In a Pinch Gingerbread Man

The absolute cutest template I have ever seen, courtesy of Lauren Meader’s new store My Time Made Easy.  This template is on sale for only $3 bucks! There are several different ways to decorate this little cutie, but her little family of gingerbread man caught my eye. I just had to try and make one! No stamps required. As Lauren would say, this is easy peasy! Now, to decide if I like it with the hat, or without! LOL!!! ENJOY!

Cutesy Cover

Greetings for Florida where is is FINALLY cold! About 45 degrees outside right now. I love it. I love the cold weather. I can break out my scarves and hats and boots!!!!! And winter clothing is just more flattering on me because of the layers, LOL!! Hides all the stuff I don’t want people to see!!!!

What I have for you today is the Cutesy Cover project by Lauren Meader. Is is FREE at her store so hop on over and get it now… I also used the 12 days of snowflakes paper that is also provided for FREE! It is a digital download so I can use it over and over again and she offers the print in a variety of colors!!!!

The color palette is thanks to the creative gals over at JUGS! And Crazy 4 Challenges was also running a challenge this week… To create a treat box! This little cutie is filled with Peppermint Patties! They didn’t match so I had to fill the top with shredded kraft paper!

Happy Christmas Eve EVE. I hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas!

Sleigh Ride!

My day ended with me starting a fire in my fireplace with the flue closed! I thought I had opened it, but boy was I wrong. House filled up with smoke, all the fire alarms went off and I could get the flue open and the smoke kept a coming! Finally, my husband got home, got some kind of gloves on and reached in the fire place with a huge fire blazing and unjammed the flue. Opened all the windows and doors (and it was 45 degrees outside) to air out the house. We are all bundled up head to toe. Here is a picture of our wonderful fire before I realized my house was quickly filling with smoke!

Anyway, you aren’t here to hear me complain. I downloaded Lauren Meader’s sled template she is offering for FREE to newsletter subscribers. Her store is going live on January 4th but she is giving a few sneak peeks with some great free downloads including a template and digital paper! I used the digital paper (flowers on top) and free downloadable sled for my project today.

I am not too happy with it, but it is what it is! I sure wish I was more creative! Here are a few photos of our Chirstmas Tree and the presents we have wrapped so far. Click each picture to enlarge. Believe it or not, we aren’t done wrapping. Where in the world are we going to fit those presents? Have a great week and if I don’t post again before then, MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone!

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Christmas season! I have enjoyed decorating my Christmas Tree and the outside of my house this year. This year is the first year we put up lights on the outside and my son just loves it. He says our house looks like a Gingerbread House! I wanted to share with you some photos of our decorations but first wanted to show you what I whipped up for my son’s teachers. I made them some homemade fudge (my first year ever, so I hope it isn’t gross) and these, inspired by Nicki Estes…

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Here is a picture of our Christmas Tree (click to enlarge)…. I just love all the vintage ornaments. I don’t like matchy, matchy… So all of the ornaments I have accumulated over the years really adds to the look of my tree.

This Santa is something my Grandmother (Situ) knitted a LONG time ago! My mom came across them last night and gave me a few for my tree. I treasure this. I cherish this. Just as I treasured and cherished her and my Grandfather (Gidu). They are deeply missed. I wish my husband and son could have known them. They were remarkable people.

And THIS ornament my mom finally gave to me. My mom bought this years ago because the little girl on the ornament reminded her of me. I had light colored, curly hair (believe it or not)…

And lastly, a quick snap of my house lit up at night. Now this may not look like much to you guys, but I never do lights on the outside of my house. Just the tree showing thru the window…. I hope everyone enjoys the Christmas season and remembers the meaning behind Christmas. It isn’t just about presents and good food! Don’t forget. Always remember….

Thanksgiving Program

For the first time ever, my 3 year old (soon to be 4 in just 2 weeks) participated in his first ever Thanksgiving Play at school! He got to dress up as an Indian and pick his own Indian Name. He chose, Shooting Webs! Will this Spiderman frenzie ever end?!? Here is a little video of his play…. My son, so precious and truly a gift from God! Thank you Jesus for bringing him to me!

Oh Christmas Tree

A Passion For Papertrey’s challenge this week was to create a project using a Christmas Tree. I handmade all my cards for the first time this year and I created a tree out of buttons for one of them. Thought this was the perfect card to share with you for this challenge. Enjoy.

JUGS Technique Challenge

This post will be short and sweet. I have been MIA because I have just gone thru something incredibly difficult and hard to cope with. I am angry and confused and heartbroken all at the same time…. So prayers would definitely be appreciated. A few weeks ago, I made a bunch of the Tucked Away Timeless Templates for my mom. She hosts a monthly luncheon with her friends and she wanted a cute little box to put her gifts in… This was a perfect opportunity to share it with you. This week’s JUGS challenge was to use a template to create a holiday gift package. I made 13 so I just randomly chose  2. Hope you like them…. Click on each picture to enlarge:

Taylored Expressions #92

 

I may, just MAY, be done with making my Christmas cards… YIPPEE! I addressed a bunch of envelopes today and in a while, I am going to do a count to see if I have enough cards to go inside! I am receiving the photo disk from our professional photo shoot tomorrow so I can choose the picture that is going to go inside all the cards. After I stamp the sentiments in the inside and sign our names, they will be all set to go! I decided to do my (hopefully) last card using the Taylored Inspiration Sketch challenge! Instead of using different DP, I used the same cute Santa DP and just separated it with a piece of twine…. Love incorporating buttons into my cards. Can’t you tell? 95 of all the cards I have shared recently have buttons on them!! Click on the picture to enlarge (and also to see all the imperfections, ha ha ha).

Everything but the Kitchen Sink

I stumbled across this blog recently! It is hilarious! It is a challenges blog that incorporates every day things into your project. I think the last one was incorporating toilet paper! It was so great to see what all the people came up with. It was too late for me to participate in that challenge so I chose to participate in this week’s, which is a sketch challenge. Still working on my mass supply of Christmas cards so no surprise this is a Christmas card. I just love my little gingerbread man and buttons and my new best friend, my scor bug! Thanks for letting me play along and thanks for dropping by. Please click on each picture to enlarge….

SPCC / Taylored Expressions

Today, I made a card inspired by the SPCC Color Challenge and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge. I love challenge blogs. They really help me gain insight and inspiration with my projects. I am still such a newbie, I need all the help I can get. I wish I had a crafting network here locally because I would love to get together and craft with other people. I know I would learn so much. I used some cute DP, edge distresser, buttons and my fun little scor-bug to create this card. Hope you like it….