Fa La La La....Arggghhh!

I've been hosting an all day Christmas card making event for quite a few years now.  It's a full day of holiday spirit, creativity, food and friends.  I  love doing this class!  It's not about making money or teaching technique or getting "my name out there".  It's more about giving something back to those who I work and play with all year.  This year I have fifteen ladies joining me next Sunday and that day is going to be amazing!  However...the downside of fifteen people and a twenty card creative day is the prep...for three hundred cards! Sheesh!  My living room has been overtaken by paper, ribbon, buttons and ink, ink, ink!  It has the distinct look of Santa's workshop with only one slightly exhausted, over worked elf ha ha!  I always end up making a few more difficult to prep cards while I'm designing this class.  I always convince myself that the prep won't be all that bad..."they're just snowflakes, right?"  Until I have to punch out, die cut, paper trim eight million of them!!!  I never learn and I honestly wouldn't do it any other way. The biggest problem I have during prep time for this class is the inspiration I get!  Problem?  How can that be a problem you say...?  I get inspired and have to drop everything to create something else!  It makes for a very long prepping process to say the least.  I may sound like I'm complaining but really I'm not...I just shake my head at myself sometimes. Oh the holidays for a creative person....
I thought I would share with you a creative distraction that I did yesterday...perhaps as centerpieces for our tables on Sunday.  Tim Holtz....I love you and your lantern die!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Miss.C

Daylight Savings Early Morning Creations...

4:30 a.m...that's what time I was up today...4:30 A.M.!  Ridiculous I know, especially on a Sunday but it is what it is.  The house was quiet, I had access to the T.V. and Netflix (anyone who lives with teenager's appreciates this sentence) and I had a double double fueling the fire.  I finally organized my craft room so I found so, so, so many goodies I had completely forgotten about and projects that were half finished or packages of things that needed using up. At Memories and More we went through a long spell of bringing in paper tole supplies, especially around Christmas.  I thought it would be a perfect time to finish up those leftover images to add to my holiday card stash.  So here are this mornings results compliments of a Tim Horton's double double and the time change...

Thanks for stopping by...

Miss C.