I'm this weeks Pazzles Fabulous FInd Winner!

I won this weeks fabulous find.  I'm so excited!  I made this card for a friend of mine and I had posted a picture of it on pazzlescraftroom.com and they picked my card.  My husband helped me with it, and I LOVE how it turned out.

 

One of my Christmas cards....

Pretty sure I'm safe posting this as most people who got this card do not look at my blog.  Anyways, it's a simple card but I think still elegant.  I just used a gel pen for the gold words in the background, the snowman is a stamp and I used my Cats eye chalks to chalk the gold on the flourish at the bottom.  I did make some other cards but can't post them yet....    ;)  Once they are delivered I will post them.  I can't wait!

Christmas cards

SO, it's already the middle of December and I have only gotten 2 of my cards ready to mail.  I need to make one or two more for people I want to add to the list.  I have some really neat ideas in mind, I just need to make them.  ugh so much to do, so little time.  Ive had some personal matters to attend to, and a recent influx of medical issues as well.  Life just doesn't give a break does it.  Oh well, I can handle it. 
I can't wait to post pics of the cards I've made, I can't yet because I don't want them to see it.  ;)

It's snowing!

There's nothing better than waking up in the morning all warm and snuggly, and opening the windows to see it snowing.  Big, white snowflakes falling from the sky, turning everything it lands on white.

It's about 25 degrees here right now, and I love it.  The cold crisp air, blowing snowflakes in my face.  :)  Heaven.
I told my son I'd take him outside to play in it here in just a little bit.  Right now we're sitting at the table by the window eeating blueberry waffles just watching the snow.  The husband just left for work, and said as he drives it looks like he's driving into a blizzard.    Reminds me of hen I was a kid living in Alaska.  I wish I could go back.  One day I will.  Snowball fights, sledding ad skiing.  We used to have snowball fights along the road we had t walk home from school.  We would hide under the pine trees where the snow fell and made a little space under the branches big enough for us to crawl in. We wuld pop out like groundhogs when the other kids would walk by and pelt them with snowballs.  Good times. 

My dream desk

It's the workbox!  Found it online, and oh what I would do to have this thing!  I want it so bad I can taste it.  I have my desk in my bedroom right now and we have to block the door to our bathroom to have it there.  Thank goodness theres another door to it from the hall or I'd have no desk at all.  This one packs up to be soo small and yet is so big when you open it up.  All I have to say is.... I WANT IT! lol

Only $1495

http://www.theoriginalscrapbox.com/catalog/the-workbox

I havent made anything in the past few days but I did see a pretty neat technique on making glimmer mist ( which I also have never tried) and so I plan to do that.

A card for Cecily

I made this card for my friend Cecily.  Her husband is leaving soon on Deployment and I wanted to make her something to let her know that she wont be alone and I'm here to help.  Support is so important in the Army, and good friends are hard to come by.  Most of my friends are people I've never met online in the pazzles craft room and here on my blog.  Anyway, I decided to go ahead and make a card for her.  I actually like how it came out.

Is it strange that I want to be good at scrapbooking but I'm better at cards.... I hate that I'm better at soemthing I don't want to do as much.  I want to make cute pages, with really adorable embellishments and paper piecings and for some reason I just am not that great.  hmm...

My recent pages

I made these layouts this week.  The first is the dog show our post vet clinic sponsored last weekend.  My husband and I took our dogs up there and our new shepherd puppy Tango won best in show. He is only 12 weeks old.  Everyone just loved him.

I made the ribbon too, I pleated a strip of paper to go around the circle.  I've never done that before but it came out pretty neat I think.

The other layout I made was for my husbands scrapbook.  He took a picture of this sign in Afghanistan that actually had his home state on it saying about how far away they are.  I thought it was nifty.