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Yesterday was our team Christmas party held at my up-upline's house.  What a fun time we have every year!!  There's no shortage of food and fun and visiting at these events!! The highlight of the Christmas/holiday get-together is our 3D Yankee swaps.  Each year we raise the bar just a little bit higher with the quality and imagination that goes into these events. I found some clear glass ornaments at Hobby Lobby in September and kind of knew what I wanted to do with them....

It's official!  Today, January 2nd, is the last day to order this cool dude!!  I just love snowmen, and the snowmen in the Spirited Snowman set it no exception!!Isn't he so joyful?!  That's how I choose to live my life ... joyfully.  That's a New Year's resolution for me -- to find the joy in many if not all situations!  So, back to my snow-skating dude.  I used the new Buffalo Check stamp to stamp my background (yay, carrying over!), but the Spirited Snowman...

After the hustle and bustle of preparing for the holidays, I've enjoyed the week after Christmas relaxing with family and friends.  The highlight of every week after Christmas is a visit to my husband's parents in Jamestown, NY for a few days, followed by a visit to my parents in Central upstate New York, about 15 miles from Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Several parts of these visits are tradition:  breakfast at the Dinner Bell for dinner-plate size pancakes and...

I'm so excited about this 24 hour Birthday Sale!!  One of the stamp sets, Another Wonderful Year, is the stamp set that we'll be using for our 9th Annual Stamp Out Breast Cancer event this coming Saturday.  In case anyone wants to donate, I'm including the link HERE.  With your $20 (or more!) donation, you'll get a free tutorial by email that uses this stamp set and the Broadway Bound DSP.  The cards are super-simple but cute!  100% of the profits go to the Making...

I've been featuring the Take Your Pick tool from Stampin' Up! on my website all week.  What a fabulous tool!!  It scores, it picks up sequins and jewels, and picks up glue dots, all in several different ends of the tool.  Here's a picture of thee tool:Do you see all of the ends?  They pop in and out of the ends with a simple twist-and-lock mechanism.  Wow!!  Here's a Halloween card that I received it in a swap last week, made by Shannon Criado.  I LOVE...