December Giveaway...

I'm doing a little December giveaway...I made these little goodies with a kit I have listed in my shop so thought I would give away the samples. The kit is full of all sorts of Christmas bits, baubles and ephemera. You can be entered into the drawing a few different ways:

1. Your name will be entered once for every item you purchase from my etsy store
2. Your name will be entered for every comment left on my blog (any day or every day until the drawing date). The comment doesn't need to be fancy, it can be as simple as "hello".

Sebastian will draw the winning name on December 13th and the item will be mailed by the 15th so you'll have the goodies well before the holidays, it's my little gift to you...Here's what you'll get:

A little vintage ornamental hanging...

And three little gift tags

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas lists...

My oldest son Matthew is just about to celebrate his 17th birthday and the older he gets the tougher it gets to shop for his Christmas gifts so I ask that he make me a list each year. This year he was really dragging his feet with the list (and I usually like to have all my shopping done by Thanksgiving) so I had to give him a deadline...which was yesterday...and this is what was waiting for me on my desk.

I opened it up and found his list...his very creative list, even the boys at Best Buy commented on how fancy it was when they spotted me carrying it around. One of the boys even took it out of my hands and studied it well...perhaps he is going to make one like it for his mother? Matt used a variety of my Christmas stamps, some "vintage looking" cardstock (his words) and a fancy script font. I love that he went through all the trouble to make this...I also wanted to show you this wonderful calender/planner I found at Sam's club. It is the cutest thing I've ever seen...

My youngest child, Sebastian, likes to leave me little treasures (notes, little hearts and pumpkins cut out of paper and colored in with crayon, little pencil drawings, etc) and I thought in 2010 I'm going to start keeping a journal for his little goodies so I can look back and remember why I got that particular goodie and when (sometimes it's because I was mad at him for being "bad"...which doesn't happen often and sometimes it's just to tell me he loves me.) I'll tape, glue or clip the treasure in the journal on the date it was received and jot down a little something about it.

Here's pictures of the pages dividing the seasons...

I'm looking forward to filling it up!

My Debut in Sew Somerset!

I'm "Sew" excited...just ran out to the mailbox hoping my complimentary issue of Sew Somerset would be waiting for me...and it was! The funnest part is that Shelby is home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday so she got to see herself in the magazine firsthand...her response: "I can't believe I'm in a magazine!"... My layout features a paperbag/fabric album I made for Shelby for her 18th birthday to document all her big days, 1 through 18. Now I'm really looking forward to getting the actual album back...I miss it!

Here are pictures of my layout and if you get a chance buy the magazine...there are some truly talented and fabulous artists featured in the pages!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and now Shelby, Matt and I are off to do some antiquing in Hudson.