Thankful
Is it just me, or does it seem like the year is moving quicker than ever? Maybe it is because of my advanced age?  Or maybe because I have two kids in school and one in school full time?  At any rate, Thanksgiving came and went and our house is already decorated for Christmas.  Plans are made for Ella’s birthday party.  We are all thinking of gifts for each.  I have some bought/made. But I’ll slow down just a minute, to share some family pics from our Thanksgiving festivities.  This year TG was at my in-laws. Here is my husband’s side of the family

A Special Invite
Leave it to me to find any excuse to craft…  My latest project was these cards.  These are the invitations for Ella’s Tea Party birthday. She has recently added blue to her long list of favorite colors.  So I thought blue would be appropriate for the cards and

Crafts, Books and Crafty Books
I seriously want to make one of these burlap wreaths!  And we even have a red front door which the wreath nicely contrasts.  Linda is promising a tutorial each day for an entire week over at Craftaholics Anonymous!  I hope one is for the burlap wreath!  Though I think you’d just tie burlap strips around a circle wreath form…  and add a handmade flower or two.

When Life Hands You Tea
Change your daughter’s birthday party plans.Bet you can’t guess what we are doing to celebrate Ella’s birthday, and where.I’ve started making invitations which need to go out soon.

Our First Tea
I don’t know who was more excited, Ella or me.  We were going to a Tea Party, just the two of us.  The party was being held at Infini-tea in Antioch, IL.  It was a special one in that the characters from “Beauty and the Beast” would be present after their afternoon showing at a local theater (across the street). Here we are, all dressed up with a Tea to go to.