Christmas is coming soon.

Before you know it, Christmas will be here.  Have you gotten all your shopping done, or at least most of it?  I used to think it was difficult shopping for my children, buying the right present for them, but now that they are older, it is harder yet..and more expensive.  Lucky for me, they are no longer living at home and they have other people in their lives, so I don't go all out like I used to. 

A couple of weeks ago, my friends were over and we mad some Christmas ornaments.  It was a lot of fun making them.  We took glass ornaments and covered them with alcohol inks, blending color choices of our own choosing.  After that was done, I cut out vinyl numbers for 2010 with my Cricut.  We put these on the ornaments, and used glass etching cream to etch the year in the ornament.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  What do you think? 

Have a great week!

I love this card.  It was very easy to make, yet it looks so elegant.  I used a cuddlebug folder to eomboss the cardstock and then used nestabilities dies for the border around the title.

Cards for Children

I came across this website by mistake, but I am so glad I found it.  It is called Cards for Children. 
ADDRESS TO MAIL CARDS FOR HOSPITAL DONATION


Chris Wooten
5135 Sawbill Ln
Gastonia, NC 28052

NEED ANY TYPE OF CARDS

I think it is exactly what is needed, so if you are reading this, and have extra cards, please mail them for the children's hospital. 

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, I had a wonderful time.  We were able to bring Christina home for a couple of days from the group home.  She really enjoyed herself.  My son,with his family, drove up to NJ from Florida and spent 4 days with us.  His children are growing so big.  Tyler, my grandson, is now the tallest person in our family.  The girls, Angelica and Karly are becoming young ladies.  Even Dusty, the family dog, came up for a visit and was wonderful.  (I really enjoyed him.)  They stayed with Dave and me. 

My brother and sister-in-law from Illinois (Rich and Janet) flew in last Saturday.  So did their son, Jared with his wife Kai and daughter Alexis; their son Andy; and their daughter, Julia, with her husband Tilma and their son TJ and foster son Kyrall.  My brother and sister-in-law. Ralph and Bernice, drove up from South Carolina, with their daughter Ashley and dog Lily. This group of people stayed at my mother's house, and it was packed there.

Everyone came to my house for Thanksgiving dinner.  There were 20 people for dinner.  We enjoyed turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rutagaba, creamed onions, peas, lima beans and corn, cranberry sauce, and of course pies....pumpkin, pecan, and apple.  I don't believe anyone went home hungry.     We took lots of  family pictures.  The opening picture is our family who made it to dinner.  Below is a picture of my mom with all her grandchildren (minus 2) and great-grandchildren.

Final pages of Renee's baby book.

Did you enjoy the pages from yesterday?  Well, today I am adding the final pages of Renee's baby book.  I must say, Renee is a cutie, even if she is my great-granddaughter!  In case you haven't seen a pciture of Renee, here are a couple of her with Dave (aka Pop-Pop). 

Now for the final pages of the scrapbook!  Here they are:

Hopefully pictures of Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles will be on this page...all of them with Renee.

Can you see Renee drinking her bottle or eating? How cute the pictures will be.

The final page. I hope you have enjoyed these pages. 

More baby book pages

As promised, I have more pictures of baby book pages.  Now, I could make these much fancier and add more embellishments, but I know for my great-granddaughter, her mother scraps, so when she adds the pictures, she can journal and add more embellishments.

Renee is a jewel in Mommy's eye. She is definitely Daddy's queen. (Most would say she is his princess, but no, she is his queen. He truly worships Renee.)

A look at individual body parts...eyes,nose, mouth, feet, hands, etc.

These pages are for pictures of Renee playing.

  

 

Night-night. Here will be sleeping pictures. Ah...a baby looks so sweet and peaceful when sleeping.










Ok.  Those are the pictures for tonight.  Tomorrow I will add the last few pictures of Renee's book.  After that I plan to post a Christmas hanging that is a class I will be teaching this weekend.  It is really cute.  Thanks for looking, Please leave a post to let me know your thoughts on the book.  Until tomorrow...bye.

Babies are coming out of the woodwork!

Babies?  Yes, babies.  This year I have had 3 new babies added to our family.  Our granddaughter had her first child, Renee, in June.  She is a cutie.  My niece had a son in February and my nephew's wife had a daughter.  I have been trying to make baby albums for each of them.  Let me share a couple of pictures with you today.  I hope you enjoy them.