Christmas Cheer

 I know some of my American friends are getting ready for Thanksgiving, but as a Canadian, ours was last month, so right after Halloween, Christmas starts to make an apperance in my thoughts. Last year we were leaving on the 27th of Dec for Florida, so I had to put all my Christmas stuff away on Boxing Day. So inorder to have some holiday cheer, I put our tree up the beginning of November. Well this year, because of some family situations I was feeling kinda a blue. So what better way to cheer someone up, then Christmas trees. Since last Friday was Veterans Day and the kids had no school, we stayed up late on Thursday and set up the basement tree:) It was our first time setting up that tree, and thanks to my Mother in law, it was possible.

 For some odd reason, my son thought it was just the funniest thing to wear a Bob Marley hat while decorating the tree. That kid has such an odd sense of humor lol. My girls, as you can see love to pose. I thought this would hold me til Dec 1 and I could put up the upstairs tree and finish decorating the house, but Monday, my 18 yr old came to visit with his girlfriend, for supper. I mentioned somethng about setting up the tree, next thing you know, it was 9:30 and the tree was up and decorated :)

  I haven't posted anything crafty in a while, so I'm just going to post something quick. I've been making advent bags for my kids and did a few layouts and a card, but I'll show you this name frame I made. My girlfriend had a baby girl 3 weeks ago. She and her husband had 3 boys under the age of 4, so they where over joyed to add a little girl to their group. I made her the name frame and a framed layout that she could add her own picture too. ( I forgot to take a pic of that!!!)

Paper- CTMH, Ribbon- Hobby Lobby, Flowers-recollections, Storybook Cart- cut @ 4, gems/bling-from my stash, Twine-


  I recieved a pink ATG yesturday from a blog hop...i apologize, I wrote it down, but can find the paper. So my plan today is to give that a try and figure out how to cut with my gypsy and E2. Thats the plan, but hubby worked a double last night and got home at 630 this morning, and now me and the kids are trapped in the basement. So we shall see ;)  Happy scrapping.