Vacation is over…

Hi there,

 

Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday, I took a little time off to hold my Holiday Downline Get Together, finish up my clubs and do a few classes, then concentrated on getting Christmas stuff done.  My whole family was here for the holiday!  YEAH!!!  Josh made it in before the storm in Minneapolis and out of New York before the blizzard.  If you recall, last year he never made it for Christmas because he got snowed into Rapid City and couldn't get home until New Years Eve.  But he made it this year!  We had so much fun, I never stopped laughing. 

 

Here are a few pictures of my amazing downline meeting, we had 60 people attend.  The swaps and gift exchange projects were unbelievable.

 

 Overview

Getting ready for the gift exchange.

Here we are doing our demonstrator swap.  This month's theme was "anything BUT a card".  They have to make 24 of them and they will get back 23, the 24th one goes to the Ronald McDonald House.

 

Swapping…

 

 

Isn't this the cutest little thing.  I think this was my favorite swap!  I love snowmen!!

 

I just love my downline meetings.  We always collect and donate cards with envelopes to the Ronald McDonald House so they can use them.  I also ask my downline to contribute the the local food pantry.  Look at what we collected this month –

and this was only part of it…what a great feeling knowing we helped in a small way!  Didn't I tell you I have the BEST downline!!

 

I also just had my "2011 Year In Review Scrapbook Class".  All I can say is WOW!!!  It came out fantastic.  Everyone was so excited when they finished.  They did 13 two-page spreads (that's 26 pages) in 3 hours.  We were smokin'!!!!  So that was amazing. 

 

 This is a sample of the book!  Yep, they finished 26 pages in 3 hours.  WOW!

 

 

On Thursday, I'm holding my very first ever "My Digital Studio" class.  The gals will be bringing their laptops and we will complete an entire book ready to print.  While creating the book together, they will be learning how to use the program.  I'm excited and nervous.  I've never done this before.  I hope we don't blow a fuse with all the laptops plugged in.  I'll let you know on Friday how it went. 

 

I also have a "Calendar Kit" for sale.  I did this as a class earlier in the month.  Several of the girls wanted to make more so I told them I would offer it as a kit.  It's a calendar that you put together.  The kit has everything you need except the ink pads and stamps. I used the the most adorable stamp set found on page 65 of the big catalog called "Every Little Bit" (#117096 wood mount or #120558 clear mount) for each page except June and December.  If you'd like to add the stamp sets to the order, email me to let me know.

 

I'm so glad to be back…I hope you enjoyed my post!  See you tomorrow.