Happy New Years!!

I can't believe tomorrow is the start of 2009...2008 flew by. It's been a better year than 2007!! But I think 2009 is going to be a stellar year...right Bekah!! (we keep saying this thinking it will come true)

I know many people start the new year out with resolutions or goals, but not me. I'm starting mine with a statement. "I'm going to try to do my best at everything I do." ( I already try my best..but I like to reissue my thoughts) As I type this I've been thinking about my word for 2009. Tons of words have been floating through my head...but the one I like the most is EMBRACE.
*I want to embrace my girls
*I want to be embraced by Tony
*I want to embrace what life has to offer
*I want to embrace change
*I want to embrace my friends
I could go on but I feel as if you get the point!


How could anyone not want to embrace these cuties??


Here's a couple LOs. I'm trying to get my mojo back. I think Santa took it back to the North Pole with him.

I did this one for the 52 sketches blog. I just love her sketches!!

This one I did for ScrapWhispers...it was a scrabble challenge. Check it out!!


I hope everyone has a great prosperous and fabulous New Years!!

Love and Hugs!!

More Cards!!

Today...Tony tells me he would like cards for his co-managers. I'm totally cool with this but,
I asked him like 2 weeks ago if he would like cards and he tells me NO. SO, today I asked if he wanted me to make them or go out and purchase them. Of course he leaves this decision up to me. Well I decided to make them because it's down right frigid outside. This morning it was 3 degrees with a wind chill of -17. I decide I'm not fighting the cold nor the stores for cards. So here's what I created today.




Today I was also very lucky to receive happy scrappy mail. I got Amanda Probst's new book. It's full of great scrapping prompts as well as beautiful LOs. I will definitely refer to it monthly for great scrapping ideas. From her book I learn that February 24th is National Tortilla Chip Day!! I love random facts like that.


I hope everyone has a great Holiday!!
Love and Hugs!!

Scrappy Saturday Night!!

Here's a couple LOs I've done while my girls were playing with their grandparents.

I did this for the Noel Mignon Challenge blog. I used Gigi's first day of school picture.

I also this for a crop on the Noel Mignon MB. Go check them out!! There a bunch of fun ladies here. Slightly crazy but fun. :)

I did this for a Challenge on the AMR. Go check them out too. The Store Owner Stacey...is a sweetheart!!

I hope you all have a fabulous night!!
Love and Hugs!!

All I want for Xmas....

is you, is one of my favorite songs. It also comes from one of my favorite holiday movies, Love Actually. So when I saw that Scrapping the Music had chosen it as their inspiration, I just had to do it. So Here it is:

The picture is from Lexi's first Christmas.
Products:
October Afternoon
Me and my Big Idea
Bazzil
Thickers
MM letter stickers
random buttons
and ribbon from the AMR.

Don't forget to checkout the NBKS!! :)

Love and Hugs!!

Toot toot!!

Guess what?? I'm so excited to announce that I've made the Never Been Kissed Scrappers Design Team!!


Make Love Letters at Blinkyou.com
Please come check us out Never Been Kissed Scrappers. It is a fun community of talented scrappers that haven't been discovered yet.


I'm so honored to be chosen and I can't wait to see all the great projects and ideas we come up with.
Check out the amazing design team:
Amy
Louisa
Krista
Jackie

Can you tell I'm giddy??
Love and Hug all!!

A few new LOs

Hello all!!
I've done a few LOs this weekend. I played with paper Friday and a little Saturday. Here's what I came up with.

I did these to for the NBKS mini crop this weekend. They've got a couple more challenges I want to get done today. After I clean my house up. LOL


I've started going back and doing older pictures of when my girls were babies. It's gives me a lot more pictures to scrap. LOL


I hope you have a great Sunday!!

Love and Hugs!!

Holy Moley.....

I had a huge box waiting at the door for me this afternoon after I picked up Gigi. I won a challenge at ScrapJazz and they sent me this:

Here is upclose shots. The paper is DreamStreet. The ribbon is Bazzil and almost everything else is Heidi Swapp.



I seriously couldn't believe, I got all of this!! I can't wait to play with my new scrappy stuff!!

Also, I did this LO today for a couple challenges. I went back and scrapped Gigi's first Christmas. I can't believe how big is now. **It felt good to go back and due an older pic!!**

I did this for Heather's Challenge on the AMR Blog and Got Mojo!! I double dipped!! :)

Well I better run...We have Christmas Music on the kids are dancing away!!

Love and Hugs!!

Challenges and Fun Stuff

This time of year the girls are giddy and excited. Lexi thinks Christmas is tomorrow, she says that everyday. They want to touch and open presents. I think it's almost too much for them to handle. It's really cute and adorable, I just love their innocence.

This year we are making a lot of presents. The girls are having a blast doing it, too!! We are making ornaments and hopefully keychains (if I can cut the acrylic).


The final results of our ornaments. We are making more this weekend.

Tonight I did get a little scrappy!!


I did this one for girls. Lookie, CJ I used your new favorite word. :)

I did this little card with a sketch from Sketchy Saturday. I know mine is a little boring but I love the white background.

I did this LO for BASB Challenge. I love this picture of the girls dancing together. They were just having so much fun.

I did this for the 52 sketches challenge. I fell in love with her sketch and couldn't wait to do it. I also adore this picture of Lexi. She was Sharpay on Halloween, therefore she was fabulous!!

Thank you for sitting through all these pictures!!

Love and Hugs!!

Happy Mail!!

Wow did I get some Happy Mail Saturday. My blogger friend in Florida since me such a great package. I can't wait to use those stamps. I'm just love that frog stamp. (I think frogs, should be the next trend) She also made a cute card with Sassafrass Lass Paper. Thanks MaryAngella!!


We finally got the tree up this weekend. We put it up Saturday and now my house feels all Christmassy. All I need to do now is watch White Christmas then I'll be completely ready for Christmas except for the Christmas Shopping, presents and wrapping.

Gigi put the first ornament on the tree and Lexi did the last one. Lexi's out consist of Halloween Shirt and Valentine's PJ Pants. I think she's so cute with her own since of style.

I also did get scrappy this weekend too!! I got a few cards and LO done.



Well I gotta run and make Lexi some Lunch!!
Love and Hugs!!

Cards cards cards

Yep...I'm making cards. Here's a few I made the other night. I hope you like them. They were pretty simple, but I'm getting lots of use out of my cuttlebug!!



This last one was the easiest but it looks really pretty to me. Well I'm off to make some more cards. I wish I could send everyone one but I don't have enough paper. :)

Oh when you write out your cards this year please fill an extra one out for a recovering solider. Gigi wanted to make a card for each solider in our military this year...she's such a sweetie. Lexi doesn't care as long as she gets to play with ink and stamps, she pretty easy. I just adore my girls.

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington,D.C. 20307-5001

Love and hugs everyone!!!

Tony's Buns!!

Who would like some of Tony's buns??? He picked these up for our Thanksgiving Dinner...He commented how he had the coolest buns there. I love my dorky hubby. :)


We had a great time on Thanksgiving with Tony's brothers and their families. We had good food, conversations, and football. The best part was that all of our kids get along and played well together.

This week I haven't been to crafty but I did get a couple things done.

I did this LO for the 52 sketches Challenge:


I did this card for Sketchy Saturday:

Lastly I did this for Never Been Kissed (It's not my best card ever but I was tired last night):


I did all three projects with the same papers...Yep..I used my scraps. I do get a lot of papers and scrap papers. :)

Have a great day!!
Love and Hugs!!

Happy Early Turkey Day!!!

I hope everyone has a fabulous Turkey Day and gets stuffed with lots of yummy food.

I've been quite scrappy lately with one of my friends. We been scrapping at our own homes but never the less we've been scrapping. We are challenge junkies right now. We have been doing all kinds of challenges. It's been fun! Here is some recent LOs:



Thanks for stopping by!! I've got some cards to make. :)
Love and Hugs

BRRRRR

It's cold outside, we have our first snow storm of the year. We got about 3 inches last night and might get another 2 inches today. This afternoon once I pick Gigi up from school we will probably have a major snow fightball fight. I foresee me being very cold and wet, with 2 little happy girls whom won a major snow fight.

Yesterday my girls started coloring Butterflies for this cause. The want to send in a few butterflies for the children that passed away during the Holocaust.

This week I was really scrappy. I did 9 LOs, I completed most them for the NoelMignon Harvest Crop. Here's one of them. If you wanna see the rest, just click on my Flickr Gallery.


On last thing, there is a huge give away here. Go fill out a comment and good luck!!
Love and Hugs!!

Indian Summer.....

is officially over!! I know you all are sad too. Except those that live in Sunny Florida!! :)

With the ending of Indian Summer...comes the beginning of Winter. Even though the calender says it's not Winter, we all know it really is!!! Here's some signs I use to recognize the beginning of this very cold season.

1. The temperature (brrrrr)
2. The smell of wood stoves burning
3. You break out the Hot Chocolate (with lots of marshmallows)
4. You bust out all the thick sweaters and turtlenecks
5. You pack away your precious flip flops...for fear of frost bite
6. The sky turns gray...and the sun doesn't shine as much
7. You take off your toes rings...in fear of losing them in your house socks.
8. You think about making chili (when hubby's not home)
9. You start seeing snow flakes in you local forecast
10. Lastly, you actually start seeing snow!!!!

This time of year we start staying inside a lot because there aren't as many fun activities to do. I'm fine with that because we will spend some great quality time together.


I made this LO for the Online crop at NoelMignon. You should stop by and check it out!! They have lots of fun challenges as well as fun games.

Also, there is a new site up called Never Been Kissed Scrappers. It's cute, fun, and new...you should sign up there and tell them..I sent you. ;)

Love and Hugs!!

slow weekend!!

This weekend we've done nothing but, it was welled needed. Part of the reason for do nothing is that I'm not feeling well. I finally caught that cold I've been fighting. Also, Tony wanted family time Saturday night. So we all hung out together and watched movies.

Yesterday I did manage to create some LOs. I did them for different contest. My friend and I both joined ScrapJazz and we are doing their November challenges. I think we only have 1 left to do.

This LO was for the 52 sketches challenge blog and Scrap Whispers challenge. Yep I doubled dipped. :)

I did this for the Scrap Jazz November sketch and Scrap Schemes Blog. It turned out cute...but it seems slightly plain to me. Yep...I double dipped again.

I did this one for fun. I wanted to scrap these pictures of Lexi. I think there are more LOs of Gigi in my books so I adding more of Lexi. I try to make it even.

Lastly Gigi scrapped yesterday too!! She was showing off her work.

If you have any other great challenges let me know. I'm always looking for fun stuff to do. :)

Also today while your out in blogger world...stop by my new friend's MaryAngella friend's page Jennifer and leave her some love and hugs!

Love and Hugs!!