**update** i was not one of the lucky winners....bummer!!


provo craft is giving a way 3 of their new gypsy hand held design studio device. to enter you had to post to a message thread on their message board by midnight last night. when i posted last night @ 6pm i was poster #425 and i was on page 22. i just checked the thread and there are now 84 pages of posts and the last person posting was #1662!

so do you think a lot of people really want this gypsy????

here is what it's all about
gypsy!

we had our floors done last week. oh how beautiful they look!! this first picture (with gretel) is of the front pre-school room looking to the back room. the second photo is of the corner where the floor was really bad. the last photo (with hansel) is of that same spot now after it was refinished!! lovely!



i had to add one more.

hansel and gretel have been playing with a tiny ball that has a bell in it for days. well, today it went under the dinosaur mountain in blocks. first hansel tried to get it out (honestly, i think he just liked it in there)

then it was gretel's turn. I think it might still be in there.

here are a few layouts from the country house in vermont. it was beautiful there in april and it was a lovely vacation. except for the coonie we had a relaxing and restful time. oh, i really should scrap that coonie!!

i found these cute jammies at target for catherine. i love them b/c they have gingerbread boys and snowmen on them. i had rolled her hair too. she has the little bonnet on that mom made for colonial days back in the 1990s when we took the honey bears to the french fort. catie looks so cute!

colin and i went to see the rudolph ballet in december. this is our third year going. it is so awesome. this year we sat in box seats. they said not to take photos but omgosh, i couldn't resist. that is our mayor matt driscol giving out an award to the choreographer of the ballet b/c this was the 30th year. you can see her on the far left holding the huge enormous bouquet of roses.

i just finished this layout of the kids on halloween. the second halloween layout i did last year. it's funny i used the same papers. i didnt realize it until i finished the second layout and pulled the first one out of a stack of completed layouts. i really do love these halloween papers.

they closed webbers. really! im so sad. we went to danzers for lunch on friday. dad decided to drive by webbers on the way home just to see if it had reopened. well, there is a new restaurant comming soon. :(

it monsooned here yesterday!

ive been crocheting these little christmas stockings. they are alot of fun and im hoping to give them to my students in my class at christmas time. i have 7 finished and im going to make about 25 b/c i do not know how many students i'll have this year.

you can also get the pattern at the art of crochet.

they are really quick and easy. i was watching knit and crochet today this week. they were talking about stranding or fair isle. i thought id try it on these stockings. i did try it on the red stocking with the red cuff. it came out cute but i think i'll write up a pattern so that the design will look like something. maybe a heart or christmas bell. :)

i am so behind on my scrapping, ive been trying to catch up a little. you would never know it b/c i have 14 albums for colin and almost 3 for catherine. but i still feel so behind!