Scrapping in winter

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Winter is a great time to get some scrapping done! If you're not an outdoorsy person (like me) you spend a lot of time inside where it's warm. I've completed quite a few layouts already this month which makes me really happy. Most were quick, easy ones; but I'm really happy with these two that are a little more involved, so I'll share them with you. The first one is done with Basic Gray Archaic papers.

I really like this one. It's made with Cosmo Cricket Souvenir papers and chipboard. I punched the flowers from some of the same papers and used embroidery floss for the
stitching.

Blog Candy Giveaway

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My friend, Robin is having a FANTASTIC blog candy giveaway for some brand new stamps over on her blog. You can go to her blog to see the five stamp sets she is giving away: http://rockinrobin1973.blogspot.com/
And you can go to the Art DeClassified store to see all 18 of the new sets.
http://www.artdeclassified.com/store/index.php/cPath/62

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Queen & Co. has done it again! Their new items are fabulous and they're giving us
the chance to win some of them. Here's a link to their blog with all of the details:
http://www.queenandcompany.typepad.com/
Good luck!

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A wonderful friend has given me an award. Robin Willis http://rockinrobin1973.blogspot.com is a fantastic artist and we share membership in several Yahoo groups.I really must admit that I don't understand her reasoning; I post to my blog so sporadically and most of the time it's simply photos of my grandkids or a layout with photos of my grandkids. But I will gracefully accept her nomination for the Lovely Blog Award.

Now, as part of my responsibilities of this award, I am supposed to pass it along to
seven other bloggers that I feel are worthy of this award. I hope you will check out their blogs to see some fantastic art.
Donalda http://donaldas.blogspot.com/
Wendy http://wendypslittlecorneroftheworld.blogspot.com/
Debbie http://debbiesdiecuts.blogspot.com
Nettie http://nettiesweb.blogspot.com/
Judy http://wwwstampedimpressions.blogspot.com/
Michi http://michirhymeswithpeachy.blogspot.com
Suz http://creativelysavvy.blogspot.com/

More Christmas

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I hope you can stand a bit more Christmas before I get into the new year. It took
me several tries to get some good photos of my outdoor decorations. Thought I'd share the final results. I cut back on the amount of lights we put out this year; both for financial reasons and because it turned cold so early this year.

This is a picture of my tree and animated figures (Sleeping Santa and two of his hard-working elves) through my front window.

And finally, a picture of my family. My son, John, daughter Heather, me, daughter Dawn and my hubby, Larry.

I hope everyone who stops in here had a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year. I pray that 2009 is better in every way for all!