Coaster Books

Are you looking for a quick, yet creative present for the holidays? Try making a coaster book for your friends and family. Take 2 coasters and cover them with festive paper. This one uses Vintage Holiday, which is now retired! I am so sad... For the inside pages, we used white paper with some of our Christmas stamps to embellish the corners. The cropodile punches right through the whole book, and it is held together by a ring embellished with ribbon. What could you put on the pages? Written Christmas memories, pictures of the kids, holiday traditions recorded, etc.! Or leave it blank and have them fill it with their own special memories.

My Memory Purse has gone seasonal! Nothing shows holiday spirit better than a beagle dressed as Santa on a purse! Ho Ho Ho! Her outfit goes beautifully with our Merry Wishes paper, if I do say so myself!

Happy Holidays!!!
(even though it is only November 7th...)

The Retiring List is here! Click on it to get a bigger image. Or, email me and I will send you a PDF version.

DINO-mite!

This beagle is DINO-mite! Just look at the fun Snoopy had this Halloween. She couldn't helo but enjoy being a dinosaur. The dino head was just so heavy that she had to put her head down to rest for a while. But, she loved being dressed up. That's the story I am sticking to!!!

Happy Halloween!

Well, I have been to 8 Chicago Marathons to cheer Brian on, and I have never seen anything like this! Marathon runners stopped and waiting at a red light to cross Michigan Avenue to walk back because the race has been cancelled. We took this picture as we walked back to our car. Brian did finish the race before they ended it, and he is fine. I guess they had over 300 people go to the hospital for heat stroke before they called the race. Let's hope it isn't 90 degrees next year!!!

Congrats to all that ran, and to all those who cheered them on, too!

Snoopy just wanted to say Happy Fall!

This card was made with Heminway paper. Why? Because the brown tones in the paper match Snoopy's fur, of course!

Enjoy the season!