January Challenge

Posted are a few photo's of my paper storage, I LOVE Cropper Hoppers, they keep your paper clean, wrinkle free, ez to thumb through and save on storage space. That being said they are so great that you can end up storing so much paper that you forget how much you really have!!

So my January challenge to myself and you is to use up some of what we have, as an added challenge I am going to focus on our older photo's that are always waiting for a little love. The previous post using Felicity were pictures from years past for the most part. Our girls are age 26, 27, and 32, the pictures I used are from their baby photo storage albums, I plan on digging into those and making a dent in my overflowing paper stash over the month of January.

Check back later to pick up a few tips, motivation and a blast from the past, Heck I have some pictures form as far back as the 1800's I will share with you

Happy New Year!!

Sorry I have not blogged in so many days!! I thought I had updated the blog right up until Christmas Eve but looks like I forgot, oops. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will celebrate the New Years in a way that you enjoy.

I will try and catch up on some post today between getting a head start on New Years dinner and finishing last touches of cleaning up after Christmas

First off our latest CTMH cattie goes live on January 1st!! I have to tell you the on line cattie does not show the products as well as the real cattie, if you would like a copy send me an e-mail and I will get one to you.

Second we are running a special for the month of January, you can check it out at my on line shop, I love when we run a special at the same time a new cattie is released, everyone ends up with a freebee when you order $60.00 in stamps and we have lots of great new stamps you are gonna want.

The layouts posted are using the January special Felicity kit, you are going to love the papers and stamp set included and for FREE is even better, the kit does not contain card stock so check your supplies when you place an order so you will have what you need to get busy creating

A little scrapbooking

Here is a Mini album I put together a few years back with all of our favorite snacks for the holiday's. i would have so many people ask me for recipes when we would host a party and of course I would forget to send them the recipe! So I whipped this up and keep it on display, if someone wants the recipe they can copy it right then or better yet use the scanner and make a copy before they leave. I can't show you the other Christmas related scrapbook gifts for two reasons, reason one is they are for our girls and reason two is I wrapped them before I took a picture. here is a hint go to Making Memories website and look under cook books, they have an EZ Peszy holiday cook book that is a must have.

I know it is crazy for me to send business away from my CTMH site but this is something we don't carry and also I like to think of myself as an equal spending scrapbooker.

More from Tuesday

I will try and make up for lost time while Tyler is taking a nap. Our Niece and her children were able to come over for a long weekend this past week, Ty loves to have cousins to play with! We all went for a sleigh ride Saturday night with a stop at Panara's for hot chocolate, then closed the night out with a trip to Barnes and Nobles, Wheeee. I am to old for all the activities with the little ones. For those of you from up north in NC our sleigh rides are in parking lots, the sled has wheels, now we could head up to the Mts and do a real sleigh ride but that would mean we would need to drive the 2 hours to get their, I can tell you that ain't happening until they get a little older!!

Lori Ann loved riding around yelling Merry Christmas to everyone, Daniel thought the horse was a tiger and kept yelling out giddy up tiger, and Tyler was all about the wheels. As you can see in this picture he was falling out of the sled trying to watch the wheels, no wonder I have high blood pressure

Oop's forgot to blog Monday

Sorry about that, I have Tyler all week, Daycare closed for 2 weeks but county school's are open until Wednesday so I have way more help than I need.

We couldn't get the Gingerbread houses done Sunday so Tyler and Bob worked on a few this morning, as you can see AJ decided to get in on the act. Tyler is so funny he calls them the Chickenbread houses, don't know what that is all about but it is funny as all get out! We keep telling him no they are Gingerbread houses, but he has a mind of his own, he is giving his houses to Mommy and Daddy and Meme and Pap Pap

When the girls were in school we would do one for all of their teachers, averaged over 30 each year, you talk about WORK, but they are really cute and make the house smell great, as the girls got older and wanted to buy gifts for every friend they had we started having a Gingerbread party and had the kids all bring a mystery Santa gift for under $10.00. All the kids got to go home with a small gift and a Gingerbread house to share with the family. This sure saved us a lot of money but again, what a mess and lots of work

Baking is done

Wow two posts in one day, that won't be happening very often. Thought I better post my baking photo's now before I run out of time before Christmas, only 5 more days until Christmas!!! Yepee, today I will work on getting all the other snacks made and in the freezer so I can kick back and enjoy some quiet nights watching Christmas movies with our favorite cookies and tea.

Tyler and I started our baking and candy making a few weeks back, I am so lucky to have extra room in the garage refrigerate to store cookies, our regular freezer and inside refrigerator are full to overflowing so this is a nice treat for me. I make lots and lots of our family favorites of cookies and candy then store them in the freezer so when one of us needs a quick desert tray to take to a party we are all set, of course all the girls need to do is give me a call so they can pick up their to go order, lucky girls!

Are to taking lots of pictures of the little things you and your family do for the holiday's? Get your camera out right now and take a few shots, you will be happy you did in a few years!

The stocking are hung

32 years ago my sister Sherry made our oldest daughter the most beautiful hand made stocking with tons of sequins and bead work, it is still just a lovely today as it was way back then. I thought what the heck I will make one for Bob and I and as each of our Daughters came along I would make one for them. As the girls are beginning families of their own I make a stocking for our new Son-In-Law and of course Grandbabies. Man they take forever to finish and it has become so hard to see all the little beads and sequins these days, but we are blessed that are family is continuing to grow so I won't fuss any more but I need to remember to get started on the new stocking for next year as soon as Kelli and Nathan find out what the baby will be.

Our Niece Kym and her children are up from Birmingham for a visit so we went out last night with the kids to burn off a little energy, they are all so excited over Christmas this year and bouncing off the walls!! They had so much fun on the sleigh ride, they were screaming at the top of their lungs Merry Christmas to everyone they saw.