Holidays

Good Monday Morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend! I had a really low key one. After being up way late Friday night it took me all weekend to recover!  Boy I am so not in my 20's!  Those were the days when I could stay up until 1am or later and get up and go all weekend!  Today I am sharing one of the Christmas Cards I made this year.  I tend to make a few of each design to send out.

I love how simple this was! When I start to work on Christmas projects I die cut and gather all my embellishments ahead of time. I also try to have my paper cut and ready to go.  That way when I have a few minutes I can throw together a card, tag or something!  This is the week I really start to get into the Holiday time!  I am now looking forward to getting my house decorated for Christmas! Well I am off to workout and this afternoon I am headed to see Skyfall with my Dad!!   Have a great day! 

Jessie

A busy Fall

Greetings to those left reading my blog!!  I have been so bad this fall posting.  I have not crafted a lot since Sept.  I have finally started to pick up my crafting time this past week.  It might have to do with the fact that I ordered a few things from two places!!
 This weekend I have been working on Christmas gifts, cards and tags.  I still have to take pictures of those projects.   So, today I am sharing the two Halloween cards that I made for my nephews.  I made them in Sept when I had my big crafting day.  I really am not much into Halloween but thought they would enjoy these.  I got this stamp set free from CTMH and had yet to use it! So at least they have now seen ink!

I hope to have time this week to photo the projects I have been working on and will post them!  Hey is anyone on Instagram?  I am totally hooked!  Let me know if you are I would love to follow you!  Have a great week and if you are in Sandy's path stay safe!!  Thanks for stopping by!

Jessie

Sharing....

I was going to post that there was nothing craft related but that is not true! Lisa makes awesome crafts!
A few years ago I was turned on to Lisa Leonard she has a great blog and runs a really neat business selling jewelry.  I have have one piece and love it!! I hope to buy more in the future.  Yesterday she shared exciting news on her blog.  As most of my friends know I am not into reality TV but this I would watch!  She inspires me and I love reading her blog daily! She is an awesome Mom and business woman!   So today I am sharing a little spot she shared on her blog!

Thanks for stopping by!  

Jessie

Fall

I am finding it hard to believe that Fall has arrived but according to the temps at night around here it is Fall.  Tonight is a low of 44!!  YUCK!!  I enjoy my days of the 80's and night of the 50's but 40's!  Oh my!  I have not had time to do a lot of card making life has been kind of busy.  However last weekend I went to crop with my friend Faith and got thirty cards completed and a few tags.  I want to add that a few were almost complete and just needed a few touches.  Today I am sharing one of the cards I made last week using my new goodies I won at Moxie Fab!  Soho Garden rocks!  I love the paper and it came with a bunch of tags and embellishments!  I made this card using all I got in my package.  I added the the twine from my stash.  I really love the look!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week!  

Jessie

Week One

Happy September and more importantly Happy Football Season!!!!! Hence my title!   I am so excited that Football is back on TV!!  I love watching or listening to Football in the fall and early winter!  When it gets cooler here in NC I will craft and watch games for now it is still yard work and outside stuff that needs to be done, before I get to watch Football! I did mange to watch part of one game today in between mowing the yard! (Go Pat's!!!)  Yay!!  I hope everyone is well and enjoying September!
 Today I am sharing a card I made in August.  I used Claudine HelImuth's Neighborhood.  I really like this set! have not had time to photograph any of the new cards and tags I have made.  I am now working on Christmas!  Oh my!!  I not big into Halloween.  I may make a card or two but that is about it.  I am off to get ready for another busy week!  I hope everyone has a fantastic week!  Catch you soon!

Jessie

Girls Weekend

This weekend my best friend Judy came to visit.  She arrived Thursday.  I have been working on the inside of the house for a while. She has not been here is a few years and it needed some help not to mention the spare room was full and a bed was not what was in it!  I finished getting ready Thursday morning. End up getting an areobed 22 inch bed.  I think it will be good.  I do not get a lot of visitors, so I figured this would work.  Judy said it was ok. I realized to late I need a mattress pad for it and I think that will help.  Anyways she arrived and when she walked in she commented on my front flower beds.  Yeah I am not a great gardner!  She said lets clean this out while I am here.  So I was game.  So Friday we spent a few hours cleaning one bed then headed out to find new plants for the beds.  We had a great time came home had a nice evening.  We did have the power go out after a lovely thunderstorm!!  We got up Saturday and spent 6 hours in the yard.  Below are a few pictures from our day.  The first is our feet after the 6 hours!  We were covered in dirt, bug bites and sun burn!!  But we had a great time!

Here is the end result!  It still needs a few bags of mulch to finish it off.  I promised to keep up the weeds and keep it looking well.

Here is the card I made her to thank her for all her help this weekend.  Just so you know  it was not all work. We did manage to do a few other things!  We did go shopping out to dinner and had some time in the craft room!  Sorry the card picture is so poor!

Hope everyone has a great week!  Thanks for stopping by!

Jessie

August

I can not believe that August is half over!  This summer is flying by!  I am having a great time!  Tomorrow my best friend is coming for a girls weekend!  It will be the first one without kids and husband in a while.  I have been preparing for a few weeks now.  I did some painting, changed some fixtures,  did lots of purging and cleaning.  I have not had time for crafting but I have gotten my craft room in order.  We plan to spend a lot of time in it this weekend!  Judy is bring a few projects and I have a few I need to work on as well.  Here is a card I made a few weeks ago when the temps were in the 100's.  I used no stamps and love how it turned out!  Hope everyone is well! 

Thanks for stopping by!  

Jessie