Recipe Album

I really like making recipe albums. Not to crazy about the cooking part, but the albums certainly do look pretty. I used Little Yellow Bicycle paper and embellishments, (loved it)some bakers twine, and May Arts silk ribbon. I added a few pages from an old cookbook.
Heading to Red Oak tomorrow to spend a few days with son and grandkids while my lucky DIL is at CHA with The Crafty Scrapper.

Sweet Thing

I love the Prima Paper and flowers, so I made my own version of HS kit I purchased.
Used the large AC die, binder, cardstock,May Arts silk ribbon, Prima paper,pebble and flowers.
You can Sweet Thing, plus wonderful stamps, at Stamp Salado,

Cotton Bowl 2011

This was one fun day! It is impossible to describe how massive and amazing the Dallas Cowboy Stadium is unless you are there.Tickets were expensive.Food was expensive. Nachos, $9.00,bottled water,$5.00,Papa Johns pizza $8.50 (the best deal).Parking was expensive, probably never get see your car again section, $40, 50-50,chance of getting to drive it home $60,walking to the Cowboy parking lot and getting in your car $100. Watching the Aggie band up close and personal, great. I know we played, Not so good, but the overall experience...was priceless!

Whoop!

We are going here tomorrow with these tickets in our hand....

to watch A&M Whoop LSU's butt!! Cotton Bowl here we come!!

1.1.11

I hope that everyone had a nice, calm, eat your black-eyed peas New Years Day.

Black-eyed peas are supposed to bring you good luck throughout the year, right? We can check out how accurate that "old wives tale" was yesterday.

I ate a lot of black-eyes, not just for luck, but because I do like them with cornbread and ham.

My neighbor found 2 dogs running loose and he had to leave so we agreed to take the dogs in, do the neighborly thing, post signs and to the message board that we had these 2 dogs. We played with and fed the dogs and 2 hours later, no one claimed the dogs. 4 hours later still no dog owners. Finally, the phone rang and they were rounding up their 3rd missing dog and would come get these 2. The white dog was on the sofa with the puppy, Tiki and me. For some reason she decided to go after Tiki and the puppy. When I grabbed Tiki out of the dog fight, yep, the white dog (Pearl) bit 2 of my fingers. One was a puncture wound and let me tell you dog bites hurt!! The owners showed up, the dog has her shots, thankfully.

I am so glad I ate all those extra peas....it could have been so much worse!

Projects done

This is an ongoing project! I bought this Roladex wooden card holder years ago at GASC and it sat until this month. Still not sure what to put on the front, but am loving using up some bits and pieces of my stash.

This is finally done. A Button Farm Kit I bought at GASC using G45 paer. Love how it turned out!


One more kit ....done! This was from Nanas booth at GASC. Cute little puppy album.
These three can be scratched off my list and I have 3 more project I hope to finish by
Jan, 2,2011

On the way to Ruidoso

Bepto Pepto tagged along for the week.
Nothing like a little love on a road trip! Notice the necessary cell phone and pillow!

San Saba Texas, pecan capital of Texas. Cracked the pecans while you wait. So good!

Texas gold!

Another type of Texas gold.
Jill,shows rivers,lakes,and greenery in our part of the country, but drive through West Texas and it all turns brown. That brown grows cotton and causes nasty sand storms!

River Crossing Take 2

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Teysha and Shenzi tried crossing the cold water in the Rio Ruidoso, sometimes with success, sometimes not so much.

Cozy in the Mountains

Our little cabin in the mountains. We love its rustic, cozy appeal!
The snow moving in! A beautiful, windy view.
Big, soft snowflakes, just enough to cover the ground, but it's snow in the mountains for Christmas!
The bears are still here because it hasn't been that cold here, at least for the bears. There are carved bears everywhere , these are just down the hill from us
Chief Sitting in the Pine Needles.Piles of the pine needles up and down the streets.

Aliens

Roswell aliens are alive and well. We picked this cute one up while we were there today.

We visited with Krista at Imagine that scrapbooks and of course had to take our picture with the pink and green aliens.


Settled in our cabin, had the warning about bears, saw mule deer down from our cabin, loaded up firewood, and T and I warmed our toes by the fire tonight. We are still waiting on the snow 30 % chance tomorrow.

Jingle Bells with the goats

Merry Christmas!

Coat Shopping

Heading for the mountains and colder weather means warm coats, not just for the humans traveling but the 4 pawed ones that will be hopefully romping in the snow. I thought dog coat shopping would be a cinch, but there are almost as many dog coats as human coats. We finally decided on these adorable fleece coats, and as you can tell, they were jumping for joy when we put the coats on them.

Shenzi was very interested in figuring out a way to get the coat off , but, ha, ha, she couldn't. Good for Martha Stewart, she out thought this dog. We don't feed our dogs on the table but this was just waiting to be put down on the floor so Tiki could eat without interference.

It's Almost Time

for Santa!
We don't have snow for Christmas in our part of the world, so we are heading to New Mexico. We rented a rustic cabin (well almost rustic) in the mountains and hoping that it will be snowing as we sit by the fire and sip hot chocolate!

Forking Bow and Our House Retreat

Janet B and the other Janet B, Debbie, Linda, and I just returned from a 4 day retreat at Our House in Milford. This is the best place for a fun, relaxing, and great "girls" weekend. The retreat was mixed with Scrapbookers doing beautiful projects and Quilters busily creating one of a kind masterpieces.
Janet gave a mini lesson on how to tie a bow using a fork.Check this out!!

We made 4 "necessary" trips to Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie,and Carolyn was doing a fun make and take tag!
Thanks,Janet for the great lesson!

Horses Butt

I don't know why I found this horses' tail hanging out of the trailer so funny. We had just had lunch in Jarrell sitting next to 3 real life cowboys, complete with bhats, boots, spurs, and chaps, then this, just so fitting down I35 in Texas. Doesn't take much to entertain me riding down the interstate, but it was a very shiny, well groomed tail.

Christmas Album

Spent the weekend finishing up some projects. This Christmas Album was at the top of the list. I used Bo Bunny Noel paper, deco snow, glitter, the beautiful ribbon that goes with the paper, die cut icicles, and MR envelope.

Baby Powder and Other Fun Stuff

We drove to A&M land this weekend to spend some fun time with T and do a little(lot) of shopping. We hadn't seen her apartment since she had it all decorated and the dogs need a challenge of climbing 3 flights of stairs several times a day.
We were walking up the stairs to her apartment and saw this:

and promptly had to do this:

Baby powder gone, we did some serious Aggie clothing shopping for everyone including Tiki and Shenzi. We ate some good fun, visited with some great people and the Aggies won....great weekend!

Zoolicious

A few pictures of our Zoolicious 9x10 album, designed by my friend, Karen Lambert. I was also lucky enough to use her awesome zoo pictures. I used lots of Tattered Angels, Maya Mist,some TH dies, and wooden beads.