Here's to....

How is it that 2014 is over (or will be in a just a few short hours) and that 2015 is here?!?!?! This year just seemed to have flown by. I've got big plans in 2015!

HERE'S TO...
- lots of family time
- more adventures
- more of doing what makes me happy
- more reading
- getting more organized
- more blogging
- more traveling
- breaking out the camera more (David will love this one)
- hoping 2015 rocks!
and so many other things on my list. I don't do resolutions, because they never make it past the first week so I'm not going to even set myself up to fail there. I've got so many things I want to do and I'm hoping that 2015 will allow for it or at least a good bit of it. Any new years resolutions for you?

 

BRING IT ON 2015!

December Daily Days 13 & 14

 

Hello Friends and happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas, (still can't believe that its over) and that Santa brought you what you asked for. Wanted to share a couple more days in my December Daily to, I was hoping to have album completed and all blogged before the end of the year since I've got like 15 weeks of project life to catch up on. Hopefully I wont be working to far into 2015 on both. HA! We shall see.

Day 13 was all about the festival of lights that we went to while we were on our little weekend getaway. I love Christmas lights, they are just mesmerizing to me. Oh so pretty! We walked around for an hour and I still think we missed some, but next year its on the list to make sure we see it all.

Day 14 was Sunday and the day we headed home. Even though we didn't do anything Christmas related other than try to finish up our shopping which I didn't take any pictures of, I had to document our first trip to The Purple Cow (it'll even be in my PL album). I have been telling David about this little diner and how I wanted to try and what a surprise it was when we were doing our last little bit of shopping that it was right there. So of course it was meant to be!! And it was pretty darn good too. I really wanted to try one of their milkshakes, but just didn't have room for it. But it is now on our list of places to eat to when we go back so I'll make sure to order the milkshake first.
I'm still working away on this album and like I said I hope to be done with it pretty soon. Thanks for stopping by.

December Daily days 9-12

Is it Friday yet????? Boy this week has been crazy and its only Wednesday night and holy crap Christmas is NEXT FREAKING WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Still so much to do and now so little time to do it in. We are doing Christmas at our house this year and I am NO where near ready to have 30 people here for any reason, but I'll get it done. I'm not saying it'll be 100% perfect and done, but it'll all get done. HA!
I wanted to share my next few days in my December daily album. I'm of course behind, but I've been working on it daily so hopefully I'll be able to finish it not long after Christmas is over.  We shall see.

Day 9 is about a gift that was left on my desk at work by the cleaning crew. It was a super cute homemade "Evergreen Wreath" and the letter that I'm holding in the picture is the poem/meaning that was left with it. So sweet of them to do that and it has such a great meaning.

Day 10 is our letters to Santa and yes I had David write his "wishes" out too so I could tuck his in an envelope. His list is way shorter than mine, but ssshhhhh don't tell him that!.

Day 11 is about our new stockings that I bought and then spray painted the letters to hang from them. I wanted to have our names put on the stockings, but then I saw these super cute letters at Hobby Lobby and thought glitter spray paint and rolled with that.
Day 12 is the start of our weekend getaway that did. Now I'm thinking with a million and one things to do maybe we should have stayed home and got some things marked off our list, but we have our priorities and this ranked way up there on our list of need to do and I had a lot of fun.

Good night!

December Daily days 4-8

Welcome back to my December Daily   I wanted to share the next several days today and I'm hoping to get some more pages done tonight. Day 4 and 5 are both single page spreads. Day 4 included a picture from our Christmas card photo shoot. Yes, we had real milk and cookies and no I didn't save them for Santa, I ate them right after we were done. HA! Day 5 talks about my first round of shopping and how I'm sure I'll be shopping right up to Christmas day.

Day 6 and 7 are once again single page spreads. I'm all about the ease of just doing one page spreads for each day at this point. Not to mention not a whole lot of Christmas stuff happens right at the start of December. On the 6th we headed to Norman to the football game and even though we lost we had a lot of fun, we always do when we go. On day 7 we went over the my mother-in-laws to eat and she wanted to take a few pictures of the family and since we had a willing person to dress like Santa no one could say no. It was late and the we were in the house and the lighting was not great so I turned the picture black and white before I printed it. I did actually print it in color first but then decided I liked the black and white better.

Day 8 talks about my goal of getting our Christmas cards done and mailed out. I also went a head and included our card here. I usually add it to the end of the book, but decided it would go great here. Hope you're having a great weekend and doing all things Christmasy!

December Daily {days 1-3}

Good morning! Wanted to share the first few days of my December daily album today. My plan was to try to post these daily, but by the time I get home from work and work on the album its to late and dark for any good pictures so for now I'll just work on a few days at a time and then post it that way. This is the cover of my album, still can't decide if I want to "decorate" the tree or not so for now I'm leaving it as is.

Found this super cute (free) calendar on pintrest and printed it out to put in the front on my album. I just love this calendar.

Next is my intro page.

And then day 1. I finally got the tree up and Gunner just sat there watched me the whole time I'm guessing trying to figure out what in the world I was doing HA!

Day 2 I didn't really doing anything Christmas-y but I have that super cute mug with the elf on it that was a gift from a friend last year just sitting on the counter so I snapped  photo of it and add "Bring on Christmas" before I printed the photo. I also cut up a 4 3x4 page protector just so I could add in a few more little cards.

And day 3. A friend of mine picked up a copy of Click magazine for me (I've been wanting a copy for a while now and I LOVE it. It will for sure be added to my wish list. Those are the days I've got completed so far. Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great weekend.

December Daily 2014

I hope everyone had a blessed and happy Thanksgiving. we sure did. I love Thanksgiving and all that it means. I'm so very thankful for so many things in my life, even though there are things I'd rather be able to change, my life is pretty darn good.

 

Today I wanted to share with you some of my supplies that I've gathered up for my December daily this year. I didn't buy any kits (even though  I wanted/would have loved to) it just wasn't in the budget. But oh, seeing what some of the people have already done with the kits, just makes me wish I would have gotten one. But it is what it is and I've got soooo much stuff that I've had forever that needs to be used so I "shopped" my own supplies for things to use and I'm pretty happy with what I found.

This picture shows all of the stuff that I've decided on using or at least trying to use. I picked up the tray from Hobby Lobby and love it. It fits 12x12 paper and so much more.

I went through ALL of my paper and believe me there is a lot here and found some I thought would look good together and was Christmas-y. There's a lot and I doubt I use all of them, but I have options and that's always a good thing.

I had the Dear Lizzy album already and decided to go ahead and use it instead of buying another album. I'm still trying to decide how I want to do the cover, but I'm leaning toward one idea. Hopefully it works out like I wanting.

I did sign  up for the class over at Studio Calico again this year and got the kit that came with the class, I love this class and I'm excited to see how Stephanie Bryan does it differently than Maggie Holmes.

 

I'm excited to get started on this project again this year and can't believe that December is on Monday!?!?!?!? How about you, are you dong a December Daly this year? 





Fall or Winter

I said earlier this week that I guessed we were going to skip any real Fall weather and head straight for winter around here. 

And I guess I was right. We had a cold front come in last week and I do believe it's here to stay. It's been so cold here and then yesterday we had a chance of snow and like I said in my post last night it had in fact started snowing. Not enough to cause no work today, but still. This makes me so happy I can't explain it. 

I snapped these snow pictures this morning as I was leaving for work. Not a whole lot of the white stuff, but for it to be snowing in November in southern Oklahoma that's CRAZY!!! Makes me wonder what the rest of winter is going to look like. 

I say bring on some more of the white stuff! 

Project life weeks 38 & 39

Hello hello! How's everyone's weekend going? Mine has been really good so far and just a little while ago it started snowing!?!??!?!? What the What??? I know crazy, but I'm oh so excited and hope that it sticks and it'll be all pretty and white in the morning when I get up. Getting out of work wouldn't be bad either. :) But I wanted to share two more weeks of my project life tonight. And yep, I'm about a month or so behind, (again) but I'm working on getting caught up!!!

This week started off with David and I just riding around up in the hills spending time together. And it ended with a little shopping trip. Fun way to start the week and a fun way to end the week.

Week 39

This week started out just like last week, with David and I out looking for adventure. It's always so much fun, well almost always. LOL Went to the movies one night with my Mom and one of my sisters and ended the week painting the accent wall in our bedroom that didn't turn out I was hoping it would when we built the house last year. Its white now to match the other walls in the room, and I'm not really digging that and I'm sure I'll paint again but what color and when is the question. Also spent Saturday evening at the lake to celebrate my sister-in-law's birthday. Another good week.

Happy Birthday......to me

 

Today 33 years ago I was brought into this world (along with a twin brother). 33 years!!!!!!! What the what????? I think to myself that can't be right can it? But low and behold it is. I still can't believe it. Last night a friend and I took off work and went shopping and then to the theater to watch Sister Act. I loved it, it was so good. Another one of our friends was supposed to go, but ended up getting sick and couldn't. And David is on nights this week, so tonight it was just Mom and me for dinner, but that's ok he's off this weekend so we've got big plans. I'm totally ok with celebrating my birthday for a week! ;)

If you remember my birthday wishlist  then you know that this hat   was on it and I LOVE it. I can't wait to wear it everywhere. It's the perfect Fall hat in opinion. I'm still waiting to see what else I get for my birthday, if its anything else on the list or something I didn't even think of. We shall see.

But for now these flowers and birthday donuts is enough to get me started on the next year of my life. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me and for our family. Happy Birthday to me!!

Scrappin'

Hello November and Saturday!!! Hope your Halloween was great. I'm still eating the leftover candy and I'm totally ok with that. ;) I wanted to hop on really quickly and share a recent layout that I did using these pictures from October. It was a super fast page to make and that the way to go if you ask me. I don't like spending forever on one layout. I mean there are tons of other ideas that I want to get to and if I'm spending way to much time on one single thing then that's not going to work. So if I am taking forever on something I'll put it aside and start on something else and come back to it later.

I love the splash of gold spray ink and thought it was just the right "thing" to complete the layout. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

K & R

October is month full of birthdays, family members and friends both. Almost every week in October I know someone who is having a birthday. This week two of my very best friends and co-workers had birthdays just one day apart. We did lunch and then back at the office we had cupcakes that I made, both lunch and the cupcakes were delish. I whipped up cards for both girls and thought I would share them today. I'm not really a card maker, but I also have stopped buying cards because I refuse to spend six or seven dollars on something that most people just toss anyway. With as much scrapbooking stuff that I have making a card is not a problem so that's what I did.

Very simple cards, but I think super cute. I also did some embossing on both and even sprayed the top with one with some Heidi Swapp color shine. It didn't take me 15 min to create both cards and the envelopes for them. That's my kind of craftiness. :)

And since its Friday and the cupcakes were Auh-maz-ing I couldn't show them, but I mean can you really go wrong with chocolate cake with a surprise in the middle (a mini reese's) and peanut butter frosting? I think not. I found the recipe on Pinterest and had to try it out and I'm so glad that I did. Of course her recipe called for you take make the cake from scratch I think not, I mean who has time for that?? But the frosting is a keeper for sure. Here's to a great weekend!!