December Daily - Day Thirteen

One of my favorite things about Christmas is home baked goodies! I love to bake for our friends, neighbors and family and I love when the neighbors drop by with a plate of cookies and treats! Yesterday we got some wonderful bon bons and turtles in the mail from Laura Davis. She recently started a food blog called Delicious and boy are these candies to die for! Even the packaging is gorgeous! You have to go visit Laura's food blog because the recipes are awesome and the directions easy! She'll have you cooking like a master chef in no time!

Since we have less than two weeks before Christmas, I thought I'd get some gift wrapping done. I so enjoy wrappng presents! And wrapping is easier than ever since we went green a couple years ago. Most of our presnets are put into gift bags made of recycled materials that we use over and over. I use nice ribbon that can be used again too. And a friend of mine told me a little secret for ironing wrinkles from ribbon by rubbing the ribbon across a light bulb! Works like a charm! No need to drag out the iron and ironing board! Most of our lights are low energy but we still have a couple lamps that use the old fashioned kind.

Well, that wraps up another December Daily! Thanks for dropping by! I hope you can come 'see' me again tomorrow! :) Kathy

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

That's right, the next holiday coming our way is Easter and in the spirit of Mr. Cottontail, I dug out some patterned paper I had from last spring and gathered some ribbon, accents and card stock to make Easter cards. Oh what fun it is to play with pastel colors and flowers and to know that spring is just around the corner!

Scrap Ribbon Card

I found this funky and fun card idea while blog hopping and I HAVE to share it with you! These days I'm all about reducing, reusing and recycling so I was so thrilled to have stumbled upon this idea on Jennifer McGuire Ink, web address listed on the right. She used ribbon scraps to make a fantastic card! I thought I'd try one too! Mine didn't turn out quite as adorable as hers, but it's cute and you get the picture, right? Even the smallest pieces of ribbon will work and it doesn't have to coordinate! How cool is that? Happy scrappin'!

This Just In

How about some fun new ribbons and trim for the spring season? I just received a few new goodies in from May Arts and thought I'd give you a peek. If you want to see more, over 100 styles, log onto my Etsy shop at http://www.cardblanc.etsy.com/. Have fun browsing!