Bella Dia

I'll have a blue green Christmas

Gosh, I love these colors together. Christmas decorating is one of the hardest for me because I really don't like red and at Christmas time it's almost impossible to get away from it. I've gone more into decorating with pastels the last few years, so instead of red I use pink, but there's always some red lurking around a corner. Can you see the little hanging baskets? There's a template and instructions for these at Martha Stewart if you want to try and make one yourself.

Winter Paper Village

I just love little paper villages like this one. They don't seem too hard to make and it would be so much fun to add on to it year after year. You can purchase the kit for this village at Martha Stewart online but I'll probably try to come up with my own design.

While you are at Martha Stewart be sure to download the December clip art.

The Cruelty of It All

Having these available in the different colors is a great marketing ploy. It makes you want to grab them by the handful, just scoop them up like penny candy. Well, they're sweet alright and a pretty penny too, but if you have someone on your list that just has to have their entire music collection with them at all times then this is the gift for you. You can find them at your local Target these days but they're always available at the Apple Store. Just cross your fingers that as soon as you buy one they won't come out with something even better, like one that could hold your entire music collection *and* your entire digital photo collection too. Nah, that won't be for a few years at least anyway.

Happy Birthday

Today is my dear sister and I's birthday. Don't you love my cake? A cake made of books, what more could you ask?! If you want to see some more wondrous cakes check out Colette's Cakes, they are absolutely unbelieveable!

Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats

I planned to make these Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats from Family Fun with the kids for a Thanksgiving treat but they ended up being a real pain. The chocolate wasn't thin enough to really "dip" the marshmallows and everytime I tried to thin it the chocolate would just clump up into the consistency of fudge. I ended up making them myself but the kids still got to enjoy eating them!

Happy Thanksgiving

We enjoyed a great meal at my sister's with all our traditional favorites and then sat back to enjoy the Thursday night lineup of Survivor, CSI, and Without A Trace. I made these little Pilgrim wee from a tutorial I got off of Wee Wonderfuls. The little lady came out fine but I call the gentleman "the hunchback of Plymouth Rock." Happy Thanksgiving to all!

My new favorite site

Craftster.org is a great site if you want to see hip crafts from very creative people. I put up a picture of this bag and one other late this evening. I finally took pictures of everything I've made so far and I think they came out pretty good. Now I just need to figure out what to do with everything and how I'm going to store it all.