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Wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving. There is much to be grateful for.

This will be our first Thanksgiving since we moved to Cyprus. This will be our 9th Thanksgiving that will be celebrated overseas.  Although we would love to be home, we have found that these Thanksgivings, spent so far from home, are often the ones that are the most memorable.  

This year we will be hosting the feast at our house.  We have 3 other families that will be joining us.  We have a tradition that has followed us where ever we go.  We have everyone hold hands, we go around the room and each person shares what they are thankful for.  We open our hearts to receive the blessings of new friendships and share in the rejoicing of thankful and grateful  hearts.

~Happy Thanksgiving~

The Possibilities!

As you know I move a bit.  And like many of us mobile families the challenge in every new house is to turn it into a home.  One of my favorite things is to personalize my space.  And over the years I have discovered that vinyl lettering is fantastic for that.  I can litterally rub a word or a saying onto the wall and when it is time to move on you simply peel it off.  Landlords will never know you had beautiful decor on the wall.

Can you imagine if you could make your own personlized, just the way you want it rub on decals for your walls. Well go check out Thrifty Decor Chick.  Right now she has a giveaway that would allow you to do just that.

Think of the all the possibilities.

Thanks for the Tissues

I made another tissue box, this time for Thanksgiving.  I love these little boxes. They are super cute and super easy to make.  I used Olivia paper and a few Organic Dimensional Elements.  The glittered letters were left overs from a make and take at a scrapbooking convention I attended in June.  The rosette I made was using a large Organic Dimensional Element as a base I pleated left over ribbon pieces and glued to the base then using a pop dot I adhered the mushroom dimensional.

For directions and a tutorial on how to make these tissue boxes follow this link

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/tissueboxcover/

Have fun and have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

Thankful Banner

 I have all these naked walls.  Until my shipment arrives I have been trying to fine ways to add personality, our personality to the house, make it feel more like home.  And with Thanksgiving just around the corner I decided to make a Thankful banner.  We have this one, beautiful accent wall in red and I wanted something that would fill in the space a little.  I decided that I banner was just the ticket.  I pulled out the bits and pieces that I have with me and managed to put this sweet banner together.  I love it.  The picture just does not do it justice.  The twill ribbon holding the letter pieces came from a quilt that we bought at Target before we left.  The ribbon was wrapped around the quilt.  I knew I would find some useful purpose for it so I hung onto it. I decided to keep the project simple and made the letter bases 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  Easy.

 I have a bunch of these Organic Dimensional Elements in my stash and decided that they would look super cute on my banner.  The ribbon I glued to a large dimensional to make a flower.

 I also had in my stash some White Daisy Just Blooms paper flowers.

 Oh my goodness, I think these little mushrooms are stinkin' cute.

 Some more just blooms and a little organza ribbon.

Great Southern Land

When we lived in Australia we met the most wonderful and talented people.  One friend of ours is a videographer.  I invite you to check out his other videos over at Vimeo look under Chris Tangey.  Here is a music video that I love.  This was shot along the coast (the city scenes) and much of it was shot around Alice and Uluru, formerly Ayers Rock (the outback scenes).  Just FYI, Alice Springs is a town in the middle of the outback and Uluru is a 3 1/2 hour drive south from town.

Enjoy!


Great southern land-Warren H Williams from chris tangey on Vimeo.

Cherry-O

Last Thursday, on Veteran's day, I became an Auntie again!  I am so excited.  This is my middle sister's first baby. It is a little bitter sweet as I am so far away from my family right now. But I am amazed at how much I love that little munchkin already!  So, in honor of Holland Elizabeth (great name!) I made this little card to let them know how Stinkin' Cute I think she is.

I {love} this Cherry-O paper.  I think it is adorable and therefore, very appropriate to use as a card for Holland. I look at these cherries and just think sA-weet-ness!

I made my card base using white cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  I then cut 3/4 of an inch off of the front of the card.  I layered a scalloped piece of the pink stripe paper under and then used a piece of the chocolate cardstock to back the pink stripe.  I used a corner rounder to round my edges.  I love the simple, clean lines of the card.  I think it lets the paper show off all it's cuteness. 

Splendor

Here is another paper packet I 'gifted' to myself.  Hee hee!

I love it.

Enjoy!

Olivia

Hello Friends.

As many of you know I moved overseas in August.  Since, well, the day we packed out stuff to ship, way back in July, my crafty-scrappy life has been existing on what I managed to throw in a box and mail to myself all those months ago.  Which is just the basics.  I did indulge and ordered a few beautiful paper packs for myself.  One of  which is Olivia.  I uploaded a few photos to an on-line printer and waited patiently for my photos to arrive.  Some of which included these beautiful shots I took of my #2 child cuddling with my #4 child.  These are older pics going way back to 2005.  I love them.  The pictures were taken one night when I went to tuck my guys into bed.  Evan, my little guy, is famous for wanting to sleep with someone.  Shane my second child is famous for not wanting to EVERY sleep with anyone.  However, on this night, Evan was really charming and asked Shane if he could sleep with him tonight.  Shockingly Shane said yes.  I told my hubby I should take a picture of this cause it just doesn't happen often.  When I walked into the room Evan was telling Shane how much he loved him and all the reasons why.  As I wiped tears from my eyes I was able to snap these three shots, before the magic moment ended.