Snow

So I've lost track of all the snow storms we have had and how many inches...it's seems like winter will never end. All I know is that the driveway needs cleared almost everyday and the snow is up past our knees.

I have this snowman on my front porch that holds a sign that says, "Let it snow!" so I decided it was time to bring him in! No more snow please!

Here he is thawing out in my kitchen sink then off to storage in the basement he goes.

Valentine Cookies

I made some heart shaped sugar cookies for Valentines Day. I had pretty much given up on making sugar cookies because I couldn't make them look pretty like you see in magazines. Then a couple of years ago I found this great recipe for sugar cookie icing that I love.  Corn syrup seems to be the secret ingredient. I can now finally make a pretty sugar cookie.  I am so excited!

Valentine Cards

I decided to make my own Valentine cards this year.  Since Zach is away at the Academy I'm trying to do some "special" things for him and the rest of my family.  I cut the cards out with my Wishblade and stamped and stickled them.  It was fun!

Played with PSE6 again today.

We took our annual trip to Lynd's Fruit Farm to pick apples. We have been going every year now for the last 15 years. I wanted to try using one of my photos for the backround paper. I had seen it done but had never tried it myself. I really like it.

So it's been a long time...

As you can tell from this layout my family has been through some changes this summer. We took Zach out to Colorado Springs at the end of June to the Air Force Adademy. He went through Cadet Basic training over the summer and started classes in August. He seems to like it so far. We miss him very much. I finally decided to do some digital scrapbooking again. I had to make the Air Force Academy embellishment. It's a simple layout but it was good to get my feet wet again.

A New Year Has Come

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So Christmas and the start of another year has come and gone. The Christmas decorations are all put away and most of the goodies are gone. Now it's time to start eating better and making time for exercise. There is snow on the ground and the kids had a snow day today. We are expecting more snow over the weekend. I did another digital layout to enter for a chance to win a gift certificate to a local LSS on one of my message boards. The challenge was to use inked edges and the provided a link to instructions. This way worked much better than what I had done before.

paper-Shabby Princess Holiday Sampler 2006 & Jessica Sprague Home Away From Home
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elements-Shabby Princess Holiday Sampler 2006

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is only about 3 weeks away so I started my decorating and baking this week. I have some of my shopping finished too. I still have a long way to go. I also have some projects to make for gifts that I can't talk about yet. We plan on getting our tree this Saturday. We have been getting a live cut tree for several years now. We tried one with the root ball but they are too heavy and after we planted it it died anyway. Tomorrow is another baking day so I'm signing off.