Christmas Presents

I hope all of you had wonderful Christmas!  I wanted to share the calendar that was given this year.  Me and 2 friends made 10 of these perpetual calendars as Christmas presents this year.  Now I have to be honest here.  My friend Heather broke her wrist earlier this year so was out of work for awhile and she did a lot of the grunt work on these.  I owe her immensely for this!   But I am so glad they are perpetual so that means no more calendars have to be made for family.  Right?  Well here they are....
One of the good things of this is scraps of paper were used for the calendar dates.  
We purchased some Maya Road tins to put the extra dates, birthday photos, and months in. You can see one of them here in front of the calendar. I think they turned out great! :)

Also the Life Preservers Kit Club is having an online crop January 2-4th. Although it is my weekend to work I plan on getting my scrap on Saturday for sure! I hope you can join us for some wonderful challenges and creations!

Merry Christmas!

Hello my beloved friends.  I wrote a nice lengthy posts a couple of days ago and it went to the deep blue seas of cyberspace.  Who knows!  Anyhow I hope Christmas Day finds you all having had a great Christmas.  My family and I will be doing our celebration tomorrow as me and dh's schedule did not allow us to do it earlier!  Emma's Christmas was delightful Wednesday morning as my grandfather purchased her a horse.  The horse is beautiful and I love seeing my daughter so happy but I do not think that my father made a very good decision.  But what do you do?  

Here is a picture of Ruby, Emma's Tennessee Walking Horse Morgan. I think that is what it is called.  I have learning to do as well!

I decided this year that the Christmas stockings we had needed to be replaced. So i looked and looked for some that I liked and finally found some at Sears. But they needed a little altering, I added some ribbon and embellishments along with some iron on letters and I must say that they aren't bad at all!

And some final news. I applied for the Life Preservers Design Team. Since November I have been participating much more on their message board and have really enjoyed getting to know the ladies. It is weird how you can really feel a bond with others via the computer. Well I did not make the Design Team. Albeit I am upset but the ladies who made the DT are wonderful designers and are well deserving. And there is always next time right? But I did make Guest Design Team artist for January by getting second place in the sketch challenge. The winner made the design team so I was runner up! LOL Story of my life....2nd place. But I will take it. The Lord puts me where he wants me and it is his will not my own. Here is the page that I did using November kit from Life Preservers with the sketch that was provided.
Thanks for visiting.   I am doing a 25 days of Christmas but I ran out of patterned paper.  I am using November 12 Fridays patterned paper so am waiting to receive some more.  I wish I could discipline myself to write on the blog more often but I just can't sweat it right now.  It will happen when it happens.  Merry Christmas my loved ones!  

Check out my mistletoe makeover!

Black Friday Crop

I did a couple of pages this weekend at the Life Preservers Club black friday crop.  I also won a RAK of their November stamp.  I am so excited!

This page includes pictures of my dd and dad at his house.  I used the Studio Calico November kit.  

This photo is for a food challenge.  I used KI Memories Sheers, Kaiser Craft papers, and those lovely MM sticker letters that I love so much!  
I think the most exciting thing for me is that these were from some sketches that I drew myself!  I just need to figure out how to draw my sketches on the computer so I can share them.  I haven't found my Adobe PSE disc so I convert it from PC to Mac.  There must be an easier way!  Well thanks for looking friends!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that all my dear friends had a lovely Thanksgiving!  I just completed my Studio Calico order.  Some delish stuff as always!  So now with all that tryptophan in my system I can't figure out why I am still awake.  But I am...........tomorrow I need to set up my weight loss program.  I have at least 50 lbs to lose.  I have gotten my IPod loaded up including the NEW David Cook.  Oh yeah!!  Not to mention some Trace Adkins! 

 I want to show you a layout I did for a DT application for Creatively Yours.  I was not chosen however it did allow me to use my Studio Calico kit for the first time.  The picture is from my mission trip to Brasil!  And I used Sketch # 3.  Thanks for looking.

So they may not like it but I am very please with it.  I love how the flowers and vines come over the edges.  Well I leave you with some things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving:

1. sustenance.........Gods provision is never ending and oh so generous!  

2. husband-  He is always there for me no matter what.  And I know it isn't always easy putting up with me.

3. Emma- need I say more!!  

4. hobbies such as scrapbooking and reading

5. home- there is NO place like it!  

6. friends-  You know who you are.  You complete me!!!  I love ya!

7. Fellowship-being surrounded by Godly people who love the Lord

8. Ansel   

Ugh!! A family portrait with a dog is IMPOSSIBLE!  LOL  I gave up with the self timer and mutt very quickly!  Have a great weekend guys and if you feel the need to scrap then join us on Life Preservers for a Black Friday crop!

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