God Bless Us, Everyone!

There's no place like home for the holidays! I'm hoping you enjoy spending time with beloved family and friends at home, wherever that may be.  Meanwhile I have a few more decorating photos to share and one quick and easy craft for a last minute treat to include on a gift or stocking.

My favorite Christmas pitcher

Our kitchen shelf with a sock snowman I made and one of our Advent Calendars

 

A 'magical' snowman cookie jar. Treats from this jar have no calories - imagine that! haha!

Glass, fabric, wooden and bread dough snowmen

Our gingerbread house this year has a Kappa Alpha Theta theme! See the snowman flying a kite? I made the kite and put it on thin floral wire which I anchored under the 'snow'~

I saw this idea on Kelley's blog/Kelley Highway

and immediately went to Martha Stewart dot com to watch the video and see the pattern. I made a bunch of these to hang on gift bags & stockings. Then I had a brain wave and got the idea to alter the pattern and make an elephant since College Girl likes elephants. I just made the ears bigger, cut multiple slits for the candy cane trunk, and trimmed the top of the head flatter - voila!

 

      Merry Christmas. God Bless us, everyone!


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Good Advice~

Take Time for Tea ~ I think that is good advice! Tea is not a hurry up and go kind of beverage. It is a relax, unwind and savor drink.  As you may imagine, I have a small collection of teatime stamps, but nothing like the set Handyman recently gave me as part of my anniversary gift. This set of 4 teapots and a variety of charming sentiments is from Papertrey Ink Stamps.

 

I was itching to create some cards with the stamps right away! Making a scrapbook page takes me a day or two to complete, but cards are an immediate source of satisfaction because I can finish them quickly. Of course the very first card I made had to be in the colors of  GOLD   and BLACK   because they are Kappa Alpha Theta's colors! We are all about my daughter's new sorority right now with her initiation just around the corner.

The stamps came with a clear CD jewel case for storage.  Papertrey Ink also has a companion set of stamps with additional tea images - Hmmm, I think those are going on my wish list. I made two additional cards using the same design but different paper. This one is in deep autumn colors using Gecko Galz Hocus Pocus paper. I popped the little leaf up on foam adhesive and stamped the sentiment directly on the card.

I used two punches on the next card I made, along with pen "stitching" and the sentiment on a banner.

There are some lovely black and gold  teacups available. I do not own any but will keep my eyes open for one. I did spot this lovely Limoges on Etsy (Mossweed) ~

 

They have a delicate golden scroll pattern with black outline. So elegant! All this talk of teacups and stamps reminds me of what a lucky woman I am to be celebrating my 27th wedding anniversary with the guy that knows the way to my heart, my sweet groom.

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