Another Scrapbook HANGOVER!

My paper cuts are few and the pages I finished last night while scraping at the Scrapbook Oasis even fewer.  I do feel like I did about 100 sit ups my tummy muscles (not sure I have muscles in that area) hurt today from the laughter.  Oh my.... after a couple of hours of just talk it gets down right funny and nothing is off limits.  The Julie's V & C ,  the A- group Amy and Annette a cameo appearance from Ms. Flicker and Lia  and myself (and our SO hostess for the evening Rebecca).  I hear the improv will be calling us soon for our adhesive humor.  Crazy stories about life, love, Christmas, gifts, body functions and growths, kids, hubby, work, self check out and dummies hogging up the isle in the market.  The list goes on... And JV had this fabulous idea to start our own magazine and she gave out work assignments (not ready to revel just yet the title of the new mag or my assignment).  I would not give up reading National Enquire  -  but watch for our first edition on news stands sometime around 2011 - we are still in the concept discussion stages and these things take time.  So I have a scrapbook hangover and it is the best type of hangover.  What a great hobby and thanks Oasis (link on left)  for a great place to play on Wednesdays and Fridays and sometimes Saturday too..... 

Collage from Walmart Photo Center

http://photos.walmart.com/collageit/prd=prints/  This link should take you to the Walmart  site which shows how to get the collage pictures for .09  Yes NINE cent  these are the prints we used in our Christmas cards card on the left and then just playing around with pictures from T-day picture on the right.  What a deal.  You do have to upload your photos first and for me it was very slow since the Walmart up load software is for PC users and not MAC....

Merry Happy Seasons Holiday Christmas Greetings!

I used them all... Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings and most importantly MERRY CHRISTMAS (above).  Try painting that on the windows of your local business or getting Macy's to use it as a slogan next year.  Have a wonderful Christmas Eve and a warm Merry Christmas tomorrow.  Make sure your camera batteries are charged, take lots of pictures and most of all make memories.  This is the only Christmas we get in 2008.  God Bless everyone!  HO HO HO..... MERRY CHRISTMAS.  

The Greeting Cards have all been sent.

Yes, they are gone... LOVE to get them too! We sent out over 100 Christmas Cards and have received about 20 so far. Well at least the post office should be plump and happy with all we spent in postage. WARNING do not buy the big Christmas cards at the 50 to 70% off sale and think that is good and you are going to send a big card for the same price as a small card! Walked one into the post office weighed it (I already had the .42 cent stamp on the envelope) and it was going to cost .59 to send it since it was so big. We had to stand there and work the postal slot machines to buy more stamps and they only had .27 stamps so the .42 card cost .69 to mail... Hope that postmaster general gets his bonus thanks to us. The nuts have been made (candied pecans), the packages have been sent! Those are all good things checked off the list... But someone needs to figure out the shopping... I don't want to go - I don't want to do it... I don't want to wrap em, tape em or label them.... I am feeling like this time of year you really do figure out how much you don't know about people- your family. You think you know someone till you ask your self what would they like for Christmas... what are their interest - hobbies, what size are they, what do they like to eat. Who ever thought of the gift card was a total genius.   Time to get busy.  Leaving you with a few other pics... The blue Santa arrived yesterday from our good friends the Skillman's and the Santa is from RUSSIA... Love it. Kind of like a gift card you can't go wrong with a Santa. Picture of the wordy tree.  Reminds me of a scrap book page.  Lots of BELIEVE, JOY, FAITH and PEACE

glittery words all over it.  AND the candied pecans waiting for the Hyland Island Sleigh to appear and make deliveries.  Next week... MERRY HAPPY CHRISTMAS by this time next week it  will all just be lots of Festive Paper heading for the recycle bin... and memories - don't forget to take lots of pictures and try a different angle...!

Giving the perfect gift

DUMB but a tradition none the less... We have this really old 70's style Christmas door hanger that the DOG (not even sure which dog now) ate years ago. It is ugly colored and chewed up and can no longer hang on a door. Each year we take this dumb chewed up mess -wrap it in beautiful packaging and watch as the newly elected gift getter unwraps the package- oh and ahhhing the entire time.... and everyone is watching the beautiful gift being unwrapped....carefully laying back the tissue paper and there it is the UGLY gift... (bad scary music plays in the background) when the gift getter lays eyes upon it and starts laughing lots of belly laughing by others occurs at this point along with lots of picture taking. The person feels completely ridiculous.. since all of us but the one who wrapped it (which would have been the one that received it last year) forgot about this DUMB funny tradition... This year my hubby is getting it. He is the one who says don't buy me anything yet, he is the first to want to open a present. I wonder what he will like better - the nose trimmer or the bad ugly chewed door hanger thing! The pictures are from 2006, sorry but they are a little out of order since my mac is being moody... but you get the idea... Merry almost Christmas - Aloha

QUICKIE POST

Here there and everywhere.. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas or in some cases feeling like HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  What is a HAPPY HOLIDAY?  We celebrate Christmas here at Hyland's Island and not "HAPPY"... I mean we are happy and that is most of the time... but during the birth of Christ season we celebrate CHRISTMAS in lieu of HAPPY HOLIDAYS.  If you are not celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah  or Kwanzaa or whatever this time of year represents to you and yours is it just a paid day off of work?  Is it a Happy Holiday because you have a day off in the middle of the week? If you are celebrating "HAPPY HOLIDAYS"  why don't you buy gifts for Martin Lutheran King  or President's HOLIDAY?  If I were in a foreign country wouldn't I be expected to honor their holy day?  Oh wait I am in a foreign country my own....  I still have not spent one cent in a Target store since our incident last January... But I want to say to them YIPPPPEEEE... you used the word CHRISTMAS in your TV commercial.  That earned a few points for Target in my book.  Lately, life is giving me more questions than answers... in case you couldn't tell from this quickie post.  Off to think of more things to put on the to do list, Christmas Cards, call me old fashioned but, I love to send them and get them.  Might not be the green thing to do but nothing is anymore.  Tennis Party tomorrow with the tennis ladies here at the Island, need to finish the decorations.  About 1/3 of the decorations remain packed this year... easier to put them away in January.  Need to do some shopping  and make our famous pecans.  Oh life is good and full but that does not mean I don't have questions.  God Bless everyone!