We celebrated my extended family Christmas with my mother and siblings/spouses. It’s always fun to get together to celebrate the birth of Ch...

  Having completed the 12 Tags of Christmas as my introduction to the Tim Holtz technique, I was determined to implement some of the vintag...

What a wonderful time of being together to celebrate Christ’s birth. Here are a few pics of our time together.     Son Mark a...

Part of our family traditions include special snacks and meals. I always try to make recipes that I know are “favorites” of each of our chil...

  Christmas is coming to our house—tomorrow! Kids and grandkids expected tomorrow evening. We will all be together until mid-afternoo...

Whew! I did it! When I first started with the 12 Tags, I really did not intend to do all 12. The more I did, the more I wanted to do, until ...

I used glossy card stock on all the parts of this tag. Alcohol inks provided the colors for the holly leaves/berries/branch (Meadow, Lett...

Last week we attended two concerts. On Thursday evening our grandson Conner performed in his high school’s Winter Concert. He is a sophomore...

Well, this was an interesting challenge for me. I waited to do this one until I could get my hands on some of the supplies needed. I wanted ...

  Starting with a blank manila #8 tag, I stamped some Merry Christmas sentiments, and in the spaces around the stamps, I wrote some passag...

When making cupcakes, I give myself permission to NOT make everything from scratch, because, sometimes the boxed mixes are just good! The ...

This morning while we were eating breakfast, I mentioned that this is the time of year we usually see eagles. They like to fly along the c...

Tim’s tag for Day 9 used a combination of red and green (Festive Berries and Evergreen Bough) distress ink. I wanted to do something a littl...

My first opportunity to work with glassine paper, it will not be my last! I really enjoyed staining it with alcohol inks and then wadding it...

Taking a break from the 12 Tags of Christmas postings to wish a Happy Birthday to my little girl. She turned 40 today. My goodness, how coul...