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I found these place cards on Paper source and just started working on them last night. They are a fun way to make the holiday special.
 
They start out like this
I also started bleaching Christmas trees.  My sister and I found a giant pack of trees and decided to split them.  Here are some of mine before and after.  
 
Just mixing approx. 1 part bleach to 3 parts water
 

hoping...

During the Bertram Inn crop I completed 14 layouts, my December daily and Christmas tags which I plan to use in or as a mini album.
Here they are...

  
today and tomorrow I get to start playing with my Work in Progress kit!  I've got so many ideas for this kit, I hope to accomplish them all!

6th Annual
Metro Hospital
Book drive in Memory of
Ryan K. Zarlenga
12/7/87 –02/23/93
“Reading with Ryan”
Book drive
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” 
                                                               Jacqueline Kennedy
 
As the...

At the crop Trish gave us cute little favors each day.  One of the days she gave us these adorable photo cubes that she got from Targets $1 spot.  
 
during the crop one of the girls put hers together and inspired a bunch of us with her ideas.  Once I got home I decided to play with mine and can't wait to make them for gifts!
    
My other Target find was this adorable notebook which I...

Here we are...
13 layouts that I completed at the crop!  I actually completed 14, but for the sake of Thursday Thirteen, I posted 13 of them.  I still need to add some embellishments or journaling but I'm quite pleased with what I accomplished!
I can never journal when I'm at a crop - I need alone time to think
           
You can find more Thursday Thirteen here

While I haven't been keeping up with Shimelle's class as well as I would have liked, I have been keeping up with the blogs of other classmates and I found what they were working on was "this time last year" blog posts, so here is mine.
We went to our last Kent football game.  Jane, Deb and Gordon and the kids came out and it was a horrible snow storm.
Here is the original post
Here's some pictures...

Here is one of the many things I accomplished this weekend at the crop...
My December Daily!
 
I didn't complete the cover until I came home
 
There are so many to choose from.  I've done Shimelle's for many years and LOVE IT!  And in 2007 we took the class with Melodee Langworthy.  As long as you enjoy the holiday season and document along the way then it doesn't matter which idea you use.
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I have time to take pictures of projects and post about my weekend!

how appropriate!
How can you describe a weekend with a bunch of friends..... PRICELESS!

locked myself out getting this picture!

But add to that accomplishing many things like:
My December daily - ready to gotags for a Christmas mini, done!lots of pages, done!laughing about everythingmaking new friendssharing your...

You know I'm always making or thinking of making mini albums.  They are truly one of my favorite creative things to make for a gift or to capture a moment in time.
Being a lover of all things mini I have found my share of sites that are ALL about mini albums.  One I have frequented for quite some time is Creative Mini Albums 
And come to find out one of my favorite mini's was featured on their...

 
Thirteen movie quotes from Forrest Gump
1. My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump
2.  Stupid is as stupid does
3.  Why don't you love me Jenny?
4. Mama always said, dying was a part of life
5. I gotta find Bubba! 
6. Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots
7. My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on
8. That's all I have...