Oh where has the time gone...

I have had BLOG on the list all week but I just finally have a moment to get to it. Kids are snuggled in their warmest jammies and tucked in bed, my husband is quietly watching the news downstairs on the couch and the dog is eating his evening snack in the kitchen...the house is nice and quiet after a pretty crazy week and a busy day! Our Christmas tree is aglow and has a few presents nestled below its branches, there is some remaining snow in our front yard and a slight chill in the air..these two combined make it seem possible that perhaps Christmas is around the corner. YAY! The anticipation is building for the first of the Christmas festivities that begin this weekend. Our little ones are on their best behavior in hopes that they will not ruin the chances of the big guy in the red suit stopping by our home for an important delivery. This year will be ending soon but as it comes to a close there are always so many fresh ideas, dreams and new opportunities that lie in the days of the new year! I do love this time of year!

I realized that I forgot to share my gallery on the BLOG at the beginning of the month so if you are interested I can share it now...We were out of town on vacation at the beginning of this month and thus the reason for the neglect.

This little jar was altered using the darling December kit to make a festive jar that would remind us to GIVE this time of year. It was used as an object lesson for my daughter and it has been filling up with ideas, coins, and other items that we will then take next week and put these things into action and actually give something away instead of focusing on getting what we want! This is such an important lesson to learn at any age and I hope to continue this tradition with the jar. It was very easy to put together using all of the papers, stickers, fabric, ribbon, rubons, tickets,etc. So many cute things in this kit!!


Secondly, I made a 2 page spread of the pictures I had of our first trip to the tubing hill in the mountains with our daughter. I was just barely pregnant with our son and we had so much fun. I hand-stitched snowflakes as an accent on each page and used scraps of paper to embellish a few of the photos. Click on the page to see it more in detail and read the journaling.


I was looking for some older photos to use with this kit and found some old Christmas pictures of my husband! He was so cute and looks a little bit like my son does..I kept this page pretty simple and did a bit of stitching on it.
Lastly, I made this card for my Mom's birthday and used the Sassafras sticker on cardstock and cut it out and put it on pop dots. I also adhered one of the Melissa Frances frames to the card and clustered some fun things inside. Well, that is it, now I am looking forward to working with the January kit! It has been in my hands for a week now and I have not stopped to work with it yet. I am looking forward to it, it is full of lots of goodies and such fun Colors...watch for it soon! Check out the rest of the Freehand Scraps gallery for more inspiration and I will be back soon, I promise!