Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post today to wish you all a Merry Christmas and holiday season!

I have been busy making my annual "food" goodies:  Oreo Truffles, Peanut Butter Balls,

Frosted Sugar Cookies, and Chocolate Dipped Pretzels.  YUM!!  All of which I love!

As you can see, I had a little help decorating these cookies!

I have soo enjoyed having my dear daughter helping me with these this year.

I have also been in notebook making mode the last couple of days or so

and wanted to share the notebook I made for my son's teacher this year for Christmas.

I used some of my favorite Tinsel and Twig papers from The Girls' Paperie......LOVE

this line of papers.  I'm going to find it hard not to use it but some of the papers can

be used for non-Christmas so you might see them on other cards too!

Don't you love the packaging?  I was inspired by Rhonda's blog here, that I had

to order some of these bags to wrap my notebooks in too!

I am running out of my red grograin ribbon.....{sigh}...because I have bought it in

the past from The Dollar Tree for $1 a roll and yes it matches perfectly to Pure Poppy.

My local store is out of it and while I can order it online, I'm not sure I'd use that much!

I just love all the little details you can put on these notebooks! 

Ah, the row of buttons strung with baker's twine from MS and

the little row of crocheted goodness.

Finally the whole ensemble gift to my son's teacher.  Does this card look familiar?

I posted it a while back and it goes perfectly with my cute notebook.

I have come to realize that the holiday is more about giving (I mean I've always known this

but this year it's really hit home).  So next year, there will be some changes

in our home as far as gifts my children get.  We always adopt

someone that is less fortunate at the holidays but we've decided to take it a step

further and give more next year.  My kids will do fine with this but it may

be a little hard at first when there aren't as many gifts under the tree.

Here's to a wonderful Holiday season and many thanks to you

for visiting my little part of blogland!

{Happy Holidays notebook/packaging}

All supplies PTI unless stated.

Stamps:  Take Note, Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers

Paper:  Fine Linen, Pure Poppy, Rustic White, Tinsel and Twig (The Girls' Paperie)

Ink:  Pure Poppy, Simply Chartreuse, Haystack, Charcoal

Misc:  Baker's Twine (MS), Friendship Jar Label Die, Red Grograin Ribbon (Dollar Tree), Misc. Buttons, Limitless Layers Dies, Crocheted Trim (garage sale), Paper Doily