Happy Valentines Day !!

Valentines Day is around the corner

Although I am all for sharing with the people you love just how much you love them, I don't like the idea of a day that forces you to say it. So much retail hype and mushy yuckiness. Never the less, I can't ignore it all together because my loved ones may feel hurt that I didn't at least remember. That said, I adore all the images of Valentines day. The red, the hearts, the Vintage Valentines. They do cheer my heart up just looking at them. So, to fit somewhere in between the thoughtful and the mushy I like making handmade gifts because it is more in keeping with the real idea that I loved you enough to spend my time making this for you. A little bit of handmade decoration doesn't hurt. Here are a couple of things I made. A heart garland looks so pretty hanging in the window, and a recycled heart shaped candy box containing a small heart hanging. Just hearts, just sweet. When I find the blog that was my inspiration I will share it with you but I cannot find it right now. Enjoy and have a Valentines Day that makes you happy! !

A little Holiday, a little late.

My December was a whirlwind month. I can hardly remember it. Besides the normal holiday preparations, I also have two family birthdays in December, hosted an employee party for our children's hospital, prepared for two son's to return from a long visit overseas and make these fun garland elements for a swap I joined at RedLead . They have the neatest stamps, embellishments and vintage collage sheets that I can barely contain myself whenever I place an order with them. I love Christmas, particularly and Old Fashioned one. Over the last few years I have added more vintage and retro type decorations to my collection and weeded out the more modern things that didn't feel cozy to me. I have a huge list of blogs I follow in my reader that share my love of Vintagey Christmas. So many in fact, I am still reading the posts. I think it may be time to move on to Valentines posts. Oh, wait. I have that's why I am posting the Christmas garland so I can chronologically post the Valentines things I have been working on. Enjoy my belated Christmas post. : )

Happy New Year..... so someone shared this video and someone else shared it with someone else... and they shared it with me. Some of my favorite quotes paired with some beautiful works of art and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Goin'Buggy and ProMarkers.

The Giveaway is over so I removed the post and the link.

I love Halloween!

One of my favorite holidays. The reason? It's FALL. Leaves crunch under your feet, the warm colors, pumpkins, cooler temperatures, Halloween decorations of spooky ghouls, headstones, bats and spiders and it's October, my birthday month. October, for some reason, makes me feel like a kid again. I guess it's all of the great memories of being dressed up in costume gathering candy that lasted way past the following Easter. When I was kid, we could go out on our own and really have a fun and safe Halloween. I remember even going to a house every year in our neighborhood where the owner was in his driveway with a hot grill and handed out hot dogs and bottled cokes instead of candy. Enjoy the fall.
Here are a few postcard tags I made for a Red Lead tag swap I joined this month.

It's already March 12, 2010

I was looking forward to enjoying January and it's quietness and all of a sudden it's the middle of March..... Where did the time go ??