HO HO HO.....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Last Saturday, Clay's work had a holiday party. This year they made it a family event and kids were invited. It was a nice party.

But the best part....guess who showed up? And guess what else....he brought presents too!

And even better.....this Santa did magic tricks! And look who he chose to be his helper for one of his tricks...



Allie waited patiently for her turn to sit on Santa's lap. And she was all smiles when she got up there.



Santa was very impressed with Allie's list. And with a list like that...who wouldn't be?



Gotta love the fact that she had a whopping 25 items listed, and she added #26 to include....and other stuff! What a cutie!

Dec. 2 2007 Planner class at Captured Memories

Just wanted to show you pictures of the planner I taught at Captured Memories last Saturday.

I completely love how it turned out. I've made myself one, with a few more touches. I haven't photographed the new and improved version though. I am also making one for Allison's second grade teacher. Lucky gal. I'd love to get something like this. I just hope she likes it too!








I added just a couple of pages out of this cute Rusty Pickle paper that looks like the old Chief Tablet Paper. Then in the back I made this cool pocket thing. I'll try to remember to post updated pictures of this. By the way, I picked the books up at a recovery outlet store. The primary papers used in this project were Rusty Pickle. I also used Robin's Nest, 7 Gypsies and K&Co. Throw in a lot of office supplies and whalla....you get this!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

And not just because I got all my holiday decorating done over the weekend. But the winter weather has hit. Last Tuesday, it was 70 degrees out. Last Wednesday, it was sleeting and by Friday we have a layer of ice with 9 inches of snow on top.

Look at some of these pictures...





It WAS so beautiful out. Well that is until Clay and Allison decided it would be a lot of fun riding their 4 wheelers in the snow. And if you're worried that a deer was hurt during the filming of these pictures (check out the background of Allison holding bunny ears behind her snowman) don't fret. Clay's target practice foam deer finally hit the ground after standing up in our backyard for like 2 years now.

Last week was a great week!

First of all, last week I got my goodies in from KI Memories. Oh my, it was well worth the wait. Look at this cute little (well big) box waiting for me on my front porch last Monday.

Of course I tore right into it. I did (well I had Allie) take pictures along the way. Her composition needs a little work. There were lots of chin shots.
My project will be published in their idea book coming out in January. I can't wait, it will be my first time in print! Thank you so much KI!!!!!!

Thursday Allison didn't have school because of bad weather (ice). I was so busy decorating and cleaning that I didn't check the board at CMK right away. But boy I should have because I found out I WAS SELECTED AS THEIR GUEST DESIGN TEAM MEMBER for the month of December. That sure made my day. I'll be receiving a box of goodies from them today with Piggy Tales products. I can't wait to see what I get! They put out a challenge at the beginning of the month to make an ornament. This is my winning entry...Ornament. You can check out the other photos of this in my last post.

On Friday I made this wooden stocking. I bought the original stocking at Goodwill for $.99. It looks pretty spiffy if I do say so myself. So spiffy that it made Create My Keepsakes layout of the day on Dec. 3.

I made a couple of other projects....just not ready to share them yet.

Also this weekend, I finished 2 layouts for the 3 Bugs in A Rug Design Team call. Win or not, I love my layouts. I already sent them in a whopping 12 days early. I will post them later since I'm not sure if it's ok to post them now.