I'm Present to Present you with Presents!

Hey, Everyone!

I hope Thanksgiving was a blessed day of thanks and giving for all those who celebrated! We had a picture-perfect day in every way: family, friends, weather, and food! It's normal for something to go a rye, but not this time! And since I was smart and took my sister Diana's advice to set my scale back 20 pounds, I didn't even gain any weight!

So let's get on with Christmas!

I had my PTI "Make a Wish" dies out the other day to make a present, and I have lots and lots of scrappy snippets, so I rolled out a few more while I was at it. Aren't they festive?! And so tis the starlit background paper, which is also by PTI. To crown the glory, I used my NBUS word die of the same name from Memory box, cut out of SU shimmer paper. 

EZPZ QACAS. Again. Also addictive. Once you start diggin' all the ways you can lay your presents out on a card and all the patterns you can use for your gift wrap and bows, you've made a dozen cards in no time! "You" being the operative word.

Challenges

I'm entering:

• Addicted to Stamps and More, where the theme is "holiday."
• Merry Monday Christmas Challenge, where my extremely talented and very sweet friend Bonnie is this week's hostess. She chose the theme of "red, green, and white."
• Pixie's Snippets Playground, where all you need to do is use your snippets.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "Anything Goes."

Just click on any of the challenge links for details on the rules, sponsors, and prizes and then join in the fun!

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New Friends Corner:

Please help me welcome these new friends!

Loli Juan of Workshop of Memories. Loli, mother of one son, is from Palma and she has been blogging since 2009. She discovered card artistry in 2006 and she also loves scrapbooking. Her impeccable CAS cards always have a little something extra that will take your breath away!

Cheryl Taylor of The Craft Nut @32. Cheryl is a busy mother of three sons and she has been making cards and blogging since 2011. She shares her cards on her YouTube channel. Cheryl is very enthusiastic about this fun hobby and loves that there are other nuts in the world who share - no, wait, that's not right. She is happy that there are others who are just as nuts about crafting!

Sybrina K. of There's Always the Other Side. (Love the name!) Sybrina started blogging in 2011. She is a retired educator and co-owner of a fun challenge called "Words 2 Scrap By." Sybrina loves making cards for family, friends, and Operation Write Home. As she says, there is nothing more satisfying than sending cheer, hope, and encouragement one card at a time!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!

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I leave you with a couple of photos from Thanksgiving.

I know you love seeing my hunk o' hunk o' Mister man! Here is he washing up after covering the turkey with bacon following his mother's tradition. It's a neat trick we've been using for years. By doing so, we've never needed to cover or baste the turkey and we've always gotten a moist and beautifully brown bird! Sorry, there were too many hungry peoples hanging around it when it was done for me to take an "after" photo.

And here are Henry, Adam, and Duke on a day-after hike in the hills. You can see they were up above the fog line blanketing the valley. Didn't Papa take a cool photo catching the sun rays on their heads?!

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