WooHoo! Good Morning Fall!

Good morning and welcome back. Thank you all for stopping by on the blog hop and leaving comments. Makes a girls heart feel good! From my site Stacy Farris's name was selected my Random.org number generator. Yay Stacy! I will give your name to the other Bloggers and 1 name will be selected from all their entries also. Good luck!
I just returned from an amazing weekend  retreat with my stampin peeps at Lake Smith. We had an awesome time-  laughing, creating, relaxing and eating! Well, we do live in the South! Food and fellowship go hand and hand. Everyone worked on their own projects. We had scrapbook pages done! Go Kassie! I think her final total was like 30!!! Kim worked on a quilt, Kristi put together a Memories and more album by just inserting the cute Merry Little Christmas Memories and More card pack into the pocket pages.

 And voila her Christmas album is ready to add those great Christmas pictures of her grandsons.
Scrapbooks are amazing creations. They share a part of our lives. They usually share happy occasions, but sometimes help us walk through difficult times, like an illness. They help to document our existence and give us the ability to share history with the younger generation. I have an album I did for my grandparents many years ago starting with their wedding picture and moving through their lives to the birth of their 6 great-grandchildren. It was the best gift I ever gave them. Well, maybe not counting their great-grandchildren!  If you'd like to see more,  you can check out the Memories and More collection in my online store here.
Well, again thank you for stopping by today. It's a cool fall morning and I'm in need of unpacking some sweaters! You would think after 50 something years I wouldn't be surprised when the temps go from 80 to 60 something overnight!
Have a great day. Be blessed and be a blessing to those around you. See you again real soon.

Love stampingin Dixie, 

Cindy

Dog Days of Summer

Hi y'all . I hope everyone is doing fine. I am amazed at how beautiful the weather has been this August. Here in Dixie August is usually a really miserable month. Hot, Humid, Hot, Humid, did I say HOT? Well, this August has been very pleasant, almost fall-like which is just weird for us. We normally swim in our pool a lot in August. The water has actually been a little chilly this month! Well, all that to say I am getting in the mood for fall. School has started already and I'm ready for the next season to follow. Actually it's only like a 120 days til Christmas! Let me get back to the next holiday. Halloween is not one of those days we really get all excited about. However, with grandbabies running around and fall Festivals getting ready to abound I included a couple of Halloween cards in this months Stamp a Stack. I hope you like them. I think they are really cute! The base of this cards is Whisper White cardstock. The next layer is Only Orange cardstock that was crumbled, then straightened and ink to paper technique done with basic black ink. The spider is made with the scallop punch and the photo corners punch using black and lovely lavender cardstock. The sentiment Happy Halloween is from Tiny Teeny Wishes, a great set to have. It is punched with the window punch and layered on the modern label punch. This is really a quick and simple card.

Up coming Events for September

9-3 is my next Stamp a Stack featuring birthday cards.

9-5 is the monthly PMS creative therapy session.

9-11 I will be hosting a free Cards for the Troops event

9-15 hostess club

9-25 C3PO's scrap booking club meeting and

9-29 Gift Stamp Camp

Please call or drop me an email if you are interested in any of the upcoming events. RSVP deadline for the first week of September is August 31st.

Gotta Run. Have a blessed day and be a blessing to someone along your way and you'll both be blessed!

I'm in Therapy

Hey Yall! It is a beautiful day. The sun always comes out after the rain. Yesterday I scrap booked with a group of friends who have come to mean the world to me. They are my therapy. We laugh a lot, at ourselves and each other, we share our lives, the good, the bad and the ugly, we cry with each other and rejoice with each other and get a little scrap booking done on the side. The neatest thing to me is that I probably would have never met any of these ladies if it had not been for scrap booking. This has really and truly been a TREMENDOUS blessing from God in my life. It is so much fun to look back at photo's and remember those events, how the kids looked, how young we looked (as you can tell I am always years behind in my scrap booking), to remember friends who have moved away and love ones who have move on in their journeys.I really believe scrap booking is a very creative therapy, so if you need some therapy drop me a line or give me a call and let's get you started making memories.

After all that I should be showing you a scrapbook page, but I have a couple of cards I like to share with yall. These two came from the ones I made for Karen for her birthday. I used the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set for the flower one and Bella Rose DSP for the Birthday Wishes card. The edge on the Rose card is done with the eyelet border punch. I really like them both a lot. I hope you do to. Thank you for visitng with me. Leave me a message if you have the time. I enjoy hearing from yall. Remember, Be a blessing to somebody else and you will be blessed.