First is a birthday card and little heart hangie for a friend of mine! She cares for her parents and is a wonderful gal....I hope she can enjoy these!

ART Banner for another friend of mine. This can hang somewhere so she remembers that art is a fun part of her world and it brings us together! Hope everyone had a nice weekend! Hugs,Patti

COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED!!!!!!!

THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN PICKED RANDOMLY AND ARE:
VAL BRAUN

RENETA PACHECO

CONGRATS GIRLS!I will be contacting you for your mailing information! Please respond to me asap so I can get your package on the way! Thank you all for playing! What fun!!!!!!!!

I hope to hear from the winners by Feb. 19th. If I do not I will draw a new name!

Welcome to the ONE WORLD ONE HEART (OWOH) GiveAWay!
Please click on the LOGO to get more information from Lisa about this wonderful heartfelt event she created to get bloggers to toodle around and visit eachother and find new friends and make connections. What fun! :0)

All you have to do to win my giveaway, is POST A COMMENT in THIS post only! (If you are NOT an Active Blogger, YOU MUST also include your EMAIL in the post,as I need to know how to contact you and where to send the icicle doll that you will win.If you do not do that, you cannot be included.)

The drawing will be held on Feb. 12th and I will mail you your winning after that! What could be more fun right? There are tons of bloggers playing, so visit Lisa's main page to see them all, and visit them to enter to win!

I will give away TWO little packages, each contains an icicle doll, made with heart fabric and with a little purple heart on the front to remind you of this special time, some heart stickers, heart brads and a fun little package of unmounted clear stamps just for you! ENJOY!! THANKS for the visit and remember....One World, One Heart!
Hugs,Patti

This is Martha's book for the Hidden Treasures RR. Her theme is Secret Garden, and it was a wonderful theme to work with! Her book is ssssssssssssssooooooooooo beautiful, she will flip when she sees it! I will link her here,

http://m-is-for-martha.blogspot.com/

and check back with her later, as I am sure she will share it when it gets home in its entire glory! My page...is themed off the quote, "In search of my Mother's Garden, I found my own." I love that quote and hope she finds it as peaceful and fun as I did! Enjoy Martha!!!!!!! <3>

Rufio had a play date with Melanie's(Amber's friend from high school :0) and her sweet pup of 6 months Roxie! Roxie is very sweet and Rufio and Roxie wore eachother out chasing, playing and sharing! Such fun--------Rufio was so happy to have company. Hehehe! We had a hard time getting a good picture, because the dogs did not care much for what the humans wanted to do. Go figure! :0)

Here is Rufio on New Years Day! We go from a deep sleep between the pillows......to a walk in his little hooded sweatshirt! He is a ball of energy and has had our attentions exclusively lately! His energy makes him a challenge for training......potty wise he is doing GREAT, it is the rest of everything, the jumping, the biting etc. He is aaaaadorable and he will eventually become a super doggie.......(as he is gifted and talented) hehehe, but not without a bit of efforts and consistency from his MOM AMBER!!!!! Who could not fall in love with that face??? :0)
HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Gramza's!

My sweet Niece Elizabeth enjoying the snow at her house! SEE, if you are a child, this is fun stuff! :0) If you are ME, not so much!!!!!!
I hope everyone had a safe and blessed Christmas!!!! Here comes 2009..........wow.

Healthy and delish!
This is a crescent roll tree that I made for our Christmas Celebration with my family today! The base is crescent rolls, then the topping (dip) and then the fresh veggies with a red pepper star at the top! :) Fun, pretty and great tasting! The veggies are cucumber, carrot, broccoli, and red pepper.

Then the delicious and not so healthy! It's CHRISTMAS, it is OK! These are the cookies from our annual work cookie exchange! Everyone makes 10 dozen of their cookie and then we swap and come home with 10 dozen different cookies including a new recipe! How fun right?? On this dish is......Mint Chocolate Trees (mine), Snicker doodles, Pecan Fingers, Chocolate Mint Cookies, Malted Milk Chocolate Cookies, Candy Canes, Pumpkin Walnut Cookies, Frosted Eggnog Logs, Peanut butter Blossoms, and a great chocolate bar. We are ready for Christmas morning, Eggnog and cookies now!!!!!!! :0)

Rufio is making himself right at home........:0)

This is a tree skirt I made for Amber's work. She works at Marcus Theaters and the "M"is their logo! I did not have a ton of time, so I did it with glitter felt and added some beads around the holly berries. It is nice and bold and easily seen.

Merry Christmas to Marcus :0)

A new member to our family!
We lost Buddy 2 years ago.....almost to the date!
Amber got a new puppy yesterday. His name is Rufio!!!!!!! She is in love with him and the WORK of training and teaching begins! He is really a sweet little guy! He is a Bichon Frise and Shi Tzu mix! ADORABLE! :0) I think he will fit our family well! HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all!

Here we go.....our Christmas tree for the family room...themed ANGELS and a view of outside this morning! Booooohoooooooo , yup, SNOW! I really am hoping we do not have a winter like last year, because we got soooooo much snow! I really do not like snow....nothing good about it.....except friends of mine seem to think it is lovely, pretty, fun........bahhhhhhhhumbug! Hehehehe! I will survive! :0)Thanks for looking!

This is my entry for the blog challenge for the arch group.......theme Silhouette's, such fun! You can check out the challenge blog here......
http://gothicarches.ning.com/

I hope you are having a great week! Hugs,Patti

Hi everyone! I have been tagged by Beth at
http://beths-babble.blogspot.com/
and I am supposed to tell 7 quirky facts about myself!

I am not too interesting, but here goes......
1. I like PEPSI(diet and caffeine free), and I know when it is Coke.......there is no fooling me!
Diet Pepsi is my favorite dark soda.
2. I used to be called "carrot top" in school because of my natural red hair! :( Now I have to dye it red, because it is getting too gray! Double :(
3. I would love to win the lottery and play art all day long........and cook too. That would be fun.
4. My feet get cold alot, even if the rest of me is hot. Odd right??
5. I dislike WINTER lots! I used to like it as a child--building snow men, sledding, etc., but it has lost all it's sheen to me, since it became all work and no play.......scraping the car windows, shoveling the driveway and walk, and mostly I hate it when my nostril hairs freeze up from the cold! Grrrrrrrr and brrrrrrrrrrr.
6. Fall is my favorite season EVER......and the changing of the colors to me is a miracle, just glorious!
7. I am confused as to what has happened to my sweet baby girl that used to look up at me in the morning from the crib with rosie cheeks and a big droolie grin..........because last time I looked.......she is marching around the college campus and telling me she is too busy with friends, work and studying to barely get a hug in! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM my Mother! (That part is ok, my Mom is amazing! :0)
There you go...........7 things about me.........if you feel like playing........do! I don't want to tag anyone and make them feeled pressured. If you play, let me know so I can read your facts!
Hugs! Patti

Halloween at work! We dressedup with the Hawaiian theme and had great fun! Cathy(Owner) made Witches Brew with dry ice and it was spooooooooky! :0)

Pictures: Top-Steve, Ryan and Chris
Next-Cathy and the steaming brew, that was green and had gummy worms too! Muahaha!
Next-Chris, Patti(Being silly) Julie and Steve
Next-Julie and her sweet little grandson Ethan in his adorable Elephant costume and lastly,
Chris, Cathy, Julie and Steve!
FUN! Ryan even brought the palm tree that was in the background, and we played Hawaiian music and that was fun! Happy Halloween!

Witchy Finger Cookies........aren't they scary? The nails are slivered almonds and the red gel is the finishing touch! :0)

A Halloween canvas (6x6)for a personal trade! Muahaha! I hope she likes it.........what a spookie exchange...BOO!

Pumpkin Sculpting time!!!!
Wheeeeee! This year, I was inspired by the food network...they are having a SHOW tomorrow Sunday the 26th with 4 WONDERFUL pumpkin sculptures, and I wanted to try! Of course, I have no tools....so I did this with a SPOON and a pearing knife! Sheeeeeesh! They use tools for clay sculpting which I may go to Michaels to see if they carry them! Anyways, this was great fun and I enjoyed it! Remember, I am just trying because it looked fun! To me this was more interesting than just carving like usual! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! You try and let me know if you do! Happy Haunting!
Halloween Hugs,Patti