Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

so - it's probably time to update. i've been spending so much time relaxing lately, it's not be a high priority. but here i sit - playing on the computer and thinking. well - maybe not so much.

Christmas has been really quiet. that's usually the way it is. i drove from Saskatoon to Swift Current on the 22nd. i left Saskatoon, it was -36 with OUT wind chill. cold. it was -16 when i got to Swift - not as cold. and it's been getting warmer .... Christmas Day -3. balmy i tell you. positively balmy. today it was snowing. very nice out ... i'm thinking that it was good to come south for the holiday :)

i'm stuffed - with turkey and ham. probably you are too. spent Christmas day with my parents and some excellent friends. We usually end up with them. Excellent time. Played a great game of scrabble -even though i came in last. and started a jig saw puzzle. something we seem to do every Christmas. nasty puzzle though. all hidden pictures inside the big picture. Thanks Mom.

but it's done and i got a few books read, some napping done and it's been super.

i think i'll head back to Saskatoon soon, and then i can get back into my routine just in time to go back to work. sigh. this is nice. i'd rather not work, but that wouldn't be good.

I hope you had a super holiday season.

soon i hope to post some photos of things i've made - but maybe i should make something then?

Rhonna Designs

Rhonna Farrer has some amazing digital designs (along with her paper line) check out her new blog - she's giving away some 209 digital designs right now

love her digi stuff - very easy to use and beautiful designs.

http://rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com/

I've played with a few of her frames and love her rub ons! how about you?

Tim's

so there is another Tim out there (probably more than one...)

this was the Sgt's good idea.

an old artifcal tree. yellow police tape. left over mini Tim's cups.... get some snow into the cups and put the lid on (after i strung dental floss through the bottom) so that the cups won't blow away in the wind.

add some yellow lights. and some ice cap cups - oh - and catch the timbits boxes.

put some other big doughnut boxes at the base - make them look like gifts....

and look what happens.

A Det Dundurn Christmas Poem. (by Sgt Geo White)

Christmas Eve is coming the MP Sergeant said with a sigh,

Can't buy them ALL something, I'm not going to try.

He thought of an idea, that originated further West,

A tree with some special trimmings would suit this situation best,

Tim cups, yellow police tape and ice cap containers were all hung with pride,

Why wouldn't his Warrant Officer let him decorate this masterpiece inside?

Timbits were hung on the (17 Wg Det Dundurn MP Section) tree with care,

In hopes that bigger doughnuts would soon be there.

Visions of chocolate dips, glazed sourdough, and honey crullers danced in his head,

Perhaps he should have a low fat muffin with his double-double instead.

Dumbfounded, disillusioned, depressed and dismayed,

Surely Santa Claus would not "treat" him this way.

On Ford Expedition, on Crown Vic, on Lumina, on Chev Tahoe,

Set them on cruise control as these police vehicles know where to go.

The MP Sergeant did bellow as he cruised out of sight,

Merry Christmas to all and now off a certain drive-thru tonight.

update:

looked and worked okay - until one of the corporals decided that the wind was going to take it away and brought it inside - and put it beside my desk - leaning over my desk. do ya think he thought of the snow inside the cups? not so much .... guess what was ON my desk when i came to work on Monday? he brought it in on Saturday. not too bright that bulb. i wasn't toooo happy about that....
i'm just glad he hadn't put it right over top the very expensive printer/scanner that's there.

Things

This book is a gift. basically it's a gratitude journal. it's got pockets for the pages (one per week) that one writes down DAILY what one is gratiful for. the other side of the page is for a photo for the month. this was a class at Creative Escape that i've redone for a gift. i hope she likes it. i'm going to challenge her and me to do this. we all need to focus on the good in our lives.

So these are my tags as inspired by Tim Holtz. stamping, masking, stickles, ink, glimmer mist, flocking, fragments, rub ons and embossing. oh my. they are so fun to do.... and i know there's a load of techniques that i don't use that often so it's good to be reminded.

have a super day - friends and i are off to Rock Bottom Estate (ain't that a cool name for a farm?) for Christmas supper. they always have a couple of trees and it's so very relaxing and the company is just awesome. the one tree is always lit with candles. MUST take camera with me! along with extra batteries this time!

December already!?

Ali Edwards is showing her December daily book - she pre-made the book and then during the month of December is adding photos & journalling every day. so i thought i'd try it too. just like a load of others... but hey it's a good thing! so this is the inside of my binder. I used a Janet Hopkins Junk Binder (coming soon to a shop near you), that i got at CE this fall. love the binder. and i added a load of other pages and stuff. The cover is below. the scan really doesn't show the glimmer on this very well.

but it was fun to play with! stamping, masking and glimmer - it's all good.

T!m Holtz is posting about the 12 Tags of Christmas again this year and he provides AWESOME technique instructions. the tag here is my attempt at his technique. love the mask. i inked over the mask, stamped over top of that. swiped off the excess and then, because the tag was a little to stark - added some patina glimmer mist. it's really hard to see in the scan - but it's there! love that color. a piece of grungeboard, and so rub ons. then the stickles. both the regular type and the distress type. i think i like the look of the distress better for somethings!

and the second day's technique is alcohol inks... so off i go to play! have a great one!