Christmas is Coming!

Yes, Christmas is coming and I have all my Christmas stamp sets withing easy reach.  Today, I cased a card from the catalog and changed the sentiment on the front.  Believe it or not, I don't have the set they used for that card!  So here is my card with the recipe below.  Hope you enjoy.

Stamps

 Heard from the Heart

Bells and Boughs

The Sounding Joy

Cardstock

Cherry Cobbler

Very Vanilla

Ink

Cherry Cobbler

Always Artichoke

Promotion Time

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It's Almost Time

Time for what, you say?  The craft show that my sister and I are doing on October 1!  We spent the week-end doing some final organizing and making to-do lists.  I think we are going to have an awesome display.  Here are some of the items we will be selling.

Paper Bow and Tag

Tic Tac Holders

Party in a Bag

Still lots to do!

Getting Ready

I am so excited!  My sister, niece and I are going to participate in a Craft Sale on October 1st at my Mom and Dad's church.  I love creating and love it even more when I have an outlet for it.  Every nook and cranny of my house is packed with items for the sale.  One of the items we will offer is called "Party in a Bag". The product includes a hand-made paper bag, note card and tea light cake.  Other coordinating items will be available to add to the bag to complete the gift.  We are hoping that these will be a big hit!

I am also making bunches of bitty boxes to use up retired textured paper and will use all kinds of greetings and embellishments to make a fun display.  Jewelry, candy or even money fit nicely in these cute little boxes.  I had four tags left from a tag set I made so I now have four Christmas Bitty Boxes ready for the sale.

Also thought I would share our breakfast plate from this morning.  My daughter requested blackberry and chocolate chip pancakes.  Never had that combination, but they were super good!  Thanks for the blackberries, Daddy!

Lovely Gift Card Holders

I just love to give and receive gift cards.  I recently enjoyed watching a video on how to make these cute gift card holders.  Here is a link to Dawn's blog.  She does some really cool things!

I decided to flip the design on the holder (right photo).  I think it turned out cute.  This is an awesome way to use up some of the retired designer paper.  Thanks Dawn for an awesome project!

Trying to stay cool today.  It is going to be 101 degrees here in Raleigh with a heat index of 110!  Unbelievable!!!

I Love the Smell of Basil

I love a summer garden.  Since we finally got some rain this week, all my plants are standing tall.  It is time to harvest some herbs, so I started with my basil this week.  Here is the tray filled with basil stems.  I let them air dry before drying them in the oven.  All of this yielded about 1/2 cup of dried basil. It will come in handy when my tomatoes are ready and I can make homemade tomatoe sauce--yum yum!

Scrunchie, Scrunchie!

Today I want to share a crochet project that has been keeping me busy on my lunch hours.  These  are just too cute and are perfect for the "tweens" who think they are too old for the big hair bows, but still need something to keep that hair out of their eyes.  I actually did some test marketing (unheard of for me) and found that the 5 year old and the 10 year old love them.  I also found that I set my prices much too low!  both Moms told me they would pay twice as much as I was going to charge.  So, I have set the price at $4 and hope they sell :)  Enjoy!