update

Im sorry I haven't posted anymore December Daily. I have shingles down inside my ear and it is soooo painful. I will work on it more when I am well. I also have another treatment next (this coming) Thursday if they will give it to me BUT Im thinking they won't. I dunno how long it will be before these will heal.Im dizzy or I would be creating. John has told me to stay in bed today so Im staying in bed and gonna watch Hallmark Christmas movies. I will gladly be looking at yalls December Daily designs (getting ideas) and commenting.

Welcome to day 6 of my December Daily posts. Today my post is about my front door wreath which is a Santa claus. My mom gave me this wreath years ago and it always is on my front door at Christmas time. I journaled all about how I love this wreath and I used a star for embellishing that I got in an envelope from a friend. I used the HOHOHO washi tape I found online and used my Simple Stories number 6 to show it is day 6 of my December Daily. I used some small sparkly dots that came with the star. I made a mistake (typing mistake) in the journaling but I didn't see it until after I had glued my embellishments down. So I just left it. It will be a laughable moment for us to remember.

I hope you have a great Monday and come back tomorrow to see what tomorrows page is.

December Daily Day 5 Treasured Ornaments

Todays December Daily page is about our treasured Christmas ornaments we receive every year from our Aunt Anita. She hand makes these ornaments for all of the family. I LOVE these ornaments and they go on my tree every year. I look forward to getting the new one in the mail every year. I did a little embellishing with a TINY TYPE title and a small word (special) from Elles boutique and the Simple stories number and heart. THe paper is Vicki Boutins Christmas line. you can click on the image to read the journaling (make it bigger)

Thanks for looking. I will be back tomorrow with Day 6!

December Daily Day 4 infusion

Day 4 of my December Daily I included my infusion I took 2 days ago. It fell in December this year instead of January. So I included it in my December Daily. This is real life. I have in the Journaling about my infusions and how grateful I am for having them to fight my multiple sclerosis. You can click or touch on the page to make it bigger so you can read the journaling. here is my page.

I just did a simple page to highlight the iv and journaling. I will do some fancier pages to come. Im just mostly wanting to get the stories down and celebrated. I have lots of ideas but I just got my page protectors in the different shapes so I can make more interesting pages. Thanks for looking.

December Daily Day 2 and Day 3

I had my infusion for MS yesterday, It makes me have a bad headache and nausea so I wasnt able to post my December Daily page I had for yesterday. I had pre made pages for yesterday and today knowing I wouldnt feel good. So this post will include yesterday and todays entries. First is yesterday

IT is about watching Hallmark christmas movies. MY favorite! My mom got me these socks for Christmas last year at Mistletoe marketplace in Mississippi. Bella took the picture for me. I think it is perfect for day 2 since I have been watchihng them now for about 3 weeks. Now for Day 3. I premade this page in advance knowing I will still feel not great today but wanted to not get behind on my December Daily. I have alot of journaling with it also in the inside of it. here it is

Day 3 is about Online shopping. you can read my journaling but it talks about how I am home bound and I cant get out to do shopping due to my immune system. so i do all my shopping online except for what john gets out and does or Bella. So for Christmas shopping we had all these packages piling up haha. Thank you for looking. Ill be back tomorrow with day 4 of my December daily.

December 1st December Daily

TOday is the DAY! My first December Entry into my December Daily journal! Im so excited! I chose a not so difficult design and topic for my December 1st entry. It is though a very important topic to me, My personal daily time with GOd. This Christmas season we have decided to start in Luke chapter 1 and read a chapter a day through the birth of Jesus. It's the perffect time being its the reason for the season and I want to get back to the true meaning of Christmas. I took a picture of my bible open to Luke chapter 1. THen I printed my journaling onto cardstock. I already had printed paper down and green cardstock to accent it. I added the Joy to the world circle (I love that) and the buttons for color. The gold washi tape up the side to finish it off. You can read my journaling on the page. This will be added to my Journal. By the way, My home made journal didn't make it. The holes kept tearing up so I ordered a 6 x 8 Album from scrapbook.com I got a real good deal on it. The page protectors I didn't get a good deal on. I guess you can't win them all. The Book is cute and will be perfect for my December Daily. I just might need 2 of them to hold all my pages haha. here is a look at my page:

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great crafty day! Nancy

December Daily 2021

Today I have been getting things ready for my December Daily. This will be the first year I have made one. I have been doing a lot of research and following along on Groups on Facebook and watching youtube videos and checking out pinterst and have saved so many ideas! Im all excited. I decided to make my own album, a 6x 8 album that will be held together with circle clips. I have made my cover and back page already and cut out some pages but I havent decorated them.

I didn't go real fancy but its hard to tell the santa is all glittery. and I love glittery pictures and paper! I covered the inside of my cover and used it for MY REASON WHY page.

The next page is a half page that was left over when I cut my 6x 8 pages. I covered it with fall paper since the first pages in my book will be Thanksgiving pages. I made a THankful page and the back is journaling.

I will remove the extra L. typo on my part the next page is the Journaling for Thankful with the things I am Thankful for.

Thats all I have so far. I spent the day going through my Christmas embellishments, seeing what was usable for DD (December Daily.) I also went through my fall embellishments for my fall pages I will be doing. Im also going to be doing New Years, I went through some regular daily life embellishments that may work for it also. I gathered all my alpha and number stickers and chipboard. I put them all in an iris case. Its full. with just miscellaneous stuff. Ive found that I need more washi tape (general and christmas) Number stickers, Alpha stickers fibers and ribbon, (just enough to make something to hang off my album.) Journaling pages, date stickers, clear acetate, general christmas embellies. I really want the big numbers that are on ali edwards (I think) site. it could have been somewhere else. some large number stamps would work too. So what have you done on your December Daily so far? Have you gotten your stuff organized? Purchased some things? What are your favorite places to purchase DD things? what are your favorite DD sites to get inspiration? DO you have a person you like to follow on You tube? ive been searching.. Ive been watching Hallmark Christmas movies on my laptop and doing this today. I really enjoyed it. Next page starts when we put up our Thanksgiving Decorations. I will post my next pages then.

Meet Ginger

Hey yall! We did a thing.. we got a puppy! she is a minature Austrailian Shepherd. Her name is Ginger. She is so sweet. but. she will get after you too! Just what I wanted. she is not going to be a greaaaaaaaat big dog but she will be bigger than the ones we have had in recent years. BEFORE anyone starts in with the its too soon to get a puppy Charley just died. well I could say Mind your business. BUT. I will say I was torn up so sad and just not functioning. I was bad depressed and so was our other dog (a minature pomeranian) Lala. She was sleeping all the time and barely eating. She was confused and looking for him. which made me cry harder. I was miserable. So this dog kinda fell into our lap and it is a great dog for us. (If we can make it through the puppy stage) she and lala get along great and lala needed another dog with her bad. I needed another dog that I could train like I did charley with my MS needs. she is great for that SO SMART!

she is really shy and skittish at first but when she gets to know you! ITS PLAYTIME our living room looks like a dog store threw up. all the chew toys and big beds.

Ginger has bowed down to Lala, the queen but really just wants to play with her. she takes her toys to herone by one, she groans at her, she lays down in front of her bed, begging her to play. she wont play. so John and I play.we are too old for this hahahahahaha but its so much fun. Bella was home this end of the week and really played with her. she loved it.

she loves the outside. she goes in and out all day, would rather be outside than inside. but hasnt quite made the connection with using the bathroom outside yet. she will play outside a long time then come inside and use the bathroom on the floor on the pee pads. (glad she uses the pads but she misses often)

she is bringing us Joy and happiness from such a sad place we were when charley passed.she already has associated that she gets treats when I take my meds so I need to take my meds when it gets dark (we are still working on that) Lala is just up for a treat wheneever she doesnt have any set time. When we had charley he would bark at me at 9:30 then at 10 if I hadnt gotten up and taken it. so I would give him his treat and he could go to bed. I was late some nights and he would be sitting in front of the counter where my meds are like FORGETTING SOMETHING??? so im working on that with GInger for her to remind me. PS: she is not crazy about carrots but will eat them because lala eats them hahaha how funny is that!

Ginger has stolen our hearts and won us over with her charm and sweet demeanor. she likes to run laps around the back yard we call it the zoomies. Lala lays on the patio watching her go like a nascar race vrrrrrooooooom there she goes vrrrrrrooooommmmm here she comes. they are very funny. Bella took a lot of good photos of them some of these are Bellas photos she took and she took more that i will get today. YOu will be seeing more of Ginger in my posts on facebook and my scrapbooking soon! have a nice day!

ICE CREAM!

I made a layout today in an online (get together) crop with my two besties Carrie and Debbie. I had a great time and it got my mind off Charley for a while. I found these adorable photos I had printed of my great niece Jazzy. Kasi and Jason's (Windale's Daughter and her husband's) little girl. She is a pistol and so funny. I enjoy scrapping her. I'm running out of cute pictures of Bella. (shes all grown up at college now and won't send me photos!!) I need to scrap, so Jazzy is my subject. I loved these photos of her enjoying her ice cream, with not a care in the world. Here is how I scrapped them.

I used Echo Park, Bella Blvd and Carta Bella patterned paper. Bazzil cardstock, Thickers, Tim Holtz distress stains, chipboard Hearts and arrows (HSN), prima flowers, little pearl jewels from hobby lobby. I inked all the edges with vintage photo distress stains. I also used the vintage photo distress stains on the chipboard letters, so they would match the patterned paper. Here is the Journaling: "Jazzy is a good eater. SHe eats most foods well. Her favorite foods are desserts of course, and of those desserts, Ice Cream ranks high up there amongst the favorites. She lavishes delight with every single bite, enjoying the next bite as much if not more than the first. It brings great joy to see her eat ice cream and be so happy. Especially with chocolate sauce on top. She tries to be extra good and eat all of her veggies, so she can get her beloved treat. I hope when she grows up she doesn't lose her love for ICE CREAM!" Thanks for Looking!!

MY PRECIOUS CHARLEY BOY

I update my blog today bearing sad news, Most of you have already heard. I want to document it on my blog for years to come though. MY sweet baby boy, my heart, my puppy love, My precious Charley dog (my yorkie) passed away yesterday afternoon. He passed away in his bed, In our kitchen. I had just checked on him not long before. We think it was a reaction to his Heartwormer medication. We have the vet running blood work and stuff to find out for sure. Charley was a sweetheart of a dog. A champion among hearts. HE stole my heart! We got him from a friend that had a goat farm and he and his brother were both living there and his brother was bullying him. He also was getting head butted by goats. She wanted to find a more sufficient home for him where he wouldnt be bullied and headbutted by goats. HE was perfect for us!JOhn brought him home and we instantly fell in love!

He really attached himself to Bella our daughter. HE slept with her and where she went he went. except for school of course. while she was at school or spending the night at friends he attached himself to me or John. He loved all of us. He had the sweetest personality. He really loved to play with Bella.

He didn't like rain, he hated getting his feet wet and really didnt like taking baths. He would hide in his hidey hole which was a soft side cargo kennel we placed under the end table beside my chair next to the couch. He went in there when he needed quiet time or privacy or felt bad. OR was hiding or scared. John would have to drag him out of there to give him a bath. He usually did not go after him when he escaped to his hidey hole we wanted that to be his safe place buy, sometimes he reallllyyyyy needed that bath!!

HE was scared of his own shadow and didnt like loud noises, the dark or any unusual things. He was my bashful warrior of sorts. He would protect me but I had to go first. He was courageous for his Bella. He would bark if anything got near her while he was around. He would wait at the door for her whenever she would leave home. charley and lala both, would go run for the door at any sound they would hear when Bella was out and expected home thinking she was home. BUT, when she did get home it was a wonderful welcome with hugs and kisses and barks and nothing but happiness. Im gonna miss that most of all. He was excited to see us.

Now that Bella has gone to college, He got more attached to me and followed me everywhere I went all day long. He laid right at the end of my feet when i was sitting in my chair and I would accidently kick him. He didn't care. I trained him or maybe he trained me from when we first got him that at 10:00 at night when I take my meds, I give him and lala treats (usually shredded up carrots or shredded cheese) so they got to where they would come to me at 10 to remind me it was treat time. BUT, to me they were reminding me to take my meds.

He was the best dog and loved his Bella, His mama and his daddy. John would sit and brush him charley could jump up in the chair with him after some coaxing with the brush. it was too funny. Thats another thing. Not a day went by that he didn't make me smile and or laugh at some of his silly antics. He loved to go out of the front door in the front yard (on a leash) to check his "pee mail" from other dogs that have been walked in our neighbor hood. He would get so excited peeing where they pee'd. so that was a ritual he did on the daily with John.

My heart is so full and my eyes are filled with tears. I miss this little fella so much and he had my whole heart in his. We werent expecting him to die. He had alot of life left. but we never know when our time is up. I am grateful for the time we had with him. Im glad we didnt have to put him to sleep, Im glad he was at home in his bed, in our kitchen, with us. I really would have been upset if the vet would have kept him. I will always love charley. He was the best boy. He soothed my spirit and knew how to make me feel better. I will miss you forever. I hope you have arrived over rainbow bridge. Hopefully you have met our other deposit there Our dog we adored Guido. (Austrailian Shepherd) I think yall will be great friends. Yall both protected our family well. and loved us with all your heart. Good bye little man mommy loves you. Sleep sweet.

New Scrapbook Pages YAY!

Hey yall! I finally got to scrapbook. I have been making all kinds of different pages. (catching up)So there will be several in this post.

This first one is AUNT ANITA'S GiFT. Aunt Anita is a dear family member and she made Bella a beautiful cross stitched Graduation announcement for Graduation.I took some photos of her opening it since Aunt Anita lives far away. Bella loved it and it is is on our mantle with the Graduation photos on display,

This is a page I did with photos from Bella's Honor"s Chapel. She got 3 awards and her Honors cord to wear during Graduation.

This shows how Bella felt about her last day of school! Pretty excited!

This is just a simple page showing the entire class and the kindergarten class throwing their hats!

This page (sorry the photo is crooked) is of the warrior walk. That is where they walk down the halls of the elementary school and let the younger kids cheer for them toward the end of school. (in their cap and gown of course)

I posted these 2 pages together they are a 2 page layout. THey got to change up their uniform the last day of school Bella and Liberty painted their uniform all the way to their shoes. They did a good job it was so cute. Here are some of her friends the last day of school.

Bella and her little cousin Jazzy. She was climbing all over Bella hahaha. They love each other can't you tell?

This is from Jazzy's Adoption party, she is officially family! (we already had considered her our family)

We surprised mama real good on Mother's Day. If you wanna read the journaling just click on the layout (page), you can make it bigger. NOW, Im all caught up on the latest pages I have made. Time to make some more! bye for now Nancy

WE DID IT!

SHE HAS GRADUATED!

We are so proud of her! She left with majority of her class mates this morning EARLY (5 am) on their senior class trip. We got lots of photographs but there are several we didnt get that we wanted to get! It was so crowded and noisy and busy it was hard to get around quickly to get photos with every one. we did get some good ones though. It was so good to have family there. Mama and Aunt Irene were there. (thats moms sister)

I was thrilled my Sister in love and brother in love and nephew got to come!! (Liz, Ty and Greyson) Liz helped me more than she knew. and SHE FIXED my hair!! love her so much.

I wished my brother had been able to come but I understand. he could have hooted and hollered for her with me. David and Diane (our next door neighbors since we moved here 17 years ago, Bella calls them AUnt Diane and Uncle David) They are an important part of our life. I got a photo of DIane but David got behind the camera and was taking photos instead of him being in them. mighty tricky David I will still get one of you and Bella though.

We did do a thing though. I was determined to do a rehash of a photo. the sweetest photo ever!

and so we did..... yes I got misty eyed over that too. my little girl is growing up. Im so happy though for her and excited for all she has in front of her. I won't lie and won't say I am not a little wanting her to stay home with me. BUT, we have raised her to be a strong lovely young woman that has a good head on her shoulders and is strong in christ. I have faith she can do anything she puts her mind to. but also I would like to see her come home some time on weekends from college. I will miss her terribly and I know her daddy and the dogs will too. now, I get to start scrapbooking all these photos we took (yay funnn) so I must get busy, I love you daughter of mine to the moon and back 300 times plus many more. you will always be my baby. you can always come home and you can always come to mama to vent your frustrations or just to talk about your day. I love you so so so much.

New Simple stories simple vintage, cottage fields line

I made this layout with the NEW Simple stories simple vintage cottage fields line. The pearl beads (top right corner), The chipboard arrow, and the hearts washi tape come from my own personal stash of product. Every thing else is the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Cottage fields line. I love it I got as much of it as I could get. I got some stencils too Im yet to use, But, you will see on a card soon. This was a rather simple layout to put together, I just added little touches of embellishments everywhere. So there is a lot to look at. I hope you like it. I had fun making it. Especially since its my daughters 18th birthday (how can it be?)

A GOOD THING I FOUND

HEY YALL! I found a good thing last night and I wanted to share it with you! My Friend RICKY BROMERO posted on his You Tube channel a guided detailed tour of his Craft room! OH IT IS a DREAM CRAFT room. SO ORGANIZED, I learned several organization tips for stamps while watching his video. Its in depth and he goes in detail (I LOVE IT) so grab you a coffee or whatever your favorite beverage is and sit back and enjoy.cLICK or TOUCH HERE RICKYS SCRAP ROOM I hope you enjoy come back and tell me what you think. BE SURE AND LIKE HIS YOU TUBE VIDEO! AND SUBSCRIBE! Have a wonderful day! Nancy

Bella Turned 18 yesterday!!!

HEy Y'All! I am sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have been scrapbooking but not as much. I have been dealing with sinus/allergy and just feeling blah and yuck. sleeping a lot. Ive got to get over it and get myself together. The Good News. My BABY turned 18 yesterday! YES I cried. It's so hard for me to believe she can be all grown and stuff. She should still be a little girl with me dressing her all cute and putting bows in her hair. That is not the case! I mean look at this picture!

She was the cutest, sweetest, snuggliest baby ever!!! Hard to believe that baby is now 18! it went so fast! She started her day going to school of course. she said she had a good day. She came home and we got our neighbors and best friends David and Diane Carter (she calls them Uncle David and AUnt Diane) to go with us out to eat at Bella's favorite hangout places. My stomach wasnt ready haha. SO we went to Taco Mama down by THe Old DUtch.

You see all that food! We sat outside DONT LET THAT BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE FOOL YOU!! The wind was blowing like crazy and it was cool! It cut right through you. My hair was blowing all over the place. I looked like Phyllis Dillar by the time we left. I got the steak tacos and the queso and cheese it was pretty good. They all got shrimp tacos and fish tacos, Bella got a taco bowl, John got us a sampler of the queso, guac and salsa tray. stuff was blowing all over the place. BUT it was still fun and we enjoyed our food. Then we went to Coffee Monster. (its in the same shopping center) I gotta tell you. YOU KNOW I am a loyal Yellowhammer butterpecan latte with whip LOVER!!! BUT, I tried theirs at Coffee Monster. whew. It was good. It came in a larger size (loved) and they put more of the butter pecan syrup (loved) and the whip had like carmel or something in it? (tasty) the coffee was strong (loved) They are way down by where I get my treatments at USA hospital in that area (don't love) I will have one from time to time I cant have one before my treatments because coffee narrows my veins and makes it hard for them to get my iv in. so no coffee on the morning of my treatment. usually I don't feel like coffee afterwards Im nauseas. soooo not that day. And thats really the only time I am down there. so we may have to do an afternoon date and go get coffee or a morning date. they had good looking food stuffs too.

This is Bella and Aunt Diane with their coffee's. Bella got a Honey Rose latte that was cold she said it was good.

he Bella and Aunt Diane with her daddy (John) photo bombing hahah He had this chocolate something monster frappe drink that was amazing. but was full of caffeine I would have never slept again.

Bella And Aunt Diane and me photo bombing not on purpose. These are all at Coffee Monster.

The Family portrait. My meds are really doing a number on me. I also see the effects of not doing clean Eating anymore. all of us would benefit from it.

My baby and her 18th Birthday Cake. Isn't she beautiful? We all had a great time last night just spending time together. We used to go out to eat or just hang out at each others house more before covid hit and we haven't really seen each other since all that started. So it was good to see them and be able to go out with them. Happy Birthday Bella. I hope 18 is a great year for you. We love you so much and are here for you. NO matter what! I hope you had a wonderful Birthday!!