My boys

Two very special men in my life, my sons. Peter (left) and Matthew (right).

This was taking on Christmas Eve at their Grandma's house.

lookie lookie what I did

I needed some christmas bags, but the dollar tree was out so I bought some brown ones and went home and pulled out my stampin up christmas rollers and stamps and created my own bags.

These are my bags for the White Christmas Snack game that we played by my sister, Lizzy's house. We all had a wonderful time playing the game. My sister, Lizzy wrapped some Hershey candy bars with homemade wrappers from Willie Wonka Cholocate factory, Each candy bar had a golden ticket (lottery scratch off ticket. Boy did everyone want that bag. Another package was "Want to be a Millionaire" it had lottery tickets and 100 Grand candy bars, then another one the was "Let it snow"it had snow caps in two desert cups. Everyone had to buy a snack gift value of at least $5.00.

Here is a picture of some really easy candy treats that I made for Christmas gifts. I used pretzels, milk duds and toffee. How easy is that.

Snowman Paper Piecing

The Snowman christmas cards that I did for my nieces and nephew. I decided to turn it into a paper piecing for my class that I taught at Lisa's crop on Saturday, December 13, 2008. Here are the results of the ladies that took the class. Some of the ladies wanted female snowman so they added eyelashes and rosey cheeks.

Snowman Christmas cards

I decided that I wanted to make some Christmas cards to send to the younger nieces and nephews and a few other young people. So here they are, before I mailed them I tucked a pack of hot cholocate in the card.

Lottery Ticket holders

Lottery ticket holders. Every year for the past few I have been giving all the brother in laws and sister in laws lottery tickets. I usually just put them into a christmas card. This year I wanted something a little different. I used a piece of 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock. I folded up from the bottom approximately 2-1/2 inch to form a pocket then I folded the sheet into 4 equal parts to finish the pockets. I glued the outer edges of the 2 end pockets only.





Then I took my stamping up roller and created an image. I also color quite a few images and created a ban with them so that I could close the lottery ticket holder. Then to add a little extra I went surfing the internet for some Christmas trivia. I printed them on small square, ink the edges and attached one trivia to each of the pockets in the lottery holder.

I ended up making 15 of the lottery ticket holders. A few of wanted the instructions on how to make them.

Christmas gifts for my sisters

Here are 2 of the 3 plaques that I made for Christmas gifts for my sisters. I purchased the wooden plaques from Dollar Tree. I used stickles to put a little bling to the plaques.

Christmas Gift for a friend

Here are two of the plaques that I made for a Christmas Gift. I found the little wooden plaques at Dollar Tree. The clipart is just something I came upon while surfing the internet. I used Mod podge to seal it all together.

My son's girlfriend little girl, Bailey (3yrs old) was in love with this plaque. For Bailey I found some Hannah Montana stickers at Dollar Tree and made her a plaque, which she totally fell in love with.

Cards for the card queen

Lanie from New Zealand sent these beautiful cards to me at the beginning of December . Thanks.

Look what I found in my mailbox

Surfing the internet

I have not been surfing the blogs lately, but today I decided to time some time out of my day to check out some of my favorite blogs.

Inking Idaho – has some beautiful Christmas projects that I think most of you would enjoy making.

http://inkingidaho.blogspot.com/

Susie stamp a lot blog – has some really nice projects, but I truly like the teacher card.

http://susiestampalot.blogspot.com/

You have to visit this blog. Love her blog banner but her stocking box is awesome.

http://inksomething.blogspot.com/2008/12/stocking-stuffer-boxes-for-mom-n-dad.html