Lots of Yummies

I love the look of crochet and although I learned how to do it from a classmate in high school, my tutoring never took.  Always on the hunt for ways to add texture to projects, on one of my jaunts into the world of Ebay, I found the goodies below in an auction.  Somehow I was the only bidder for this 100+ flower lot and for a small amount these goodies were mine.  Now I'm looking for the right project to use them on!

She makes me look good ...

I wanted to take some time today to say "thank you" to someone special.  I met Jane last year via Etsy when I was in search of some baked goodies to add to the holiday gift bags for A.'s team.  She came through with flying colors and was such a pleasure to deal with that as I planned this year's bags, I contacted her again.  With this year's early distribution (because of a major meeting where remote team members would be in town this week only), Jane moved heaven and earth to get everything baked and shipped on time.  In this year's bags, along with other personal gifts based on each person's interests, I also added chocolate cell phones (A's team does programming for cell phones) from  Pulakos Chocolates and Jane's goodies. I recently mentioned to Jane that she makes me look good every time, and I mean it.  I can cook absolutely anything, but baking is not really my thing - too much exact measuring, I guess.  Anyway, Jane thank you!

Here are the goodies in the containers (I found the cans at Michael's and they were the perfect size!) This year we got  Key Lime Truffles, That Raspberry Thing, Peppermint Candy Bark, Concord Jelly-Filled Cookies and Peach Kolaskys.

Key Lime Truffles

Jelly Filled Cookies

Peach Kolaskys

That Raspberry Thing

Peppermint Candy Bark

To contact Jane you can visit her on Etsy .  BTW, she ships cross country and everything's always delicious!

All in a row?

I used the LPSC October Kit for a girly layout I didn't know I had in me.  I used MME Lost and Found patterned paper and banner (cut from a sheet), Martha Stewart ribbons, K& Co embellishments (buttons, scissor, tag, words), Making Memories alphas (mini pink glitter ones), American Crafts kraft thickers (sprayed with Shimmer Spritz from October LPSC kit).  The picture is actually a thank you card from an Etsy seller for another purchase.  TFL!

Celebrate

Another wedding layout (when you're on a roll, you go with it) featuring stuff from the October LPSC kit and a few extras: MME Lilac House patterned paper (kit), MME Lilac House Notebook Journal page, miscellaneous flowers that were sprayed with Shimmer Spritz (kit), burgundy button, MME Lilac House card (heart), Zva Creative flourish, satin ribbon, die cut flower.  TFL!

We saw the Grinch!

Last weekend A. and I attended the Ice show featuring the Dr. Seuss character The Grinch at the Gaylord National Harbor.  I will confess before seeing videos of the show, I had never actually read a Dr. Seuss book or even watched the movie.  But as "prep" so I'd have a clue or as A called it "studying", I read the book.  Anyway, this is us at the show.  And yup, we had to wear those ugly blue coats because it was cold!  A balmy 9 degrees in fact and it took me a couple hours to warm up. The figures behind us are entirely made of ice.

Here's a video of a few scenes from the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltQe7TGb_Fw&feature=fvst

I Do! I Do!

I will confess than when I was assigned the October LPSC MME Lilac House/Fancy Pants Happy Together/MME Lost and Found kit, I wasn't sure what I'd do with it.  It's very flowery and girly, and I wasn't clear which pictures I had that would work really well with it.  Anyway, I recalled that my wedding color was baby blue (why? not sure, since red is and has always been my favorite color) but back in the early 1990's, blue must have been a popular wedding color.  Anyway, it's been a real pleasure to plod through my wedding pics and create these layouts.  Here's another.

For this layout I used Fancy Pants Happy Together patterned paper and Bazzill cardstock from the LPSC October kit, the I Do! title is actually a clearanced luggage tag from the bridal section at Michael's, the pink subtitle is from a MME Happy Together strip sheet, below the pictures there's a paper doily that I sprayed with blue Smooch Spritz and the heart die cut is stamped in brown ink.  TFL!

Going Green

As I mentioned in a previous post one of my newer addictions is beading.  I recently finished this green necklace.  I'm not really a fan of green, but I fell in love with the pendant (usually how one of my beading projects begins with the pendant first) and everything else fell in place after that including the matching Swarovski crystals.  I'm thinking about asking for another beading class as one of my Christmas presents. TFL!