Hi again!!! I'm back!

I hope that everyone had a great holiday season, whatever you celebrate. Sorry I took such a long sabbatical, but I needed the time to work on secret Christmas scrapping projects as well as get things done around the house. Now I am feeling refreshed and the scrapping bug is slipping back into full gear (shifting from OBLIGATORY scrapping, ie. WORK, to hobby scrapping, ie. FUN)I should be posting more regularly again.

Ok...to backtrack a little. I finally finished my Christmas projects. The first thing I was working on was a 2006 calendar for myself and the grandparents. I purchased Clara Wallace's 2006 calendar template at Matter of Scrap. I did a lot of embellishment and recolored a few pages, but here is a sample:


My other big Christmas project for friends and family was scrapbook LO magnets by Danielle at Something Blue Studios. I cannot stress enough to you how AMAZING these turned out. Danielle mounts a 2X2 print of your LO onto thick magnet material and then it has a laminated overlay. They were the HIT of the season around here. What an awesome personal gift to give someone and they look so cool on the fridge. She is making these year-round and the order turn-around was minimal. If you need a special gift, please keep them in mind! Here are the magnet LO's I ordered:





and here are my boys' LO magnets on the fridge:


I have only had a chance to do a couple of LO's this week, but here they are:


(Feather Tree kit by Donna Rafferty)


Journaling is on a recipe card that says FROM THE KITCHEN OF NOAH
We had a great time making the cookies to leave for Santa this year. Usually we make chocolate chip and I make them myself, but this year you picked out gingerbreaed men to decorate all by yourself.

Santa really seemed to enjoy them and didn’t seem to be upset that we had forgotten to leave carrots for the reindeer. OOPS!

(Gingerbread kit and alpha by "TCO", "Santa" element created by me, font: pharmacy)

Well, that about catches things up for me. See you next year...welcome 2006!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Just wanted to hop on really quickly to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

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Well, I've disappeared...

I have been so busy the past week scrapping for gifts that I have done no personal LO's at all. I can't even post what I've been working on because some of the people on my gift list check the blog periodically, so I can't take a chance.

I will be back to my regular scrapping stuff soon...don't give up on me, LOL.

I am ahead of the game!!!

Well, after a very long weekend of shopping, I am all but finished getting gifts! This is a HUGE thing for me to be finished the FIRST week of December...NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!! Now all I have to do is figure out how to pay for it all, LOL.

Not only did I finish shopping, but I managed to get finished with my Christmas cards as well! If you are on my Christmas card list ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PEEK (!!!), but otherwise, the card can be seen by clicking here
(pattered papers and alpha from Candy Christmas kit by "TCO"; stitching by Kathy Moore; Poinsetta element by Debbie Fisher; ribbons, black paper, staples and Merry Christmas tag by me)

Boy, I never knew how challenging it could be to get two boys to sit still and smile at the same time before. I have a whole new respect for photographers, that is for sure! I honestly didn't know if any of the FIFTY-NINE shots I took were any good, but to my surprise, there were a few cute ones in the bunch. I really love the one I used, so I am happy with everything.

A different way to get inspiration!

I am a member of a private ezboard where all of the members had babies in July 1999 and we have been together for 7 years. Anyway, the admin on that board recently uploaded a ezboard theme for the holidays. The paper was a little busy for reading our board, but I loved it so much that I used it to make a LO! I contacted the designers, so everything was copacetic, and Traci @ Bee Noticed graciously gave me permission to post the LO with her design as the background (Thanks Traci)!! Anyway, just goes to show that you can find inspiration anywhere.

As for the LO, when Noah was a little over a year old, he saw his first snow. We had a little snow here, and by a little I mean A LITTLE snow, LOL. Even though it was barely covering the grass, I just had to make a snowman for him. The limited amount of snow, combined with my less than stellar snowman-making abilities...well, let's just say it was pretty sad, but you know, he LOVED it and that's what it's all about, right.

Here is the LO that I did with the photo of that sad little snowman:

(background paper by Traci @ Bee Noticed, Alpha by "TCO" [sorry...that's the initals in the filename, but there was no TOU included with that file] Fonts: Joint, Black Jack)

I'm getting so absent-minded...

Here's another LO that I finished this month that I never posted. Man, I think my mom having surgery and me spending so much time going back and forth between being a caretaking mom and a caretaking daughter has fried my brain, LOL.

Anyway, this is another attempt at doing some catching up on Noah's scrapbook.



(Papers, tag, and eyelet from Rikki Donovan's Pumpkin Pie kit; Fonts: Batik regular, BlackJack, HankBT)

Journaling reads:Just before your 2nd birthday I took you to
Build-A-Bear and you picked out this cat to make. You kissed the red satin heart and placed it inside your new friend. After stuffing , brushing and washing it was time to give your cat a name and after only a moments thought, you chose Boo Kitty.