cookie time!

I rarely bake or do anything

else that sounds domestic.

But at the holidays I make my 

famous (infamous?)

mint chocolate chip

meringue cookies.  I only

make them at the holiday

which  keeps them special-
and my waistine from

getting even bigger.

They are so good!  this picture

doesn't show very well the minty 

green color.  Everyone loves

them and looks forward to them

each year.  Including me!!  I

think I've had three so far.

 I need to make sure

I save some for a friend 

I'm seeing tonight!

I love how this card turned out! 

I'm getting very low on flowers, though.

I'll have to hit the internet as I

can't find any vendors that sell this

type of paper flower. I use them a lot.

 

Happy Monday!

December is almost over!  Where in

the world did it all go?  This

entire year seemed to fly by.

The older I get the

faster it seems to go.  It's kind

of scary.  Here it is 

December 21, and it rained

most of the night.  The lawn

is going to need to be mowed 

soon.  I've never seen it

so green in the winter!

We are still waiting on

that great grandson.  He was

due three days ago, but

is being stubborn.  My friend,

Sam's granddaughter

had hers last week (and

on Sam's birthday to boot)

and she wasn't due for

two more weeks.  Sigh.

 Little Heath David will

come when he is good and 

ready, I suppose.

 On to the cards.

 

I'm not sure if I like it

this way or not.  I may add

something in the  middle at a later

time.  I have to look at it for a while.

This one I am a little

annoyed with because as much

as I like it, I see I could

have added a dark mat behind

the embossed piece and it 

 would really have stood out.

After I took the pictures

I decided both cards needed

a little something, so I blinged

them by adding some glitter

glue to the flowers.  They look

really cool that way.

All in all I'm pretty happy

with how both turned out.

 

Christmas card

OK, so I said I wasn't going

to make Christmas cards.

More accurately I am not

going to send  Christmas

cards.  I saw a card

similar to this on pinterest 

(is there anywhere else to surf?)

and had to try it since I had

all the punches.  Naturally I made

it my own, but it's based

on the one I saw.  I am going

to make one more like

it only in blue as my friend

loves that color.

Who says Christmas has to

be red and green?  Well, I guess 

blue is now an acceptable 

color for Christmas, but in my

book so is pink.  The reason for

that is that this did not 

begin as a Christmas card!

Now you know my secret!!

six fold card

I've been wanting to try this card

for a while and every time I cut

the triangles I cut them wrong.

I get frustrated easily so I 

decided it best to put it

aside for a few days.  Went

back to it today and it came

out right except that the cardstock

cracked along the score lines.

Every once in a while

you get an uncooperative piece.

Usually I can bow it and see

which way the score line

should go.  Unfortunately with this

card there is a myriad of ways

it folds, so that doesn't work well.

But I'm not planning on giving

it to anyone  (obviously) .

But here are the pictures

anyway.  Sorry the second

one was blurry.  I didn't realize

it until I was cropping it.

Ideally it would have a belly band

around it to keep it closed but

since I'm planning on pitching it (or

keeping it as a template more likely)

I didn't see a reason to go to

the trouble of creating that.

No muse

My muse deserted  me, probably

because my dog got me up

at 5 am again.  He's been

doing that a lot lately

and it's really getting 

on my nerves.....

Anyway...

So here are a couple

cards I made a while

back, called candle

cards-at least that's

what I call them.

They will fold flat in 

an envelope, but will open

up and you can put a tealight

candle (flameless) inside

and it lights up.  Pretty cool.

I must not have a candle inside

the pink one.  But you

get the idea.  The light shines

through the vellum and

looks a whole lot better

when it's dark.  It would

have looked better, as well,

if I had cropped the first picture,

but I'm too lazy to go back and

do it now.  Sorry.  :(

Special request

Not sure why, but my muse is

always  most active in the 

morning.  And since my dog

has been getting me up at

5 am.....  Hope you 

like them, Nancy!

Harry Potter!

My Daughter in law, Pam, is a 

huge Harry Potter fan.  OK, so

am I, but she even went to

some of the midnight releases.

I was looking around for something

else and came upon this tutorial

for a Harry Potter wand.  I just

had to try it!  The box was

a little more challenging, but

I'm really happy with how

it all turned out considering

this is the first time I've ever done

anything like this!  I have another

one, too, but it's not finished

yet.  Maybe I'll post it tomorrow.

Guess what Pam's getting for Christmas??