It's Hop hOp HoPpIn time....

Another month has come and gone!

Are you ready to get started with another Blog Hop?

Let's go!!

This "hop's" stamp set is called:

"NOTICE THE DETAILS"
December's Stamp Of The Month
Retail is just $22.95, contact your consultant to find out how you can get it for FREE!


To see the full list of Hop hOp HoPpErs visit JENA's Site.

If you have just arrived from LAURIE's Site then you are on the right path.

If this is your first stop on the hop, then jump right on in and start from here. This is a circle hop so each site will take you to the next on the list until you've made a full loop. When you end up back here then you know you've gone full circle.

I chose to use Close To My Heart's GRACE papers for my items. I have an Altered Mini Composition Notebook with a matching Altered Paper Coaster Post It Note Holder w/matching Altered Pen.


Now hop on over to MARICAR's Site from here.

Christmas Countdown

This is my workshop sample.

I absolutely LOVE Christmas time! I can not wait until Christmas, the day to celebrate Christ's birth. I think the focus of this season gets lost in all of the commercialism that has become of this glorious day. My goal this year is to make sure the focus is always on Jesus's birth and not on what everyone thinks they need to find under the tree. Our family shopping is done and all I want to hear is how or what can we GIVE to others instead of "I want this, or I need that".

Whether it be cookies for an elderly neighbor or shopping for toys for a toy drive -- December for our family is going to be all about GIVING.

When I saw these cute little Christmas countdown calendars on Leslie's Blog HERE, and later again HERE I knew I HAD to make one of my own. I'm trying to figure out how to embellish each date with ways to GIVE each day until Christmas but until then, we'll write it down on the regular wall calendar.

Here is the Christmas Countdown that I'll be displaying in my home.

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I received a newsletter from my M.O.M.S. group with an article called "Begging For Myrrh" by Trina Conner Schaetz (also found here online). Take a minute to read it if you want to see a fun way to bring back the focus of Christmas without giving up the gifts! Because admit it, it is so much fun to see your kids faces light up when they see all the goodies under the tree. This article shares a way to explain WHY Jesus received the gifts he did and shares how you can also give your child or loved ones gifts of a similar nature and talk again about Jesus's birth. Keeping CHRIST the center of CHRISTmas. Read the article and see what you think!

Birthday Cards

Today is my father in law's birthday so I of course I needed to make up a card for him, today. Yes I am always the day of kind of gal when it comes to making a card for someone! Luckily I do plan it that way, I didn't forget, that's just how I do it! LOL.

I made up 2 different cards for my hubby to choose from....

I made one with my Father In Law in mind and thought I'd make another one similar while I had the supplies out. They came out completely different really. I wonder if hubby will pick the same one I had intended!?

After I made the cards I remembered that I do have a whole stash of birthday cards from the last workshop I did using the CTMH Card Kit special. Oh well -- I like to be "original" with families cards....there are none out there just like it and made entirely with them in mind!

Supplies Used: CTMH Good Times Level 2 papers & Stickease; Everyday Celebration stamp set; Chocolate Ink Distressing, Chocolate and Twilight Stamp Pads; Colonial White Brads; non-CTMH handmade papers, hemp.