Drink Carrier Gift

Now that I have distributed these I am safe to post a picture of these. I used QT drink carriers and decorated them and filled them with goodies.

Each one had 2 towels, bread or cookies, chex mix and candy bars.

I think they were a hit!

oops!

Mark this day on the calendar... first day I have ever been in trouble with the law! Okay so that sounded a little more dramatic than it is, BUT I did get pulled over for the first time today!

I was in a great mood because today was "work Christmas" and I had all the packages in the back seat. I was super excited to get there and start handing things out... I passed by the QT on Bell and a motorcycle did a U-turn right up next to the truck. I thought to myself "What a jerk" but went on singing to my Christmas music... then came the lights. What?! This can't be for me, I thought... I looked around not another car on the road (it was 6:45 AM).... darn. I pulled into a shopping center and parked. I couldn't figure out what it could be... I KNEW I wasn't speeding (like I normally do ha ha ), because Kenny just got the rear end differential regeared (?!) and I was instructed that I could NOT hot rod the truck for 500 miles.

Anyway, the cop walked up to the truck and told me he pulled me over because I had no headlights on! Ugh, are you serious (okay okay it was pretty dark out still). He took my license, registration and insurance card and reviewed it a little. Then he let me go! No ticket! Merry Christmas to me : )

A finish

It is a simple one, but its a done one!

Christmas is HERE!

Today we celebrated Christmas with Kenny's mom and Nana. Barb prepared a wonderful turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, stuffing and rolls. It was SO good as always.

We did our whole "Christmas morning" celebration and opened our gifts to each other. Barb ended up getting a pair of PJs from us AND Sarah- that were almost the exact same color, style, fabric etc which was pretty funny.

I think Sarah's favorite gift was this awesome picture that Barb got for

her. Barb and Sarah had gone to breakfast at a little restaurant up north this summer and Sarah saw and fell in love with the picture! Barb snuck off and told the gift store not to sell it to her and to tell her it was already sold... Then Barb went back later and bought it for her. I think Sarah was really surprised to open it today.

Even Oscar and Felix got a couple gifts too. Oscar was so funny he

took the whole bag and hid it behind the chair.

Kenny and I got a lot of neat things, but the top of the list was the Wii from Kenny's mom. We are totally stoked about it! We have wanted one for a couple years now... I cannot wait to play!!

We had a lot of fun taking this group picture with the timer (I got a lot of exercise running back and forth).

Merry Christmas everyone!

Walking in a winder wonderland...

Thursday Kenny got back from Vegas and we decided to go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We thought it would be fun to ask his Nana to come along, so we went out to Buckeye to pick her up. We had a great dinner.... especially the rolls! I am SO going to miss going out to eat starting in January (Kenny and I are both resolving to only eat out once per week)

Afterwards we decided to go to Down town Glendale and walk around Glendale Glitters. It was really pretty and the weather was great. It is really sad to see how much the historic district has changed... there are so many stores empty and even more closing up. I hope 2010 brings some positive changes for the economy!

Gift Card Holder

I went to a make in take last night at Crop Girls and we made this totally awesome gift card holder.

It is made out of a toilet paper roll! Can you believe that??? You just stray it with water and iron it flat, cut to size and decorate.

A credit card size gift card slides right in.

Happy Crafting!

Don't Snicker...

I got one of my Christmas projects done... all these cute little treat "bags". Each year I like to make a little something for my coworkers and this is what I came up with this year... the little circles say "Don't snicker at least you got something"

I am really proud of this project too, because I used all paper and supplies that I had! The only supply I bought was the snicker candies!
There are so many super cute Christmas papers out there, but I refrained and used what I had!

Well, one project done and on to the next one!!!

Freakin' Awesome!

While I was studying on Sunday Kenny went out to Buckeye to spend some time with his mom. Kenny took Barb to lunch at Chipotle (my new favorite place to eat) for the first time. Afterwards they did a little shopping at Wal-mart and headed home to watch the Proposal (LOVE that movie) with his Nana. While he was out there they visited a neighbor, Tamera, who works for Hallmark doing displays and look what she gave him!!

He made me close my eyes and he brought in 4 bags full of... 77 gift bags, 16 curly ribbon bows, 8 packs of wrapping paper, 10 packs of tissue paper and 11 spools of ribbon! Oh and some of the bags sing!

WOW - Freakin' Awesome!! Even at the 99 cent only stores gift bags are 2 for 99 cents so that would be $38 just in bags!! I never buy those curly ribbon bows (just make em' myself) but I love them. It was hard to stack them all up on the table to show all the fun designs, but you get the idea... awesome.

Party!!

Look at all my free goodies! That green paper in the middle that doesn't look like much is actually a huge stack of bazzil cardstock! The little purse and flowers were my door prize. The purse is actually a "camera purse" and has places for extra cards, batteries etc. It is hard to capture all the goodies, but there were tons of stickers, a magazine, pattern paper and even a few 3D embellishments... ALL FREE for completing my 50 pages this year. I know I say it all the time, but I LOVE Scrapbooks etc. !!

Look, I know you are probably thinking.... hey wasn't she was just complaining about having so much stuff... whats the dea? This stuff was FREE and I love it... I am totally addicted to crafting stuff... My name is Amanda and I am a craft supply addict.

I passed! I passed!

It's official I am an Associate in Commercial Underwriting (AU). I took my final exam this morning and passed! What a huge relief to be done, passed and have my first professional designation! The company actually awards $400 for completing the designation and I got the day off today. Woo hoo~!

NOTE TO SELF- don't schedule a test 11 days before Christmas....

Amanda Kuhn, AU