post last Christmas…to sum it up, my dad & I have been passing back & [...]

cute shoes! uh, no.

Today was the day that we bowled. It’s a tradition. We always bowl sometime during the week between Christmas & New Year’s. My sister is a teacher, so she’s free. My mom stays at home and my dad’s retired, but works occasionally…and Nick is off from school and of course, I’m free. So, other [...]