Holiday Shines!

Oh yes, I have been ignoring my blog lately - but I have got all my presents wrapped and under the tree - which is actually up and decorated!!

Last year it didn't go up until the 24th of December - just didn't get in the spirit - but this year, Andy (my son) and his girlfriend Keri, brought up the tree and decorated it and I am so thankful that they did - it just got me rolling!! JOY!!

I have a card that I made for the Wednesday Stamp Club at My Favorite Things and also to follow along with the Featured Stamper Challenge on Splitcoaststampers yesterday.

The Featured Stamper was Mary Rose and this is the card I used to case. I loved all the glittery snow! The Wednesday Stamp Club theme was to make a last minute Christmas card using a Pure Innocence stamp!

I tore up some Vintage Cream cardstock to make some snow and added stickles along the top to make the beautiful glitter! The image is the Pure Innocence stamp Fairy girl cut out, and I altered her a bit by adding a snowflake to the end of her wand!

The sentiment is from MFT's Winter in the City - a perfect match!

I hope you are enjoying your holidays and/or snow or both!!

Oops....forgetting JOY!

I have forgotten to post my JOY'S this week - even after I said I would post every day - well, that is me ...

Can you picture a little 4 year old boy, all bundled up, hand in hand with his dad, walking down the laneway in the snow?

Jake my grandson and Jared my son-in-law - Ron and I were watching out the window as they walked down our laneway.....Jake kept turning around to watch his footprints in the first snowfall- JOY!.....I walked down to the shop, where Jared was putting together his model airplanes, and Jake was just wandering around looking at things.

I said to him, "I saw your footprints in the snow Jake - they were so fun to follow"

He said to me, "I left them for you Grandma, so you could find me..." Perfect JOY!

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #26 and My Joy.

ETA: Claire has the most wonderful competition going on at her Waltzingmouse Blog - You can win prizes and everything!! - It's not a crafty competition - just a "nice" one!!

Good day and welcome to Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge 26!

We have a funky little sketch today - a circle - eeks! 

  and here is my card using the Beaded Circle die from Spellbinders.....

I stamped the circles with Teeny Trees and added a little sparkle to them.......the sentiments are from Frame-It and Teeny Trees and I jsut bent them a little to wrap around the circle edge - so easy!


Won't you join us for this sketch challenge? You certainly don't have to use Waltzingmouse Stamps - but if you have them - why not? Claire occasionally gives away a free stamp set to one participant - how much fun!


JOY POST.....see this post to see what I am talking about.....


My Joy for today - well, let's just say that some of my Joy's may not be the kind of Joy you might expect.

My hubby is a hunter and this is deer-hunting week - I know - I am not a fan of it.....but I did hit a deer with my car once and wrecked it (my car) beyond belief - now I say - get themmmm......


This is the last day of deer hunting season - Ron called and said to me "honey, don't be alarmed, but I was accidentally shot.....meet us at the hospital" -----I gasped and then heard the guys laughing in the background.......for split second I felt profound JOY because he was fooling of course... but then it all changed and I hung up.....not sure if I will speak to him tonight or not......

What's Cooking?

A couple of weeks ago the weekly challenge at My Favorite Things was to create something that represent thankfulness.....

I am thankful for so many blessings but particularly that we have enough food (and more) at our table to feed our family every day!

I used the What's Cooking a la Mode girl - such a sweetie -doesn't she look like she is sweating cooking up a storm!  I don't see her on the website so she must be out of stock....but I'm sure she will be back in soon!

I used Cosmo Cricket Material Girl designer paper and Spellbinders Labels 10 die for the card.

I also used two of My Favorite Things dies - the large rick rack die and the flower die - cute!!

Okay, on to my Joy for today! If you didn't read the previous post - you can read it here

I am trying to celebrate Joy everyday in my life - I KNOW that I am blessed with so many things but I do have trouble grasping onto the "stop and enJOY it" part and so I am vowing to do that every day and post it to my blog - boring for you, but it's my blog so I can do it if I want (stamping foot) hehe!

Some of my Joy will be trivial and some may be mind boggling and/or eye-rolling to you lol! and I talk in dashes.......

Okay, Picture this. I was driving to the chiropractor the other morning and I had my seat warmer on in my car (aren't I lucky?)-- it was a freezing outside but the sun was shining -- and I mean shining, in my window -- and it started to hit me - this was a beautiful drive, an absolutely beautiful drive - how fortunate I am living where I do, being able to drive down a country road, no traffic, just me and the sun, and I began to smile - a HUGE smile and honestly, if I had have met anyone on the road - they may have thought I was a wee bit batty!

Okay, it's little ------ but I know that I was filled with JOY.....in capital letters....I think I do believe that some joy is teeny---I will find out -- but this JOY was LARGE! That's it for today.....thank you for listening to my first recorded JOY and not my last......

Embracing my Joy!

What a wonderful premise don't you think? I was cruising around Blogdumb yesterday and found this wonderful post on Sarah Markley's Blog! and God help me, I am going to do it. 

I absolutely KNOW that I have Joy in my life - I just don't take the time to recognize it as I see it, and give God thanks!

This is absolutely not like me at all......as many of you would dare to tell me (don't tell me) but by jeepers, I am going to stop and recognize and then embrace the Joy in my life everyday and post it to my blog!

My Joy's may not make sense to you - but then again they don't have to - as long as they make sense to me - wow! is this a break through or something?!

Be prepared!!  By the way, I am stone cold sober.....