HoHoHoHoliday

We are on our way to the mountains for Christmas and today seemed to start out a little rocky. Shenzi ate nasty bread I had thrown out of the birds and being the glutton she is stuffed herself and the decided within 10 minutes into the trip to get rid of the bread. Most of it managed to hit the floorboard, dog bed and blanket on the back seat. Teysha decided she would develop allergies and snort and sneeze until we could find the nearest Walgreens. I braved the Holiday shoppers and came out armed with nose spray, allergy tablets, and Kleenex. Now we should be ready, the dog had a tums, I cleaned up the digested bread with baby wipes and kleenex,Teysha sprayed her nose and swallowed her meds and we continued on. We stopped at San Saba for pecans. Spent the night in the town of aliens, Roswell and continued onto Ruidoso.
Merry Christmas from beautiful snow covered Ruidoso.Evidently this post was buried in the snow for a week or so.

Spooky, Scary, Fun

Janet, Linda and I took a super fun class at Crop, Paper Scissors taught by Jennifer Stewart. What fun! We died the orange Christmas Tree, glued broken mirror pieces, poked the eyes out of the old woman,(she lights up) tore up a fence, and stuck a skeleton in a box. I changed my last section a little, adding a wicked witch and a spider web. Thanks Jennifer, for a fun day and great class. Mine is decorating an apartment in College Station. Click on the pictures to see the larger image.

Bubble, Bubble Toil & Trouble & G45

Kathi at Scrappy K’s in  Winnsboro made this fun album using the new G45 Halloween album! Fun pages!!!

Always Remember

 

Today, I remember and pray for all those precious lives lost, for their families and loved ones, for the emergency workers, heroes and all those touched by this senseless act.

God Bless the USA.

Wild Fires

 

Austin has had a weekend filled with devastating wildfires. Over 525 homes have been lost and more to come.  Thankfully we are North of this terrible fire.  We have had high winds, low humidity, and no rain, a fire waiting to happen combination.

Cruise 2011 and album

 

We just returned from a fun 7 day cruise. The weather cooperated, the hurricanes stayed away, and the trip was amazing.

I found this day planner binder at our local thrift store for $1 and it started out looking like this:and I added some paper and envies from my stash:Then came the fun part, covering the planner:I made journaling spots for each day and then dividers for each country. Now all I have to do is get the pictures printed and the album is ready to be filled with memories.I dug out my old foam stamps, acrylic paint, old Rusty Pickle number and lots of paper scraps!

Texas Rain Gauge

 

We can’t even fill this one up! It is supposed to be way above 100 all week.

We need some rain, even the weeds won’t grow!

A Small Town, Gonzales

 

is the home to the  Craft Crossing. A super store with so many TH goodies, and tons of other new lines,it is a road trip waiting to happen.

These are some of the ladies Linda and I spent the day with, teaching the Celebrate the Season album. A great store, awesome lunch, and very fun, talented ladies. Thanks Pam for having me and I can’t wait to come back to Gonzales. Hoot!

I just had to have this bed spring wind chime from The Craft Crossing, made by Pam. It will love its new home at the studio!

A Classy Month

 

This month was filled with fun classes. This was at the Rockin R Retreat. A great bunch of students and a great retreat!

This Saturday I will be at Scrapology teaching a Holiday album, almost makes it feel a little cooler around here.

Next weekend I will be in Gonzales teaching Celebrate the Season at the Craft Crossing.

After that we leave for a 7 day much waited for cruise!!!

It is really Hot in Texas

 

‘nuff said!

Summer Things

 

I love photos of the backs of kids in the water! Splashing around in Port A

shopping after a day at the aquarium in corpus.

a zillion steep stairs touring the USS Lexington and so Hot!

Lovin the water, sand and seaweed!

The biggest fish. Tuck reeled this catfish in all by himself!

She caught it but wouldn’t touch it.

Keyto  caught the most fish!!

Chillin and cooling in the pool!

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Its all about the phone and

the hair, even at the pool! Gotta love harmones!

Bay Fishing in Port A

 

Tucker is ready.

7:30 am was a little early but we all made it smiling.

He ended up catching the largest fish.

Keyton was the top fisherman pulling in 11 keepers

She caught it but wouldn’t do the touchy feely thing!

Papa caught the first fish, but the red drum was too small.

I only caught 2 keepers, but I did   catch this. The weather was great, the Gulf was calm and we had a great time!