Well, remember that old John Denver hit? I can truly attest that it is good to be back home again!! I feel like I just unload my bags,do laundry and then re-load!! I will ofcourse be doing the same thing again - in a week I'll head off to Leadership conference - woohoo. Not thrilled with the travel but am thrilled to be heading to Leadership. Now - to report from all the events of the past week -
We spent the holiday with our two daughters and their families - what a wild and crazy time - the weather was a real trip getting out of here - and then arriving in Iowa - where they had as much snow as we did and it snowed more while we were there. Then heading back home - stopping over a day to visit with family in Chicago - where they also got snow and driving home in the blasted white stuff! Personally, I'm ready for spring and we are only a week into Winter. Looks like I'm probably in trouble.
First thing is to announce my Christmas card winners and show some of the cards - I will not be showing all of them because there were a lot of them and I figure everyone is tired of Christmas cards by now. So today I'll show you 2nd place. Why am I not showing you 3rd place first? Well, simple - I forgot to load that one and I'm not going to take the time to go scrounge around with the photos again since I was able to get on here quickly.
This is the 2nd place winner which was done by D. Sandy - My family of voters were impressed by the little red nose - go figure! I keep quiet while they pick and choose and it is funny to hear what captivates their attention!!! This ofcourse uses Dasher, which seems to be a favorite for everyone but me - I've seen lots of pretty cards made with this deer and I have the stamp myself - but I'm not a big fan of it - guess I lean more to the real looking deer. However, there are lots of people who absolutely love this little fellow and that makes me pretty happy too ;) Tomorrow I'll show you third place and then Friday I'll show you first and a few of the others. This is truly something I enjoy and I'm afraid I missed a couple of cards this year due to the snow storm - the mail was delayed a day and I left town so there were a few cards that I normally would have included, but since the snow delayed things - I missed a couple.
Now another picture - do you know what anticipation looks like?
This is what it looks like for sure!!! This is Gideon, my cutie patootie grandson - on Christmas morning in anticipation of getting into all those gifts. He was fun to watch - however, I am reminded with this picture of why I don't scrapbook much - I spent an entire week with the families and came home with 6 pictures!!! Ackkkk. How in the world can you scrapbook with only 6 pictures? I'm always enjoying the moment and totally forget about taking pictures.
However, don't worry - I still have one more picture to add for the day - something from the new mini, which evidently many of you have not received yet - evidently the holiday mailings have slowed it down. Sorry about that - have no control over the postal service.
So since you've not seen the new mini - this is a sneak of what one of the sets will be - and ofcourse, again, I did not get in on the pre-order of this because I didn't think I would like it - stupid stupid stupid. What was I thinking? However, I did get that embossing folder - because I knew I'd be happy with it!!! So hang in there - this set, along with the embossing folder and the punch will all be available to order on January 5 - Yeah!!! Ofcourse with that yeah - comes the Oh dear of the items in the Holiday mini going out. Hate to see them go. They've become "friends" much like the stamp set here!!! That's it for today. Must get working and try to get back on some sort of schedule. Thanks for stopping by here today.