It's a start

I've been in search of my crafting mojo for quite some time now. No matter how hard I've searched it keeps one step ahead of me and out of reach. Yesterday for my day, off after thinking about crafting, procrastinating and doing other things, I finally went to the craft room and worked on a card. It's not the best I've ever done but at least it's a start. Wade's oldest son and his wife sent me a box of assorted color blank cards and some metallic markers for Christmas so I wanted to make them a thank you card.

Here's a couple of close ups just for fun. 

I hadn't taken the card blanks out of the box and I thought they were a different size. I made the snowflake panel for the size I thought the cards were. It all worked out in the end though. 

I cute the snowflakes out with my cricut in various sizes and then glued them to the light blue panel. Then I used the metallic markers to draw the lines on them.

Back up

It's always good to have a backup plan. It's even better when you have a daughter who provides you material for a back-up plan . 

It's only 3 days into the year and here I am with nothing to blog about. Lucky for me my daughter had sent me this Snoopy cartoon in a text message to use for when I needed something to blog about

The first day

The first day of the new year was very quiet, a little bit lonely but also a little productive. I got the majority of my Christmas decorations down packed up and put away. I still have the tree in the living room to take down but that won't take very long

It was very gloomy and dreary so it was definitely a stay-at-home kind of day.

Naturally, being New Year's Day, it called for the traditional pork and sauerkraut. I made that in my new Pioneer Woman Crock-Pot that Amanda gave me for Christmas

Happy New Year

Today as we welcome in the new year, I would like to say that I've been honored to have all of you following along with me and I look forward to another year of sharing with you.