I want to apologize right off the bat ladies. I have used up all my items I had made ahead of time and I had a super, super busy past 2 days...yard sale Friday and Saturday, kept 2 of my grandsons Friday evening for parents to go out, then took granddaughter to the annual production of the local dance company's Nutcracker last night. So I have to show you today 2 areas of my house all decorated for Christmas. Again, I am so sorry I do not have an actual project to show you.

First up is my most favorite area of my house. It is one of the plant shelves in the living room. I absolutely love the decor of this area.

Next is my beautiful tree. I got this tree at an awesome price after Christmas one year. I was testing last night how to take those twinkling light tree pics with my camera. One of my new goals for 2013 will be to finally learn how to use my camera better.

Blog Hop Business: Make sure you check on over at HoneyBearz Designs for the whole lineup and to see today's sponsor and prize package. Also Lisa is given away some prizes at the FB group...for the whole hop. You can find that here. And last but not least check out the wonderful creation that Madge has for you today! See you tomorrow~

My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

For the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop click here.

I am also excited to share with you today several different projects I made for the 100 cartridge blog hop over at My Cricut Craft Room where I am on the Design Team. There is some amazing talent going on here this weekend. I hope it inspires you to get your craft on today or tomorrow!

Project 1: I used the Snow Friends cartridge to make this really cute snowman to be the center of attention on this wreath for my granddaughter's bedroom door. I cut the snowman at 7" so he was big enough for the center of the wreath. I also color coordinated the color of his attire to the colors in my ribbon.

Project 2. I plan to cut tags for one main present of each person in my family this year. I started with my daughter and daughter-in-law. I used Forever Young and chose 2 of the silhouette of the girls and red and green for their attire. I then made tags to mount each lady on. I made the ladies at 5.89" on my Gypsy. I realized I made the tags a bit large, but, thank goodness both of these tags are going onto some large packages.

Project 3: My oldest daughter's name is Holly. At Christmas time she totally gets into the fact that her name is so popular at Christmas. Maybe I had something to do with that though. heehee. She wants holly everything. I started when she was quite young wrapping her presents in holly paper, putting holly on her packages and so forth. So I used the holly image on Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge as a package decoration for one of her presents. I cut it at 4.71" again using my Gypsy.

Project 4: This was a super simple project for me. I received this tri-fold Christmas decoration in a swap a couple of years ago. It has been sitting in my craft room just waiting to be used. I am decorating my hutch differently this year and have been scrounging around the house to  find things to use. When I saw this I knew exactly what I could do. I used Ashlyn's Alphabet (one of my favorite font cartridges) and cut out the word JOY and adhered a letter to each panel. It is going to look absolutely adorable on my hutch!

Hop right along and check what the amazingly talented Jamie has to show you this month!


Here is the whole line up for you!
My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ 
Jen L http://www.mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/ 
Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/ 

Kathy http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Nadja http://nadjarobbins.blogspot.com/
Sarah W http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/
Erica’s Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
Mary http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/
Liz http://enchantress2614.blogspot.com/
Teresa http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/ <===== you are here
Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/ =======> go here next
Robin http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/
Sarah H http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/
Tami http://scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/
Erica’s Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Day 8 of 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

WOW! It is almost time for this to come to a close...only 4 more days. I am so excited to share today's project. It is for my daughter Holly. She lives way out in Oregon, I live in Florida! She is way too far away. I made her a fall wreath for a house-warming present when I flew out to see her in late September. She loved it so much she said, "Mom, can you make me a wreath for every holiday?" Well of course I can so here is the wreath I made to send to her. I have to get it in the mail soon!

I made this wreath for very little money. Everything was on sale. And you know how I said the other day I had too many red ornaments for that other wreath I made....well they all worked perfectly on this one!!

Blog Hop Business: Make sure you check on over at HoneyBearz Designs for the whole lineup and to see today's sponsor and prize package. Also Lisa is given away some prizes at the FB group...for the whole hop. You can find that here. And last but not least check out the wonderful creation that Madge has for you today! See you tomorrow~

Day 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

Another great day. The talent here is phenomenal! Thanks to Lisa for hosting this absolutely fabulous hop! I have a really great project to share with you today.

I want to decorate my hutch for Christmas really beautiful so I have been making some new home decor items to help with the decor. As always I went to my favorite place for inspiration, Pinterest. I saw this one day and really wanted to duplicate it but since my color scheme for Christmas is green, red, and white I decided to do my Christmas tree up a little different.

I used straight pins with white heads on them to pin the buttons on so they look like they are the white twinkling lights of the tree. Then, the white buttons are the tree topper and red buttons the ornaments. Hope you like it! It took me only about an hour to make it! Oh, for the tree I used a styrofoam cone.

Blog Hop Business: Make sure you check on over at HoneyBearz Designs for the whole lineup and to see today's sponsor and prize package. Also Lisa is given away some prizes at the FB group...for the whole hop. You can find that here. And last but not least check out the wonderful creation that Madge has for you today! See you tomorrow~

Day 6 of 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

The talent in this hop is blowing me away! I am sooooo thankful to be counted among such talent. Your comments have been wonderful. Thanks so much for all your support through this hop. Today I went back to my digital scrapping. I wanted to create a new facebook template to use throughout December. The tutorials over at Coffee Shop Blog are absolutely wonderful if you are into digital photography.


My December Facebook Cover...

Blog Hop Business: Make sure you check on over at HoneyBearz Designs for the whole lineup and to see today's sponsor and prize package. Also Lisa is given away some prizes at the FB group...for the whole hop. You can find that here. And last but not least check out the wonderful creation that Madge has for you today! See you tomorrow~

My Cricut Craft Room: Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

For 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop Day 5 click here

I am up to my eyeballs in Christmas! And I wouldn't have it any other way! Today I have for you some cute gift packaging. I wanted to provide my 3 primary school grandchildren with a Christmas treat container for their teachers. These ladies were my colleagues for many years as I just retired this year from the school my grandchildren go to. I would have been absolutely thrilled to receive something like this as a teacher. So, since I have the time now I want to give back to some hard working and dedicated ladies.

Recipe: I have been collecting containers lately to use in my crafting projects. 

Cover the container with paper. (This was from my stash...no idea what it was)

I cut this really cute scrolly Christmas tree from Jolly Holidays 

(1st time I have ever used this cartridge!) 

I cut it at 4" and used pop dots to put on front of container.

I have to go to the store today and get candy to fill it up!

Hope you enjoyed my project today!

Day 5 of 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

For the Would You Ever Guess Post from My Cricut Craft Room go Here

Hello Fellow Crafters and Blog Hoppers!! This is one fine day and I plan to spend the whole day crafting since I have been inspired by soooo many of the wonderful projects along this hop. If you have not hopped along the whole 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop so far then you are missing something! You can begin at Honey Bearz Designs and see what Lisa has and then hop along from there. Also, some awesome prizes are being offered...I know there are some I covet...no want...no I really NEED them!! LOL!

Well on to my project today...I was inspired by this on Pinterest and immediately thought of a dear sweet friend that would absolutely love to have this kind of present. Now, the lady in the blog post said she had been collecting vintage ornaments all year. I did not have that kind of time so I decided to see what my thrift stores had...at $1 a whole big bag of ornaments I could not pass them up! They were just perfect even though when I started hot gluing the ornaments on I realized I had too many red ones...so I am going to head back and get a few more to fill in some empty spots. I love the way this turned out!

Blog Hop Business: Make sure you check on over at HoneyBearz Designs for the whole lineup and to see today's sponsor and prize package. Also Lisa is given away some prizes at the FB group...for the whole hop. You can find that here. And last but not least check out the wonderful creation that Madge has for you today! See you tomorrow~