2nd day of Thanksgiving

Today I am grateful for a quiet Sunday at home with my husband and my dog. As we were unwinding after dinner I told him that it felt like 3 different days rolled into one. I love days like this!

27 days of Gratitude - 1st Day of Thanksgiving

I found this on Jeanette Lynton's blog (the founder of Close to My Heart)

"The words gratitude and grateful are some of my favorite words in the whole world. I love them so much I use them many times throughout my day! The reason I love them is because they describe who I am. I am grateful! And November is the perfect month for counting my blessings! So this month, I’d like to share with you “27 Days of Gratitude.” To count down the days to one of my favorite holidays—Thanksgiving!—I’m going to blog about something that I’m thankful for every day."

And I decided to participate, plus they say if you do something for 27 days it becomes a habit.

Today I am grateful for my mom. That she is still relatively healthy, living in her own home and driving.

Fall is here

and I'm so ready for Christmas. I want to get all of my decorations out and do the house up.

Then reality hit and Boyd said no, it's not even Halloween yet. Today we spent time in the yard getting things ready for winter. While I love fall I'm not quite ready for winter yet.

As for Christmas decorations, I'm plotting and planning what will go where. I want to invite my sorority sisters over for drinks or tea or something.

Happy fall!

Danny

Today I found out that a friend is losing her 5 yr old little boy Danny. My heart breaks for her, her husband, their daughter Madison and their extended families and friends.

A tumor was found yesterday on his brain stem, after emergency surgery he has not woken up. This is what she sent to a friend. "They have not declared him brain dead, but they are keeping him alive until her mom gets there. So she can spend some time with Danny.

He is gone."

Danny loved the movie Cars and Lightening McQueen. He seemed like the sweetest little boy with the typical little boy streak.

Life is so short and precious.

Halloween is here

Today I brought out the Fall and Halloween decorations and did the house up. Well the inside anyway. The outside will need to wait for another day. I had fun watching football, decorating and creating.

In my spare time I created the Halloween count down displayed above. I thought it would be something fun for us to do. Plus it's the count down for Boyd's birthday. I was going to create a birthday count down but since Boyd's birthday is 3 days before Halloween I went with Halloween instead. The birthday one can wait until well May since the next birthday is mine. ;)

Now we're at the end of the weekend, I had a great time and maybe tomorrow morning I'll be ready to go back to work. Ha!

7 Random Things About Me

As challenged on Elsie's blog

1. am so ready for fall, the changing of the leaves, and the crisp morning air.
2. would rather have a mixed flower arrangement than roses.
3. feel out of sorts if I don't take time to read.
4. obsessed with my 2 Big & Rich Cd's.
5. still take pictures with my film camera
6. have 8-12 rolls of film that need to be developed.
7. don't like graham crackers unless they are in smores

Virtual retreat results

I attended a virtual retreat this weekend with a group of friend who weren't able to attend the real retreat. A virtual retreat means that you work at home like you were really at the retreat and try not to let things at home distract you.

I had a lot of fun and accomplished more than I have in months. Four altered photo frames, a wall hanging and 8 2pg layouts along with 3 filled slide in pages. I finished 2007 up to Christmas!

I'm not sure what pics to use in the photo frames but I'll figure something out. I figure they'll be fun to have on my desk at work.

My favorite thing from the weekend is my wall hanging. I started with four chipboard panels and picked out some of my favorite fall and Christmas photos for alternating sides. Any way here are the pictures and details.

On the fall side I used some discontinued CTMH papers and other accents I've accumulated.


On the Christmas side I used some paper from my stash and other accents I've accumulated.


For the hanger I used double sided red/gold ribbon. I used a glue stick on the papers since it dries faster than Mod Podge. On the photos/accents I used tape runner.

I loved this project and I love knowing that I can switch things out or add things if I ever want to. You know how it is, you think it's perfect and they your in a store and find "The PERFECT thing" for that project.


Thanks Martha for hosting our retreat and thanks to everyone for all of the goodie bag items. I'll enjoy them all in my dreams. ;)