Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Do you do much for St. Patty's day?  I really don't.  Maybe a green beer and, of course, I'd pinch my babies if they didnt' wear green.  We also usually do a 'green dinner' but that's about it.  ....now that I write it down it seems like we really do do something. :) 
This year I added a couple decorations.
A banner, of course!  :)

And some votive holders - the 'no flame' battery operated ones, mind you! 

And my cutie leprechan!  :) 

TTFN,
Tammy

Happy Hearts Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours!!!! 
We will be doing a little celebrating for sure....our annual red dinner will be easy this year.  Spaghetti, sparkling wine/grape juice, and heart shaped bread.  Dinner will be served by candlelight.  :)  Fun!  I know the kids will appreciate it.  They will also have their goodies...candy and a T-shirt.  It will be a fun evening!  Mike and I celebrated last week with dinner at a Brazilian Steakhouse.  OMG...it was ridiculously good.  If you have one close to you, you should definately check it out, but go hungry.  You get a ton of food!  The steaks are amazing and lots of different cuts to try.  The salad bar.  OMG, that salad bar!!!  I could fill up on that!  Asparagus so big it was as round as my thumb!!!  Smoked salmon, cheese, greens, everything you would want....amazing!!! 
Well, I don't usually do a lot of decorating for heart's day, but this year, with my cricut I had to kick it up a notch.  Just a little, not a lot.  I made a fun banner for the fireplace mantle.  Sorry the pics are crazy, but I think you'll get the jist.  :)

Happy Hearts day!!!!  :)
TTFN,
Tammy

Give Thanks!

Hi fellow crafters!!!
Happy Veteran's Day!!!  Thanks to all of our Veterans!  This morning I was inspired to say a little prayer for our soldiers and I realized that a lot of my favorite people are veterans.  They are respectable, stand-up, God-fearing people and I love them! 

My house has been a little nutty lately.  I have a sick dog.  And I don't mean any dog....I mean a 100lb Golden Retriever.  Ugh.  I don't know what he ate, but it did not sit well and I was up at 3am this morning cleaning up a mess.  I know it's not his fault, but OMG!  I may be a little cranky this evening cause I only got 4 hours of sleep.  Ugh.  BUT I had fun last night as I made a night of doing some challenges.  I'd never sat and done several challenges in a row, but it was fun!  It made me think outside of the box for sure!

I may put up a couple of posts today to post them all. 

My first challenge project has two inspirations and if you aren't a follower of them, you should consider it!  You would not be disappointed.
Thansks to Sammye Jo for the banner idea (I'm an addict now!!) http://62cards.blogspot.com/
and Thanks to Joy for her Give Thanks banner that I pretty much scraplifted....  :)  (Love you, Joy!)
http://joyslife.com/give-thanks-banner-blog-hop/
Also I think I should thank Emma.  She was also the inspiration for me to start a blog and has been quite helpful along the way.  It's so nice to 'meet' such nice people her in the land of blog!  She was also my very first follower!!  http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

The challenges I am posting this up for are:
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/   Challenge is to use embossing
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/ Challenge is to do some Holiday (Letter H)
I may try to find a couple more to enter...seems I had another in mind, but I can't find it.  Grrr...hate it when that happens!  :)
I used the storybook carty to cut out the letters and thanks to the help of my Gypsy I used different cartys on the same paget to cut this out.  I love the leaves and I used gold paper and embossed them.  I have this in my family room hanging on the fireplace.  I think I may do this for every holiday!  Well, I guess not Christmas cause that's where the stockings go!  :)  Anyway, I hope you like it!

Sorry this last picture is blurry. 

Thanks for looking!

TTFN,
Tammy

13th Birthday Banner

Happy Wednesday!
Wow...I've been working hard on Kaity's birthday party.  She's getting excited and so am I!  Last night I finishd up the birthday banner.  It turned out really cute!  I'm not sure what else I need to make for the party....I'm sure I will think of something!  :) 
I don't have a lot of time today, so I'll post the pictures and chat later!  :)

TTFN,
Tammy