Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve Drawing to a Close

With Christmas Day upon us let us remember why we celebrate in the first place.  I love this part of the Peanuts Movie where Linus tells the meaning of Christmas.

 

Today I had to exchage some things I'd bought online at Penney's and I feared going near the mall.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I breezed to the mall without the typical 20 minute crawl just to get there.  Then I was able to park in the 12th spot from the door, could have had the second spot had I gone around to the next row.  I walked right in had not line in the exchange area and I was done!  It took longer to get there than it did to return the items.  Thank you God.
  I guess most people had their shopping finished already and were enjoying Christmas Eve.
I got in the festive spirit and painted my nails purple to go with my favorite sweater.  I added silver half circles at the edge of my nails.  That sure has done a lot to keep the polish from chipping.

 
Here are two cards I did for today's Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast Stampers.
I got some new High Hopes Stamps today and just had to try them out for the challenge. This was stamped with black ink and colored with copic markers. I cut out the image with a scallop oval and lacy oval and sponged the edge of the image. I added scalloped brown ribbon from SU.

This is another sweet High Hopes image I got today. It is stamped in black ink then colored with copic markers. I embossed an oval around the brown oval. I used nestabilities to cut the image and brown ovals out. I added quilted blushing blossoms ribbon from SU.
We went to Christmas Eve service at our church. It was packed!  I don't like it that way.  Think of a huge church with many children and at the end of the service we light candles............fire hazard?  Yikes we're lucky we've never had a problem.

 Well, I've gotta get upstairs and wrap presents or the kids will be greatly disappointed.  After all half of the fun is not knowing what it is then opening the gift.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Thanks for stopping by.

 

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