I've got 2 gifts wrapped for this holiday season. They are for my niece & nephews. I even made the bows myself!! I'm so proud of those. I used my sizzix to do the heart gift tag and the trees. I added some holiday themed rub-on transfers to the heart tag as well. I used the xyron to stick them to the present. I'm so excited to use some of the ribbon i have accumulated over the years and my $6.99 bowmaker tool i bought a few months ago has already paid for it with these 2 bows and another that I had made this year! I love having the perfectly matching bow to go with the ribbon wrapped around the box.
I love wrapping presents I've pretty gotten rid of all my gift bags and have gone back to wrapping everything...I think there is something to be said for a beautifully wrapped gift. You may consider the wrapping to be a gift in itself.
Hey if you're like me you love tracking your packages on fedex or ups's website....ooh it's moved across state lines!! Yippie only 6 hours until delivery.
Well now you can get the updates via RSS feed in your feed reader!!! How exciting!!!
Just in time for the holidays and all the packages you'll be shipping and receiving.
Check out these resources for turning your Package tracking into a feed URL
track2rss project
towards the bottom of the page there is alittle form you can fill out with your tracking number then it will let you choose which reader you want to subscribe to the feed in.
Simple Tracking.com
A "prettier" website that gives you the RSS feed url you can copy and paste into your reader.
If you use Google Desktop there are some nifty desktop gadgets you can download here is one:
Delivery Status 3.9
I subscribe to them in Google Reader and rename them as the item that is being shipped. You could also add them to your igoogle page and once the package is delivered just delete it. You cannot rename the feed on igoogle though.
Hope you all enjoy this as much as I do!!!
Well now you can get the updates via RSS feed in your feed reader!!! How exciting!!!
Just in time for the holidays and all the packages you'll be shipping and receiving.
Check out these resources for turning your Package tracking into a feed URL
track2rss project
towards the bottom of the page there is alittle form you can fill out with your tracking number then it will let you choose which reader you want to subscribe to the feed in.
Simple Tracking.com
A "prettier" website that gives you the RSS feed url you can copy and paste into your reader.
If you use Google Desktop there are some nifty desktop gadgets you can download here is one:
Delivery Status 3.9
I subscribe to them in Google Reader and rename them as the item that is being shipped. You could also add them to your igoogle page and once the package is delivered just delete it. You cannot rename the feed on igoogle though.
Hope you all enjoy this as much as I do!!!
Mommy completed another scrapbook page for my scrapbook:
Layout designed using a picture dh took of us
in the mountains a weekend or 2 ago. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE getting
kisses from ds and he loves giving them.
I love how Marcee Duggar's Kristee Page Kit is just soo pretty and a bit bohemian worked great for this picture recolored in sepia. I like how it seems a bit vintage.
I used DSP Liz font (available Nov 07 Club Digital) and American Typewriter
Layout designed using a picture dh took of us
in the mountains a weekend or 2 ago. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE getting
kisses from ds and he loves giving them.
I love how Marcee Duggar's Kristee Page Kit is just soo pretty and a bit bohemian worked great for this picture recolored in sepia. I like how it seems a bit vintage.
I used DSP Liz font (available Nov 07 Club Digital) and American Typewriter
We sold the big brown recliner which is a tremendous blessing! We now have a big beautiful empty spot in our living room!!! We both just want to dance around in it :) We just have to get a few more things out of that space like the piano (hopefully next weekend). And then we're ready to rearrange and get that room organized!!!
Yippie! Woo Hoo!!
Yippie! Woo Hoo!!
We had a wonderful dinner at a family friends house. The chef made such an AWESOME table of food. We had a great time sharing things we're thankful for since last thanksgiving. At fellowship on tuesday we went through bible verses focusing on Thankfulness, Thanksgiving, Giving Thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed the sharing and it really put my mind in a thankful state to praise God for all he does for us!
Hope you all had a great thanksgiving too!!
Hope you all had a great thanksgiving too!!
I started falling asleep on Saturday around 8:30 and went to bed early. I woke up early b/c ds is an alarm clock for 6:00 am. The plan for the day was to go up to Tallulah Gorge State Park in the North Georgia Mountains. In order for us to go we needed to leave by 9am to get there for our branch meeting at 11am. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go b/c I was sooo tired but I didn't want to miss anything either. So I decided to go and I am so glad I went the colors in the mountains were AWESOME. Jack loved being outside and walking the trail he walked the whole time and for not having his morning nap we were all amazed. He had a meltdown during the meeting he was sooo tired he didn't know what he wanted just to scream and cry.
We spent the whole day up there and started heading back home around 4-4:30 he didn't sleep on the way home but did take a 45 minute nap while we went to our favorite craft co-op. I wanted to go there b/c I knew they had some wood toys made in the USA. I found a few even got one for my MIL to give him. I just have a hard time asking for toys which could be recalled any minute. I also am having a hard time buying made in china stuff in general. I told the shop worker they should have a big sign out front advertising their lead free toys!!
I finally decided what would be on Jack's xmas list...PUZZLES I picked out some wooden puzzles by melissa & doug who assures their customers their products are completely lead free. We are also starting a 529 plan for Jack and are asking if you have to get him more than a puzzle then give him $$ in savings bonds or college savings.
It is going to be a simple holiday in our household this year...NO EXCESS...I think that is going to be my moto for a while.
Sunday night we stopped at grandma's house for some homemade pizza for dinner then we went home and crashed and went to bed early again....onto monday
We spent the whole day up there and started heading back home around 4-4:30 he didn't sleep on the way home but did take a 45 minute nap while we went to our favorite craft co-op. I wanted to go there b/c I knew they had some wood toys made in the USA. I found a few even got one for my MIL to give him. I just have a hard time asking for toys which could be recalled any minute. I also am having a hard time buying made in china stuff in general. I told the shop worker they should have a big sign out front advertising their lead free toys!!
I finally decided what would be on Jack's xmas list...PUZZLES I picked out some wooden puzzles by melissa & doug who assures their customers their products are completely lead free. We are also starting a 529 plan for Jack and are asking if you have to get him more than a puzzle then give him $$ in savings bonds or college savings.
It is going to be a simple holiday in our household this year...NO EXCESS...I think that is going to be my moto for a while.
Sunday night we stopped at grandma's house for some homemade pizza for dinner then we went home and crashed and went to bed early again....onto monday
I had a crazy busy weekend. It went by way too fast. I'm going to take the next couple of posts to get it all on here.
Saturday all day I had photography sessions at the park. Things went well and the photos turned out good. I was pleased...and I think the clients were too. It was my first time taking kid shots. I learned a TON!!! The main thing was that with kids a 30 minute session does NOT work. For families with young kids we need an hour session so I will be adjusting things in the future. I had 2 bookings cancel due to sick kids so that opened the schedule nicely. The colors of the leaves were AMAZING this past weekend which just made the pictures PERFECT!!!
Here are some of my favorite shots over the 2 weekends:
Mean while DS was at home with Daddy and on his 2 day of diarrhea poopie diapers everytime we turned around. He also had a birthday party that afternoon which I made it home on a break to take him to it. It was SOOOO cold on saturday and the party was outside in a shaded back yard which made it even colder. I stayed for awhile and he and grandma stayed for a while longer then went home.
Saturday all day I had photography sessions at the park. Things went well and the photos turned out good. I was pleased...and I think the clients were too. It was my first time taking kid shots. I learned a TON!!! The main thing was that with kids a 30 minute session does NOT work. For families with young kids we need an hour session so I will be adjusting things in the future. I had 2 bookings cancel due to sick kids so that opened the schedule nicely. The colors of the leaves were AMAZING this past weekend which just made the pictures PERFECT!!!
Here are some of my favorite shots over the 2 weekends:
Mean while DS was at home with Daddy and on his 2 day of diarrhea poopie diapers everytime we turned around. He also had a birthday party that afternoon which I made it home on a break to take him to it. It was SOOOO cold on saturday and the party was outside in a shaded back yard which made it even colder. I stayed for awhile and he and grandma stayed for a while longer then went home.
