Here By Grace

Relaxing

Well, now that the hoopala of Christmas is over, I'm beginning to relax a little bit more.  I'm getting ready to take Michael to see Happy Feet, and he tells me he wants to go to Chucky Cheese instead.  Of course he wants to do the opposite of what I want to do. He's a man, right? So I guess Chucky Cheese it is. I just hate leaving there because he acts so terribly when it's time to go!  Anyway, Gregory and I are going to Kansas City for a little fun without the kids for New Year's Eve, so I'm really looking forward to that! We always do something like this on New Year's. 

Here is a page I did this morning about my fabulous Mom.  Her birthday is on New Year's Day and she'll be 70! (Shhhhhh! I think she wants to play that down so keep it on the down-low!) Okay, take care and Be Blessed!

 

After Christmas...

I was beat! Man, you don't realize how much you do in preparation of  this special day, but you sure do feel it afterwards! All I wanted to do was lay around and watch Lifetime, but my house was totally trashed! So, of course I couldn't relax and enjoy myself because of the mess, so I did a clean sweep! All I can say is my kids and the trash man are not happy with me!

Well, I'm really glad to be on Winter Vacation. We don't go back to school until January 8th, so I should get some good scrapping done! I also have to make time to finish my report cards which are due when we get back.  The best thing is, my kids have to return to school on the 3rd, so that means I'll have an entire week free, alone, and all by myself to do whatever I want, whenever I want! Yep! Life is good!

Here is my new favorite scrappy creation I made for a Scrap-Tastic DT assignment: My Love Sugar Cube! The cute Sugar Cube is from Urban Lily but all of the papers and embellishments I used are Making Memories. And I use the Cricut that CreativeXpress so generously loaned me, to cut the word "love" I just love it! I've definitely gotta get me one of those!   Well, that's it for today! Take care and Be Blessed!

And the Winner is.....

STEPHANIE!!!! Yay Stephanie! You have won a really good RAK from me!!! Send me your mailing address and I'll send out your package next week! And, I hope you get that waffle iron you want from Santa this year!  Thank you to everyone who shared their Christmas wishes with me! This was fun! I think I'll do this RAK thing more often!

So it's Christmas Eve and I'm baking some of my special brownies for our family feast tomorrow. What are you doing? I'm also finishing up a calendar for my mom.  No matter what I buy her, she always wants a calendar!

Here is a layout I made using Eye Candy's January kit. Have a wonderful Christmas, take care, and be blessed!

All I Want For Christmas Giveaway!!

So, it's December 13th and I'm feeling really Christmassy! Sometimes I don't feel Christmassy until the 24th, but this year it's different.  I'm just happy, feeling peaceful, and all around silly!  There's nothing spectacular going on in my life right now to make me this giddy either!  I just feel good!  With that said,  I feel like giving some stuff away!  I have soooo much stuff in my scrap area that it's beginning to get on my nerves, so I'm gonna be giving a nice RAK to someone really soon! All you have to do is post to this entry telling me what you want for Christmas or your wish for the holiday season!  I'll put all the names in a hat and let Michael pull a name on Christmas Eve! Believe me, you'll get a very nice package too!

Here are some Christmas things I've made lately.  The cards are made with the Snow Angel kit from Eye Candy.  The layout is all Making Memories stuff along with my favorite glitter flowers by Melissa Frances!  Take care and Be Blessed!!

7 DAYS!!!

We had no power in our home for 7 DAYS!!! OMG!! I thought I was gonna go crazy at any moment!  Temperatures outside ranged from 30 degrees to 10 degrees! So, of course we couldn't stay at our home so we basically all moved in with my parents which was a blessing, but also an interesting experience.  Well, I'm back home now and trying to get myself together and get back to normal.  I'm having myself a little "Welcome Back Home Scrapping Party" this weekend to get back in my zone.  Here's some stuff I did for Scrap-Tastic using Fiber Scraps stuff.  Take care and Be Blessed!!