Merry Christmas

Here is a little candy for your eyes. (because, I have not been crafty since my room is buried in stuff. I am cleaning on my day off on Thursday. :) )

 I made this for myself

 

Yep! he came home with me from the thrift store.

Erica made this...

and I made some of these small ones.

 Christmas Wall

And here's the close-ups...

Made this.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cuttlebug Spot is back...after a short Holiday

Winterseason has begun, snow nice!

Use texture like felt, buttons, string, ribbon etc and create a Winterscenery.

So you guys know I collect Shiny Brite ornaments....

I also save the boxes after I put the ornaments where they need to go.

I LOVE those smaller 6" X 4" boxes.

I have started creating little "scenes" in them that can hang.

Recipe:

Solid Paper: Blue- Archivers

Pattern Paper: Snowflakes-Papertry Ink

Ink: blue-Distress Ink TH, White- Papertry Ink

Die Cuts: A Muse Studio

Stamps: Swirls-Heartfelt Creations

Other: Gems, Stickles, mini clips, vintage mini tinsel and felt

We'd love for you to play along at The Cuttlebug Spot.

It's Christmas Time at the Strickers!

Merry Christmas to all of my readers!

here are my decorations, if you have a question about any of them, please let me know.

(please click on photo to enlarge it)

Have a great Holiday.

Jennifer

O Christmas Tree

Happy Thursday!

First of all I have to show you this picture of Duncan being Duncan and getting into places where he should not be.

He must have been watching birds.

Here is this years tree.

I kept it really simple and only added silver and red garland along with solid color vintage Shiny Brites. I love how it looks. We always put on white lights. These lights randomly blink. (I think you can click on it to enlarge the picture)

Christmas Thrift Finds

I was able to get out over the weekend. It was a busy weekend. My Dad had to have open heart surgery on Friday. My Mom, my Brother and I were at the hospital all day. Every thing went really well. We're lucky he's super healthy and had no symptoms. He just went in for a yearly exam and the Dr. recommended that he have a stress test. So he did and that's where they found out that he had 5 blocked arteries. But he's all fixed now and might even be able to come home tomorrow. Medicine these days... amazing.

Anyway... here are my finds from the weekend. One of my favorite thrift shops opened their "christmas boutique" for the year, and I was so excited. Some of the prices were a little higher than normal, but I love everything I found.

Shiny Brites, old ribbon, vintage kitchen towels, Hallmark party invites, and napkins and a plastic creche (to add to my collection)

Awesome gold deer (don't know if they are old or not), another plastic creche, some stenciled shiny brights and plastic cookie trays

Oh yeah... and another great tinsel tree.