Lucky Me!

Please don't hate me for my wondrous luck, ladies! I have been following the 12 Tags of Christmas on Tim Holtz's blog for the last 3 years.....and am a huge fan of his products tho' I don't own NEARLY enough of it to master all his techniques....

And I ALMOST MISSED OUT on this year's tags! I remembered last night and right away commented (and ran out to Michael's to buy the CAR STAMP because I had to make this my Christmas Card this year!)

....and then...this morning when I checked in to see Tag #7....guess what? I WON! Check it out here!

As if I didn't have enough on my list to do...now I want to make ALL OF THESE TAGS to enter for Tim's GRAND PRIZE. (Heaven help me.)

Back to my embossed cars and grungeboard! oohhh how I love this CAR!

I miss making cards!

Whipped up 10 of these the other night for a friend -- love the shimmery cardstock. And how much do I love this Fiskars Threading Water Punch? Finally splurged on it at Joanne's (with a 40% off coupon, bien sur!)....loving POLKA DOTS and PINK AND GREEN color combinations, too.

Happy Ho Ho Ho-ing!

Ode to the Pottery Barn Swedish House Pillows

Another step closer to my "holiday house" -- I sewed up two pillow covers out of two Pottery Barn Swedish House napkins last night....(backed with cheapie JoAnn Fabrics red fat quarters...which were not the exact right size....so please don't look too closely at the goofy seams!) The napkins were hemmed on all four sides...so I used that as my "flange," sewed the red right up to the hem, and stuffed some old square pillows inside. Such a deal, eh? Napkins were $6.50 each, fat quarters were on sale for 99 cents each. (Pottery Barn pillow covers are $29 each!) Cha-ching! I loves me a deal!

Creative Cafe - part two!

More Creative Cafe cuteness!! This was one of the projects they were doing at MLPA last week at the Creative Cafe---they had ONE KIT left when I was there yesterday and I snapped it up - three dollars to make six napkin rings? I had to have it. I just may have to go back for more felt and flowers...oh the BUCKETS OF BUTTONS they have!! It really is like a candy store.

Creative Cafe - SO COOL

OK..whoever came up with the Creative Cafe is brilliant in my book! Stopped into my (not so local) LSS today - fully intending to ONLY get the items on my list (stuff to create some Tim Holtz-inspired tags -- have you seen his blog lately? SWOON.) and a "big ticket" item with my 40% off coupon ..... and I got there just in time for the Creative Cafe class!! (every Saturday - 12-2....oh my). HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE chipboard/transparency book? Only 6 dollars! All supplies provided. (You literally just stand there at the counter and create the project....) How in love with this BIRD am I?

Holiday Projects and a New Tradition

I was strolling through Target on Sunday, killing time while waiting for my photos to be developed...and saw the Making Memories kits in the crafts aisle. Couldn't resist the Advent Calendar...how cute is this? Took about an hour to create....some rub-ons and precut patterned paper (lovely tiny prints....I want more of it!) and some embellishments. Love the little drawers--perfect little squares.

So I explain to my Jewish DH the purpose of an Advent Calendar - and how we could just use it to leave little notes to each other (a daily ritual of late) - because we surely don't need any CANDY! And yesterday--I came home to find a note next to the box, tucked into a new book that was on my Christmas list! How sweet! So into box #3 went the note. Won't it be fun to reread them all next year?

And then today....he came home from the grocery store with the December OPRAH magazine and a note! (Lovin' this new tradition! But I need to come up with some goodies to go with his notes now!)

Thanks, Lovey. xo