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Fairy Christmas

- Santa's helpers
- Slackers

This cute little elfin fairy I CASE-d over the weekend. Her leaves sparkle!!! I pulled out my Christmas pack of 6x8 fun holiday background papers and went to town, making my Christmas cards and stuff to go in my general stash. I'm having fun creating, by my design office is a disaster area. (I thank all the bloggers out there in paper crafting who love to share their work. Thanks for the inspiration!!) I need to get some yellow tape to put up on the door... Caution: Crime Scene. The piles are getting bigger and bigger, more scraps, more completed projects.... no more room!

Started a new Christmas blog. Not sending out a letter, saving a few trees. If you are into Christmas letters, you will have to click on to the blog. If you hate the newsy bragging letter, don't read it!!! I'll let you know how to get there soon. Under construction. Finished making Christmas Cards and now I'm waiting for pictures to magically arrive by mail!

Looks kind of Eery out, is it going to snow? I better get my walking shoes on pretty soon!!! Finishing the indoor decorating. Gotta go.....

Monday... what does it mean to you?

- Changes

- Catching up

Is it a Manic Monday, or a Cyber Monday, or Thank God it's Monday and we can get back to normalness??  All of the above.

Check out my buddies above.  Cooper and Tucker stopped by to pose for their annual Christmas card.  As you can see, I tried to update my blog, color and design.  My lap top is running slow and hard, so making the changes on this quiet Monday morning have been brutal!!  The blog changes are a work in progress.  I'm not sure if I will stick with this.

It's been a long 5 days of everyone being home.  All outdoor lighting is up and working!! We got half of the inside Christmas decor up.  I need to do some dusting on top of things I never seem to see until we take them down during the holidays.  I have a short list of errands to run.  Nothing I needed to be out for during the Black Friday shopping extravaganza.

So much to say, but I've got to get on with my day!

Thanks for stopping by!

Constant.... cuteness

Can't you hear him saying " Hi Mommy"?

- What a face!!

- I'm still me

My family is home, they are totally interrupting my creative time, my blogging time, my cleaning time.... oh well, what to do?? ... but go with the flow.....

Went to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving and had a very nice time with my parents, great turkey grandma and seeing my brother's family.

Black Friday was RED Friday in our house.  Three out of 4 weighing over 110lbs gave a pint of blood!!! They were giving us $10 Target gift cards at the blood center.  Not bad!!!  There was nothing we needed to be shopping out with the loons at 4am.  But we will probably contribute to Cyber Monday.

Driving day.  DH is off to the DMV to update his Illinois drivers license.  And Sissy is out for her FIRST drive behind the wheel with the driving school.  WATCH OUT!!!

I've been creating, so stay tuned for updates!!!!

A gift to you is my presence

- The finals

- Challenge This

I'm too lazy to go back and look and see if I've showed you this card before.  It's really cute, so you wont mind if I show it again!!  This is one of three I made for the final Card of the Month Club.  You know how there is fruit of the month, or wine of the month.... well two years ago I created Card of the Month.  For thirty -six dollars ( some of them were gifts) a few lucky people got a new creative greeting!! from me each and every month of the year.  The Card related to a holiday, or a season that month represented.  Then each month the card would come with it's own envelope, inside an envelope, ready for the recipient to use or give away.  It was a fun challenge to come up with each monthly card. What I loved most was finding a card I could CASE and make it relate to the theme!!

One day left on my 21 day challenge!!  My art journal has turned out real cute.  I will take pictures, stay tuned.

Everyone is home today.  Just feels like a Wednesday to me!!!

That ain't no Jack

- Creative Greetings!!

- Other stuff in general

There's a new dog in the house!  He's a an apricot tea cup poodle.  He's not actually here, well seriously he is in doggie heaven, but I have been asked to create some JACK cards.  An Original design!!!!   **take note ** The only thing CASE-d is the layout, and I don't think you can CASE a layout.  I've been commissioned to make 8 cards, as a gift, the friend is giving here friend memory cards with her little buddy on them.  Love it! Stay tuned for all 8 cards.

Hey I was missing in action yesterday.  I was super psyched about the beautiful weather, almost 64 degrees yesterday, that I dragged up the outside Christmas decorations, lights, wreaths and swags.  Can't beat putting stuff up in the mid-west on November 22 just in a long sleeve t-shirt.  It's supposed to be a high of 34 on black Friday... so far... a good call!!!!

And this past weekend, the Packer's fired their 2nd coach..... from another team!!!  I love it.  Hubster and I painted the Master Bathroom.  Before and After to come.  Figure the paint we bought covers 300 square feet, big MASTER. And there is a vaulted ceiling, up and down ladders, we did the ceiling (think it's the original builders grade paint) around a shower, around a tub, around two doors, medicine chest, mirror, lights, double window.... no clean wall, up and around.... but yay! It's done!

Kid's high school football team lost in the semi finals?  Whatever it's called that if they had won, they would be going to Champagne Illinois to State.  One game away.  Sissy had her volleyball awards night last night.  Wow, it seems so long ago the season was over.

Time to get moving, need to finish putting Master Bath stuff away, and get to Target early to buy TP before the heards of people.... crazy people show up!!!

"Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers."   calvin & hobbes

Butt it's your birthday

- It's all in the layers

- You snooze you loose

- Challenge this

One layer card.  Two layer cake, eat the cake the layers go to your butt!  Yoga friend really liking these special stick figure cards, and so easy to do.

I missed blogging yesterday.  Oh, I tried a few times, but Hubby took a vacation day and so we got a lot of 'stuff' done.  I tried to come back to the computer, but was always distracted by something else I could be doing.  I have a couple of requests in the works for paper crafts, nothing that is going to earn any denaro, but challenging and fun to create without stipulation.

Yesterday's word: Panda

Did you know they eat 99% bamboo and their name in Chinese is black & white paw like a cat, Chinese emblem best known next to the dragon.

The talk in the house is painting the master bathroom.  Maybe I will have before's and afters!  Stay tuned!