I Spy a Train Station~

Moms train was two hours late. Waiting around during the delay.

10 Things Tuesday~

1. A quiet house.

2. Cute little hamster, Ginger, that's come to live at our house.

3. Productive night of putting a collage together.

4. Clean(er) craft area so I can readily get what I need.

5. Ben readily practiced guitar.

6. Bible study I'm doing.

7. God's provision.

8. Chatty evening with my son. He had a lot to say tonight.

9. Firewood-free.

10. Having firewood to share.

Really~

Good weekend according to yours truly:
- New contact paper in all kitchen drawers. Clean...lovely~
- One bag of unused kitchen gadgets going to Goodwill. Lovely too~
- Car loaded with unused toys and Christmas stuff ready to drive to Goodwill. Love to purge!
- House vacuumed, entire bathroom sparkly clean, kitchen clean, all but one load of laundry washed and put away. Yay~
- An opportunity to share our firewood with a friend who needs it. Best part of our weekend.
- Chargers lost but not a complete blowout so that's good to me.
- I was getting ready for work tomorrow and remembered i didn't have to work because I have the holiday off. Really~ Hoping you all had a good weekend.

12 Days Received~

I joined the 12 days of Christmas swap and I just haven't had a chance to post any pictures because the weather has been GRAY, GRAY and GRAY. We all know that the color gray is not good for picture taking. Recently we had a day of sunshine (oh and it's gone now. thanks for asking.) so I took a few snap shots. To see the complete list of all that was swapped, check out this site. I was in group one. Lucky me~ Oh and I gave on day four.

Received~

Here's my Holiday Traditions Swap package I received from Hazeljoy. She was lots of fun to swap with. Her international way with words was a fun change. Thanks Hazeljoy~

Homemade ornaments of felt: my colors, gold coin chocolates::paper art~sewn::hand stamped little packets of fun and holiday traditions::paper ephmera for future paper projects::Christmas music CD::candy::tags for future collage work. See the empty candy wrapper-top right? My little onces snuck a candy...being in a chocolate coma made them forget to hide the evidence.

Love this writing of hers::I'm a simple girl and these little details make me happy, happy, happy.

My very own "Royal Mail".

From hazeljoy. How did she do that on a machine. Patiently. I'm thinking.

Swappin 2008~

And it starts. Yay~

Through The Vintage Dragonfly.

Houston We have Lift Off~

I'd like to thank all my supporters who got me through the month of no computer. All is fixed now. New hard drive, pictures in my camera uploaded and a clean slate in my 'Favorites' column. I don't think I'll be adding as many sites to that column. A good thing has come from this month away from the computer but I have many pictures I need to show you. Yes, I need to show you.Holiday Traditions Swap going to Hazeljoy. We traditionally have a puzzle out for the month of December. We do a few pieces every day or so and friends & family who visit are welcome to add to the puzzle. Hazeljoy's birthday was in December so I made the cherry oven mitt for her birthday. I made a little elf show ornament for the required decoration and I sent her some little gift tags I made too.

I made her a Christmas CD with the swap logo on the cover. Required recipe and a Christmas card & letter explaining all.

This is the packaging. The letter of explanation was numbered explaining each gift to the corresponding package. She was a wonderful swap partner. I'll show her gifts to me tomorrow.

Home~

Computers home with a new harddrive. Geekers couldn't save my pictures. They said we could send the old harddrive on to the next level of Geekers for a mere 259.99-3000.00. I said no thank you. Can we please observe a moment of silence for my loss? ................................................

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Oh sorry. I was lost in the moment. My son is coming over today to install the software then we can download my new pictures and start all over again. Lesson learned though...I now have the hardware to back up my computer so I don't lose pictures anymore. Sigh.

On a happier note~ GO CHARGERS!!!! Beat the Colts on Sunday. Okay? PHUUULEEEEASE!