the cookie party...

Happy Today!!! (a little late!!).
This weekend was a whirlwind! I was busy, busy, BUSY!!! I did however have a fun time at my church's Women's Christmas Party on Friday night, got my out of town packages wrapped and boxed up for shipping (mailed most of them today *woot*), my Christmas cards written, and had a very FUN cookie decorating party with my kiddo's and friends!

Ashley and I baked up a TON of sugar cookies on Wednesday, so they would be ready for the party on Sunday~let me just say "I ate way too much cookie dough!!! That stuff is like CRACK to me!!". Here is a photo of the delish'ousness!!!



Of course you have to have some fun sprinkles, sugar, and candy for some "fancy" decorating!!!



Everyone got in on the fun~I was surprised that even the boys had a good time!!!



Here is Nate singing a Christmas carol at the top of his lungs~I cannot remember what song it was for the life of me~but we all enjoyed the serenade!!



My hubby even took a few moments out from his football game to join in the fun~Now that says a lot when his favorite team is playing!!!



There were so many cute cookies!! It was fun to see everyone's creativity at work~here are a few or the masterpieces.



And of course they needed a container to bring home all their creations in!! I found these cute take out boxes at the Target dollar spot, and pulled out my Holiday Treats stamp set and made a tag for each box. Then just added a cute little ornament (also from the dollar spot), and some curling ribbon~viola!



And last but not least~my favorite "little dog" Hershey came to the party too!! I shared some frosting with him...because he is so stinkin' cute!! And who can say NO to that cute face??? He and Kodi are starting to make some progress in "getting along". Hopefully by Christmas they will be best of buds!! Kodi just has to realize he is 45 pounds and Hershey is 5 (although he (Hershey) doesn't know that, LOL!! He thinks he is a big dog the way he goes after Kodi!).



Enjoy the rest of your Monday!!!

a little delay...

Please check back later this afternoon (when I get home from work) for my post~lots of fun photos from our Cookie Decorating Party!! And a little stamping fun :)

See ya a little later!!

more doilie goodness...

Happy today!!
I hope you are having a marvelous week!!! Are you finished with your shopping? I am just about done, just a few stocking stuffer's to pick up, and some cookie decorating stuff for Sunday night. I am excited for out little cookie party!! (I am gonna be baking lots and LOTS of sugar cookies tomorrow night~it is all about planning ahead, right?!)

Last night everyone came over for dinner and haircuts (do you think I took photos for my DDA?? Nope~it got too crazy, LOL! we may have to recreate the evening so I can photograph it, see I am going with the flow with my DDA *wink*).
Recently I found this website (warning a video starts playing right away and usually scares me) for quick dinners, (I am always looking for those!!), and thought I would pass it along; this is what I made for dinner last night and it seemed to be a hit with the fam; and it only took me about 20 min (included baking of the chicken), to prepare *sweet*


A friend of mine is celebrating her birthday today, Happy Birthday Cindy!!!; so on Monday afternoon, I had a few moments to play with my stamping stuff *smile* Here is the card I made for her.



Enjoy your day!!!

I'm planning a cookie decorating party...

Hi all!

Hope you had a FABULOUS weekend!!

I didn't get much cleaning done, but I am pretty much done with my Christmas Shopping~*woot woot* All I have left is to pick up is gift cards (one of my favorite types of gifts to give and get!!).

I have today off from work today *another woot woot* since I am trying to use up my hoarded vacation time. One of my goals today...to get my naked tree decorated.

Each year Ashley and I (and the boys, if they are in the mood) decorate a gingerbread house/make cookies; when they were little, Ashley and Josh LOVED decorating cookies (the more sprinkles the better)!! I thought it would be fun to have a "cookie decorating party" this year for Ashley & Josh and a few of their friends (plus it will give me another page in my DDA, LOL!). So on Saturday night I put together a little invite for them to give to 3 of their friends (Lindsay~wish you were going to be in AZ to join us!!!). It was fun to use my digi supplies!! I think I am going to try to do more scrapping in 2011 (I kinda miss it!!). I used the kit "Deck the Halls" (purchased from Digichick in 2009) I couldn't find the same kit I have, but the mini one is here.

Here is my finished invite. You can download one here if you'd like, just bring it into photoshop to add your info, or hand write it in.

I have lots of fun ideas in store for my cookie decorators next Sunday :)

Of course pic's will follow!!

Have a Splendid day!!

without futhur adieu...

I have been a long time follower of Ali Edwards (LOVE HER!!), she is a scrapbooking genius IMO!! I love how she puts her pages/journaling/transparencies all together to tell a wonderful story of daily LIFE!! I have been drooling over her December Daily Album (DDA) this year, and was contemplating if I should take on this task...isn't December already hectic enough without adding more pressure??? But since I love scrapbooking (my first love, before stamping), and I LOVE photos; I bit the bullet and purchased her templates. Of course I wanted to make my book just like hers...but everything was pretty much SOLD OUT (darn all those DDA participants!!), so I figured I would use my creativity and use Ali's book as a template (much more fun that way too!!), so off to Joann's, Michael's and Hobby Lobby I went gathering supplies (how fun!). My next thought was "will I have enough stuff to scrap about???" since my kids are young adults now...but the creative juices started flowing and I think I will be ok *wink* I have never scrapped pages first and then added photos/journaling, so this was a new concept for me to get my head around (I think I will like it though!!). Even though I am pretty busy with work, church, Christmas shopping, etc. I am keeping a small notebook handy to jot down my thoughts for each particular day; that way if I don't have time to get the day scrapped right away, it is no big deal! I may end up scrapping the entire book at once~but that is ok~I am letting myself go with the flow!!!

I am excited that I will have December 2010 documented for my family!!! I may just make this a Clark tradition ;) It's not too late to start one~will you join me in being a family storyteller???

Here are pages 1 thru 5 (lots of pic's!!):





















I still have not decided if I am going to use an album or make my own cover like Ali. I do like the fact that each of her templates have lots of space for journaling, photos, or both. I plan on doing a mixture of digital and paper scrapping (hybrid scrapping)...I will post more as I plug away at it :)

Have a super weekend!!!

delicousness in a jar...

hi'ya friends...
Happy Friday to you!!!
I will have a larger post later today...with photos of my recent December project (I am thinking I may have bitten off more than I can chew, LOL!! just kidding).

Last night instead of photographing my project, I was sitting on the sofa with my hubby (in our jammies), watching this and this, while eating nutella with a spoon, right from the jar~YUM!! Have you ever tried this stuff??? I don't ever buy it; because it is soooo DELISH and tempting (that is why I had to eat it all last night, to get it out of 'da house' *wink*).





see ya in a bit!!!

random chit chat...and cannot believe that I won!!!

Happy Wednesday Friends!!
This week is zipping right along *smile* I don't know about you, but I am having a really hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Usually by this time I am almost finished with my shopping, my tree is up, and I am getting ready to decorate cookies; but this year I have none/zip/nada of that accomplished yet (granted it is only December 1st today, but someone with a type A personality gets a little stressed out by this sort of thing, LOL!). I think the biggest obstacle for me this year is that we are cutting back on our spending this holiday season, and since gift giving is my love language, I want to make sure that I get the perfect gift for each recipient with the limited amount of Christmas funds. Not an easy task. I hope to, at least get my Christmas list (in Excel, LOL!) finished today, so I will have a starting point.

I have also taken on a fun holiday project that I had hoped to post about today, but it wasn't quite blog ready yet. I will be working on it today and tomorrow, so hopefully by Friday.



(Pictured above the On the Go Bag).

A few weeks ago I was the winner of a cute prize!!! *woot woot* Seriously, I could not believe that I won, because, well...I never win!! Have you heard of Thirty One??? If not, you need to check out the website, because they have the cutest stuff (online catalog here)!!! It is reasonably priced too!! I plan on getting a few of my Christmas gifts there as well!! Aren't the lunch bags super cute?!!! It will be hard not adding a few things to my order for myself!!! Tiffany is awesome to work with too, just contact her if you want to place an order or have any questions!

Enjoy today!!!