It's All About the Love

Oh.....sweet, sweet Valentines Day! Right around the corner, right? I can't wait for Valentines Day, and so I've already go up a ton of items in my shop for it.

This is my latest addition to my store:

I love the little vintage images on these, so cute! The backs are blank and you could write on them To~ and From~, but they are darling just looking at the fronts Ü

Oh...and look at these really cool papers I have in sets:

There are 12 different Lovely papers in here...see the embossed with foil ones? My favorite!! And the embroidered ones (one is in pink and the other is in red), those are my favorite, too!! And the pink embossed one? Yep, another favorite! Yeah....I have a lot of favorites and you can too, if you purchase this set! See? Easy as that!

New Year

Can you believe that Christmas is done? Wow, that went really fast! Now, it's time to get ready for Valentines Day and I have already added some fun, new things! Look in my shop, it's full of love Ü

Elf Knee Huggers aka These Eyes Are Watching You

You know how sometimes you wish you had eyes in the back of your head? Or eyes everywhere watching what your kids are doing? Well, at Christmas time I do! See the tree? Full of all of those little watchful eyes? HAHA!! Our kids have always been told that the elves are keeping an eye (or eyes) on them, and when Santa comes on Christmas Eve, they tell him if the kids have been bad or good! Does this work? Oh yeah. I recommend one for everyone who has children Ü Just look at their expressions...priceless.

Home Sweet Home

I thought you might like to see some pictures of the house decorated for Christmas! As you can see, we love old fashioned items, vintage, country...everything that we feel makes life homey Ü

Some More Old Fashioned Tag Goodness

I love these images, they are so pretty. They are all made of old time vintage images and tied off with ribbons, and a nice size for writing on the backs. When I see these, they make me smile and just feel good inside, you know what I mean?

Country Christmas Days here......

I've got to share what we just rode....today is Country Christmas Days where we live, and we just got a nice, long ride on this....SO MUCH FUN!!!! Look at the SIZE of these horses....they're humongous!! It took us all over, and we could stop at any different store we wanted to to go in and shop. Also, free cookies and hot chocolate...YUM!! What a great way to get into the Christmas Spirit Ü

Bookmarks

My nephew and niece love to read books, and wanted new bookmarks, so this is what I made for them. I have their names on the backs in coordinating paper also. I used all scraps on these, and think they turned out pretty cute Ü. You can't tell from the pictures, but the swirls above the cupcake are all glittered!! When I was all done making them, I laminated them with clear contact paper.

Going Green

Okay, maybe I'm not totally going green with everything in my life...but, I've decided no store bought gift wrapping paper this year! That's right, no brightly colored santas, penquins, disney characters, no satiny bows or ribbons that I've paid an arm and a leg for. I am using what I have. And what I have is a LOT of brown paper bags, scrapbooking paper scraps, punches, felt, sewing notions, left-over scrapping supplies and time. Yep, I have time for this project. I think. So far I've got my sister's family done and I'll show you some pics of what I've wrapped up so far, which is quite impressive when I think about all the different embellishments I used Ü. So far I've used an antique atlas (my nephew loves geography), felt, glitter, pipecleaners, rick-rack , tulle, a vintage sewing patter and I even drew a tag myself!

The gifts with the bunnies on the tags are for gifts that they can open when they get my box....cuz hey, what kid doesn't want to open something early (especially from their Auntie)??? What are you using to wrap your presents with this year?

Rubbah

Ahhhh....rubber stamps!! I love them!! In fact, I love them so much that I have a major overflow of them right now....and we know what that means! A Destash Sale!! Come on over to my Etsy store and see what I have just put on...you might find something you've been "needing" Ü. I'll also be putting more on soon, so check back!! Happy Tuesday Ü

NOEL Christmas Holiday Garland Banner Kit

This is a really cute banner that I made for the Holidays this year. Very simple to put together and it looks so nice hung up!! You can get this kit for $7 in my Etsy shop right now! It comes with everything you need to put this together, and it's so easy that you can even make it with your kids!

Here they are! The pictures of the fun vintage tags I made the other day! I love how these turned out, very old fashioned looking...and THAT is right up my alley!

Hmmm...seems that there is a glitch going on right now, and images aren't showing up. Hopefully, they will "appear" later! Sorry 'bout that everyone, if possible, I'll redo this later and try to get the pics to show up then...

Somethings new today, as I'm having so much fun creating things for Christmas!! I made these 2 sets of tags up with a warm, vintage feel to them. Lots of distressing, lots of ribbons and some vintage trims....old fashioned images and a few buttons thrown in. Oh yeah....a "little bit" of bling, gotta have that!!

Cook Books

Thought I'd share some things that I have been working on lately for a custom order. These are big, 8 x 9....and are 75 pages thick inside. They are going to be for 2 sisters, so I wanted to make them sort of the same, yet different. Do you like? These are only the covers for now, and they will be ring bound. I will share the finished pictures when they are complete!

Time for a Sale!!

I just put my raw, naked chipboard pieces on sale at 50% off, time to see them move Ü I've got some flags, sheep, party hats, balloons and lady bugs! Fun stuff! And what can you DO with chipboard? Easy, you can do anything with it Ü You can paint and sand, ink, stamp with rubber stamps on it, cover it with paper, use walnut ink and age it, spray adhesive and cover it with glitter, cover in a thick glue and cover with beads....tons of things Ü What do you do with your chipboard?

I've Been Tagged!

http://mosaicsmith.blogspot.com/just tagged me so here I go!

If you have been tagged just follow these rules, it's fun!1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I love winter, more than summer.
2. I read westerns, and my favorite author right now is Elmer Kelton.
3. If I could be anyone is history, it would probably be Laura Ingalls Wilder.
4. I love to can everything I can from my garden, I just make pizza sauce, salsa and ketchup.
5. On my toast I have to have mustard...it's one of my snacks Ü.
6. I/We have 3 kids, including a set of identical twins.
7. I have been with my dh since we were both 14....a LONG time ago Ü

I will tag 7 people I have in mind when I can get my blogs straightened out. I have another one that this one keeps on getting mixed up with and I'm not sure how to correct this. I've even deleted the other one and still it will only let me post as if I'm posting from the other blog (even when I'm signed up under this one at the time). Very frustrating.

9 Sets of Christmas Tags

Okay, so I went tag crazy again, made 9 sets of them, and had a lot of fun singin' my Christmas tunes while I made them! There are different styles of paper I used, so if you use vintage or modern I have it! I also have about a gazillion more tags to put in my shop...so watch out for them in the future Ü