Christmas Potluck

Last week I had a Christmas party at my house with all the wonderful ladies from my TOPS group. We had such a great time.  We ate, played games and exchanged gifts.  

This is the veggie tray I made.  

We have lots of good cooks.  One of the ladies said that is why we
belong to a TOPS weight loss group because we are such great cooks...LOL

Here the ladies are playing the reindeer game. We split up into 3 groups
and each group had a bag of balloons and a pair of pantyhose. They had to
blow up the balloons and fill the legs of the hose to make reindeer antlers.
You just had to be here to see this.  It was SO MUCH FUN!!  

First place winner

Second place winner

Third place

Picture in front of the Christmas Tree.
They are a beautiful set of ladies!!

Wishing you a Happy and safe Holiday.  God Bless

Hope your having a good day so far!  This is a card I designed last year using a CTMH stamp set.

The tree is stamped once onto the cream CS and a second time onto the
green pattern paper.  The pattern stamped tree is cut out and attached
to the cream CS using foam tape to give it a 3-D look. 

Bling was added  to the tree along with a white star.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.  Hope you enjoy your time with friends and family.
Jesus is the Reason for the Season.

Tamales

Every year for Christmas my sisters and I make tamales.  Its an all day affair and even though it's a lot of work it's being with my sisters that makes it so much fun! We made 22 dozen this year.  We used one whole gunny sack of red Chile pods, 25lbs of pork, 35lbs of masa and lots corn husks.

This is a pressure cooker my Mother-in-law lends me to cook
the tamales in.  It's very old but in great
shape and cooks the tamales just perfect. 

My sister's Cheryl, Jovonna and Renee busy making the tamales. 

Here I am quality control...hee hee

Tamale being made.

Made tamales before they are cooked.

In the pressure cooker ready to be cooked

I wish I could send you all a tamale to taste!!  Have a super great day!!

Snowman card

Today I am sharing the Christmas card I made for this 2012 Christmas season.  

The family picture was taken in November for my Husband's 50th  birthday
celebration.  The snowman is a CTMH stamp set which I colored, glittered
 and added the Merry Christmas.  Using a punch I cut out the snow flakes
from glitter wrapping paper and attached them to the card. 

This part of the card flips open and I stamped a Christmas sentiment inside. 

Thank you for sharing your precious time with me this week.  Have a Happy Snowman of a day!

Hello Kitty Money Tree

 My niece turned Sweet 16 this weekend.  She loves anything to do with Hello Kitty. I decided to make her a Hello Kitty money tree.  I used a Styrofoam shaped Christmas tree and glued white yarn onto it.

I added pink ribbon and colored straight pins.  I took dollar bills and folded them into a fan. Using a paper clip I clipped the bottom of the bills and inserted them into the Styrofoam tree. I then attached Hello Kitty stickers to the other end of the paper clip. The top of the tree is a plastic ornament from Target's dollar bin. 

Back of the tree

Close up of the money and stickers.

 I am sure it will be a busy holiday week this week.  You will probably be wrapping, baking and cooking.  Hope you don't work to hard and have a super good week!!