Bliss

Miraculously, I had a weekend off, and found a few minutes to play.
Just a couple of cards in springy colors to remind me that nature won't stay dead looking forever.

It's been a strange winter here, hardly any winter at all, but if I've learned one thing from living in this area all my life, it's that you don't try to outsmart Mother Nature.
No planting flowers until May!





I've become a Pintrest junkie this past month. It's been an interesting experience - I'm finding that there are so many beautiful places in this big wide world - and I want to see them ALL while I still have eyes to see!

I didn't marry a traveler though, he's perfectly content to sit on the couch in front of his big screen TV. I'll have to find a travel buddy in my old age! (Someone with a HUGE bank roll, preferably.) :-)

Anyway, if you want a sensory overload, go to Pintrest and type "color" in the search engine. Wow - beautiful and fun stuff!
One of my favorite things is these color schemes from photos. There are hundreds of them there! I can't wait to start playing with these...

Source: photocardboutique.com via Pat on Pinterest

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Spread the Love

I've been thinking of the month of January as a very unproductive month, but I started tallying up the things I got done, and I guess it wasn't too shabby after all.

I did 26 scrapbook pages, 10 cards, a mini album, plus I read 5 novels.

I know, I'm a little amazed myself! LOL!

What's more, all those pages ran me up a total cost of about $8.00.
I had to buy adhesive and a few sheets of card stock, but all other supplies came out of my stash.

Feeling rather good about that...

Here are a few more Valentines I put together - I totally fell in love with these papers! I'll have to stock up on them when the paychecks start coming again. :-)
(I got called back to work last week.)

I'll probably add some little rub-on sentiments before I give them away...







Someone introduced me to Pintrest this week, so if I seem to drop off the face of the earth, look for me there - that's probably where I am!
(It's so addicting!)
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Be Fruitful...

Once in a while, I try.

Spent some time crafting this week - and a good thing too!
I'll be going back to work soon, (good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise,) and days spent playing with paper will run short again.

My daughter in law made me this cute album for Christmas,
and I finally got some photos to put in it.
It sure was fun scrapping this way - all the creative stuff was done already, I just had to add pictures! I loved it!
(I'll add journaling soon.)

Today's fruits;

All I added to the cover were the number stickers...


I hired a crew to decorate the tree this year - they worked for hugs & cookies.


I had told the girls I would make them Christmas dresses, but when I started working, I didn't have the time.
So instead, I took them each on a "grandma date" (separately,) and let them try on as many as they wanted. Then I took them out to eat.
It was lots of fun!
These are the dresses they chose:


Santa shots from grandma's annual party. She had a really hard time this year without grandpa, but she carried on the tradition.





Christmas Eve was our little gathering for the immediate family, and what a memorable night it was! The girlies all had stomach flu, and took turns running to the bathroom to throw up.


Last year, our town started the tradition of letting people set up lights and candles at the cemetery on Christmas Eve. It was freezing cold, but we did our part.

A couple of shots of Christmas morning, and that about wraps it up... (ha ha)


This is what the book looks like from the top when it's fully open;


I also did some little Valentine cards for the grans - I'll put them in glassine bags with a few sweet treats...





That's it for now - got to finish up those Disneyland pictures before life gets crazy busy again.

Later.
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