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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Christmas gift to myself!!!!

Just wanted to share my new gift with everyone. I love buying Joye Hinton's handpainted china. I found her work on ebay a few years ago and have been buying her china for awhile now. This time I wanted pink poinsettias for the holidays and this is what she came up with.

Merry Christmas to me!!!!!!

(Thank you Joye XXOO)

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Flowers from my sweetie!! :)

Pink poinsettias

I love pink.

At Christmas time it is difficult to find pink poinsettias for cards so I decided to make my own this year.

I used a lily punch from Punch Bunch.

The layers were: cardstock and velum(I think that is how you spell it?)

The first two layers were with a large leaf and the last were smaller to give it dimension.

I coated the leaves with clear and gold glitter and the centers were with gold beads and glitter.

This is what I started with:

I took an embossing tool and marked down the center of the leaves to give it a "vein" look.

First layer:

Second layer with the larger leaf

Third layer with a smaller size leaf

Final layer

I then created the centers and added glitter

gold accents

Clear accents

This is what I ended up with for my card.

I will post the card listing soon.

Pink ornaments for the living room

I wanted victorian ornaments with roses in my living room. I decided to create my own with punched flowers from my craft room.

I really liked how they turned out.

This is what I started with.

The roses have 5 layers that you form and shape. I covered them with glitter to add some holiday shine.

The small flowers have a pink bead in the middle.

Most of the greenery was punched from cardstock, the fern was punched from metallic paper.

Finished product.

I made four of these and hung them over the mantel.

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Gingerbread making day!

My craft group came for a Christmas tea and Gingerbread making day.

I love this time of year!!!

The candy table.

I think we have enough!!! LOL

My daughter, Rachel's house.

Joy's house

Her house was the most colorful.

Ashley and Karen working together!! Mother and daughter team.

Rachel's finished house!!!

Betty Lou sat out on the front porch and cross-stitched. She enjoyed the music and friendship.

Happy Holidays to You!!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a great season of comfort and joy!!!

I am trying to update my photos so I can say that I have actually completed something in this busy time of year!!!!

Photos from Thanksgiving

My husband shot a 8 point buck behind the house.

Unfortunately it was the day before we were leaving for Thanksgiving!!! We go to northern Maine for Thanksgiving every year to our camp. Good thing we have a large freezer!!!

My hunters: Grampie, Scott and Alan at camp