Thanksgiving BLOG Candy!

HOWDY!
I just wanted to share that Charlene is giving away this SWEET Thanksgiving BLOG Candy!


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Hope you are having a GREAT Black Friday!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

HOWDY and Happy Thanksgiving!

I am THANKFUL for so many things, but the top of my list right now is the fact that my family had our Thanksgiving Dinner last night. With my Daughter having to work today and my Son needing to go SOO many places to see his In-Laws, we had our dinner last night. It was good to spend the evening with them and get our bellies way FULL! LOL! I worked all night Tuesday, went shopping after work to get some things for our dinner, came home and started cooking! Needless to say, sleep wasn't a part of the day! I finally laid down around 2ish, but my mind wouldn't shut off so after laying there for about 45 minutes, decided I should just get up and keep on going.

Of course, before dinner we had LOTS of goodies to snack on. Appetizers included: summer sausage and cheese, ham roll ups stuffed with green onions, pickles and "nothing" for my daughter, bologna salad, mozzarella cheese cracker dip, and it just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without Pumpkin Pie Dip! (says my Lil' Angel!)

The table is set and dinner is ready!
For Dinner we had:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Stuffing
Sweet Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Corn from our garden, cause there just ain't any better than HOME GROWN!
Cranberry Sauce
Jell-o Salad
and Sister-in-Law Laurel was in charge of the bread/rolls and she chose to stop at Golden Corral and pick up 2 dozen rolls and some Honey Butter! YUMMY!
And of course, dessert was Pumpkin Pie

I told them all if they were hungry when they left it was their own FAULT! LOL!

This is my hubby Sammy and me:

We were both EXHAUSTED! But had a GREAT time with the Family.

This is my Daughter, Tiffany and her family: Abby, Tiff, Dave and Cricket:
This is my Son, Danny, My Lil' Buddy and Sarah:
This is Peanut Braxton, enjoying his "dinner":

This is my Bro' Jeff's family, Josh, Laurel and Jeff:

The newest member of the family sure is getting BIG:

This is Braxton and his Aunt Tiffy with my "CUP", it is the grandkids favorite thing to steal drinks from!:
And last pic to share is of Abby trying to talk her Great Uncle Jeffy into going home with him! When they all left they were headed to get clothes and toys, not sure if it actually happened yet, but I am pretty sure she is getting spoiled at her Great Uncle's house this morning! LOL!

MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY,

MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.
MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP.
MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS.
MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,
MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS!!

I hope you all have a GREAT Day and a Blessed Thanksgiving!

December Guest Design Team Layout

HOWDY!
I decided to try my hand at Sketchy Thursday's December Guest Design Team Member. I'm kinda excited as this is my first try at something like this, and I figured I had a good as shot as anyone else, I had to use this sketch:

and this prompt: Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend.

The layout with pics from 2007 is of me, my Daughter Tiffany, and Friend Eli. Eli had come down for the weekend to share in our Thanksgiving and to have a Girls Weekend of Scrappin', and of course to join Tiffany and I in our annual Black Friday shopping at Wal*Mart:


Here is what I used and how I made it: I couldn't find the right color paper so I made my own using white CTMH cardstock, stamped with CTMH stamps using the $ stamp from Private Eye Tiny Numbers, Alphabets sets W189 and W190 (couldn't find a name) and the * stamp from the Chocolate Alphabet Small set (cause we were at Wal*Mart!). After stamping, I then used my chalks to get the color I wanted. I also used black glitter fabric puff paint on some of the larger $ signs to make them pop. I cut the edges of the white cardstock and then used a destresser to kinda rough up the edges, then sewed it to my black CTMH Cardstock. (when the puff paint is close to the edge you should sew BEFORE using it, and then just sew 1 thickness, lesson learned!). Black Friday and the $ on the left of the pics were cut using my Silhouette, Black and $ is Arial Black Bold font and friday is Harlow Solid Italic font. I painted the Black Friday with Icicle Stickles, and then sprayed the $ with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist to make them shine, and 2 of them have pop dots to make them stand out. I added some staples to the 2 little journal strips. The bottom journal tag is a punch that I cut down to the size I needed and attached with a safety pin. Rick Rack and flowers are from my stash, I did add some of the same color of chalk to a white flower to give it the same hue as the paper, and the center flower brad I added some CTMH Liquid Glass to to give it a little shine. The silver brads at the bottom spell out shopping, and are from my stash.
Thanks for taking a look!

Hope you have a GREAT Day!