How Sweet it Is!

Popping in today to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! Hope you enjoy this time with your families and friends and consume many sweet treats! I've been doing a little baking and sharing with the neighbors. This year's treats are Russian Tea Cakes (Pecan Balls) and mini Banana Bread loaves. 

It sure is convenient to have crafty supplies on hand to making pretty tags for our baked goody trays. I used Doodlebug's adorable and festive Home for the Holidays collection. 

Here at the Martin house we have a lot of activities planned between now and New Year's Eve so blog posts will not occur daily as usual. But I won't be gone for long because I have a lot more I want to share with you in 2015! 

Snow Much Fun

As a child there was no holiday more grand or magical than Christmas and it still remains my favorite. Today it's the crafting, spending time with my family, decorating, carols and baking that make this time of year so special to me. 

One of my favorite Christmas crafting traditions has been to create an ornament for our tree each year. It makes decorating the tree snow much fun! Our tree is like a window into our history...every ornament has a story behind it. 

This years ornament was super easy to put together and turned out so cute with that Doodlebug snowman pin in the center. I love that I was able to make this ornament with things I already had in my studio...bits and pieces left over from previous projects and years. 

Mother's Day with Doodlebug

Hi! 

What did you think of the Mother's Day project I posted yesterday? Would you like to see another? How about a card using one of my favorite collection from Doodlebug? 

It's easy to see why I adore this Flower Box line...pretty flowers, bright colors and lots of fun elements to create with! Would you like more Mother's Day gift inspiration from my teammates at Doodlebug? Click here.  

Mom's Christmas List

Good day!

Here in North Carolina the temperatures are slowly dropping and the days are getting shorter. Autumn is closing in. It's such a splendid time of year, isn't it? I'm one for living in the moment as much as possible and enjoying one season/holiday at a time. I'm also one who likes to prepare ahead of time.

With that said, here's a Christmas card I created with October Afternoon's Holiday Style collection. I have a lot of cards already made for the holidays.

Mom just wants a little peace for Christmas. :)

I made that little 'peace' flag with an old Making Memories pin, a My Favorite Things die and some rub on alphas from Doodlebug Design.

Oh, the twine is from Doodlebug too. Can you believe there's no stitching on this card? I did make those stars with 'coasters' from Papertrey Ink and cover them with patterned paper. Can you tell they are thicker than paper?

Hope you have a lovely weekend. Enjoy these beautiful autumn days!

It's Friday! Another weekend full of possibility is stretched out before us. Two days to spend with those we love. Christopher mentioned that he wants to go to the pool. Good plan with temperatures soaring in the upper 90s!

Here's my most recent creation. I was attempting to step outside the box a little or outside of my comfort zone. No sketch, no plan, just winging it. I started off cutting up some small squares and using a different embossing folder for each.

Once I had my background figured out I decided to pile on some flags, brads and gems.

The little button was my last addition. I guess I just couldn't call it complete without one of my favorite accents. :) Do you see the missed stitch? I didn't see that until I was cropping my photos. Oh well, a bit of character, right?

Most materials for this project are Pebbles, the patterned paper, flags, brads and sentiment rub-on. The gems are from Doodlebug and the embossing folders are from Cuttlebug and Quickutz.

Well, this is Christopher's last weekend before he starts middle school. Yesterday we picked up his schedule, agenda, gym clothes and located his classrooms and locker. We even ran into a few friends that attended a couple of his birthday parties years ago. Great to see some old faces!

It's so strange that Christopher is going returning to school in July! He's always gone traditional calendar with a long summer break. I've heard from other parents that the advantage to year round is more frequent breaks. Instead of having all your time off lumped into one long stretch, you get breaks all year. Sounds good. We'll see how Christopher likes it.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Kathy :)