First, one of the biggest events that is happening this year is my granddaughter Kira's approaching wedding. Normally most families handle weddings in a simple fashion getting ready over the course of a year or so. In Kira's case, we are having to do it in very short intense periods of time. She fell in love while visiting friends in Australia and was proposed to last year at Christmastime when her fiance came to visit during his summer break. After finished her Master's in Teaching last April and making all of the preliminary decisions regarding their wedding in July of 2015, she left for Australia to live with her fiance and his family while working at a parttime job and getting ready for permanent immigration. In November, she and her fiance, Clinton returned for his summer break again and made all the final arrangements for their wedding including two bridal showers, Save the Date cards and Invitations. So during the week before and after Christmas, I attended two bridal showers and had huge family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We had eighteen for Thanksgiving dinner, twelve for Christmas Eve dinner and seventeen for Christmas brunch. Here are some quick pics of some of the fun times.
Getting ready for the first bridal shower held by my oldest daughter!
The first bridal shower!
The eight grandchildren with one significant Aussie in the center of the group!
Christmas Brunch
In addition, three of my granddaughters have all graduated from college and started their new lives in their own homes. When they collected their Christmas ornaments from their parents, they realized that they didn't have a Christmas tree skirt like I had made for each of their parents trees so they all decided that they wanted one made for them in their special colors for Christmas this year. Now I do like to quilt, but making three special skirts on four weeks notice was a little more of a challenge than I had planned for, but being a good gramma, I didn't want to disappoint. I worked everyday for most of three weeks to make it happen and that is why there was virtually no stamping done during that time. Here are the three skirts which were finished at 11 PM on December 23rd.
Meaghan's Red and Brown Skirt
Kira's Red and Gold Skirt
Brooke's Blue and Green Skirt
After Christmas, I had a sneak peek class on Saturday for the new catalogs coming out on January 6, then there was another bridal shower on Sunday which was also my 51st wedding anniversary which my husband and I celebrated with happy hour at Trader Vic's.
Then there was my usual Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch and downline Aerubbecisor dinner on Tuesday to finish out an incredibly busy month. Kira and Clinton left for Sydney on Tuesday and life will be returning to normal for a few months. I did lots of fun projects for the classes on Saturday and Tuesday and now I am preparing a new workshop for the seven that I have booked this month. In addition, I will be getting ready for Leadership which will be held the end of January. I'll be sharing lots of fun new projects from the Spring Occasions mini and our annual Saleabration. Here is the first one from my Sneak Peek class on Saturday.
Stamps
Paper
Ink
Accessories
I can't post the actual items from the catalogs until they go live on January 6 since you can't order them until then, so come back and I will add the links once they are available.
Thanks for your patience even though I know you were all as busy as I was. I'll be posting lots more in the next few days, but you will have to be a little more patient until I can show all of the stuff from the new catalogs. Hugs, Sherron
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