Too Many Mondays!

We had another day off of school yesterday due to ice. Now you would think that would make all the school staff happy, but the reality is we have to give up a day off somewhere else to make it up so it's not as great as it sounds. It has seemed like a week of Mondays! I was able to do some scrapping and finish up the Faerie Lore kit yesterday. There will be a free little sample gift in Kathryn's newsletter on Saturday. Sign up for it here.

Faerie Lore / Dawn to Dusk





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Wow, it was so nice to have a day off of school. It's still so cold here that I stayed in all day and that's fine with me! A little reading, a lot of design time make for a relaxing day.

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Nature's Wind Chimes

I woke up this morning to a soft noise that sounded almost like distant wind chimes. When I looked out the window what I saw was that all of our trees and bushes where covered with a thin coat of ice. The chimes were the oak branches gently touching each other. Here's a photo of my holly with little ice jewels hanging on every branch. What a great day to stay home!

Another January 12th

It's my birthday and that makes me happy. I used to grumble about getting older, but a few years ago my dad said to me, "It's a heck of a lot better than the alternative!" You can't argue with that! I've had a great day and I'm celebrating by giving out jewelry; the digi kind. This coordinates with the fairy alpha that will come out sometime this weekend. Enjoy! I'll leave it up for a week. Please leave me a note if the link needs to be renewed.

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Fairies On the Brain

I'm having a great time working on a new kit, but the subject is fairies, again! This kit uses paintings from some of the great Victorian painters of the "realms of faerie". Here's an article if you are interested in the background of this art:
Art to Enchant: The Development of Victorian Fairy Painting

Welcome 2007

In the blog world I have been very sick with a bad case of Blogitis, sometimes known as Bloggers Block or Blogger laziness. There is no known cure but the best treatment is to get on your blog and type not worrying about what comes up on the screen so here goes . . .

I can not believe I have not updated this since October. Since then I've had a great Thanksgiving, wonderful Christmas, and added a daughter-in-law to the family. We love you Rachel! My best Christmas present was having my daughter home for a week. We had a great time but it was hard to put her back on the plane again!

Design wise I've done several kits and am currently having fun doing a series called A Little Whimsy. Almost forget, I got a new computer too. Woo-hoo!!! It's fast, has lots of RAM, and a Core Duo processor. Before I could read a book and design at the same time because every step took so long to run and forget it if I wanted more than three or four layers in a paper. Now I can fly through steps and have as much depth in papers as I want. It's great. My husband is very sweet because it was his computer that needed to be replaced but he took my old one so that I could have an easier time designing - thanks Terry!