HAPPY NEW Year Day!! and a Freebie!

How do you feel today? i hope you didn't party too much! hehe Well as promised here is
Xashee's Flakey Friends!

SORRY LINKS EXPIRED

Now that we got that out of the way! hehe Did you see the planets again last night? Three of them this time and they were only visible for about an hour at dusk but we saw them!!
Mercury & Jupiter (there really are two dots there! lol)

the moon & Venus

And finally some Christmas photos!!



And here are two of my gifts! WOOHOO!! (Got it for $15. at the swapmeet!! as you can see, i already filled it!!lol)



Christmas Dinner

No one enjoyed that roast beef this year! lol But it sure looked good!
Oops, almost forgot to share this layout!

Credits
Layered Template #55 Designed by Gloria Val Verde
Christmas Around the World by Boo Silva (BooLandDesigns)
font is Chopin Script
Now i am off to visit you!! YAY!! Happy New Year & thank you so very much for being my blogger friends and always leaving such nice comments too! HUGS! :D Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

i hope you all got what you asked for this Christmas!!

Our Christmas was nice & quiet! i was like a kid and hardly slept and got the men up early!! lol
the pictures are still in the camera, though! i hope to get them tonite, then i can share! In the meantime, i did another layout!

Credits
template by Scrap Saya
In Christmas Gold Mine kit by WaterLOProject
picture courtesy of DS Cliff
fonts are Book Antiqua & Chopin Script
Wishing there is more PEACE ON EARTH in 2009!
i also have a new kit soon available!! It's called Flakey Friends and was inspired by a WONDERFUL gift from Mrs. Miles ! Thank you again, my friend!! :D

it's over 100 megs, though i am not sure how i did that!! lol it will be broken down into 4 easy downloads!!
i will upload it today and share on NEW YEAR DAY! WOOHOO!! maybe i will be your first kit of the new year! hehe
i worked on this blog and removed all other links to past freebies but not to worry i will be sharing LOTS more in the new year!
Until then, i hope you have a WONDERFUL celebration but please be safe!! And remember i will SEE YA NEXT YEAR!! :D

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!!

i wish you all the BEST holiday season and a safe & Happy New Year too!!! :D

Hopefully we JUST get rain today!

We sure don't need any more snow!! lol How is your weather acting at this time of the year? i hope it's not too bad for you!
Today is DH's birthday and he finally went back to work after almost a week off! Happy Birthday, sweetie!!!
i wanted to share with you a little program in case you need a tag and don't know how to make one!
Tiny tags
and a site for printable fun
Now some more snow pictures. hehe




and it's so close to Christmas, we can hardly leave out Santa. lol

and a layout

Credits:
Time Anew by Kim Broedelet(Kimb's designs)
font is Christmas card
quote is by Mrs. Paul M. Ell
Thank you so very much for visiting and i hope you have a GREAT day!! Now i am off to visit YOU!! :D HUGS!

Sure is beginning to look & feel like Christmas!

i took these pictures this morning, 4 days after the snow storm.




i hope you have a WONDERFUL day and thank you for visiting! :D

BOY DID WE GET SNOW! (a foot later)

the pictures you saw so far were early in the day and the snow still looks soo pretty! Then after it snows all day and night, i don't think it looked soo pretty LOL
here are my geraniums, with ICICLES!

the bamboo really took a beating.

our washlines

Well, enough of that cold stuff! i am sure you ALL know what it looks like! lol Still hard to believe we got that much though!
Bunny has given us a Photography challenge (prompt) to walk around the house and take 5 pictures of whatever grabs our attention. Here are my 5!
some of my necklaces (hanging from a Sun candle holder lol)

a newer candle holder

the tree

sleigh decorations

and finally, yesterday morning when i took these pictures, we still had the candles from the night before out hehe

gave them a different background so you didn't see my dirty dishes (hard to do them without power, in pitch black! hehe)
That was FUN too! Thanks Bunny for the idea!!
Now i have some more layouts for DSO challenges!
for the Template challenge

credits
template by Teriann Hanks - Garden Scraps Design
Time Anew by Kim Broedelet(Kimb's designs)
font is Christmas Card & Cafe Rojo
For the Shape
challenge

Credits:
Layered Template TT54 Designed by Gloria Val Verde
Christmas Around the World kit by Bon Scrapatit Designs
/Linda Walton aka bobbysgirlforever
font is Christmas Card
and one more just for FUN!

Credits
Christmas Around the World by Kim Broedelet(Kimb's designs)
Fonts are Anywhere & ArtBrush
and Finally, i made an award! i haven't seen this one around and thought it was necessary.

i award this to a few designers that are SO VERY GENEROUS they deserve an award!! If you know any designer that you feel deserves it too, please share it with them!! They have to know how we feel and just how important and special they really are!!!
My choices are:
Kim Broedelet(Kimb's designs)
Mrs. Miles
Gloria Val Verde
The Scrapping Cop
Thena Smith
Valinda
WaterLOProject
Please feel free to share the award with as many as you want! just right click on the award and save as, it will save in complete form!! (sorry about that lol)And don't forget to let them know!! :D
That's it for me today! Now i am off to visit you!! WOOHOO! Thank you so much for your visit and i hope you have an AWESOME day!! :D HUGS!

Boy did we get snow!

Yesterday we awoke to find snow and both DH & DS stayed home.... THANKFULLY! not only did DH brush off the satelite dishes for the tv & internet as the snow piled on but then suddenly we lost all power!! oh about 10 or 10:30 am it was snowing like crazy and now we have no heat!! DH phoned the electric company and was told that the trucks are having trouble getting to the problems... not what i wanted to hear!! ;) The snow was absolutely BEAUTIFUL falling in such big flakes but no heat?!! hmm, we called the electric co. back later and found out they are not planning on getting electricity running till 10:30 this morning!!!! So DH decides we got to try getting to a motel for the night and made calls. we even tried to go LOL we NEVER got far from the driveway!!! Yes we wound up spending the night here, cold and hungry!!! The power seemed to come back about midnight THANKFULLY and so we at least had some heat (of course AFTER we piled on the blankets!!! lol) anyways, here are some pictures BEFORE the snow got really deep. i think we got nearly a foot!!
this pic is from yesterday morning about 6:30 as we awoke.


our bamboo is bending from the snow

And here is Cookie introducing Coco to his first snow.

now he is braving the snow and exploring.

here his little feet started getting cold but just look at that HUGE flake that looks like its by his nose (its actually closer to the camera)

i did get a small chance to play in photoshop but then the power went off and i lost what i was playing with hehe of course! But hopefully we will have power all day and i will get to play some more! :)
i am off now to visit you and your blogs! Thank you sooo very much for spending this time with me. i will post more pictures later to show JUST HOW MUCH we did get!!! this is a first and we would NEVER have guessed this area got this much! lol Stay warm and dry! HUGS!! i am on my way so i will see ya soon! :D