More Pictures to Share

Even though I have not been very good at posting, I have been taking pictures.

The first picture is of my BEAUTIFUL Christmas tree BEFORE the cats decided to attack it and knock it down. I had spent 2 hours perfecting everything, making sure the ribbon was laying properly and that the red and silver ornaments were evenly spaced out, only to find it laying in the middle of the floor the next morning. I was not a happy camper!


This picture was taken at Disney on Ice. It is of Alia and Nickolas being their typical goofy selfs. I had them posed just right and then Alia had to put her nacho cheese stained arm on top of Nickolas' head!


This picture turned out very good! It was taken on the night of Nickolas' Christmas program. While the other kids sung along with their class songs, Nickolas' decided to keep time by slapping on his knee. He is growing up to be such a handsome little boy!


This next picture is another one of Nickolas. It was taken on Saturday when April and I were out shopping. Before we went into Target, Nickolas had to play a bit in the red circle that is outside. I had a really good action shot of him jumping out of the circle, but unfortunately it came out blurry :(


And my last picture was from the "Dirty Santa" party last night. This is of Miss Alia and Miss Angel being the goofy girls that we all know and love. I tried to get a nice picture of them, but this is what I got instead!

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More Photos for December

When I decided to do this challenge, I did not think I would have killer headaches during the first week. So because of that, I am 2 pictures short. I was going to just use pictures that I had taken earlier, but that doesn't fit the challenge and I don't want to cheat. I am going to try to be better at this and better at posting the pictures that I have taken!

Below are the pictures that I took on Friday, Sat

Photo-A-Day - 12.2.2008

So for the Photo-A-Day Challenge, I was inspired by the colors of cardstock that Archiver's has to offer. I love going in there and looking at the colors. It is so hard to buy just one colorwhen you have your "Free Cardstock" coupons that I often buy 5 different colors!

Photo-A-Day Challenge

As I was catching up on my blog readings, I noticed that JessicaSprague.com has posted a challenge. The challenge is to take and post a photo-a-day for the month of December. Since my cameras have not been loved the amount that they should've been this year, I decided that this would be the perfect thing for me to participate in.

So last night, as I was driving home, I got out my trusty diImage camera and took a picture of the dashboard. It's nothing spectacular but it is often the only thing giving off light on my ride home.

Trying to get us in the spirit

As a sign in Michael's said yesterday, there is less than 48 days til Christmas. Can you believe that where has the time gone???


So it try to get in a more holiday spirit, I decided to make some holiday cards and tags this weekend. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of my creations before I took them over to my mom and dad's. Oh well. Next weekend is going to be the great card-a-thon when April and I try to get all of our cards made.


I promise I was take pictures then!

Everyone loves a bit of candy...

...blog candy that is!

And even though I am away on vacation, I thought I would leave you all a few links to win some great goodies. Just click the links below and enter away!

The Inked Spot

Limelight Papercrafts

Stamping with Denise

CAN'T get enough

I was having one of my marathon video tutorial sessions a couple weeks ago when I ran across a YouTube tutorial that would forever change my crafting career! It wasn't a very long video, maybe 3 minutes at the most, but it opened up a whole new product line to me - Cuttlebug dies and embossing folders! I don't know why I thought I couldn't use them. I guess I just thought I needed too many adapters? But boy am I happy I can use the dies and embossing folders now!

I CANNOT get enough of Cuttlebug's Embossing Folders! I only have two (swiss dots & d'vine curls) but they add pop to a card that just looks like it is missing something. In fact, after I used the swiss dots embossing folder on one of my cards my husband said, "That card looks really good. I would buy that one in a store."

The card to the left is the one my husband said that he would buy. I really liked how it turned out too. I have a feeling I will be making a lot cards similar to this one in the future!

Supplies used: ClearDesign: Thinking of You Messages (Hero Arts), Essential Sentiments (MFT), A2 Swiss Dots Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)