Merry Christmas

It's been a very rough month with my dad in the hospital and now moved to a nursing home. We are still very thankful for our many family blessing we've had this year. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! Here are some photos that Katie took playing with my camera, it is a technique called Bokeh.

Winter Tags

This was the Day 1 tag of Tim Holtz. I made two versions using all of my own stash.

12 Days of Tags

This is tag number 3 from Tim Holtz 12 Days of Tags. Not sure why I started with this one, but I loved the words. I tried to emboss one, but didn't like the way it came out.

I love the idea of Elf on a Shelf, so I found one at Target today. Katie has been talking about the funny things that we can do with her, then make a mini album. Here she is, no name yet...... She decided to hang out in the mistletoe today. Stay tuned....

Happy Thanksgiving

We are so blessed to be spending this day in our beautiful home with a few family members. I miss the family who are not with us today, but wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for.

Thanks Lisa for your wonderful stuffing recipe! Look, I do cook on special days! My favorite part of the day is drinking coffee and going through the mountains of ads! (Not that I'll be out early tomorrow morning.)

Happy Veteran's Day

Such a great day to be an American!! We woke up early and went to our local parade this morning. Allison was marching in the parade and Katie had a good friend from college with her. We had beautiful weather. Here's to you dad on Veteran's Day.

Back from Scrap Expo

I had such a great time with Jodi and her mom. We scrapped until midnight and took a lot of classes. My favorite class is always the Quick Quote class. Here are two layouts I finished this morning.

Here we are scrapping....

Here's the stuff I bought....

Back from Road Trip

We took a road trip to the wine country to visit Katie at college. She picked the perfect place for her to go to school as it is close and she loves it there! That part of California is so beautiful.