How cute is this!

Heather Mellstrom put together an awesome Thanksgiving name place holder tutorial over at the G45 blog. Check it out!

Advent Calendars

I'm a simple girl. This is kind of plain, but I like the way it turned out. My daughter's opinion is still out though. She asked me this morning, "What IS that, Mommy?" I think she just wants more candy, LOLOL!



We are also doing a Jesse tree and my old cross stitched stockings. I printed the Jesse tree ornaments and lessons from here. I picked out a branch and my husband set it in concrete in a little pot for me. I'm planning to clean off the kitchen table and have that as my centerpiece for the month of December. It is amazing how bad the picture of that branch is! I'll take a new one when I get my table set up. I think I need to trim the branch just a tad.

Here is a picture of those cross stitched stockings. I made these years ago when I still cross stitched. For some reason photography and scrapbooking have taken over.

Graphic 45 Contest!

Here's the scoop:
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The Contest: We invite you to celebrate this wonderful time of year with us at Graphic 45 by joining in our "Winter Wonderland" ScrapOFF! We are looking for beautiful original scrapbook or paper crafting projects that celebrate your fondest holiday memories. Submit your holiday greeting cards, scrapbook layouts, mini books, altered items, or whatever else you choose using paper from any of our collections. Entries will be judged on overall appeal as well as creativity. One grand prize will be awarded as well as 5 runner up prizes. The grand prize winner will receive a set of all 7 collections, which includes the 3 new lines that won't be released until CHA in January! The 5 runners up will receive a set of 2 of our collections.

We are excited to see what Wonderful Winter creations you come up with!

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How to Enter: Upload a photo(s) of your project on our gallery at the G45 Gallery. ** Please do not submit anymore than 3 photos of your project and please try to keep photos under 150 kb each.** IMPORTANT! All submissions must have "Winter Wonderland ScrapOFF" under products used on G45's gallery to be considered for the contest. As well, please in the Extended Description/Instructions section include a little information about your project. i.e. what is inspiration for the project, what is the project (a layout, mini book, an altered ?what?), and the approximate size. Also, please include your state/province and country of residence and your blog address if you have one. Please feel free to publish your projects (i.e. photos includes) and details of this contest on your personal blog. (All entries will be acknowledged via email within a few days of receipt. Please also give us a couple of days to approve the upload of your photos into the gallery).

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Rules: Anyone residing in any country. You are welcome to use products other than Graphic 45, however we ask that 75% of the product used is ours. No more than 3 photos per project please. By submitting, you agree to Graphic 45 displaying your entry on our website. If you require us to take it down for a future submission elsewhere, please let us know and we will do so.

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Deadline: Deadline for all entries is Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time. Once the deadline has been reached, we will select one winner based on creativity and overall appeal. Entries will be judged by Graphic 45. Winners will be announced on the G45 Blog on Monday, December 15th, 2008 one grand prize winner plus 5 runners up.

Free groceries?

No way! I have a friend here in town that has a blog. She posts all kinds of free stuff. I've gotten a free t-shirt at Old Navy, and free coffee at Starbucks. This morning she posted about a photo contest for free groceries. Check it out on her blog here. And here's the direct link to the photo contest: Win $500 for groceries!

Here is my picture for the contest:


While we were visiting Mickey's house down in Orlando Florida, we went to Beaches and Cream. They are known for their "Kitchen Sink" sundae. It's more than $20 and has an entire can of whipped cream. Way too big for our family! So DD just got a regular hot fudge sundae.

I miss Disney. I can't wait to go back!

Graphic 45 Projects

It's hard to express without gushing how much I enjoy working with these papers. They are wonderfully versatile, a perfect weight for many different projects and just a dream to work with. This month is a continuation of Christmas ideas. Now I'm not one to usually be thrilled to scrap Christmas. In fact, I have a mini-album all set up in a big zip lock bag from last year. Have I worked on it? No. Have I printed pictures for it? No. Have I even looked at it in the last 10 months? That's a no, too. I was surprised to find I really enjoyed working on these projects this month. I think that's the paper talking, LOL!

Without further ado, here are my November Graphic 45 projects.