Masquerade Masks – Scribble Shop Challenge

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I have hard time walking away from a challenge, so I couldn’t refuse the chance to take part in The Scribble Shop Challenge! Along with many other creative bloggers, I was sent a package from The Scribble Shop–an on-line craft store–full of random craft supplies with a challenge to use all of the supplies in [...]

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Word of the Year 2012: Balance

Balance 2012

I’ve been promising a post about my word of the year for a while now, I think I was just hoping to have it all better defined before writing it, but this word encompasses so many smaller goals that it has all been swimming around in my head and I hardly know where to begin. [...]

New Year’s Mantle

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  I was getting ready to post about how organized and on the ball I am going to be this year when I got distracted by sparkly things! I love Valentine’s Day–I do. I blog about it all of the time. But when the stores fill with Valentine’s merchandise before Christmas is even over, it [...]

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Happy New Year, 2012!

Happy New Year

Just popping in to say Happy New Year! We celebrated by throwing a make-shift celebration with some friends in one of the side rooms of the church while the adults took turns chaperoning the youth dance there. It was a fun night! The kids came in for the balloon drop and were so excited (yes, [...]

Wishing you a Sparkling New Year! Printable

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  Here’s an idea to bring a little sparkle to your New Year’s celebration! Or maybe you never got around to taking Christmas goodies to your neighbors? I’m sure they would be thrilled to get a fun and thoughtful New Year’s gift! A while back, I found and fell in love with these individually-sized bottles [...]

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To Resolve or not to Resolve

New Years Resolutions

That is the question this time of year!  I do have a few goals (I have mixed feelings about the word resolutions and all that it implies) that seem appropriate to begin as the chaos of the holiday season ends, but as with everything, I often like to work in terms of themes.  I’m still [...]

Happy 2011!

I had to write a quick post on 1-1-11 to say “Happy New Year!”  We were snowed-in at my in-laws for a couple of days, which made for some winter fun for the kids.  (I just love this picture of my handsome guys in the snow!) Of course, I am behind on all of my [...]

What are you doing New Year’s Eve?

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To be honest, I have no idea what we are doing on New Years’ Eve. We had a lovely Christmas in our own home, and since that evening have been at my in-laws, in full wedding prep mode. I snuck away to the computer for a few minutes, in case you are looking for some [...]

Family Motto 2009: JOY

word of year JOY

  This is normally the kind of thing I might reserve for my personal blog, but because it is a great idea, and because Tip Junkie told me to, I’m sharing my word of the year with you. I think Ali Edwards may have been the first one to come up with the concept of [...]

Happy 2009!

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I hope you had a “ball” on New Years Eve! I had to scale down my original New Years Eve plan, since we all got sick between Christmas and New Years, and our party ended up being a rather intimate family gathering. Still, I had to pull out a few of the stops for my [...]