Tis the season....

Did you think I had left town for good???!!! Sorry I haven't posted the last week - what a busy time. Thanksgiving was wonderful. I hope yours was as well. Black Friday shopping was unlike any I had ever experienced before. Didn't score any great deals but did get a few things and had a fun time with my mom and kiddo!
Today we will be decorating the house for Christmas! I will be sure to take some pics to share! I love Christmas time! Everyone feels a little more generous and forgiving. I even picked up a couple of extra things to donate to a child for Christmas. Ash loves this idea and would buy everything in the store to give away if I let her. Guess that is a good ting we have taught her but could get a little hard on the wallet!!!! :) I plan on watching my favorite Christmas movie this afternoon - Miracle on 34th Street. I love it - even in black and white.
Well, off to find my way through the pike of boxes to start decorating!! Happy Sunday!

Another cloudy day!!

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a great weekend! It seems like I cannot get a post onto here over the weekends! Hopefully things will slow down a little so I can post more often!!
I wanted to let you know that I had a successful craft fair! I was very happy with the sales. I still have some items left if someone is looking for something. Plenty of stocking stuffers too! Tomorrow I will post the pics of my tables!
What are your Thanksgiving traditions?? We always go to my mom's (next door) and each bring certain things. I make an orange molded (moldy according to the kids!) salad. If I didn't bring this - there would be a riot! We have the turkey and all the fixings!! Before the big dinner, while the men folk are hunting, we do crafts with Ash and Grace. This year I think we will be working on their ornaments for a school contest! We also try and watch the parade. AND we take the annual picture of Ash and Grace. We used to take it in Grampa's chair but the girls are getting a little big to both be in the same chair!!! We also scan the sale ads for the biggest and best shopping day of the year!!!
The men sometimes go out hunting after dinner (or hold down the couches) and the ladies go home to rest or play! We usually all migrate back to mom's for a make your own supper of leftovers!!!
And of course, we go to bed early to get rested up for BLACK FRIDAY!!!!! We go for the festivities and atmosphere. We do not run people down getting to the sales. I am hoping to get some deals at Walmart though! Wish me luck!
We decorate for Christmas on the Saturday after Thanksgiving each year! We even broke down and purchased an artificial tree because I want to decorate so early! The hubby just shakes his head!
Please share your Thanksgiving traditions! I would love to hear them! Have a terrific day!

TGIF!!!! :)

Can you believe it is Friday??? I am almost out of time for tomorrows craft fair! I am pretty much done but I do have a few odd ball things to do tonight. Need to wrap my banana bread and make cookies for the crowd to eat! (and the hubby too!). Most everything is packed too.

I have just a couple more things to share today! Remember the paper bag bags I did a while back? I made a couple more with snowmen on them! I just love snowman! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the More the Merrier set from SU! (Thank you Katie!) That set has so many uses!

I also made a few random gift tags to sell! Everyone needs to add a tag to their gifts and what is better than a handmade one??!! I used a couple of sets but mostly the Perfect Presentation set from SU!

But......... in my surfing today - I found this awesome candle lollipop on Dawn's Stamping Thoughts. I plan on making some of these for gifts! Perhaps I will even stop on my way home tonight and pick up the supplies to make some for tomorrow!!! (like I have extra time!!!)

Well, we will see how tomorrow goes! I really do not have a ton to sell but I want to move the items too! I will let you know! And then.... perhaps I can get my room cleaned up and actually do a LAYOUT!!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Almost TGIF!!!!

Can you believe that November is almost over?? And another week has almost come and gone. Thursdays are so hard for me to get going and stay going! I am really tired today but I have some more items to share with you!

In a spin off of yesterdays snowman soup - I have made some "Snowman Soup for 2" sets. I found these cute snowman tins and added cocoa, mini marshmallows and candy canes for 2 people! I thought they did up quite nicely. On the back I added a poem and directions!

I am also finishing up some altered binder clips. I just need to add some ribbon! These were fun to make! You can use them to hold pictures or Christmas cards, or actually use them to hold papers together!!! The best thing is that they help you use up those little scraps you cannot bring yourself to throw away!! :)

My last picture for you is some stamped tile coasters. I stamped them with stazon ink and baked them in the oven to set the ink. I added some little felt feet to protect table surfaces!

I hope you have been enjoying the projects I have shared with you. I have had fun making them all! Be sure to take some time to stop by the Canton Cruisers Relay for Life Holiday Open House/Craft fair this coming Saturday (Nov 21) from 10-3. It can be your one stop shopping for all your Christmas presents!!! hope to see you there!!!

Happy Humpday!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!!! I hope you are all feeling good today! I think I live by my hand sanitizer!!!

I wanted to share the project my daughter did for her school book report! I think she did an awesome job on her diorama for the book! I will let you know what her grade is!!!!

Ok - on to more fun stuff!!

I spent a bit of time last night working on projects! I am almost done! I am hoping to have it all together BEFORE Saturday morning!!!

I did a bunch of "treat" bags to sell at the craft fair! I did some reindeer poop, elf droppings, snowman poop, snowman soup, turkey poop, tins of snowman soup for two and reindeer nose repair kits! These were so much fun to do! I even found a Christmas story one to make using M&M's and the story of Christ's birth! Loved it too much to not share it with everyone!

I also made some cute little snowmen for my daughter to sell using........toilet paper rolls! I was up LATE one night and decided to try it! She loves them too! I may use this project for our Thanksgiving day craft!

Can you believe my table? It is full of stuff for Saturday and I still have some unfinished projects to add to the piles!

Thanks for popping by! More tomorrow!!!

Tuesday again!!

Good morning all!! I have been MIA! It seems like forever but it has only been a few days I know! I have been a busy bee working on items for the open house/craft fair this coming weekend!!! I haven't even had time to take pictures! I will try and do that tonight. I keep finding really cool ideas online to make! I am running out of time! Late nights and early mornings are taking a toll on me! I am running on coffee today!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I know the flu has been hitting really close to home (or at least the fever has). DES has been in a little bubble until now and that bubble has been popped! To all my friends and their families who have been hit - I hope you feel better. We are lucky so far and would love to stay that way! I love my friends but we will NOT be visiting any time soon! I do not have time to be sick!! :)

See you all tomorrow!

More ideas coming your way!

Good morning all! Can you believe another week has almost passed us by? How many days till Christmas now? I have to count again! I need to make a countdown calendar! Perhaps I will see if I can find one online to try out!!! (love surfing the web!)

Today I have two more ideas that I found online. The first is from Splitcoaststampers. It is called a box in a bag. These are so super simple to make and you can make them as short or as tall as you would like. Pop over to their site to check out the tutorial and video on these!!

I am thinking that these would be terrific for some homemade trail mix, or caramel popcorn, or chocolates. Anything really!

The next idea came straight from Angela's site again! She has some of the coolest ideas! These hold a mini loaf of bread. What a beautiful way to jazz up a gift! When I get the bread made - I will wrap a belly band around it and embellish it. Check out Angela's site to see what she did. She also has the directions there for you. You have to go back a ways to find it but it is there!!!

I hope I have been giving you some ideas for gift giving! I am attending a ladies craft day at my church this Saturday and will have some more (non papercraft) ideas to share. If you are interested in joining me - please let me know! The more the merrier!!!!

Have a terrific day!