Bekah and her fiance, Quinn, with Belle and Roxy opening their Christmas gifts. (Must be a great guy...the pups love him!)
Bekah and Quinn making and mailing the invitations to their upcoming marriage. Two cuties so in love!
Chris and Jenn with my dad and me for Thanksgiving dinner last month. Instead of the tag version, I am making just some of the tags into a grungeboard chunky book.
This is my spin on Tag #1. Tim's Tag #1 can be seen here. On the right hand side of his blog are the 2010 tags. He also made a series of 12 Tags of Christmas in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Here's my second book page. It's kind of a combination of two of the pages - the tag with the deer and the one with the bird on the branch. Check out Tim's entire 12 Tags of Christmas for techniques galore and abundant inspiration.
Roxy is loving her present from Mama Santa! Mmmm!
Belle says, "Thanks, Mom. We love Santa...and our Mama!"
Happy babies...butt-to-butt. Is this doggy-spooning? These precious girls helped make my Christmas an oh-so-happy day.
This is the second zentangle I created...
In my third zentangle, the quilter in me came out! This is designed like a quilter's 9-patch block...
Liked the idea of creating an initial zentangle that I had seen on several people's blogs...
...to run to something or someone - instead of away...
...to feel the warmth of another's touch...
...to eat out of the hands of another without fear.
Pretty-in-Pink ladies with which I am sooo fortunate to work. They make me laugh...even when they give me a hard time! Luv ya, girls.
Then baby deer wanted to play hide-and-seek with Belle...
...while mama deer wanted to get a closer look at her new four-legged friend.
"God made you pretty," says beautiful Belle to her new friend. "And He made you pretty, too," replied the sweet lil' deer.
Besides the Halloween in Wonderland papers, this card also has a Spellbinders die cut. After cutting the fence out of black paper and embossing it, I added gold ink - kind of like a gold leaf. Then the cute lil' black cat is flocked - so he's furry. The poison label is a T!m Holtz stamp. It was stamped on white card stock paper then distressed with purple ink.
This card also uses some circular Spellbinders die cuts. That's T!m's film strip along the edge with a strip from the border sheet of the Alice in Wonderland papers. The circular calendar is from a Tattered Angels stamp set.
This next card is much simpler. The queen is actually an inchie that can be removed and used as a magnet. The cat and bat are by Little Yellow Bicycle.
And this last card again has a Spellbinders die cut of a graveyard. Eek! The Tea Party stamp is by Magenta. I'm not sure it's even a Halloween stamp, but hey...it works. The purple circle is actually a clock from that same Tattered Angels stamp set.
Yesterday I took a class at The Stamp Act taught by my friend, Polly. Here's a picture of the cute Halloween shadow box we made. Lots of cool techniques - flocking the black cats, masking the street light for the cat, embossing, glittering, stamping, and Cuddlebug goodies.
My dear friend, Karen, and I spent a weekend in the mountains...kind of a mini-quilting retreat.
Karen was cutting and sewing all weekend. She used a set of fat quarters from the "Awesome" fabric collection.
She finished this Sudoko quilt...
...and got the blocks made for this log cabin quilt. 
His business manager, Mario, is a great guy as well.
Always ready to pose for a photo no matter how busy they both might be. And there were lots of us crazy peeps (both women and men) who wanted autographs and photos with T!M and Mario. :D
Look at this awesome goodness of goodies that T!M shared with us to make our Shadow Boxes. Treasures galore...vintage toy cars (my favorite), old wires and buttons and game pieces and type set letters...plus all his line of ideaology embellishments. What a treat!
This is T!M's Shadow Box project. This was an all-day class with a delicious lunch provided.
Here's another shot with the door open. Such wonderful bits and pieces.
This was one of the half-day classes - Creative Blocks. Cool little bitty canvases on a larger canvas with T!M's papers and trinkets.
This is the other half-day class - a beautiful Grunge Board Book. We learned to paint with the dabbers and distress and dye ribbon and make pretties.
Here's my finished Creative Blocks project. Each item was carefully chosen...the calendar is my birth month (July)...I'm 55...I love birds...the bottle cap paper has a root beer cap - my mom loved root beer floats.
And here's my almost finished Shadow Box. I still have a few things I want to add in some of the little nooks and I need to finish my door with some beads and baubles. T!M gave us all a frozen charlotte head...plus all the other treasures. He is fabulous!
