Christmas decorating

The Christmas tree is now decorated and I feel calmer just looking at it. Now, if I could just figure out how to turn the flash off on my camera, I might get a decent night photo with the lights on. Oh well. I've saved a little room for some homemade ornaments from my sisters at ScrapGoods. When I receive them & put them up, I'll post that, too.


The mantel has the nativity and my angels.


These are my snowmen. They are so much fun and they remind me of my sister. She loved angels and snowmen. So, it's a small Christmas reminder of her every time I see them. That's my great-aunt Kathryn on the right. It's a pastel that was done many decades ago.


Sammy, be good.


This is Sammy not being good. I don't have any photos of Cindy not being good because I was too busy saving the tree to take any pictures.


Sammy and Cindy resting up from helping me.

Fat Book

I joined a Fat Book swap at my LSS last spring. The theme was the letter "J." We each created our own cover and 12 identical pages - one for each participant. This is my cover: I wrapped gold embroidery thread around a letter "J" I made out of cardboard. I put "jewels" and other J items on the cover.




I chose Jellyfish & Jewels as my page. I covered the 6x6 chipboard with a piece of blue cellophane, then some yummy handmade paper with wonderful fiber in it and covered that with another piece of blue cellophane. The jellyfish bodies are pieces of glass (flat on one side & rounded on the other); the tentacles are beaded fringe. I attached a treasure chest filled with pearls & gold seed beads. The diver is an embossed stamp image on gray paper. The floor of the sea is torn sandpaper. There are real shells and other embellishments on the page.



This is a page done by another participant - she chose Junk as her page theme.



This participant chose Jumping Jack as her page theme. The Jumping Jack has movable arms & legs.


Now, why did I put this here?? Because I've joined an online Fat Book swap with my aMUSEme group. The book theme is Childhood Amusements...I have some ideas, but nothing has jelled yet, so I can't share with you what my page theme will be.

Folding Class

I belong to the Yahoo group, aMUSEme, and this past Sunday we had an online class and learned how to fold these cute packets.

I haven't put the bow on yet, but I will before I use the packet to hold little goodies for the recipient.

The larger one was made from an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of wrapping paper and the smaller one from a 7 x 5 piece of paper.

You can also put plain paper through a Cuttlebug and emboss a pattern on it. So many different things you can do with this.

It's snowing!!

Woo hoo, first day of December and it is snowing. Now, mind you, I don't like to go out & have to shovel or drive in the stuff, but when I can be inside all snug and enjoy watching it come down....that's what I like.