I am soooooooooooooo excited to share my project with you today!

I hope you like it!

It's a combination of a couple of ideas!

It is a GREAT way to get ready for all your Black Friday shopping and the rest of your holiday season!

It's .........

 A Christmas Planner!

It was really quite simple to make too! The main part is two sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 cs cut down to 8 x 8 1/2 and glued together. Some scorelines and then decorate! The pockets are just cardstock or designer paper adhered with redline tape. The cover able is SU dp, top note die ran through swiss dots cb folder and then inked and distressed. MTME Secret Santa "Christmas" Stamp and Santa hat with Marvy Liquid Applique (which apparently you CAN burn), old alphas, Making Memories Poinsettia, Stampin Up Twill.

 This is one of the back pages that folds in. It is for cards, sent/recieved etc. Used a little spellbinders mitten die and inked it before popping it out then added some twine. used Basic Grey letters to spell cards.

 This is another of the back pages that folds in. It is lists of menus or baking duties - you could also add the grocery lists for those things. I used red thickers to spell FOOD and a little gingerbread guy from MTME's The Gingersnaps. All the printable sheets are from OrganizedChristmas.com. I hope you like it - and maybe be inspired to make your own! Be sure to share with me if you do!

Today I am Thankful for the fact that my hubby is incredibly handy! The man can fix, re-purpose, build just about ANYTHING! There are many things I wish my husband was but I think he makes up for most of them with his handiness!

 Today is our last full day of school before Thanksgiving break and I am giving a test! Bwahh! We do have a half day tomorrow still unlike my mother and good friend Cheri who don't go at all tomorrow! :( Ok done pouting! I have a cute little card for you today using Lauren Meader's new set Secret Santa. My Time Made Easy is sponsoring the Embellish Holidays Color Challenge so I wanted to use one of her sets - well that and I LOVE them! The challenge was to create a Holiday Themed project using the colors shown. EEEK! I am a very traditional colors girl when it comes to Christmas colors and Red and Pink together give me serious issues! However, I took a deep breath and forged ahead I mean they call it a challenge for a reason right?

 And this is what I came up with. I stamped the long package 3 times each on a piece of 3x1 1/4 inch white cs towards the right side. I then used my waterbrush to color each of them. I matted each stamped piece on a slightly larger piece of colored cs. I added some Dark Chocolate Bakers Twine to some buttons and added them to the empty end of the stamped strips. My card base is just two cardstock panels. I left it like this cause I couldn't decide where to put a sentiment and I figured I could add it inside later then it could be a birthday card OR a holiday card! Thanks for stopping by today! Come back tomorrow for a SUPER cool project that will get you organized for Black Friday and the rest of the holiday season!

Today I am thankful for my two sitters Trina Spoonemore and Cashie Proctor. I seriously do not know what I would do without these two! They take the best care of my boys! Side note I have known Cashie since the 4th grade and had her son in Kindergarten which helps!

 Real quickie little post today!

I needed a November gift for my Secret Pal at School and so I whipped this up.

 Today I have a little card for you using My Time Made Easy by Lauren Meader's new set called The Gingersnaps. This set is jam packed and only $6! When I saw THIS card by Lauren (scroll down it's the last one in the blog post) I knew I would have to recreate it for my family!!!!! 

 How stinkin cute is that?

So there it is the Gingerbread Schweders!

I stamped all the ginger people in close to coca then added the details and sentiment. A little ribbon some brads and there you have it! What a super great easy to personalize card! TFL!

Today I am thankful that it is Friday! - No you don't understand this is the first full week I have gone to school and I am still sick - getting worse if that is possible! If this week was any longer I think it might have done me in! Have a great weekend peeps!