Yes, I changed my blog design AGAIN!

If you didn't know it before, you certainly know it now.... 

When it comes to backgrounds, I have ADD!

I'm having a blog-design-identity-crisis!

Christmas Paper Craft Projects 2011 (and 2010)

Are we finished with Christmas yet?  

Nope!

I think Christmas should be celebrated year-round!  

Or at least for more than just a month!  hehe  ;)
(I promise only one more post after this about Christmas...til next year)

I love these little crafts aka GIFTS that we made this Christmas,
so of course, I'd love to share them with you.

These projects were constructed by me but 100% designed by Rachele!


2011 Christmas projects

Here's the sad thing about making these cute goodies at Rachele's......

I like 'em so much I fail to give them away.

Note to self:

Share these with friends next Christmas 

and spread the love!

Annual Ornament Exchange 2011

Please forgive me, but I'd like to post the rest of our Christmas goodies 

BEFORE I start telling you how excited I am about Valentine's Day!  lol 

Remember my friend Rachele that I've spoken of before?  

(We made paper gingerbread houses at her place last month) 

We have good times together and her/our projects are fun to make!

I also hope she starts blogging again, because she's good at it!

(RACHELE, ARE YOU READING THIS???)

Anyway, as part of the craft group that Rachele has organized, 

she has added an annual Christmas ornament exchange.

I am so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing (and crazy fun) crafty women!

I'll start with the ornament I made.  Believe me, it was a huge improvement over my ornament last year! hehe

Cowboy's 12 Months of Christmas

Remember back here when I mentioned I'd let you in on what I got Cowboy for Christmas?

He is SOOOOOO difficult to get gifts for because:

#1 - He doesn't want anyone to spend money on him.

#2 - He doesn't like 'stuff'.

#3 - He pretty much just wants to eat.....

#4 - ....and go places.

FIRE AND DIRT! An AZ New Year's Eve

                          It's an annual tradition that Cowboy joins his lifelong friends 

                                     to spend New Year's Eve out in the desert 

                          visiting, playing, grilling, eating, four-wheeling, and shooting.  

                                    A tradition that my kids and I have gladly adopted!

The kids run and roam freely

The moms and nannas play with the babies and visit

Have you ever seen such a big skillet???

The men grill

A Kid Farm Christmas

We believe.....

2011 brought us a pretty amazing Christmas!

We celebrated all through December in many ways, 

but one of the biggest highlights was one crazy night when we just so happened to have this....

And accidentally turned it into this......

Paper Gingerbread Houses

I'm gonna start a new series of posts called "What I Made At Rachele's" 

because Rachele really knows how to party with paper 

and some of my most amazing projects were constructed at HER house.  

Thanks Rachele for rocking my paper world!

She's always on the hunt for fun things to make, and when she saw these paper houses, plus these amazing bits of inspiration on Pinterest, she scheduled us right up to come over and create!

Here she is, our lovely hostess and creative extraordinaire, Rachele.  

She's the Queen!

And she really knows how to treat her friends!!!

And yes, we really know how to make a mess!  

Here is Rachele's house completed.  See the pretty little snow on the eaves?