Happy Thanksgiving!!!

When I count my blessings today I will count all of you!!
Until later~

Peanut Butter cookies hot from the oven!! YUMMMMM! Oh so tasty. And you know the bestest part- DH made them (and cleaned up afterwards!!)

I am making homemade rolls today- the only request mom had for me to bring to dinner tomorrow. Ahhhh, the smell of yeasty bread baking on a cold day.

I hope that all of you celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow have a great one. And I pray everyone takes a few moments to count your blessings- you just may find that you are Blessed Beyond Measure!!!

Love to all!!

Until later~

A Homespun Christmas card

I bought this retired TAC stamp set from another Angel, (Hi Trudy!!) and as soon as I got them in the house I had to ink them up!! :-) I love Primitives and anything Homespun, so I can't recall why I didn't order this set before it retired.

Here is my take on a Homespun Christmas card. I used the Matchmakers cardstock, because it has a white core it looks so cool when you distress it with a sanding block. The Burnt Umber Palette ink and a dauber gives all the cardstock an age worn, well loved look. Of course then I had to add the ribbon (thin strips of torn Homespun fabric would have worked too- I just didn't want to run to my stash in the basement to find some) and Scrappers Floss (this color reminds me of jute.)

Tips-

**The card base was stamped using a snowflake stamp and Versamark. When using this brand of cardstock you have to lightly sand over the Versamark to make it pop. I use a sanding block- it is easy to hold and it is a very fine grit.

**The Scrappers floss is actually made from paper- so unlike thread- it holds it shape. To get my curlicues I wrapped the ends of the floss around the tip of my paper piercer very tightly, I then carefully slip the piercer out to leave the curls. Ta da- curlicues!!

Until later~

Monday madness 11-24

Saturday's post was a lot of fun. And you all (I had to refrain from saying "ya'll") spotted every one of the changes. I Added the snowflakes, colored the bears muzzle, added glitter to the circle with the image, added the white dots to the scallops (using a white chalk pen- love that pen!!) and the final change was the scarf- I skipped the glitter on the new one.

If you would have stopped by to visit us on Saturday this is what you would have seen. And you would have heard these 3 yelling, "Touchdown!!" several times. LOL Haileybug was even getting into the game- so funny. Oh and no I was not wearing the Scarlet and Gray, just call me Un-American. LOL (I was just wearing mom clothes. LOL)

Some of my Christmas cards in a necked tin. Oh my, looks like altering the tin will have to be added to my TO DO list. LOL
Today's Blessings:

Lucy is such an amazing dog. She is always so loving and patient with the kids. This picture makes me smile- one of those ear to ear smiles. She had just planted a big sloppy kiss on Hunter's cheek, and was followed by, "Dog germs!!" and he ran and washed his face. LOL

Now for the Million Dollar Question- Why, oh Why did Hailey feel the need to get up at 5:30 this morning? Could be she had an exrta long nap after church yesterday (we had our Church's Thanksgiving dinner following the morning service so it was late when we got home) and then she went to sleep early last night.

Until later~

Before and After

Before

After.

Other than the back ground, which 5 things did I change? LOL

I hope you all are having a great weekend!! We watched the Buckeyes defeat Michigan earlier. Woo Hoo way to go Bucks!! We are just bumming now. LOL

Until later~

15 Quick and Easy Cards

More Christmas cards. I have 50 done so far. I am not sure how many more I will need. We are in a new church this year and I am not sure how they do Christmas cards. I guess I will have to wait and see. LOL

These use TAC's Good Timber tree image embossed with a shimmery Embossing powder. I ended up with the look of glitter without the mess. LOL

Simple Horizontal lo.



More green cards. LOL
Here I have created 15 cards using ONE 12x12 sheet of designer paper and I think a little less than FOUR 12x12 pieces of cardstock. I cut my green layers 5 1/4" x 4" and then mounted those on my white card base. (Each stamped image is also matted with the cardstock.) I chose 4 different ribbons, but you wouldn't have to use any (especially if you are mailing them. LOL)
I think this was a good use of my resources.

Today's blessings-

**A Nice warm house**

**DH's job**

**Our health**

**Our families**

**Our Friends**

**All of my Cyber Friends**

Until later~

Can you believe it?

Well, I was put-zing around the house yesterday, I happened to glance out the window and this is what I saw........

See those big goose feather snowflakes? The gazebo is in the neighbors yard, and just beyond that is one of our many city parks. It was snowing too hard to even see the park. I raised the blinds so the kids could see. Hailey was so excited, she just kept yelling, "Christmas Trees, Christmas trees!" everything to her that is Christmasy is "Christmas trees"- even the jolly elf in the red suit. LOL Hunter wanted to go out and make snow angels. LOL (What you see here is all we got until after nightfall. We ended up with a small dusting this morning.)

I guess that this too is a sign that the holidays will be here before you know it. Speaking of holidays- I am so excited for Thanksgiving, we will spend it with my mom. She called before Halloween and invited us to come to her house. She is feeling so good, and she wants to fix the entire dinner for us. This is her second week of Radiation and she is doing very well. (She did say she thought she saw one hair on her head the other day. LOL She cracks me up!!) Yeah, the kids get to spend Thanksgiving in Amish Country.

Until later~