Whirlwind

These past ten days at home have been a whirlwind of activity. I’ve had four meetings for my volunteer commitments, lots of projects to complete for Scrap-Mart and Christmas, as well as going to a musical revue at our local theater, playing with our bridge group, entertaining, and going out to dinner and lunch with friends. Yesterday I took down all the fall decorations, and today I started putting out the Christmas things since we won’t be back until December 1st. We’re hosting our book group two days after we return so there’ll just be time to cut down the tree and get it decorated. Everything else needs to be ready.

One of the projects I wanted to finish was this year’s Christmas tags, inspired by Heather Nichols. This is about half of the tags I made. I plan to get all the shopping done for Sarah and Adam while we’re in California, and leave their presents there all wrapped and ready. Last year I stuck to a red and white theme and really liked it, so I’m going with it again. I love these “Tiny Treat: Christmas” stamps by Papertrey Ink. They fit perfectly on the “Fillable Frames #9” tag. All of them were colored with Copic markers. You can’t see it in the photo but each little image has a bit of glitter added with the Copic Spica glitter pens. They make it so easy to add glittery detail to an image. A piece of Pure Poppy twine was tied to each tag.

Just three days more at home and we’re all off to California for a long holiday!