A year late, but I finished!

So in celebration of changing my blog name over to Christie Cre8s, I thought I would finally finish and post my December Daily album from last Christmas. 


Actually it was mostly completed last Christmas, but has been on my desk all year only needing the cover and binding done. I'm afraid that is what I do with a lot of projects; almost complete them except for one part. And I still don't have one part done: the binding. I do not have a big enough Owire to bind this because it got kind of fat. I think I'm going to need the 1 1/4". So I will be on the look out for those at Hobby Lobby or Archivers. I hope I can find them there so I don't have to order online. 


So now that the Christmas 2009 season is upon us, I will proudly display my Christmas 2008 December Daily album! 

The cover I completed this morning. I like how it turned out!
Then page/day one and so on. 

I like how Day six turned out. I made a file folder on my Cricut. I think I used the Graphically Speaking cartridge, but it has been a year ago and my memory might not be so accurate. Anyway, I like how it opens up for the journaling and more pics. And then one more pic on the back. 

Our Christmas doesn't end on the 25th. We either travel to Dayton, OH or Kansas City to celebrate with family. Last year we went to OH and the drive there was horrendous! Terrible, terrible fog. 

The last page of my book has a pocket that I recorded the gifts we received. I thought it would be fun to look back on later and see what was the hot toy the boys got in 2008.


So now that I got 2008 done, I can start on 2009!  


Thanks for visiting me and checking out my new blog. Everything stayed the same except that I lost all my previous comments. That was a bummer, but I hope that I won't be getting any strange visitors with this new name. :-)

I'm here.

I really haven't had anything to blog about. Hopefully that will change with the holidays right around the corner.

I'm working on my Christmas cards, but keep changing my mind on what to do. ~Sigh~ One of these years, I'm just going to do the photo card.

Since I don't have anything new to share I thought I would show a few pictures from our Gulf Shores trip.

One day we decided to drive up to Mobile, AL to go to the USS Alabama. We arrived in Mobile right at lunch time and decided to find a place to eat in downtown before we went on the USS Alabama tour.

We parked and just walked around until we found a restaurant. First we came across this pretty park that had this fountain right in the middle of it.

Then we found this restaurant. Mama's Restaurant. Oh my, it was so good! And I'm sure extremely unhealthy.
And then we walked around a bit more and I took this picture of two silly boys.
Mobile was really pretty. I loved the architecture of the buildings and how green everything was.

If you ever happen to be in Mobile, AL, I highly recommend Mama's. I'm wishing I had that fried chicken and mac & cheese right now. Yum!

Thanks again for visiting me!

More Holiday Planners

These are the planners I made in more traditional Christmas colors.

Here is a close-up of the Santa. He was from the Holiday Button Bits stamp set I got from Paper Trey Ink. They really have the cutest stamps.

I colored him with my Copic markers.

There is a snowman in the set that I can't wait to make up too. So cute!

And last night was Connor's final soccer game. Finally! It was suppose to end 3 weeks ago, but all of the rain we had in October kept extending out the season. He was very happy last night because he got his 2nd Soccer Trophy. Although on the way home he kept talking about how the trophy looked like it was wearing a bra. I told him I was sure it was just manly muscles.

In all honesty though, it does look a little like the guy is wearing a bra.

If you click on the pic to make it bigger, you can kind of see what he was talking about. ;-)

Thanks again for visiting me! And have a great weekend!

Christmas Planners

So last month I bought these cute notepads and stamp set from Paper Trey Ink. And I have been having so much fun making these cute Holiday Planners. They come together really fast and easy. (Click on the pictures to make them bigger.)

Nichole from Paper Trey Ink gave a free download template for the covers. (You can get it here. Just scroll down about half way through her post.) After I started making mine I found that I like to make them a little longer than what her template shows. You can see in the picture above that the center notepad just fits right inside the cover. That one is using her template exactly as is. When I started making them a little longer, it gave a little more room around the notepad. For me, I just thought it looked a little nicer and the covers seemed to close better. I also thought the inside pocket would be be good to keep receipts.

I have made a couple with more traditional Christmas colors. I will share those later this week.

So have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I have bought a few things, but I really don't start until it gets closer to December.

Thanks again for visiting me!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Halloween!!!

We are all ready with our costumes.

Spooky!!!

We have Darth Vadar, a fading eyes Phantom, and of course the Witch.

The candy is ready to be passed out to all the

ghosts and goblins of the night.

Happy Haunting!!!

Yes, I'm one of those people...

I could have also titled this post, "Paybacks are Hell." LOL! I think most people know that Maggie and I haven't got along very well since her arrival, so when I saw this witch costume, I had to have it. My little plan backfired though. She didn't mind the costume.
Maggie and I are actually starting to get along better. We hired a trainer to come to our house and work with all of us. She still has some issues that we need to work on, but I am happy to report that she is making some progress. And so am I. ;-)

I took this picture this morning. This tree is in my backyard. All the leaves are gone now, and it has just rained and rained and rained. This is pretty much what the weather has looked like here for the last month. Just gloomy and depressing. I thought the birds sitting in the tree against the gloomy sky looked Halloweenish. (Is that even a word?)

The weather is suppose to clear up tomorrow. I sure hope so. I hate trick or treating in the rain.

Have a great Halloween weekend everyone! And thanks again for visiting me!