**Happy New Year**

Happy New Year to all my friends & family!  May you be blessed beyond your wildest dreams in 2012!

As usual, we got together with some very dear friends for New Year's Eve and we always have a good time with them!  Laughing and catching up on all the things that transpired during the outgoing year! 

I've been feeling a lot better physically than I was a few months ago so that means I'll be getting a LOT of projects completed that I started at various times!  I'm looking forward to it!  In 2012 you will be seeing a lot of completed goodies that I have stashed away in my room!  Quilts...  scrapbooking items... cards...

I'm not sure if I'm off to a good start or not though! lol I'm having an allergy attack and it's really irritating me.... drippy nose... itchy throat... sneezing... not how I want to start my new year! lol oh well! If I count my blessings they far out-weigh any allergy attack I can have! So bring it on! 2012... I'm looking forward to all you have instore for me!! 

Scraps....

Paper or Fabric....  I {love} to play with SCRAPS!!!  My husband asked me this morning if "my room" is now a quilting room...  well, one side is!  lol  the other side is reserved for scrapbooking and cardmaking ~ or whatever else I'm working on! 

Much like my addiction to scrapbooking and paper and adhesive and all those gorgeous embellishments ...  I am also addicted to buttons and fabric and thread and creating!  lol

I know where these addictions come from...  and I have no intention of giving them up!  hahaha!  I can remember spending a lot of time with my great-grandmother when I was a child.  She taught me how to "darn" a sock, sew on a button, shuffle cards (and play a few card games!) and crochet.  She even got down on the floor with me and taught me how to play jacks!  These weren't ordinary jacks....  she kept a little rubber ball for me to play with but our jacks were made out of buttons!  She was so creative!  I miss her and think of her often!

**Happy 86th Birthday to my Grandpap**

Friday, December 16th, my grandfather celebrated his 86th Birthday!  Here's a pic of my kids with their great-grandfather.....

My cousin Amber and her son, Blake....

My grandfather with about half of his great-grandchildren (there are about a dozen more that aren't pictured here).... 

This is a pic of my grandparents together.....