Ice Storm

Gotta love new England weather. It was 62 degrees on Tuesday! Wednesday day it was very windy and starting to get cold and Thursday it rained. So last night that rain turned into a very dangerous ice storm. We lost power and heat sometime in the middle of the night. It has been practically raining tree branches for hours. It is quite a mess. Bryant was happy to not have school today and to have Mom and Dad home. Both of our work places were closed due to inclement weather. Here are a few pics I took earlier today. This is looking out our front door:

Here is one view of our backyard. Lots of ice:

Another view with just some of the fallen branches:

I had to throw in this happy picture. One of the sales reps from my company sent it to me this week. Just a little Christmas spirit, 3000 miles away. It makes me smile:

Our power is back on now,and we have heat. Yay!! Tomorrow it will probably look like nothing ever happened. It sure was one heck of a way to get a 3 day weekend. Happy Friday!!

Cookies for Santa

I got some more pictures scrapped (Thanks to the 'Got Sketch' Mini Class). Yay me! This was the final of the three sketches. I really have been wanting to scrap these pics from last Christmas Eve. We had the most (and messiest) fun making these cool reindeer cookies. I have it on good authority that Santa loved them too!

Since I was in the 'cookies for Santa' mood, I thought that I would share this old favorite of mine from the year before. So simple, but still one of my faves!

Hope you are having a great week! Thought I would send some Christmas spirit and a little mojo your way. Enjoy! And as always, TFL! :-)

My December Daily, Week One

I wanted to share the first week of my December Daily album. I am really enjoying this creative photo (or photos) a day project. I did a project similar to this last January and it is really fun to look back on the memories now. I know I shared the cover a while back, but here it is again to get this started. My color theme is blue, brown, cream and white. I have been using Bo Bunny and My Minds Eye Bohemian papers. I LOVE the colors and they really seem to blend together well:

The first day shows a view of my little Christmas tree on my office window ledge. I love the veiw. Simply makes me smile:

Day two was a fun day that Bryant and I made some really yummy Christmas cupcakes. He was SO excited! Day three was a happy (spur of the moment) pic taken at the grocery store. I am sure the other shoppers thought that we were crazy snapping pictures, but that was one huge (5 lbs-$25) chocolate bar:

I really love to watch Bryant sleep. I always have and have many pictures to prove it. Day four I took another one of him asleep in my bed. He is just so excited about Christmas. Day five is a picture I took outside my office of my little Tony Stewart Christmas stocking. Just because the Nascar season is over, does not mean I stop supporting my favorite driver:

Day six was a day we spent at Chuck E Cheese for Bryant's friends B-day party. Of course we were drawn to the Dale Jr pinball machine. Always have Nascar on the brain! Day seven, our first snow. It was not much, but just enough for my little guy to feel like a good little helper.

So this is what I have so far. Trying to keep it simple and colorful. Mixing it up with sepia, color and maybe black and white photos. This will be great to look back on next year. That is what keeps me inspired to complete this project. Are you working on a December Daily? I am looking forward to everyone elses take on this. It is so inspiring!!

A Few "Sketchy" LO's

I have gotten a few LO's completed lately, with the help of a few fabulous sketches. I have recently been digging through old photos and feeling a bit sentimental. Lots of pics that I really felt the need to scrap and to document that moment in time. This first LO is some cute baby Christmas time pics of Bryant. So sweet! LOVE this new Christmas line Fa La La from Memory Makers. I know the Poinsetta flowers look very dark. They are actually a burgandy color. The little (rain)dots are from Cloud Nine. I like how cool they looked:

I was inspired by a sketch from Donna Downey (for the LO above), in this AWESOME new book of hers:

I also, have been holding onto these pics from last year. A few stolen moments of Bryant with Santa before the actual picture was taken. This sketch comes from the ' Got Sketch Mini' free online class. This is the mini challenge that went up before the actual class sketches. Loved this basic sketch and plus I got to use my Teresa Collins Tis the Season papers:

This is my take on the actual first sketch from the GS Mini class. These are some old pics of me that I came across and I literally thought 'Who's that girl?' I LOVED this sketch from Janna Wilson ! Plus I got to use my new Pink Paislee Vintage Moon paper. AWESOME!!

So double score for me. I got some old pictures scrapped AND I got to use a lot of my new favorite scrap products. Well, off to work some more on my December Daily album and hope to post pics of it soon. Have a wonderful weekend!!

Pretty Little Tree

I bought this last year and transformed it into this with a little help from Love, Elsie Christmas paper from Ki Memories:
This was a fun little project that I literally threw together while I was watching tv one night. It is so cute and colorful and makes me smile whenever I look at it. Love this! Love Christmas! Happy Crafting!! Happy Friday!!!

BASB Challenge #3

Challenge #3 is up at the BASB site. This was definately a challenge for me. It really pushed me outside of my creative 'comfort zone' and I LOVED it. There is nothing that I can not do, as long as I put my mind to it. So, here is my LO for the challenge:

The challenge this time around is to create a LO or card based on this ad below:

Very different and I went for it. I am really happy with the result. So, come play along and challenge yourself. We would love to see what you come up with! :-)

December First

Yay! It's December 1st! The Christmas season begins! Here is my first new Christmas project it is a cute little Advent calendar from Karen Foster Designs. It comes like this and I decorated mine with the fabulous 8 x8 Tis the Season papers from Teresa Collins and a little bling:

Oh! Did you hear about this? It's totally free! Thanks to Janna Wilson and Valerie Salmon. So what are YOU waiting for??!

Also, the absolutely GORGEOUS December Scarlet Lime kit debuted today! I can not wait to get mine. Snatch one up before they are gone. I promise that you won't regret it!! :-)

Happy Monday!! Hope your week started off great!!