Christmas Eve is upon us!

Christmas Eve was the most exciting day of the year for me, when I was a child. It always seemed to take forever to get here. As an adult…it’s the complete opposite! LOL… Am I ready? About as ready as I’ll ever be, I guess. This will be the first Christmas Eve spent at home in about 38 years. With my mother in law’s passing, our traditions are changing. We’ve always gone to my in-laws on Christmas Eve. No more. Instead, we’ll have dinner at our own house, and have my father in law over. Comfort food (or heart attack on a plate, if you prefer) will be served…homemade mac and cheese with steamed broccoli. The last few times I’ve made mac and cheese, I’ve changed up my boring recipe. Tomorrow’s mac and cheese will include crumbled bacon and diced tomato in the recipe. I’m going to make some corn bread too. That’ll be a first for me. Fresh fruit will be served for dessert…seeing that I have a huge plate of cookies left from my daughter’s and my bake-off at the beginning of the week.

My husband and I were out and about the other day, and I had the most delightful discovery…we rode past an undiscovered scrapbook store!!! Of course we turned around and went back! I told my husband that I only wanted to see what they had, and that I wouldn’t take long so that we could go about our business. After doing a happy dance from the car to the door of the store…I was thrilled to find that they stocked bottles of Distress Ink reinkers! Score! As a result of the small purchase…I was able to come home and start on a tim tag that I’ve been wanting to make for the last three years…lol. We have AC Moore, Michaels, and Hobby Lobby, along with one local scrapbook store, but they don’t carry the reinkers. I don’t like to shop online because I’m afraid of  hackers getting my credit card number. I know, I know,,,these sites are secure…but I still don’t trust them. Sooooo…the only place I’ve been able to acquire these reinkers is the stamp show down in Rhinebeck…and I didn’t buy more than a few. I needed a few more…lol.  The tim tag technique I’ve been wanting to make consists of making your own inkpad (using these reinkers) for a certain stamp. This is the result of my first attempt to do the technique:

  

For anyone reading this from the Capital District (Albany, NY)…the name of the newest scrapbook store is Paper Crafters Unlimited, and it’s located at 568 Columbia Turnpike in East .Greenbush. Their phone number is 518-512-5088 and website is here 

I only crafted two gifts this year…glass blocks with a Christmas-y theme for two of my nieces. The only difference between the two is the ribbon. I hope they like them.

 

As always, thanks for stopping by. I’d also like to wish you and yours, a very Merry Christmas! Until next time…..Peace

No words….Just pictures

And last…but certainly not least….. a Happy Father’s Day Card:

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People that release viruses and worms and whatever you call them on websites are such losers. Yup, you guessed it…I caught a bug….and because I’m not too computer geek literate….it cost me $100 to fix this contraption and start all over. To whoever is responsible for that worm….I’m a firm believer in what goes around, comes around! You’ll get yours….don’t worry. Okay…enough on this rant.

So yesterday was National Scrapbooking Day…and I managed to get one page done. The two pictures were taken 30 years ago of my little angel, Katie….wasn’t she cute!

I’ve been working on a paperbag album for her too. I thought I’d give her some encouragement because she’s decided to go back to college to get her Masters Degree in Special Education, and I’d like her to know how proud I am of her.

I’m going to a baby shower that’s being held for a young girl at work, and made this card for her. I’ll stick a gift card inside, so she can buy what she needs. Her due date is within the next two weeks…she’s having a little girl

I was thrilled to see a couple more projects of mine over at ScrapScene the other day. Two fairy jars I made were pictured. The big jar had been filled with Ghirardelli chocolates….yummm. The smaller jar is a Mason jar. Thanks again, Angie…you made my day!

Next week is the Tulip Festival in Albany. This festival has been an annual tradition for the last sixty years. You can read about it here. I’m told that there are over 200,000 tulips planted in Washington Park…where the event takes place. Last week, Katie and I took a ride to see the blooms. We were not disappointed…they were lovely.

The next two pictures are of the lake and the lakehouse in the park. It’s such a pretty park.

Until next time…..Peace.