Calendar for My Girl

For Christmas, I told my best girl all I want is for her to choose at least one day out of each month and block out some time for us!  It can be lunch, coffee, a bottle of wine, time for crafting....you name it...anything goes!  Along with this request, I made her calendar (which she still hasn't seen) to help her remember!  ;)  Here's a few pics!

The Cover

I love Nascar's commercial....WHO DOESN'T LOVE, LOVE?  I love, love!

some have mats for pics others don't....

I like this jack-o-lantern!

Happy Turkey Day

So you get the idea....just a fun little project from me to my bestie!  Happy Crafting!

New York City!!!!

It's been tooo long since I've posted something on here...I've been dying to post this little book I made for my mom (well, actually I made three - one for my SIL and myself too), but I had to wait until after I gave it to her.  My sister-in-law and I bought three round trip tickets and a hotel stay in NYC for my mom and of course for us - Mandy (SIL) and myself!  It was a surprise for Mom for Christmas.  We wanted to make her guess what her gift was so I made this little keepsake book for her (and one for Mandy and me!) and wrapped it up and gave it to her for Christmas.  It took her a few pages, but by the end she had it figured out!  :)  Here are a few of the pages as well as a pic of Mom and a pic of Mandy opening their books!

Cover of Mom's book.

back cover of all 3

THE BIG APPLE

Leaving on a Jet Plane....or hey, can someone get me a TAXI

Look closely....it's times square (we'll be staying on the square!) and a suitcase...

coffee shops and playbills

It's a girls weekend - gotta have envelopes for receipts and pics!

Pack your bags....we're going in January!

Mom has figured it out!!!  She was shocked - my little brother's comment to me was "great one, you about gave her a heart attack!"  Perfect - we got the reaction we were looking for!  She was shocked!

Mandy (my older bro's wife) with her keepsake book!  All smiles.....

The weekend of our trip is almost here, and we can't wait!  It's going to be a great girls getaway!  More pictures to post when we return!  :)

Baby Boy

My  neighbors welcomed their new baby boy into their home last week.  I thought I'd make them a little card to go with their "welcome baby" gift.  This is my first attempt at a New Baby card.....it turned out okay.

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 As you can see I was able to fill up the large utility tote with several of the packages I needed to take with us!

Don't mind my feet in this picture!  I wanted to show you the view from above though with how roomy this tote really is!  It really did makes things a lot easier to carry!

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More Cards

I hope each of you  had a wonderful Christmas!  I know here in the Newman household, we had a great weekend!  But now it's Monday which means back to work...so sad!  Here are a few more Christmas Cards I whipped up on Christmas Eve for some family members.....

I made a couple of these cute little tags for some gifts to Scott and for some gifts to my mom from my dad - i end up wrapping all her gifts from him every year anyway...I may as well have fun while I do it!  :)

This last picture is my bonus son and three nephews in their new Purdue football jerseys at Nini and Papaw's house!  LtoR: Seth, Colin, Rhett and Wes

Yummies for some Co-workers' Tummies and Treat Bags too!

Yesterday, I had a day off from "real" job!  I spent the day making holiday sweet treats!  Today, I have some photos of those as well as the cute little treat bags I made for my boss, my co-manager and our usual truck driver!  I hope you enjoy these!  The bags were super simple to make and just add a little flare and holiday spirit!  I will give these along with the cards I made a few days that were posted on a previous blog!  I hope you all have a safe and joyous holiday!  Happy Crafting!

a close up of the bags - not a great picture but you get the idea - the little stamp on the bottom says "yummy for your tummy"!  Cute, huh?  That's a Pink By Design stamp from Tags N Treats!

A trio of the bags I made!

Some of the yummies.....

A friend wanted to borrow some holiday cookie cutters, so I bundled some up and threw in a cute little tag to add a little spirit!  :)  She thinks I'm funny!

Cookies and tasty treats!!!

Today's post isn't so much crafty, but it is very tasty!  Here are a few easy sweet treats I've made recently....I'm thinking either Friday or one day next week is going to be  a HUGE baking day!  I have all kinds of candies, etc. I want to make, but it needs to be close enough to Christmas that I can pawn them off on family, friends and co-workers!  Otherwise, I'll eat them all up!  Recipes to follow if interested.....Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting!

These were for Scott's birthday - no the holidays but still fun and tasty!

More birthday fun!

Mmm...Grandma's 7 layer cookie bars (although she hasn't made them for years - my lil bro and SIL always request them, so I oblige - how can you not when they taste sooo incredibly good)!!!  Made these for Thanksgiving and will again for Christmas!

Used a Wilton embossing kit on these.  The snowflakes turned out gorgeous!  My nephews (7, 4 and 2) loved them!

Snowmen and Christmas trees didn't turn out quite as nice as the snowflakes...