Christmas Greetings!

How to make Christmas crackers

If you want to know how to make those Christmas crackers this is a good video to watch . Dave Kelly is always a blast . You can find Allison Orthner's blog here and Christy Riopels here

A Christmas Ornament

This year I had the privilege of entering a christmas splendour ornament exchange . We received a lovely mercury bird clip-on ornament . It was beautiful but my boyfriend dropped it and it broke as he was putting it on the tree that we have .

Thank-you to Beth, who sent her blog address , I contacted her about it and told her we would be willing to pay for one if she were to get another one for us because we liked it so much . I never thought to check out Pottery Barn here in Calgary until after . So , we did. Yesterday. Guess what? We found the EXACT same one we had broken to smitherines!! I was so happy, and so was Phil , that we bought TWO mercury
clip-on birds...
 


See how nice they are sitting in our tree.

Anyway I like to decorate this tree since we have no room for a Christmas Tree . Actually I like those plants . They work perfect as a Christmas tree IMO. Here is our Christmas tree/plant from last year:

and here is this years.

:) It’s perfect for the two of us .

I love this Christmas Vector Pack!

Look what Louise of Adorigraphics is giving away for freebie friday ....a Christmas Vector Pack! They are so cute!

If you want to get the  'Christmas Splendour' , kit you can also pick it up from her shop. Heather from butterflygirlms made the blog background I'm using , for freebie fridays. I think they are both AWESOME!

The reindeer ate up the cardboard scraps !

Christmas manger digiscrap collections

If anyone is looking to add to their digiscrap collection for Christmas , here are two manger themes. Thanks to the talents of the Scrappy Kat and Tinkay Designs. To get them , click on the images .



and here:



Aren't they nice?! I think if you are into digital scrapbooking these are a must for your digiscrap collection .

Free digital scrapbook software

I found new software that I can use for digital scrapbooking today. It is called Serif digital scrapbook Artist! I have heard good things about it at , Scrapshot Magazine and Designs , even better in some ways than photoshop. Anyway I made my first digital scrapbook page ever! lol check it out...


If you click on it , you can get a better look .
It is amateurish , yes. This is my first digital page ever!

The Weather and Gingerbread Christmas Holiday Train

UPDATE TO LAST POST: RE: GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS

1.  gingerbread Christmas add on pack where I got the cute snowman pic and background from.

2. Here is the blog train where you follow all the different blogs to pick up the whole gingerbread kit as you go along. There are some really nice blogs over @ Lots of pretty thingsAnyway that is just one list I'm sure there are lots more .

3. I'm on a blog train now over at nibblesskribbles but I gotta go to the store to pick something up for supper . The weather is frightening out there , burrrr, there is a :winter snowstorm warning and it supposed to get a lot worse as the day progresses.

Here is a link to the holiday hub





Here is a cookie for you . click on it to go to the designer

Much Thanks!

I love Smilebox ! It's fun and easy to use and they have a lot of nice designs . It's free to download the program but if you don't like having ads on your creations , like I do , you can pay a small price to use them anywhere and you can even print them. It costs something like $2.99 for every creation you want to use(without ads and unlimited use, which means you own it) or you can be a smilebox club member , which is $39.95 a year I think. You can also pay by month. Please click on the link . thanks =)