Goodie Prize

A few weeks ago I entered a Christmas giveaway hosted by mixed-media jewelry artist, Diana Frey. Low and behold…I was actually one of three lucky winners. The UPS man brought me a nice package yesterday afternoon while we were moving tons of snow off the roof and then again off the driveway and sidewalk… JOY. I knew as soon as we got done, that package was waiting..made me work a little faster.

Just look at the bounty that spilled forth from the box…

I had to stand up on my sewing chair to get far enough away to get it all in one photo.

Diana must have known about my love affair with pink or else it was just kismet… Lots of pink fun stuff to use!!

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201012/28

Tea Tuesday

Once again heading out the door… going to go help mom today.

I bet some of my Tea Tuesday friends will have much more interesting things to talk about than myself today. Go check out their posts on Kimmie’s sidebar.

Hopefully, I’ll have time to stop by later too!

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Christmas afterglow

My blog kind of got away from me this holiday season. Luckily, the Friday Freebie post was scheduled or else that wouldn’t have happened either. We had company both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day…in fact we still have a guest sleeping upstairs.

Lets get caught up with the 12 days of Christmas swap shall we…

On the 10th day of Christmas I opened 10 Lords a Leaping by Penny A. This was very unique since it opens to reveal,

the Ten Commandments. Penny aged the paper which gave it a really nice look.

The 11th day had me opening the fun fabric bag with my name sewn at the top. Very cute…I’m hanging on to that goodie!

Inside the fabric bag was this great 11 Pipers Piping by Jackie. Love the tartan. For some weird reason I couldn’t get the green cardstock to appear true to color…frustrating.

And finally, on the 12th day of Christmas we have Twelve Drummers Drumming by Rita. What a cute little guy to round out our pages.

I now will need to create covers and bind my book. But first I’ll need to thank one more person.

Another art friend sent me a surprise on Thursday. Isn’t this tree so darling! Kat did a beautiful job with this tree!

Here’s a view of the other side. I love it. Thank you Kat!!

Have you stuck with me throughout my rambling? I’d be impressed if you have.

Merry -belated- Christmas.

Gingerbread house

As promised…the gingerbread house made at school. There was more sugar than should be legal in a classroom!

The three bears crack me up…

especially when there is a fourth hiding behind a tree.

Wow, I just realized this was my 4th post of the day. I guess I’ve had things to say just no time to say them. Today was no exception but I did manage to get a ton of stuff done…apparently I work best under pressure.

Tea Tuesday

Good morning. I’m enjoying some herbal tea in another pretty cup borrowed from my mom. It looked so nice sitting next to the Christmas tree and the wooden Nativity my Uncle Bill made for me when I was a teen.

Hopefully later I’ll have a shot of the graham cracker gingerbread house from school today.

Stop by Kimmie’s blog to see what the rest of the Tea Tuesday bloggers are doing today. You find the links on the sidebar.

The 8th and 9th days of Christmas

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of opening this page from Patt. It’s very clever. Spots for the cow and the frothy milk. Very fun!

The 9th day of Christmas is my page so it wasn’t too surprising for me.
I didn’t get too carried away with the wrapping, although I wanted to make sure my tag didn’t fall off in transport. I used hot glue to adhere the button on the ribbon.

I found the image on Flickr commons, which is an excelent resource for copyright free images.

I used a number of materials on this piece…tissue paper, paint with foam stamp, fabric, instant coffee to stain the cardstock and of course another button.

Hooray! I’m caught up with my swap posts!

I think I’ll make myself a cup of tea now…

The 7th day of Christmas

I’ve been putting this off way too long…

I knew the 7th day of Christmas page would be difficult to write about.
Gina Wise, the wonderful artist who created this page, passed away suddenly before the swap had even ended. She had already completed hers and sent them off.

What a beautiful page! The background has so much depth…more than I am able to show in this photo.