So I've been a bit behind on my Christmas goals....

Here is one I finished a couple of weeks ago. I haven't kept up to the one a week, but I hope to at least finish a couple a months so that I have some stocked up by Christmas. This one took me forever to finish, because I started it just as my mojo went bye-bye for two weeks... and that's about how long it took me to finish the card!!!

I'm really excited. This weekend my friend is sending me a few notebooks to cover for her and I'm looking forward to it. I really enjoy making notebooks.

Boss Birthday

Okay, so I was a little ahead of the game on this one. My supervisor sent out the team's birthdays a couple of weeks ago, but then she sent out a meeting invite for everyone's birthday and all I read was "his birthday is on a Saturday" - and in my head all that stuck was that his birthday was "THIS" Saturday. So I made a card...got to work... and his birthday is in March... LOL... so it's sitting in my desk waiting for March... hey at least I know I won't forget to make it now!

This week I am linking up to Sneak Peak Friday at the In the Studio blog that my friend Anita suggested that I link up with.

Happy Friday everyone!

You never realize how spoiled you are with technology....

Until it doesn't work properly. As I have temporarily lost my ability to edit pictures in Fireworks, I finally sat down and made do with Microsoft Paint :) Hey, whatever works, right??

Anyhoo, here is a birthday card I made my dad a couple of weeks ago. This was the third attempt (I'd trashed the previous two attempts as my mojo had taken an unexpected vacation) and by golly this one was going to work! I wasn't 100% pleased with it, but it works.

DIY

So, yeah... I think it's a mid-winter crisis kind of thing, but I have lately become quite the follower of DIY blogs. I've always loved interior decorating and organizing and its starting to drive me a wee bit crazy that my options for both are quite limited in our apartment (decorating - I can't paint the walls because we have to paint them back before we move out and that totally is just not worth the effort).... and my closets are as organized as they are going to get for the time being... ah well...I shall paint mental walls in my mental house - and no you cannot judge about how that last sentence sounds! ;)

I'm also pretty sure that I can add ADD to my OCD.....

and no, there was no real point to this post.... Actually, originally I think there might have been, but I forgot halfway through the paragraph... which is what prompted the above ADD statement (that among MANY MANY other things...) k, I'm done rambling now... I'm pretty sure that this entire post can be blamed on not enough caffeine in my system...

I get to go home in 57 minutes!

Lawnscaping Challenge Blog

If you like to win stamping goodies and like to play along with challenges, head over to the Lawnscaping Challenge blog!  The current challenge is to CASE the fabulous Mrs. Lawn Fawn and it ends on Wednesday, 2/2! Plenty of time to play along! This is a new challenge site and they really could use the help getting the word out there!

P.S. I was finally able to create a few things this weekend - my dad's birthday card (on the third try - I've scrapped two previous attempts over the last week and a half) and a birthday card for my boss... Also got a few cards out in the mail that had to go out.. valentine's cards for St. Jude's card drive for Kids, valentine card for my niece, birthday card for my dad, birthday card for a friend... Lots of birthdays!!!! But necessity is the mother of invention and needing cards finally got me through my major crafting/creativity block!!!! I'll try to post the pictures soon, I actually tried to last night, but our computer crashed and we lost all the entire Adobe suite on our PC. My hubby is going to try to fix it this week...

My crafting mojo....

I misplaced my mojo somewhere.... If you happen to see it, please send it home....I hope to spend some time crafting tomorrow... maybe it will wander back by then....

Some mini notecards....

Hello all... hope that everyone is having a glorious week :)  If not, no worries... tomorrow is Friday and the week is almost over!!! :) :) :)

A few weeks ago, I started a card set for one of the girls in our church, whose birthday is coming up in March. I have 4 done so far, two with blue ribbons and two with green ribbons... They are nothing fancy and I am still debating whether I want to add a sentiment to the fronts or just leave them blank for her to use for whatever occassion she would like to... What do you think? Sentiment or no sentiment?

Supplies:

Paper: Textured card stock from Michaels, patterned paper from my cousin (Don't know what brand - I have a horrible time remembering the if I don't have the names written down somewhere)

Ribbon: from a friend