Season of Giving // True Love

Yippeeeeee!!!! It's finally here. The time of year I just llloooooovvvvveeeeee. It's December and I'm so excited that we can celebrate the Season of Giving together over at the mSB Blog. So......we are giving you loads of Christmas stamping ideas to fill your head {and get those dancing sugarplums out of there for just a second}.

Join our team as we share inspiration and create some yummy treasures during the "12 Days of Christmas". I've seen the sneak peeks..........and they are fabulous!!!

So.....come on over and celebrate the holidays with the mSB Design Team.

dancing with sugarplums {from the farm},

j.

btw - And head on over to Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker today for a chance to WIN!!!!!!!! a fabulous basket of goodies from her. You won't be sorry!!!!!!!

we have a WINNER!!!!

Okay....so there were sooooo many of you that read my blog and posted a guess & comment. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!
You girls had some really great guesses (except for Allison, who should know me better than to guess "9") -- just kidding, Al. love ya'!!!!
It's true -- sometimes it takes us so long to wind ourselves down on these "weekends away" that we actually don't accomplish that much. But....who said that successful scrapbooking is counted in numbers of layouts? Not me :) I'm just happy to get away with some friends; laugh, eat, sleep, dance (yeah....we do some dancin' in the late hours), and just have a hoot with some great friends.
So......the winner is......

JL Hildebrand said...
Sounds like a great time! Now if I know you, there was some fun times - but there was also some serious scrap-time. So, I am going to guess that you got 19 layouts done. My first instinct was over 20, but I think you will have enough product to get a "few" more done during the week. - Lisa

Congratulations, Lisa. I will get you a goodie bag of some favourite products in the next few days. Or......you could come pick some out as you only live a few miles from my house {lol}. Too funny!!!

Now, the actually total of single-page LOs that I brought home finished FROM VALLEYVIEW was...........24.

I will show you ALL OF THEM in next few days.
Here's one for now:

And here's the whole group of scrapbookers at Valleyview. Love these girls!!!!! (I'm standing on the RHS of the photo -- third one in).

thanks for playing {from the farm},
j.

celebrating

I think it would only be suitable to congratulate myself on reaching the 50 post mark on this blog. I do not say this because I am vain. I say this because I was once a very skeptical blog-reader. When I was told that I should start my own blog, I was the first to laugh and say "who on earth would read what I have to say?"

Well......who knows who's actually reading all this. But I am having a lot of fun posting for you; bringing you a little piece of my scrapbooking life, snippets of my family, new layouts, the occassional technique (have to get better at that one) and lots of fun photos.
So, to mark my 50th Post I want to have my very first contest -- online.

Here's the deal.

This past weekend I spent 3 days at a fabulous camp (Valleyview) scrappin' with some of my friends. Friends that I only get to see this particular weekend. I had gone scrap-shopping a few weeks prior (paper, embellies, ribbon, etc.) and everything that I purchased, I kept in the shopping bags to only use during this weekend. Wow!!!! Was that every hard!!!! I was sooooo excited to get to work with my new stuff. I had an awesome time visiting with my sister-in-laws (they both sat at the same table as me all weekend -- that's the best part of the weekend), eating food I didn't have to prepare or clean up, going to bed whenever I wanted, getting up whenever I wanted, eating a whole bag of chocolate Mini Eggs already on the first night (they were supposed to last all weekend -- ooops.) and scrappin' lots of fun layouts.

So.......here's the 50th Post question of the week:

Can you guess how many single-page layouts I created this weekend?

All I need is a number. Here's a hint: I don't go for quantity. I go for sleep.

So, post your guess in the comments and I will, of course, pick the closest guess next week. The lucky person will be sent a fabulous package of some of my favourite products. Tell your friends; they can play too. Then I will post some of my fave layouts from the weekend.

Here's a sneak peek at some to leave you hangin'.


smiles & counting {from the farm},
j.

Playing along with Lizzie ......

Recognize this person?? You betcha -- it's the ever-famous Elizabeth Kartchner from Creating Keepsakes. Just LOVE her style and everything she says and does and scraps and creates!!!!! I follow her blog {almost} everyday and love that she is sooooooo Real To Life {and quirkie -- alittle like me}, I must admit. Would totally love to meet her someday.


So.......she posted a contest the other day on her blog and I immediately wanted to {play along}. You can read all about it here: http://elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com/ Go check it out today to see what SHE was doing.


So.............here is what I was doing at 07.08.09.10.11.12 -- yesterday.





I totally forgot about it in the morning b/c I was getting ready to head off to my mom's for the day. Then in the evening, we went to our neighbour's to swim and hot tub. When we got home, I did alittle organizing in my ScrapSpace and suddenly realized that "the clock would strike 10:11:12" soon. Yikes!!! Pulled out my camera and TRIED!!!!! to capture some pics of me at my desk. Do you actually know how hard that is?? Trying to get a photo of yourself that is not over-powered by a double chin or a bobble-head smile???? Wow!!! There were some doozies and these were the ones I decided to share.

What was I doing at 07.08.09.10.11.12??????

Wishing YOU could have been there with me

enjoy your day {from the farm},

j.