I am loving these snowmen Christmas ornaments ...

I made 5 more for a total of 6 ornaments. They are sooooooooooo easy!!!

Most people who know me know my Christmas cards are done and mailed...

but I came across these ADORABLE snowmen Christmas ornaments and just had to make them!! Here is where I saw these adorable snowmen http://theinkboutique.blogspot.com/2007/11/just-arrived-snow-babies.html and got the directions from here: http://stampact.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/snowman-ornam-1.html. They are super easy and super quick to make. I did not use glass ornaments as my Hobby Lobby was out of the glass ones so I decided to try plastic and these worked great so I think I prefer these over glass as they wouldn't break as easy. I got the infant socks at the Target $1 spot. (Need to go back and get more of these. They have snowmen, blue stripes, pink stripes, and reindeer socks)

I don't only have one card in Take 10 Magazine but I have 2 cards!!!

I have a Halloween card on page 6 that is also in the magazine. Erin and Ethel are also in the same magazine. I can't believe all 3 of us are in the same magazine!! I went to the stamp store today, picked up my copy and I think I may frame it.... LOL

http://www.stampington.com/html/tss_take_ten_winter08.html The cover looks like this.

Hey, I am FAMOUS.

I got word today from my great stamping friend Joanie that she saw one of my cards in the latest Take 10 Magazine. I am on page 65 and here is one of the many cards I sent them.

I have no idea if I get a free copy of Take 10 but I can't wait to find out so I am going to my stamp store tomorrow to get my own copy. I wanna see my name in print myself! LOL I have been wanting to submit cards for a long time and finally got the nerve to do it over the summer. Now maybe I will submit some more cards. Can't wait to get my copy!!!

My Holiday Circle Journal made its journey back to me this week

A great big thank you to Angie who hosted this awesome swap. If you don't know what a circle journal is, its something that you pass around to everyone who are in the swap and it eventually makes its way back to its owner. We had 3 weeks between people to get each our pages done which was plenty of enough time. The whole project took about 2 months I would say, maybe longer. The subject of my book was: What is your favorite Christmas ornament?! So each person filled out 2 pages (one page was about themselves and the other page was what their favorite Christmas ornament is) and then sent it onto the next person. I still need to finish my cover. I need to borrow someone's Cricut and cut out some cute letters (Ellie maybe?). In this swap, there were 7 of us including me, Cindy Hoch, Angie Reece (hostess), Pam Speidel, Suzi Ferguson, Terry Helin and Kim Hutchinson. It was great fun and I can't wait for Angie to host the next one in the Spring. Angie, we're waiting to hear what you come up with. LOL

We got our 2 Christmas trees up today ...

This is the earliest I have ever put them up but the kids were begging me to put them up so we dug out all the decorations and put it all up. We have a snowman tree with just snowmen ornaments on it (and a few snowflakes too). The other tree has a variety of ornaments. This is the first year I do not have the kid's "little kiddie" ornaments on it. I put them up last year and put each set in a shoebox marked with their names so they can take them when they move out (if they even want them that is). You will also see in the photos to the left that the dogs are all decked out in their holiday attire. Oh and yes, that is Max the guinea pig too with his Santa hat on. He hates that hat and squeals like crazy when I put it on but then he gets used to it. Ha ha

Are YOU ready for the holidays? Do you have your Christmas tree up yet?

I got an autographed photo from Whoopi Goldberg today ...

WOW! Look what was in my mailbox today. I am just so excited!!! Back in September, a few of us from the Stamp Shack http://stamp-shack.com/index.php thought it would be cool to send Whoopi some "congratulations" cards for her being on the View. I usually watch the View everyday while we eat lunch. So I couldn't believe it when I had an envelope addressed to me from Whoopi herself. Here is a photo of the photo