Beautiful Sedona

Our trip to Arizona was only last month but it seems a lifetime ago. We returned home and were immediately caught up in the holiday hustle with Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. I still have yet to get all of the vacation pictures printed! Who knows if I ever will....may be easier, and certainly more cost effective, to only print those that I plan to use as I need them. I think I took something like 800 pictures! Here is one of the many Sedona pictures....we were immediately taken in by the beauty of the red rocks. The views and rock formations are breathtaking!



Supplies: Crate Paper Random, Crate Paper Portrait, Jenni Bowlin butterflies, MME buttons, 7 Gypsies & Tim Holtz tags, Cosmo alpha, SC banner sticker.

Occupied

With the kids occupied with their new toys, I was able to sneak into my scrap room for a bit over the weekend. I didn't get a lot accomplished as I first had to find the desk that was buried somewhere under the stacks and stacks of stuff! I could give you an excuse about having to move my desk b/c I had a new window installed (which is true) but the real truth...my desk looked almost as bad before the window install! Maybe that is why I had little to no interest in coming into this room! I REALLY HATE cleaning!!

I spent the time, organized everything, had the desk completely clear .... made a few layouts ... and now have found myself right back where I started! I can't find the top of my desk again!

Oh well, at least I have a few more layouts for the kids albums! The desk....maybe I'll find it again soon.

N's 10th birthday back in November....



Supplies: Jillibean Soup, October Afternoon, Echo Park papers; BG alpha; Holtz grunge board; Bo Bunny journaling spot; Jenni Bowlin penant stickers; Jillibean spots and stickers; Echo Park number stickers

The Goods...

I have a house full of very happy children this week -- they are enjoying their week off from school and LOVING their new things from Hanukkah and Christmas!

Favorite Gifts:

Noah - Phone and XBOX (He was over the moon excited this year as those are the ONLY two things he asked for!)

Hannah - Balance beam and mat (I think we could have only given her this one gift and she still would have been on cloud nine!)

Sarah - Karaoke Microphone -- she is quite the entertainer!

....and of course their holiday money from Grandma and Grandpa was burning a hole in their pocket so we already had to go and spend some of that --- good thing we have a mall here that is almost always empty b/c there was no way I was fighting the crowds out returning things! I have my own stack of returns to make but those will just have to wait until next week!

Merry Christmas

Cards

I have never been interested in making cards. In fact, I rely on my friend Jing-Jing to provide me with cards to use for birthday parties. But this year, I decided I should make a couple of cards to send out to my family. I didn't get around to do the whole "annual holiday card" thing but a nice homemade card and a photo of the kids...what could be better?



With the help of some Crate and Fancy Pants chipboards, each card only took a few minutes to put together. Quick, easy, and homemade!

So, do you ever make your own cards?

Quoted

After discussing if there may be boys in my six year old's new dance class, my daughter turns to me and says, "you want to put some money on that?". Not only did she use the phase properly, when asked what it means, she was able to explain it. Where did hear that....iCarly.

I had to laugh to hear my cute little girl using such a grown up sounding phrase!

I've become...

I've become a terrible, terrible blogger! I can make any number of excuses but I won't, I will just say, I have been busy! While I have been happy doing what I have been doing, I have not snuck much time for crafting. I think I have scrapped a total of 3 pages this past month and sewn one Roman shade. Other than that, my cool new supplies, Crate and OA's Farmhouse and Echo Park's Times and Seasons, sit here untouched. Sad I know.

I will share one of those 3 lonely pages --- I am still loving and using Crates Random collection when I do sit down to create. The colors are just fantastic with the bright fushia, navy, and mustard yellow...a combination that surprisingly works so well together. At least they work well on a scrap page, not sure I could pull it off in my attire!

Finally a single shot scrapped from our trip to Arizona in early November. It is only one of many, but it's a start!