cookbook cover

MOC8::18 Cluster
credits:
cluster required elements:
Mommyish: Food for Thought
2 JCs, 2 tags, 1 flower, 1 button, 2 ribbons, 1 scatter
Pink Reptile Designs: Love Lives Here:1 flag; Baker's Gonna Bake: 1 foliage
Sabrina's Creations: a December to Remember: 1 paper doily & 3 stars
additional:
Mommyish: Food for Thought: string, papers
Pink Reptile Designs: Reflections: button
Kirsten Aagard: Lil'Baker: utensils
Krista Sahlin: Paper Piercing Holes:square

My Treasured Recipes

MOC8::17 Journaling|Hindsight
credits:
Mommyish: Food for Thought
Allison Pennington: Then & Now: flower4
One Little Bird: Happy: flourish

view of the valley

MOC8::16 Inspiration From Quotes
credits:
Lynn Grieveson, From Up Here: paper7
Pink Reptile Designs: Lazy Day: transfer
nbk: Art Crush9: gesso
Sahin Designs: My Tribe:  paper6
Sabrina's Creation: Pause: washi tape

until the snow melts

MOC8::15 Vellum
credits:
Lynn Grieveson: From Up Here
Allison Pennington: It's Oh So Quiet: twinkle & staple
Paislee Press: Winter Wishes: snow stamp
Mommyish: Vellum: style
Bellisae Designs: PhotoMask
brush & snow overlay, my personal stash

a cloudy day

MOC8::14 Photography Technique::Silhouette
credits:
Little Butterfly Wings: CityScape papers, 1,2,7 & flower 3
Mommyish: So Basic: brad1
nbk: AC21: branch
Rebecca: Woodland Paths/Brown Earth: finch

10 years!

MOC8::13 By The Numbers
credits:
Just Jaimee:  ST2020jan
Kim Jenson:  By The Numbers
TLP collab:    Happy
icons, courtesy www

FryCakes

MOC8:12 Filled Template
credits:
Fiddle-Dee-Dee: Fiddlesticks#59 template
Pink Reptile Designs: Bakers Gonna Bake
Mommyish: Food For Thought
Kristen Aagard: Lil'Baker
doughnut, my personal stash

2020 goals

MOC8::11-Vision Board
credits:
Allison Pennington: Then&Now: paper8; October Morning: ephemera
JustJaime: ST2020: paint
nbk: Hello: paper6
Pink Reptile Designs: A Beautiful Mess: smiley, fabric
Rachel Jeffries: AAM stop&breathe wordart & paper3
Sabrina's Creations: A Good Day: (always believe) wordart7
Sara Gleason: AAM: worthy wordart
The Nifty Pixel: Life Recorded: notepaper

Winter in the Woods

MOC8::10-Altered Tags
credits:
Rachael Jeffries:  MOC2020: blank tag
Rebecca:  Winter Woods
Little Butterfly Wings: a December to Remember
Allison Pennington: Wintertide: scatter & staple
JustJaime:  STluka:  paint8
Lynn Grieveson: Richmond: postage stamp
Paula Kesserling:  Wintertide: Element 50; Winter Wishes: Element51
Amanda Taylor, clearly stuck tape *my favorite tape*
Katie Pertiet:  Flaked Edges No2-3
Jen Maddocks:  "You have been assigned this mountain so you can show others it can be moved," wordart

Mummer's Day Parade

MOC8::9-QR code
credits:
qrstuff.com: QRcode
Lynn Grieveson: wild&free, sticked title3 & we did it tag
Paula Kesserling: urban blight: street closed element
Pink Reptile Designs: a beautiful mess: tape dots
Rachel Jeffries: stay close: collage bits, paper piece09c & abstract paper4
Tangie Baxter: resplent: map graffiti4
Katie Pertiet: Architectural Blend4-2

Tree Artistry

MOC8::8-Build Your Own Tree
credits:
Rachel Jeffries: stay close: collage bits, overlay2, paint6;
wander&explore: crackled paper3, paint 1&2, string
LynnGrieveson: wild&free: paint transfer2
Pink Reptile Designs: a beautiful mess: leaf burlap & leaf fabric
mommyish: brown paper: frame1 & leaf2
Paula Kesserling: winterland: elements7
Rebecca: winter woods: abstract grass & accent design
GraphicsFairy: songbirds

Philadelphia Tomato Pie

MOC8::7- Magazine Inspiration
credits:
Sabrina's Creations, Traveler's Notebook, template4
santucci's & cook's country titles, courtesy www
fonts, twinable & century gothic

(I've wanted to do a page like this for my nephew,Brian,
who can go get a Santucci's any time he wants lol)

Lovely Lilacs

MOC8::6 Scrappable Stackable
credits:
LynnGrieveson/Nifty Pixel: Scrappable Stackable template
Pink Reptile Designs: a beautiful mess: purple sequin flower, small purple flower;
reflections: paper 08a
Rachel Jeffries: stay close: collage bits: cluster & felty flower
Paislee Press: growth mindset: bloom&grow sticker
Allison Pennington: then&now: alt paper6
Just Jaimee: st2020 janpaper 0014-8
Alexis Designs, overlay

Revealing Morning

MOC8::Grid
credits:
The Grid
fancy whites paper #12, by Pink Reptile Designs
font, Truelike

Fritz

MOC8::4 Simple Template
credits:
Sahin Designs: MOC2020 template, Winter Day, World Geography paper3
Sara Gleason: paperwhite confetti
Little Butterfly Wings: City Scape, paper3
Kimeric Designs: glitter

Coconut

MOC8::3 Crazy Number of Frames
credits:
Paula Kesserling, Summer Fun, papers & element
Allison Pennington, (2) Then & Now, frame1 [recolored black]
Lynn Grieveson, Wild & Free frame
Valorie Wibbens, My Gallery Frames
4 small white frames, Heart Strings
Coconut Sheet Music, courtesy www

Favorite Things

MOC8::2 List
credits:
Sabrina's Creations, Traveler's Notebooks tp6
Lynn Grieveson, Creekside, paint transfer2 & Richmond, paper1
Krista Sahlin, Paper Piercingholes, square round3
One Little Bird, Shimmer, bough
Allison Pennington, Wintertide, stamp1
notebook, by Marisa Lerin

MOC8::2 List
credits:
AAM, PRD paper1; AP string; RJ tape; NBK paper piece
JustJaimee, watercolor edge 10-3
Lynn Grieveson, richmond paint transfer
Rachel Jeffries, messt mark, date stamp
Allison Pennington, Merry Days, label alpha & 12/19 BYOC IOSQ staple
Paula Kesserling, winterland, snowflakes
Sarah Gleason, glacier shimmer scatter
Bellisae, mini transfer
pen, my personal stash

The Story

Month of Challenges8::1 Blind Scrap Challenge
credits:
1 photo: centered on the page (my bear & game photo)
2 distinct frames: Sabrina's Creations Happy Days frame3; Pink Reptile Designs Reflections square stitched frame
3 ribbons or bows: PRD Reflections, ribbon, floral; two Bella Gypsy Go Wild ribbon3
4 papers: Sabrina's Creations Embrace Life, solid1 & 2a; a December to Remember heart paper; PRD Reflections, mesh paper
5 flowers: Valorie Wibbens Sprinkles 35: 3 yellow, 3 blue, 1 brown flowers & 6 green leaves
6 leaves and/or branches: PRD Reflections, Dried Flower branches (and leaves too)
7 lines of journaling:  Fonts: Dallon & Century Gothic
8 additional elements of your choice: PRD Reflections, (1) texture splatter & (2) transfer splatters, floral tape & staple; Sabrina's Creations Indexed tag & string & Focus tab1

for today

for today...

outside my window... 24F/snow showers @ 1:35am

i am thinking... starting today. I need to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains,

and look forward to what's coming next!  Happy New Year!

i am thankful for... the recent repair of the pipes under the kitchen sink

i am wearing... blue jeans, thermal shirt & hoodie, cashmere socks & BearPaw ankle boots

i am going...  grocery shopping

i am currently reading... The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham 

i am hoping... to live video stream The Mummer's Parade today

on my mind... gas @ $2.84/gallon, milk @ $3.85/gallon, butter @ $2.99/lb

pondering these words...

"Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow."

~ Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ~

from the kitchen... 

country ham

spinach puffs

panettone & pizelles

snickerdoodle shortbread

around the house... poinsettias & pinecones

one of my favorite things...  hoppin' john

i'm creating... the January Challenges @ The Lilypad

MOC8, Month of Challenges, 31 days, 31 challenges

a few plans for the week... firewood delivery, run a few errands

from my lens:

no, I am not climbing out the 2nd story window

to clean the snow off of the satellite dish!

there will be no internet 'til the snow melts

* winter... sigh *

you can join the simple woman's daybook where every day is a blank page,

and participate in creating a list of the simple things and everyday moments of our daily lives.