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A little more blog candy!

Happy Saturday everyone!

We put our Christmas tree and interior lights up today! Hopefully we’ll get the outdoor lights up this next week.

We are gonna have some wintery nasty weather tomorrow and I’m glad at least we have the tree up. We are so excited to have out little buttercup with us, hopefully we can get a picture of all three dogs in front of the tree this year.

Hey where did I put those darn extention cords anyway?!

As you can see up for blog candy now is a set of inkadinkado Christmas stamps. This is added to the tin and Christmas ornament. Remember I’ll draw blog candy probally the 13th or so of December in anticipation and celebration of my 44th birthday!

Made a quick shopping trip to AC Moore today and picked up a few sizzix dies for 50% off! I was inpressed with the selection still available even after black Friday.

No, I’m not really brave on black Friday. More than a few years ago, I broke my leg on black Friday and it has never been the same. So I don’t press any bad karma and stay close to home. My sweet husband swears I should just stay in bed to be on the safe side.

I did venture to Michael’s for a few things but that is about it.

I hope every one has a good evening. Blog you later!

The Friday after!

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Friday! I just induced a new turkey coma by having left overs a few minutes ago. Darn they where delicious!

I’m posting a few Thanksgiving pictures from yesterday. I decided to wind down a bit before we ate our meal and took out my violin. Since I ‘blog’ about it so much I decided to have Craig (my oldest son) take a picture of me while I was playing. Normally I do not sit in the reclyner to play, but the grape background made for a lovely picture!

I also decided to take some pictures of the table. The china is Franciscian Desert rose and I have been collecting it since I was 18 years old. My husband is the total enabler here and has picked up some beautiful and unusual pieces to add to my massive collection. Honestly, I could feed a battalion of soldiers with these dishes!

My table setting was simple and I used the turkey place cards. The place cards where a big hit!

Adding to blog candy today, I’ll send along one of the finished ornaments for you to enjoy!

Have a great holiday weekend! Stamp happy!

A blogger award!

I received a blogger award from Martha!

Rules; Post award to your blog, link the award to the person who sent it to you and nominate 5 more people you think deserve this great award.

Please click on Martha’s name to view her blog;

Here are my nominees;

Thank you so much Martha for the really great and neat award! It is an honor!

I hope everyone is enjoying their day. Chad’s braces came off today! Yipee! His mouth is a bit sore and irritated, but he teeth look fantastic!

Here are some pictures for you. First off the picture to the far left is my early Birthday present. It is a beautiful Seiko watch Mike picked up for me at the local jewelry store. I am thrilled.

The next photos are pictures of the ornaments I made yesterday. All together I have made 36 total. With a tragic incident three of them were broken. All that work, at least I saved the stamped portion and can easily remake the ones that were lost.

I took eight of these ornaments with me to the orthodontist office today, the girls and Dr. Heller really enjoyed them. The receiptionist couldn’t believe that these where not ‘store’ bought. They really enjoyed receiving them.

Trying to get the last minute arrangements together for Turkey day. We are so excited to have Mike’s two kids join us for lunch along with a family friend. I will try and take alot of pictures and post to the blog on Friday. Blog candy will be added too on Friday as well, so please keep those great comments and the encouragement up. I need all I can get.

For those who are asking about Melissa (my niece) there is still no word from Georgia. Just continue to pray for our family!

Here is a picture of the goodies I received from this round of secret sisters on Splitcoaststampers. How much fun are these!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

More Christmas Creations

Happy Tuesday!

One of these days I’m gonna take a html class and figure out for myself exactly how to get my text and pictuers to be and do what I want.

At least I figured out how to fix my screen size on the laptop. Darn thing was like trying to look through a peep hole at the drive in movie.

Ok, I promiced ‘finished’ projects for today’s post. As you can see above I did a small sleigh in hughes of blue and paisley. I still need to do some re-touching on the paint, but over all it came out nicely.

Three new images for this years ornaments, the cow is penny black, the mouses are house mice and the small snowman is from stampeded.

I have a few new penny black and other stamps I plan on tryin gto use for the ornaments.

COPIC TIP!

Ok, you’re not going to believe this, I didn’t until I tried it and it worked.

A quick tutorial for the ornaments.

1. Cut out 2 1/4″ circles from acetate

2. Stamp image onto acetate using staz on ink quickly heat set

3. Turn acetate over

4. Color the acetate on the opposite side that you stamped on with the copic markers. Darker colors work well. Allow to dry and assemble the ornament.

5. Poke a small hole toward the top of the acetate and thread in a length of about 5″ strech cord.

6. Put the cord through the small opening, roll the acetate together and insert into the ornament (I put glitter and fake snow in first), put acetate into ornament and straighten out with a piercing tool or paint brush handle. Tie cord tightly into a knot and finish off with a legnth of ribbon.

Have fun and Stamp Happy!

My work table!

I just couldn’t wait to get into my stamp room this morning.

Chad finally has clear eyes, but will need to finish up his eye drops until next Saturday. It is a good thing he is off from school for Thanksgiving break this week! He is enjoying some much deserved “gamecube” game time!

I coulnd’t bear to do another card, but forced myself to finish off the last six cards from yesterday.

Today’s projects are straight forward. I plan to do eight of the sleigh’s all together. The picture of them above they are sitting out drying. They still need a coat of glittery decopauge.

The small mail box was already red, so a little sanding and some decorative paper made easy work of this altering business! I just love to alter stuff!

One of these days I swear I’m going to do a craft show. I’ve seen alot of folks do very well by diving into this venture, it just sounds like fun.

Hey you computer geeks out there, what the heck have I done to make my screen long and narrow? It is driving me nuts. Please tell me how the heck to fix it!

I hope every one will have a great day!

Stamp Happy!

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