This is the last of my round robin for the shapes....and in this one, we were to use CIRCLES! So you will see hidden circles in my art in various places! This book is really very beautiful and I know Tricia, the owner will lOve it!

I am in a puzzle round robin with several gals! We put the main color down on the 5x7 puzzle(everyone has the same puzzle as the hostess sent them us all) and art 2 pieces (not connecting) and then the puzzle goes around and each player does 2 pieces! I will share with you the puzzles as I get them so you can see what they will look like as each comes and has more and more pieces done in each person's color and theme! Fun and these are smallish pieces and make for quick arting! :0) FUN! My theme is NUMBERS and WINGS!

My friend Nancy flew into Milwaukee on her way to Tuscan for a jewlery show and fun time with some other artsy friends.......and during her layover, I picked her up and we had a visit! She met Earl ,saw my house,and we drove around a bit, she saw Lake Michigan and we had lunch and now she is off on her next flight! WHAT FUN! I am so glad to have seen her! That was perfect and I am so glad that it worked out for us to spend some time together! HURRAY!

These are some cards I made this evening....one if for a friend of a friend who is ill! Annnnnnyways, aren't the images beautiful!? Michelle from Digital Collage Sheets......sells wonderful sheets in different topics......they can be found

here

http://www.digitalcollagesheets.com/

These are off a free sheet she offers, but I have gottne some others and they are stunning and can be printed off your own computer as much as you like! FUN!

These are done with stamping, and layering and some word stickers too! Enjoy!

There is a generous artist out in blog land giving away two copies of her new wonderful book.....
ART FROM THE HEART
by Catherine Matthews-Scanlon (post for the book on Sunday, Jan. 27th).
Go to her blog and see it and enter to win by posting on your blog!
Here is the link to her blog and her wonderful art too! :0)

http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com
Hugs,Patti

This is an ATC swap where you have to take a postal stamp....and incorporate it into the design of the card! This was fun! You can get imaginative and there are lots of fun postal stamps out there! I look forward to my returns on this one! Hugs,Patti :0)

Amber bought a RAT! Can you imagine!? I thought I would hate it, but she is really quite the charmer! Hehehehe! She is black and white like a Holstein cow......and she has a very SWEET temperment! It is the tail that is gross to me! But she is sweet......and so her name....SWEETS!

What can I tell you! Amber likes her and that is the most important thing! Do you think she is cute??? If your answer is no.....I guess we better stick to the ......"If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Cuz I don't want Amber crying! :0)

Here are some cards I created for friends birthdays etc! The images are from the digital collage site....here is the link......as well as the butterflies! :0) Great fun!
http://www.digitalcollagesheets.com/index.htm

These are ATCs for a yahoo group swap! We needed to include a heart and some fabric somewhere! I made a small heart piece of fabric behind the heart charm! :0) Enjoy!

These are tags for a deco that I have here, no particular theme, we can just let our muses go! Fun! Image of little girl and bird is from ...
www.digitalcollagesheets.com
and the other girls are from
www.paperwhimsey.com
Beautiful images from both!!! Enjoy!

These are SCHOOL themed deco pages! Very fun to find some vintage school pictures and add a spin to them! The pink page has a vellum overlay with a map vellum and a hole punched to expose the little girls face!

GO PACK!!!!!! We did it, pulled out a win 42-20 from the Seahawks with a terribly rocky start! Now tomorrow.......GO GIANTS! We want a HOME game for next week! Brett Favre played great today in the snow.....Number 4 is our number ONE! Hurray!!!!!!!

These are some 4x4s for personal trades! There are fronts and backs from Vintage themed, Romance(Valentine) themed and then Sun themed!4x4s are a great size for fun square art....now I have to run, our PACKERs are playing the Seahawks shortly! GO PACK!!!!! :)

These are icicle dolls for a swap that I am in with some other talented art girls! :0) I will love having a little basket full of these beauties at the end of the swapping! These are made with silk flower tips for the hair instead of fiber! Trying a new twist! :0) Such fun! Icicle doll information can be found explained and shared by the talented Belinda Schneider here......

http://belindaschneider.wordpress.com/category/tutorial/

She shows how to make them, llllllots of example and a template too! Have fun!

Hugs,Patti

These are mini houses that GABY got me hooked on! She sent me some and I made templates from them and created 5 for her in return and also some for birthday and raks! So, they are such fun! Lining them up to make a whole city scape would be fab! They are quite small, ranging from 3 1/2" longx 1 1/2" wide to the smallest at 2"x1"wide. Very neat small format!

Winter Wonderland!
We got another 6 1/2 inches of snow last night, wet and heavy and coating everything! I know... I am snow grump, but I did have to stop and get some pictures to share with you, because I will admit it is very beautiful and wintery! :0) I love sharing these on my blog, because I have friends visiting here with children who never experience snow and I wish I could take them outside here to show them, but since I cannot, it is fun to show them via the net!

Even the ducks are enjoying the view! Hope you do too! Click on the pictures to see them BIGGER!

I host a cookie exchange at work! This year we had 9 participants! Here is a platter of the results. There are two platters. Each participant makes one dozen of their type of cookie for everyone playing. So this year, 9 dozen cookies. Then I swap them out and we come home with these pretty cookies, and recipes are included! This year there were:

*shortbread fingers with candy tips (4 and 11 o'clock)

*raspberry sugar cookies (middle)

*peanut butter blossoms (7 o'clock)

*peanut butter truffles (9 o'clock position)

*bourbon balls (near 6 o'clock)

*angel whispers (lemon sandwich dusted with powdered sugar) scattered

*cut outs stars, candy canes, trees and ginger bread men

*pistachio sandwich cookies (1 o'clock position)

*pecan fingers (12 o'clock position)

They all look and smell great! Aren't they pretty all plated up! :0)

Belinda is hostessing a fun ICICLE DOLL SWAP! She started these creative beauties.....see link...

http://belindaschneider.wordpress.com/icicle-doll-swap/

Anyways, Belinda is very creative and she stated these with template, instructions and all and now is having a three for three swap, sign up by the 20th! So there is still time if you want to play, they are due to her Jan. 1st though! So these are my contribution! Wheeeeeeeee, great fun making!

I wanted to finish them today so I could get them into the mail for her! You never know with Christmas how fast things are moving! So they are off to her tomorrow! All the way to Germany! :0)
THE PACKERS won today and that always makes a great finish to my day! HURRAY!

Tomorrow is a naughty word....yes, you guessed it ......MOANDAY , so I am off to enjoy the last free time of the weekend! Hugs,Patti

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1205721762

This is hilarious! I put AMBER in as an elf! Just go to the link and you can create yourself or any family member (that you have a face photo of) to be the elf......and send it to friends in an email! VERY cute, ENJOY!!!!!!!

Here we are .......snow covered! As much as I really do not enjoy snow anymore(it represents work....shoveling before and after work etc.) the lake was a beautiful sight today, the sky was PURPLE and BLUE and it was amazing over the water! Anyways, I hope you enjoy the winter wonderland view! Booooohoooooo !Hehehehe! We are expected another 5-8 inches tomorrow! MAKE IT STOP!

My sweet Niece Sarah is in town for a visit from NC! So this is Earl, Sarah and Amber today as the snow began to fall! :) That made Sarah smile, as she has not seen snow for about 7 years! It was great seeing her! Her Brother Aaron, Wife Cat and baby Lincoln were here last week, and I did not get a shot of them! :(

Take my word for it, they are all beautiful!

Hugs,Patti